764: Super Duper Intelligence

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Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schulmeister. Fall has fallen here, Jason. It's fucking cold. Aw, poor baby. It's 90 degrees here. But I know it's not cold there because I'm flying there on Friday and it's 90 there.

So, yeah, that's going to be awesome. Oh, fun times, fun times. What are you coming to town for? Not to see me, obviously, so. No, no, because you're not even in Los Angeles. You might as well be in Bahrain. I am flying into town because my son has the life that I wish I would have had growing up.

We literally are flying in for the Oogie Boogie Bash that they have at Disneyland, a special Halloween party that we told him we would do for him for his 10th birthday. Spoiled little fuck. Sorry.

Jesus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He worked for it. He did a lot of things that we told him we had to do. What did he do? The things that I would have just had to do because I existed as a kid. Yeah, he's getting a Disneyland participation trophy.

Geez. There's not enough yards I could have mowed to get a flying trip from Canada to another country to go to Disneyland for anything when I was 10. It's good to be Lucas. He's getting smacked in the head just bringing it up saying, Mom, can I have a whack? No, you can't. Shut up.

It explains a lot, actually. It does. It does. Yeah. I'm glad you guys are making the trip. That'll be fun. It will be. It will be. So, looking forward to it. Quick, quick turnaround. It's not a long one. We're literally in and out and, you know, get there and see my mom and help her out around the house a little bit and all that before we turn around and come back for Christmas.

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It's still not fixed. And if he doesn't get his Jeep fixed, that means I have to drive to Woodland Hills in Christmas. I don't want to do that. That's right. That's right. Yes. Come on. All right. Let's get to some. Yeah. Help. Help a Brian out. Help a Brian out. Let's get to some news here.

We got it. We got a lot of we're stacked at the top with some AI bullshittery. So let's just bite the bullet and get into it. No pun intended on this one. Bloomberg reports that a Pentagon investigation into the February 28th airstrikes on the girls' school in Iran found outdated intelligence and excessive reliance on an AI targeting system contributed to the attack.

The strike, reportedly a double tap, killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children. Investigators described a chain of compounding errors rather than a single failure. The findings contradict President Trump's earlier claims that the U.S.

wasn't responsible and that evidence might be AI generated. No, the evidence wasn't AI generated, you fuck. The attack was. The attack was. The report and the attack. You killed 123 children. That should be a fucking war crime.

Well, Brian, as you would have it, a U.N. commission says there are reasonable grounds to consider the attacks war crimes. Great. Yeah. And who's going to get sued? Nobody. Oh, speaking of war crimes coming from Trump, in front of the fucking U.N., he threatened a war crime yesterday.

Oh, I missed this one. What was that? He basically just said, oh, what should I do about Iran? Should I be nice or should I bomb them to hell? The hits just keep on coming. Two more fucking years. Well, the magazine left the podcast. Yes, we have.

I feel like a long time ago. Yeah, they did. They did. I just I feel like Zay Frank at the beginning of his show is like, have the new have the new users left yet? It was always great. But the fun just keeps on coming, Brian. A U.S. military operation targeting a Chinese ship was nearly launched after an analyst used an unidentified AI chatbot to research its cargo.

The system reportedly hallucinated that the vessel carried nuclear weapons, nuclear fucking weapons. and the analyst then used AI again to format those claims into an official intelligence report. Commanders treated the document as credible.

Aircraft were reportedly scrambled and airborne and troops were preparing to board the fucking ship before somebody with a brain discovered that the report was entirely made up. Excuse me, do you know where I can find the nuclear vessels? The nuclear vessels?

Whistle. Whistle. The nuclear vessels? Love that movie. So good. So good. Okay. That's great. That's great. But you know what, Jason? I think we got this in hand now because Trump is going to create an AI force.

It's going to solve all these problems, man. He's going to find a czar to run it. There's no details whatsoever because he just posted this out of his ass, but he compared this to the efforts to creation of the Space Force. We will not in any way hinder or stifle the growth of this incredible industry, Trump wrote on his true social post.

You know, this incredible industry that made you do a war crime and almost start World War III. Yeah, that one. We will cherish it, help it, and watch over it as it grows like a petite little flower that will grow up to strangle us all and kill us like in Little Shop of Horrors. Didn't we have an AI czar?

Wasn't that David Sachs? I thought we had him. I think. You guys, Sachs got sacked. Yeah. I think he was on one of those provisional, like, hall passes, like Elon was. Like, they only had a certain amount of time before they, it was either like, get a real job or get the fuck out. Yeah. Well, beyond announcing the creation of the AI force in the same speech that he gave at the UN where he basically threatened war crimes, he immediately followed that up with the fact that he's rebranded artificial intelligence into a far more elegant and accurate description.

