671: Lorum Ipsum Is My Sister

San Fran embracing self-driving cars; not-Bitcoin creator in hiding; i h8 ai; anti-AI artist open letter; X updates their policies; more people leave OpenAI; SynthID; 23andMe and your genetic data; no more fake online reviews; private equity acquires Squarespace; right to repair; Tesla Blade Runner AI ripoff; Star Trek frogs; the Riker Maneuver; de-extinction; a whole slew of great new shows dropping - Star Trek, Dune, Silo & more; Good Omens season 3 now just a movie; Cruel World and nostalgia fatigue; are we not retired? we are Devo; Fresco, free; Penguin adds a robots.txt file to their books.Sponsors:HelloFresh - Get 10 FREE meals at HelloFresh.com/freegogPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!!1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordDeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.1Password Extended Access Management - Check it out at 1Password.com/grumpyoldgeeks. Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.Show notes at https://gog.show/671FOLLOW UPHow San Francisco Learned to Love Self-Driving CarsPeter Todd Is in Hiding After a Documentary Named Him as Bitcoin’s CreatorIN THE NEWSi h8 aiMore than 10,500 artists sign open letter protesting unlicensed AI trainingX updates its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI models with its dataFormer OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright LawOpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalismByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI modelsLongtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAIGoogle offers its AI watermarking tech as free open source toolkit23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic dataA federal ban on fake online reviews is now in effectPrivate Equity Firm Permira Acquires Squarespace for $7.2 BillionThe Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to RepairMeta bans private jet tracking accounts on Instagram and ThreadsElon Musk, Tesla and WBD sued over alleged 'Blade Runner 2049' AI ripoff for Cybercab promotionSeven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star TrekRiker sits downDe-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine effortsMEDIA CANDYShrinking S2 - Out nowThe Diplomat S2 - Oct 31Star Trek: Lower Decks S5 - Oct 24Silo S2 - Nov 15Dune: Prophecy - Nov 17Star Trek: Section 31 - Jan 25, 2025Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3 - 2025‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Gets Early Season 2 Renewal, Adds Tatiana Maslany As Recurring‘Black Mirror’: ‘Outer Banks’ & ‘She Hulk’ Actor Nicholas Cirillo Joins Cast Of Season 7‘Good Omens’ To End With One 90-Minute Episode As Neil Gaiman Exits Following Sexual Assault AllegationsMidnight MassBuffy the Vampire Slayer Is Finally Streaming for Free in Time for HalloweenThe Lincoln Lawyer Season 3Lioness | Season 2 Sneak Peek | Paramount+ - Oct 27thCruel World FestDevo Has the Uncontrollable Urge to RetireAPPS & DOODADSAdobe made its painting app completely free to take on ProcreateMidjourney launches AI image editor: how to use itStartup School: Gen AIAI in Marketing: Fast-track your skillsPerplexity AI app for macOS now available on the Mac App StoreBluesky Teases Creator Payments While New Sign-Ups Explode After Elon Musk’s Destruction of TwitterNew AirPods Pro 2 firmware now available for iOS 18.1’s hearing health featuresApple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s howWeb Design MuseumDiff Text - Compare Text OnlineSetAppJOIN TIMBALAND AND DISCOVER HOW SUNO CAN ELEVATE YOUR SOUNDSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksAT THE LIBRARYPenguin Adds a Do-Not-Scrape-for-AI Page to Its BooksBookcase by AstropadCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSPhilip G. Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist behind the controversial 'Stanford Prison Experiment' dies at 91Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78Dodgers icon Fernando Valenzuela is gone. But 'Fernandomania' will live forever.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.