Episode Details

Authentic pub experiences; Yaccarino's bad X week; Amazon monopoly lawsuit; FTC challenging Microsoft's Activision bid, again; H&R Block, Meta & Google slapped with RICO lawsuit; Epic Games layoffs, sells Bandcamp; Meta ignored Metaverse for AI, no one wants their insane visions; California governor Newsom vs Teamsters; US electrical grid in trouble; human radiologists still better than AI; Pudgy Penguins & NFT stories; torrents are 20 years old; Getty goes AI; WGA strike ends; Tinder Select; desalination system, maybe; AG Riddle, John Scazli, Douglas Adams & Asimov's Foundation; Ultra 2 review; Ahsoka; delivery robots & privacy; good evening, Bismark!

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