Unfortunately, he didn't pick one because then he listed five, like extreme intelligence or supreme intelligence. he ran a poll. He ran a poll. That's right. He ran a fucking poll and they've settled on super intelligence and it's going to be abbreviated as SI in official documents.

But this is ridiculous because we're America, Brian. We don't want super intelligence. We do want super duper intelligence because we are super duper. We are super duper. We're better than super. we're super duper. Super duper.

Super duper trooper on the pooper. That's our fucking president. Trump loves a fucking rebrand, doesn't he? We got Lake America, the Gulf of America. I'm surprised it wasn't called him. You wouldn't have even had to change the initials. You could have just called it American intelligence. They really could have done that.

They could have done that. Yeah. That would have showed them over in China. Fucking Christ. Oh, God. nobody's going to call it super intelligence, right? Like, no one. Like, nobody in the industry.

Nobody. Well, here's the thing. You know, he argued that artificial makes the technology sound fake. Because it's fucking fake. But we don't know if he made the formal order yet. But the brand could create confusion because artificial super intelligence already has an established technical fucking meaning, which is a bullshit hypothetical system that greatly exceeds human cognitive performance across most domains.

But Trump has also rejected calls to slow AI development, saying U.S. leadership over China depends on continued growth. So we don't know if anybody's going to take on the mantle of super intelligence. I know who's going to do it. Apple and Google are going to cave within the day because they've got no fucking spy.

Everybody that changed their maps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we got a new guy at Apple. We're going to see what he does. Oh, wait. Oh, but the first thing he did was change the map. He did. That's right. He caved instantly. The map became the Lake America instead of Lake Ontario. Lake America. I don't even know what fucking lake it was that he changed.

Lake Ontario. The one that I live off of.

I'm off Lake America with American intelligence. Good for you. Good for you. Damn. What a fucking world. Well, to keep things moving, an unredacted court filing in the New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveals internal concerns about how generative AI affects the websites and creators it relies on.

Brian, I want you to cast your fucking mind back to when all this shit started. And I said, I said on this very show that this will not stand, man. This cannot stand. Because if you look at AI stealing all the data, training it, and then spitting back the results on news sites, those news sites are going to go out of business because there's nothing to feed the fucking AI that people are going to be using.

Microsoft documents warn of a doom loop. AI products use online content then answer users questions directly, reducing visits to the sites that produced it. Oh, they figured it out, huh? I was right. And they knew it too.

They knew it too because these are older documents. Somebody over at Microsoft maybe listens to our show. I don't know. They listen to it on their Zune. Fucking Zune. The document says that it could undermine both the sites' finances and future supply of material for AI models.

The Times also cites testimony that clicks to some news sites from Bing fell by more than 90% after AI features were introduced. The shocker there is that people still go to Bing for search. Well, out of five people that went to Bing, four stopped clicking on things.

Exactly. 4.5 stopped clicking on things. Sorry, good job on the real-time math there. I'm doing my best here. I should have done 10. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know. Come on, man. I was using my American intelligence. But you're in Canada.

You're on the fucking metric system. You should be the one using base 10 fucking anybody. Jesus. Other records discuss a way to get around the Times' paywall and the potential impact of AI on creative jobs. These claims come from the Times' legal filing.

OpenAI and Microsoft maintain with a straight face, I might add, that trading their models on copyrighted material is lawful, fair use. Not if you use it to undermine the sites that you're actually taking it from. saying. I guarantee you that Microsoft, if we decided to Vibecode, we used our Vibecoding machine to rebuild, oh, I don't know, Windows, they would argue that that's not fair use.

Probably not. Probably not. I'm just saying. But, yeah, I mean, if we get the source code. Who would Vibecode such a shitty operating system? I know, seriously. God. Why would you waste your time building a piece of shit? I know. I mean, it's like trying to rebuild WordPress for fuck's sake.

Why would you even bother? Who would do such a thing? Oh. So, Cal Newport, who I just adored, has become the voice against all the bullshittery coming out of the open AI and anthropic idiots up there. He argues in the New York Times that the scariest thing about AI may not be some hypothetical super intelligence or super duper intelligence.

It may be that the people with their fingers on the AI nuclear trigger spent years marinating in a deeply weird philosophy that assumes super intelligent AI is coming and could wipe out humanity. Rationalism centered around L-E-E-Z-E-Z.

