We're back, but less social; no death robots; Twitter's downward spiral; sure, this kills primates but let's trial Neuralink on people; NFTs decline, go to museums; collateral FTX damage; Meta fined for data scraping; DoorDash, Deliveroo profitability problems; I am Groot's Holiday; Mickey Mouse's evolution; Wednesday; BritPop; Knives Out; Memory; the White Lotus; Neal Brennan; Dropbox changes; Spotify festival posters; AI gets... weird & creepy; Apple Karaoke; FTC wants to stop Microsoft's acquisition of Activision; the Tower; Dennis E. Taylor; Jesus Jones & the cesspool of the music industry; Nine Nasty Words; the Muppets & adult Star Wars; Radioshack, Kinkos & Egghead; Goblin mode!
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FOLLOW UP
San Francisco approves police petition to use robots as a 'deadly force option'
San Francisco lawmakers vote to ban killer robots in drastic U-turn
IN THE NEWS
Chinese Bots Inundate Twitter With Pornographic Spam Amid COVID Protests
Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy
Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts
Twitter’s Janitors Are on Strike at Its San Francisco Headquarters
Neuralink CEO Elon Musk expects human trials within six months
NFTs, on the Decline Elsewhere, Are Embraced by Some Museums
Crypto lender BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid FTX fallout
Meta fined €265 million over Facebook data scraping in the EU
DoorDash is laying off around 1,250 corporate employees
‘Purely economic’: Deliveroo Australia’s CEO on why management pulled the pin
MEDIA CANDY
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
What The Cameras Don't Show You On Guy's Grocery Games
APPS & DOODADS
Dropbox support for macOS FAQs
20-year-old California student creates viral Spotify festival poster app
OpenAI’s New Chatbot Will Tell You How to Shoplift And Make Explosives
UPDATED: It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images
Prisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental generation of nudes
Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators
Adobe Stock begins selling AI-generated artwork
Apple abandons controversial plan to check iOS devices and iCloud photos for child abuse imagery
Apple Music’s Latest Party Trick? Karaoke!
F.T.C. Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision
The Tower - Idle Tower Defense
AT THE LIBRARY
Death Threats From an 8 Year Old - The Story of Jesus Jones by Mike Edwards
The Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones by Paul Laird
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
‘Goblin mode’ chosen as Oxford word of the year for 2022
SECURITY HAH!
The Muppets Christmas Carol Extended Cut Coming to Disney+
Video press kit for Star Tours when it launched, showing that Anthony Daniels is a team player.
Star Wars w/ Dan Zehr | I Don't Know About That with Jim Jefferies #131
Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data
Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid
TikTok ‘Invisible Body’ challenge exploited to push malware
LastPass reveals another security breach
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Farewell to Christine McVie, who gave us music for all time
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