655: GOG’s Influencer

Happy Birthday, America; Amazon investigating Perplexity AI for scraping sites without consent; Texas age-verification law for porn going to the Supreme Court; Greece adopts 6-day working week; Paramount axes Comedy Central site, 25+ years of content; the first millennial saint; influencers aren't getting famous like they used to, urged to actually do something or have a skill; Google greenhouse gas emissions climbed 50 percent due to AI; new ChatGPT-based virus; taxing crypto-bros; full self-driving & full self-sanitizing; Winner shoots down drone; Inside Out 2; Celine Dion; Beverly Hills Cop; the Acolyte; Redbox; Canada, land of pirates; web accessible cameras in bars is bad; Japan says sayonara, floppy. Show notes at https://gog.show/655/ Sponsors: 1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password Private 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!!! FOLLOW UP Amazon reportedly investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent Texas age-verification law for pornography websites is going to the Supreme Court FCC chair asks telecoms companies to prove they're actually trying to stop political AI robocalls Greece becomes first EU country to introduce a six-day working week Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone IN THE NEWS A teen tech whiz nicknamed 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To You Can Ask YouTube to Take Down AI-Generated Content That Looks or Sounds Like You Cloudflare is taking a stand against AI website scrapers Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug Sneaky Virus Uses ChatGPT to Send Human-Like Emails to Your Contacts to Spread Itself US Treasury finalizes crypto rules to prevent tax evasion Tesla Megafan Receives Two Subsequent Cybertrucks That Completely Fail Tesla Full Self-Driving is "a bad thing" for getting public buy-in for autonomous driving tech, rival engineer says Tesla patents "Full Self Sanitizing" taxis Police say a man shot a Walmart drone. Armed Americans could pose a headache for air deliveries. NASA Praises Boeing's Stranded Starliner For Managing Not To Explode While Docked To Space Station MEDIA CANDY Inside Out 2 I Am: Celine Dion The Mole Season 2 Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F The Acolyte Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (TCF, 1983), Carrie Fisher "Princess Leia" Production Made Bikini Costume from Richard Miller. The owner of Redbox has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Supreme Court Blow: ISP Bill Payers Aren’t Piracy Police or Instantly Liable AI is ruining the internet by Drew Gooden APPS & DOODADS People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are OpenDyslexic for iOS Diablo IV Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text