I even put the fucking, I put a phonetic spelling of this guy's name in here. Ellie Easer, Yudkow, Yudkowski. Ellie Easer, Yudkowski. I think you made harder putting in the phonetic spelling. I did make it harder for me. God damn it.

Okay, note to self, don't put a dyslexic in front of a fucking guy. Ellie Easer, Yudkowski. Ellie Easer, Yudkowski. God damn. And the less wrong website.

that's a good.

And the less.

we're going to be.

Slow it all down. We're going too fucking fast. It's going to kill us all. So what did they do this week? Anthropic and OpenAI, both, within hours of each other, released new, more powerful models. So yeah, do as I say, not as I do.

I hope these aren't parents. They just can't help themselves. They can't. They can't. They can't. They're like kids in a candy store. It's like the marshmallow test. It's like the marshmallow test where you put the kids in the room and you say, all right, kid, here's a marshmallow. And you leave and you leave and you say, if you don't eat this marshmallow now, I will come back and give you two marshmallows.

And they leave the room and the fucking kids snarf down the marshmallow because they can't wait. They can't help themselves. Marshmallow snuffers. Because they don't trust authority. Those kids are punk rock. They're like, fuck the man. I'm eating this marshmallow because he's going to lie to me and he's going to give me that other marshmallow, but he's going to take like two thirds of the other marshmallow out in taxes.

So fuck that guy. No, we just call them Gen X. That's true. That's us. That's why we ate the marshmallow. Kids nowadays are like, I don't trust these Gen X motherf uckers giving me a marshmallow because I've seen them on TV. Fuck those guys.

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According to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, the lawsuit accuses the company of designing an unsafe product and of negligence for not al erting law enforcement about the shooter's chats. claims the shooting could have been prevented if the company had heeded its human reviewers' advice to notify the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I can't say that with a straight face.

And I've been here for a couple of years now. Please! About the shooter's activities on its service. Back in February, we talked about this, the Canadian government demanded safety changes from OpenAI after reports came out that it didn't alert authorities after its employees flagged the account of the shooter in 2025 because it contained potential warnings of committing real-world violence.

While the shooter's original account was banned, OpenAI eventually discovered that she made a second account. The company committed to notifying authorities about credible threats, and OpenAI Chief Sam Altman issued an apology for not alerting authorities when the shooter's first account was banned. The lawsuit claims OpenAI hasn't meaningfully done shit about it since then.

And they're probably right. In any other circumstance where a person aids, encourages, or conspires to commit a criminal offense or is criminally negligent, they can be investigated, prosecuted, and judged, said Nikki Sharma, the Attorney General of British Columbia.

In addition to the lawsuit, the company is also facing a complaint filed by the victim's families themselves, similarly accusing it of negligence. So yes, they made a bunch of promises and haven't done crap since then. And I heard they're suing to get a new school. They want a whole new school. Oh yeah, they had asked for that too.

Yeah, it was like, you gotta make some atonements here. So. Yeah. Nikki Sharma, now I want a shawarma. I'm hungry now. That's all I can think of when you said that. I'm like, oh, I know we're talking about a serious subject, but damn, I'm hungry. God damn it.

Thank you, Nikki. Flock, the company known for its evil-ass automated license plate reader network, is reportedly offering employee buyouts as it tries to reduce its workforce. The move suggests the company is seeking voluntary depart ures before resorting to layoffs. According to the report, without enough employees accepting the buyouts, layoffs are almost certainly expected.

Woo-hoo! The effort comes as Flock manages pressure to cut costs and realign its operations. Details about the number of roles affected, the buyout terms, and the company's broader financial position remain limited. Flock has not publicly confirmed the full scope of the program.

Because they don't confirm the full scope of any of their programs. Yes. That's right. That's right. So, okay, this is great. This is great. So, that means that everything that we've been doing, we being everybody in the United States who's going around fucking with Flock cameras and cutting them down and giving them grief, it's working.

It's working. So, keep it up. Because I've now heard everybody is transitioning. You know, once we get rid of Flock, Axon, we're coming for you next. We're coming for you next, Axon. Axon is next. Yep. Nobody wants automatic license plate readers. Nobody.

Period. Oh, the police do. Oh, they don't count. Fuck the police. Sorry. Fuck the police. I know. I grew up with NWA. I'm with that ilk. Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing its shopping platform, citing privacy and security concerns.

Muse is designed to help users discover products and potentially automate parts of the shopping process. But Amazon says the agent's access could create risks for customer data and account protection. The move highlights a growing conflict between online retailers and AI assistants that browse websites or act on users' behalf.

