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Wired: The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss Facebook's historic settlement, and how it might shape the future of social media. Reuters: Meta agrees to pay $18 billion to settle US lawsuits over children's social media addiction Wired: Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That's Not All Architectural Digest: Mark Zuckerberg Buys a Castle in Ireland

NY Times: Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids. Ars Technica: Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss how to avoid a firehose of information. Ars Technica: Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed Wired: These 'Masturbation Consultants' Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI Wired: People Are 'Marrying' Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss how AI can spare us all from the Hollywood sequel.

Wikipedia: Margin Call Wikipedia: Night of the Living Dead YouTube: Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss lazy AI prompts and lazy AI results.

How about a robot to watch you take your meds? 404 Media: Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds The Atlantic: The End of Reading Is Here

The Conversation: In the face of rampant AI, is 'data poisoning' a new form of civil disobedience? TechCrunch: Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the increasing popularity of retro technology, and what might be driving it. TechCrunch: The smartphone era created an attention crisis — slow tech is fixing it

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss technology and personal growth.

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss whether people are cranking out fewer kids due to iPhone. NPR: Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the latest in kratom, and whether demand for an item should overrule its safety and legality. KCUR: Kansas City-based American Shaman agrees to stop selling kratom and 7-OH

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss developments in the world of AI backlash. Axios: An AI hate wave is here YouTube: Steve Wozniak tells graduates about AI. NBC News via YouTube: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches. The Verge: AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can't be trusted alone

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss whether AI consciousness exists. YouTube: Why AI Isn't Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED TechCrunch: Anthropic says 'evil' portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude's blackmail attempts  

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the viability of RFK's anti-antidepressant crusade.  WSJ (Gift Link): RFK Jr. Wants to Wean Some Americans Off Antidepressants  

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss curious creatures lurking in the computer. Wired: OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins Futurism: Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss Facebook creating robots from their employees. Reuters:  Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data AP: Meta slashes 8,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, as Microsoft offers buyouts AP: Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, court rules

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the 1976 movie Network, and how it predicted much of our current predicament. Wikipedia: Network (1976 Film)

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss powerful people making threats on social media.

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the historic victory against Meta and Google for damaging children. BBC: Campaigners welcome Meta and YouTube's defeat in landmark social media addiction trial Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the AI resurrection of Val Kilmer, and whether you should amend your will as a result. Variety: Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in 'As Deep as the Grave' Movie

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss Facebook's giant Metaverse faceplant. Quartz: Meta is killing off the metaverse. It lost $80 billion

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss AI's role in dating.

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss delusional robots, their bodies, and white noise. Futurism: Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges Dohm Fan-Based White Noise Sound Machines

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss bans on kratom, and whether the substance might serve a helpful purpose. KCUR: Kansas City bans synthetic kratom and other 'gas station drugs' over addiction concerns

Nothing goes together better than a conversation about technology for fast food and weigh loss.

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss Meta's scheme to release evil products in politically problematic times. NY Times: Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss a man who lost everything as his Meta Glasses guided him into the desert in search of aliens. Futurism: A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the effects of microdosing psilocybin vs microdosing placebos, and also the general placebo effect. Wired: Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss how tech has improved, and how it has taken two steps back.

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss USA failure to address immoral AI, and other countries' success in limiting the tech. CNN: Musk's Grok blocked by Indonesia, Malaysia over sexualized images in world first PBS: Grok blocked from undressing images with AI in places where it's illegal, X says

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss how online gambling can be more dangerous than going to the casino. The Lancet: The prevalence of gambling and problematic gambling: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss Elon's perverse chatbot. The Verge: Grok is undressing anyone, including minors Reuters: Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss TikTok's potential motives for rewarding healthy phone habits. TechCrunch: TikTok will now give you badges for limiting your doomscrolling

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the perils of AI in children's toys. NBC News: AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss failed AI recipes. Bloomberg: AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss whether language indicates intelligence, and whether intelligence requires language. The Verge: Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss when AI content sucks vs when it might be ok. Source:  The Wrap: An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week — and People Are Listening

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the perils of dry turkey.

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss Suzanne Somers's widower's AI twin project. Links: https://people.com/alan-hamel-suzanne-somers-ai-project-exclusive-11832986 https://youtu.be/6ZSQf_W5Mt0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near https://www.npr.org/2025/11/11/nx-s1-5445395/in-the-novel-lucky-seed-the-stakes-are-high-for-producing-an-heir

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss chatfishing and relationship fraud. Reference: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps 

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss an AI video where the son of a dead patient guns down the surgeon, and how nearly every commenter fell for the slop.

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss addressing the diminishing light in autumn and winter.

Matt and Dr. Danny talk about candy, cigarettes, etc.

Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the Harvard Business Review's suggestions on how to extract more money from your customers with chatbots.

What aspects of sleepmaxxing should you consider? What methods are completely bogus? Matt and Dr. Danny discuss.

We discuss Mark Zuckerberg's statement about how AI glasses give people a cognitive advantage over others without AI glasses.

We discuss the fallout of having five billion people on social media.

We discuss the RFK Jr. take on the mass shooting epidemic in the United States.