Declaring the Metaverse Dead

https://digg.com is live! Public beta is open for community creation!

January’s almost over, which means it’s either too late or just early enough to still say “Happy New Year.” In this episode, Kevin and Alex wade through that awkward seasonal purgatory, debate etiquette, and naturally land on Alex’s go-to insult: “Eat the bag.”

Kevin checks in on Dry January and confirms that sleep is, in fact, real. The conversation takes a turn into the serious realities of alcohol withdrawal before pivoting to some big Digg news: the public beta is officially live, and you can now create your own Communities. Yes, that includes one called /onlyfans, which has absolutely nothing to do with what you think unless you are deeply into industrial air movers.

From there, it’s a full tech firehose. The Metaverse is officially declared dead, Claude Code is writing entire web apps in minutes, and a startup called Humans just raised $480 million to make AI more collaborative, or possibly sentient. Also on the docket: foldable iPhones, mindfulness, Matt Damon’s attention span, and why chicken wings keep showing up in self-driving cars.

This one’s got layers.

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Chapter Markers

00:00 Intro
00:44 When Is It Too Late to Say “Happy New Year”?
01:28 Alex’s All-Purpose Insult: “Eat the Bag”
03:32 Dry January Update: Alex Hits 20 Days
04:52 Alcohol Withdrawal Gets Real
07:16 Digg Public Beta and Build-Your-Own Communities
08:36 The Confusing Purity of the “/OnlyFans” Community
09:33 AI Moderation Logs That Actually Make Sense
11:11 The Metaverse Is Dead. Long Live Reality
14:37 Matt Damon and the Shrinking Human Attention Span
15:40 Why VR and AR Still Feel Like Homework
19:16 Mindfulness, Explained by Thich Nhat Hanh
22:51 The Meaning of Life
24:53 John Cleese on Why Failure Is the Whole Point
27:01 Kevin’s New Coding Obsession: Compound Engineering
30:04 AI Context Windows and How the Magic Works
40:02 Foldable iPhones in 2026? Let’s Argue
42:34 iPad vs Mac and the UX Identity Crisis
44:18 Humans Raises $480M to Make AI Less Robotic
53:50 Tesla Goes Subscription-Only for Full Self-Driving
55:46 Tensor Auto and the Semi-Sentient Rideshare Wars
1:00:25 People Are Leaving Trash in Waymos. Including Wings
1:02:07 Outro