Amazon controls the shopping environment, while Meta and other technology companies are building agents intended to navigate it automatically. The dispute could set an important precedent for how retailers regulate AI-driven traffic and automated purchasing tools. This comes along. Have you seen the news about Muse this week, Brian?

I have. It's a fucking mess. It's a mess. People are creeped out. Some people like it. It beat OpenAI on the Apple App Store for downloads. But then people are like, this is fucking creepy. I'm like, you just downloaded an app from Mark Zuckerberg and gave him access to all your shit, and now you're creep ed out?

You fucking idiot. You fucking idiot. I'm not surprised the downloads are so high. I don't know if you've noticed, but on any Meta property, if you try to do anything, it throws up an ad for Muse. And the download button is right next to the close window button. And Jesus Christ, fuck off.

I don't want it. Dark patterns, Brian. Dark patterns. Dark patterns. Those are the dark patterns. Yeah. I obviously won't be doing this. There was a zero day that was found in it. There's all sorts of security implications, because this is basically based on OpenClaw. They're like, we didn't use OpenClaw software to train our vibe coding on it, but they did.

They did. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, they're saying that they didn't, but they did. And OpenClaw is just a giant fucking kludge to begin with, so. Look, I always said I would never, ever give Zuckerberg my credit card. The only way they ever would have gotten my credit card information would have been if they would have given me an ad-free experience on Facebook for like two bucks a month.

Then I would have paid for it. That's it. Exactly. No way I'm letting Muse go shopping for me. But yeah, that's the thing. You're not giving them your credit card. You're giving them access to the site that has your credit card. Right. That's even worse. That's the thing. It's like, see, I see where people could be complaining about, hey, this is my agent, and my agent's going to your site to buy some shit for me, so why are you stopping my agent from coming there?

As the shopping site, I can see the case to be made that your agent is going to buy some shit on my platform that you didn't want, and I'm going to be the one that sucks up all the fucking costs for support and returns to deal with this shit.

So I can see why Amazon is nipping this in the bud right away. Also, I'm sure they're going to have their own shopping agent coming, but. Of course they are. But it's bullshit to think that Amazon doesn't have the authority to do that, because people are saying, well, Amazon shouldn't have the authority to do that because it's coming from my account.

Well, it's not, actually. It's coming from your psychotic, super dumb fucking intelligent, you know, piece of software. It's not real. Agreed. Absolutely agreed. Well, Joby Aviation has claimed the first ever autonomous flight across the United States after it outfitted an aircraft with this autonomous flight system to complete the journey without human input.

The trip started in California, finished in North Carolina, and totaled 3,199 miles. He said they integrated its autonomy tech into a converted Cessna caravan, which was able to do everything from taxi ing, takeoff, cruising, and landing on its own without any control inputs from an onboard safety pilot.

Besides a human monitor on the aircraft, white knuckling all the way, Joby remotely supervised the aircraft at its headquarters in California and at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. So, kind of cool. In my opinion, air easier than car.

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. You've got nothing but open air around you in general, as long as you're, you know, plugged into the air traffic control system. So, yeah, this is pretty cool. Would I want to be in one? Fuck no. Here's the thing, Brian. When I, the first time I flew to London in 1992, when we landed at Heathrow, the pilot came on and said, ladies and gentlemen, you have just experienced a completely autonomous landing.

Yeah. We had tech for fucking, you know, landing a jumbo jet back then. And now it's like, okay, well, we can make a Cessna go putt -putt across the country. This is not something that is actually that new. We've had autopilots. You know, you're up in the sky.

We see that there's a lot of planes in the sky at the same time. Yes, we know that. But this is definitely not like rush hour in New York City that you're trying to deal with. Absolutely. Yeah. A lot easier. I think it's a fine, I think it's a fine application. What really frightens me is that the FAA is talking about using AI in the new, what was it?

Air traffic control systems. Air traffic control systems. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that news. I saw that news as well. But then they kind of copy-outed it and it made a lot more sense. It's only a couple places and it's only tying into weather systems and giving actual air traffic controllers some idea of the volume of flights coming in and the upcoming weather .

So if they keep it there and it's just some warnings and some like, you know, some additional data that's popping up , great. I'm all for that. Will it stay that way? No, of course it won't. Are they already claiming it can probably do everything? Of course they are. But as long as it's not using an LLM to do it and it's using actual machine learning technology that we know is like, you know, safe and pretty solid, you know, as long as it's, yeah, as long as they're not running it through chat GPT.

As long as it's not super intelligence. Yes. Super duper intelligence. Or super duper intelligence. Exactly. Well, everybody get on this one because if you have an iPhone, this one's for you. Apple users can now submit claims in a proposed $250 million class action settlement involving Siri and delays tied to Apple intelligence.

The lawsuit alleges Apple's marketing and performance claims caused harm, while Apple has not admitted wrongdoing . Eligible class members may receive a share of the settlement, although individual payments will depend on the number of approved claims and other court appointed factors like how much do the scumbag lawyers get.

The claims process is now open with deadlines, eligibility and rules requirements and documentation available through the official settlement website. The agreement still requires final court approval, so payments are not guaranteed immediately. Consumers should verify the administrator's website and avoid unofficial claim links or requests for unnecessary personal information, which is why I put a link to the smartphone AI settlement in our show notes.

So go to GOG.show slash 764 to get a link to that. And it is your God given duty, unless you own an Android phone. And why the fuck would you do that? To go get your monies. Go get your monies. Before everybody rushes to that, it's not just Android. You almost have to be, you have to be pretty bleeding edge.

It's got, it's iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max or any iPhone 16 model. So those of us that didn't pony up for the 15 Pros or don't have a 16 yet, you get bupkis. Oh, well, I've got a 16 Pro Max. Well, there you go.

You're good. I think I bought it after this all happened though. So maybe I'm screwed too. Because I got it, I got it after the 17 came out because I wanted a discount because I can't pay full freight. Well, some more Apple news, Brian. And I put this in here because of your discussion on our Discord channel, which I highly recommend everybody go check out our Discord channel.

It's fun. It's the, it is the only social media that Brian and I both pretty much use on a regular basis. Apple is reportedly reassessing the future of Apple Fitness Plus with Bloomberg reporting that the company has laid off a handful of employees working on the subscription workout service. The cuts are said to be an early step with more significant changes potentially coming.

The report does not specify whether Apple plans to rest ructure the service, reduce its content ambitions, or change how it fits into the broader subscription portfolio. I am portfolio. Apple has not publicly detailed any planned changes to Fitness Plus or commented on the reported layoffs.

So what say you, Brian? This would bum me out considerably. I really do enjoy Apple Fitness. I'm ponying up extra for it. I'm on the Apple One plan. If they get rid of Apple Fitness, my Apple One also goes out the window. It's the only reason I'm paying for the full all-in thing because you can only get fitness if you pay for it.

That's, that's basically the only way into it. It's a solid, solid bit of a, it's really good. Like I've been losing weight. I've been, I've been, I love the yoga program. I love all the programs. I love the trainers. Now, one thing I could say though, is it's been pretty much on autopilot.

It's, it's once they dialed in what they do, I'm sure they don't need the same amount of staff that they had when they were getting it up and running. Like you basically, you've got the same trainers. They're coming up with their own programs. They're recording them once a week and you publish them.

How many people do you actually fucking need for that? Well, probably not that many. It does tell me that they probably don't, don't intend to expand it, which is a bit of a bummer. It would be nice if they made it more of a thing. You know, Apple's maybe, maybe you're looking at your bottom line and going, there aren't that many Fitness Plus users.

Well, why don't you offer Fitness Plus as a standalone that isn't an exorbitant price? I bet you'd get a lot of fucking people using it. Everybody that's locked into the ecosystem. If you've got an Apple TV and you've got an Apple Watch, Apple Fitness is a no brainer. It's just prohibitively expensive unless you want to go all in on Apple One and you use all the rest of the services.

Yeah, I think there was a marketing thing just trying to get Apple One to be a big, you know, a big seller. So it may have backfired a bit. It may have backfired a little bit. Yeah, I think so. So I personally am holding out hope for Apple Fitness. I think it's great. So I hope they don't fuck with it and especially hope they don't kill it.

Yep. So anybody listening at Apple, you heard it from the horse 's mouth. Well, a new study finds smartwatches can be especially unre liable when estimating calories burned during exercise, with accuracy worsening as users' body fat percentages increase.

Researchers had 58 Hispanic adults cycle while wearing Apple, Garmin, Samsung, and Fitbit devices, then compared their readings with a metabolic analyzer, which is the lab standard. Across devices, errors typically ranged from 15 to 25 percent, while some participants with higher body fat saw errors of 50 to 100 percent or more.

I would be in the or more category. Fitbit also produced several extreme outliers. Skin tone had no significant effect on this test, which is great. The researchers say smartwatches remain useful for tracking heart rate, duration, pace, and trends, but calorie estimates should be treated cautiously.

Of course. 100 percent. Yeah. Of course. That's why were you expecting it to be spot on like that? If you're number crunching like that, you're probably also just using one of those apps where you take a picture of your food and it tells you how many calories you're consuming. Those are also fucking wrong. They have no idea how much butter is in that chicken.

Fatty. True that. True that. Can you tell how many salt grains are on my oatmeal? No. So, you know, these are things that you should be using as kind of general estimates of how much you're burning and how much you're consuming. If you think it's going to be spot on, you're a fucking idiot.

Like, of course it's not. They don't have super duper intelligence. I track my heart rate through my watch, but I also track it with an actual cuff that I have. And there's a difference. That difference is there's a standard of difference between the two, but it is a consistent standard of difference.

So when I get my heart rate on my watch, I know basically what it actually is based on the difference that I get from my cuff. So I can follow that, you know, and your blood oxygen level from the watch. So fucking wrong. So wrong. I've got, you know, a blood oximeter that I test with as well.

Thank you, COVID. I've got all this shit laying around, so always got to keep testing that stuff. But it's off too. It's consistently off by like three percentage points lower than what it is from an actual blood pulse oximeter, you know, device. That you can get for $14 from Amazon.

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Well, Apple may be a gutting fitness plus, but I can tell you what they're using that money on now. They've just opened a new live venue at the UK Battersea Power Station headquarters in London that seems tailor-made for Apple Music live concerts and recordings. The Apple Music Hall is designed as an intimate concert hall with a space for up to 600 people in standing and seating configurations.

It's also one of the most state-of-the-art in the world with 48 speakers, 16 camera locations, and a spatial audio live recording facility. The venue's interior design will take cues from the Batter sea Power Station with heritage brickwork, fluted arches, and bronze balconies. Okay, trumps.

How about you just keep fitness going instead of putting in gold fucking chitters at your music venue? But it looks nice. It does. It looks gorgeous. It's fucking cool. Come on. I would like to go there. Great. I've been there. I've seen concerts there. Not at the Apple venue.

That wasn't open yet, but there was a previous venue there. So, anyways, this whole thing looks really cool. It's equipped with two dedicated recording and mix studios, and, like, they're obviously setting this up for broadcast as well as, you know, infrastructure to support iPhone video capture, of course, and presumably better quality cameras.

Yeah. So, nice. Like, great. It's great that you guys are doing that. I wish you would also just spend money on the stuff that we 're already paying for. That'd be cool. That would be cool, too. It would be. Make iCloud not lag so fucking much, please.

That would make me happy. And just one quick note, as we're talking about apps and various doodads and whatnot, Jason finally shamed me enough to get rid of Opera, and I finally switched to Brave. After spending the first hour turning off every fucking stupid thing that they baked into there, every crypto, every super-duper intelligence bit, I turned it all off, and it's a nice browser, although I hate the icon.

Okay. Well, you can't change that, you know. I know, but I'm lazy. Select the app. Hit Command-I. Paste in another fucking picture. Close the window. But I have to pick an icon, then. I got to pick one. Oh, Jesus Christ. My icon is currently an old ZipDisk icon that I found for a ZipDisk 100 back in my old folder of...

Remember Icon Factory? Go to Icon Factory. You can get some of the old shit back there. They've got some really nice Battlestar Galactica icons that still work. I should go look at that. My main desktop icon is the HAL 9000 eyeball. I love it. Yeah. It's so good. Yeah. That's so 1994.

So am I, Jason. So am I. That's true. So true. So true. Well, Sony Music Entertainment and the Universal Music Group are both suing AI music generator Suno again for allegedly infringing on the copyright with its newest V6 models.

Claim challenges the story Suno has generally told about its latest AI models, which are the first it's released since signing licensing deals with Warner Music Group and BMG. While Suno used licensed material to create the V6 lineup in their lawsuit, Sony Music and UMG specifically take issue with the company's public acknowledgement that the models were also trained on users' interactions with Suno's service, which they take to mean the outputs of and preference signals derived from prior models that Suno built by copying plaintiff's recordings without authorization.

So yes, they're basically saying, oh, look, look at our new model. We've made deals. Yeah, but your new model is based on the old model that stole all our shit. Whoops. Yeah. Both companies claim Suno could be responsible for infring ing on the copyright of at least 60,202 sound recordings.

That leaves it liable for up to $9 billion in damages under U.S. copyright law, plus up to $2,500 for each time Suno circumvented YouTube's anti-down loading tech to scrape songs, which they admitted they did. But of course, they disagree with Sony Music and UMG.

These claims remain fundamentally flawed on both the facts and the law, the company said in a statement, while reaffirming that Suno exists so that more people can make new music by stealing it from the people that made it in the first place. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Suno, Udeo.

Well, Udeo has made the deals as well, too, right? Yeah. Yeah. Everybody's making the deals now, but they're all... They're all shitbags. They're all fucking shitbags. They're all fucking shitbags. It's just... Everybody's going to get sued again. Anyway, something that brings me joy.

I have really, really enjoyed all the kunk shows. You know which ones I'm talking about. Kunk on Earth. And it's Philomena Kunk, the fake documentarian that goes around and talks to experts, academics, and historians.

It's like a smart version of Ali G, you know? Okay. So it's been... Ali G's pretty smart. Come on. I'm not... Well, this is even smarter because... Okay. Anyways. Trust me. You've got to... If you haven't watched any of these, you really got to watch them. But she's doing a new one, and this one's going to be about the movies.

Coming soon to BBC Two and to Netflix later this year, Kunk on Cinema is a three-part series that reunites Morgan, the comedian, with longtime collabor ator Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame that will allow Morgan as Kunk to explore film from its nas cent black and white days through the French New Wave cinema up to our current moment .

She'll be sitting down with movie makers such as director Michael Bay and Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as movie critics. And I cannot wait for this because generally they are not in on the joke, and I hope that continues. Okay. Okay. And Benedict Cumberbatch, of course, you know, his antics in the streets of London are why we have Deliveroo!

That's true. Yep. Oh, Strange New Worlds. Brian, Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Yes. Oh, my God. What the holy hell is happening over there? Look, so...

I don't doubt that as actors, they are having the fucking time of their lives making this show. I just wish that they also had to be Star Trek fans and were forced to sit down and watch it. I know. I know. Two things here.

First, let's just talk about the episode, Once on a Time. That was... somewhat funny in parts. I actually laughed out loud a few times. It wasn't horrible. It did remind me of some old Trek.

It really did remind me of some old Trek. But I looked at, on Plex, where I watched it, I looked at some of the reviews. Dumbest show ever. Un-Star Trek is unserious. Please stop this now. Then one person says, lovely Star Trek with deep lore connections.

But it's all one stars except for somebody who really, really liked it and gave it four and a half. But the thing that got me going was, I'm like, was this show always this bad and we just didn't get it because it was new? No.

Not at all. I went back and I looked at the IMDB episode list. And you can tell from the ratings, which they have per episodes, that besides season two, which got a lot, a lot of like, you know, recommended episodes.

It's kind of been pretty dismal. Just from the ratings, especially, you know, three and four . But even season one only had like one highly rated episode. But I thought season one was pretty solid personally. But season two was the best and it has just been on a downward slope since then.

Yeah. I've liked a lot of it. Some of it has just been painful this season in particular. It's not like I've disliked any of the episodes. It's just I want some normal episodes. We've talked about this a gazillion times.

If you had 32 episodes in a season, I wouldn't mind this many weirdo ass episodes. Yeah. Episode du jour and all that sort of stuff. Like, let's make it black and white this time. Let's do blah, blah, blah. Fine. If I'm getting 32 episodes, great. Throw in a few of those.

When we're only getting 10 and half of them are this stuff, no thank you. Do you know what the theory running around the internet about this whole show is right now, Jason? The big one. What is it? What is it, Brian? The big one is Pike is already dead and these are all fever or not dead.

He's already had his accident. He's on the planet. He's zombified. And these are all the things running around in his brain. They're all basically it's Dallas. These are all dreams. I was going to say they're J.R. You winning it? Yeah. Last episode, he's going to step out of the turbo shower and it'll all have been dreams.

That's it. Okay. Well, that would at least explain some of it, you know? Yeah. And I would like to say that Once Upon a La'an was season four, episode nine. Just to make sure that we have that in there. Thank you, Patrick. Patrick did have a little comeback here.

I have to scroll down to find. There's a little feud going on here between James and Philip, which we have to. Philip writes in. James was wrong. South Park, episode two, season one was April 1998. We didn't meet and become friends until April 1999, which was South Park, season three, episode nine.

Thank you and good night. So I'm glad that we can facilitate. Good day, sir. I'm going to go order some Deliveroo. Oh, my God. Well, I would like to talk about some good shows. I watched Neely season one, which is a spinoff from the Re acher universe.

Fantastic little season. I give it a B. I give it a B. Mainly, I give Reacher a B, too, because they're good action shows, but they're action shows, you know? But they're good action shows. It's not like Network. You know, Network is like D plus at the best.

This is a solid B, B plus. I like Reacher more than Neely so far, but Neely was good. Season one was good because this is based on new IP. They didn't come from the books. Reacher comes from the books. So this was just a whole new, like, whole cloth story. But it's good.

I mean, we watched it in three days. It was pretty fun. The Traders Ireland season two just wrapped yesterday. Fucking phenomenal season. Fucking phenomenal. We loved it. I mean, it was a great season. It's just what you want from the Traders.

And the host is great. I love her. Siobhan is awesome. Traders US season five is back. First two episodes are out already. Yes, this is the Traders part of the show, Brian. Shut up. I was actually laughing because you said Siobhan, and I didn't even talk about the Ted Lasso episode where he has some issues with Irish names and spellings, and it was pretty goddamn funny.

Okay. I haven't gotten to that one yet. Shouldn't there be a V in there? I just finished the New Year's Eve episode. So Traders US season five is back. First two are out. Awesome. The production quality of the US version is so much above everybody else.

Everybody else just feels like they're doing Wayne's World, and we're doing the good stuff. But it's going to be a good season, I think, on the US. And Traders Canada season four started yesterday, which I watched. Speaking of Wayne's World. Actually, it's pretty good. It's actually pretty good, though.

The host is our third favorite host because we have to rank the hosts. The new hosts from New Zealand and Australia, bottom of the barrel. They fucking sucked. But Traders Canada, pretty nice hot host. And the girl that does the, I'm sorry, the woman that does the UK version, second favorite because she's OG.

You got to love her. And you're going to be checking that out soon because the Traders UK Celebrity Edition season two starts on October 1st. And you said that your wife was into it. So I expect to be being able to shoot the shit about the Tr aders with you while you shit all over it.

I'm sure I won't watch it in real time like you do. So. Well, you got to because there's spoilers everywhere, man. Well, not in my world. But maybe in your wife's world. That's true. That's true. This is not your, this is not up to you.

This is up to your wife. So. Well, there's an unexpected end coming for yet another Marvel series on Disney Plus. But at least in this case, Daredevil Born Again made it to three seasons. That means Born Again gets just as many seasons as Darede vil did back when Netflix was in the Marvel business.

But it's still disappointing news for fans of the Charlie Cox series, such as us. Adding intrigue, a new report says showrunner Dario Scardap ain has departed the series amid post-production on what's now its final season. According to the Hollywood Reporter, it's because he's no longer in collaboration with the studio.

Marvel has quietly parted ways with him. His contract was up, but he was not renewed. The parting of ways is eyebrow-raising, and it means that Scardapain is exiting the show in the middle of post-production. It's unclear who will see the show through completion. One source said post-production is in the final stages.

So, Born Again out, and that leaves the Paul Bettany starring Vision Quest as the only other upcoming Marvel live-action series on Disney Plus, which I could care less about. We should get Born Again Season 3 in 2027. So, just to recap, we will be getting no new Star Trek, as far as we know, on Paramount.

Live-action Marvel and Star Wars shows are basically stopping. What the fuck are we paying all these increasingly high subscription streaming fees for exactly? You're canceling everything we like. You're not making any new shows. No, they're not.

And by the way, Disney just raised prices again for Disney Plus and Hulu. So, ad-free plans cost $21.49 a month, up $2.50. That's the plan that I'm on, or was on, I should say, until I just canceled it this morning, because there's nothing on Hulu or Disney Plus that I watch .

I know you're stuck, because, kid. But, you know, for me, I'm just like, there's nothing there . I don't pay for Paramount Plus because, you know, fuck the Ellisons. Fuck them in their eye holes. Especially now that they strong-armed their way through to this Warner Brothers deal going through. You should see the TV reporting here, Brian, from Los Angeles.

Holy shit are people pissed off. I'm sure. The people on the street are fucking pissed. So, you know, and this is all just politics. This is all politics. It's Newsom not wanting to lose them, because he's coming up for his run in a couple years.

The new governor that's going to be coming in, you know, he 's up for running, and that election's coming up. Nobody wants to see Paramount leave town. Because it's Paramount. They're fucking there. 55-55 Melrose is where Paramount is.

It's got to stay there. And they know that. And I think that they were playing chicken, and they flinch ed. You know? Yep. It's bad. It's fucking bad. It's not what you hope for.

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I got some new music you can listen to, Jason. Both of these are pretty much throwbacks, speaking of 1994 and even earlier. Jesus Jones has unbelievably put out a new album. And unbelievably, I actually like it. Oh, good. Good. I love Jesus Jones.

I love Jesus Jones, too. They were way ahead of their time with Doubt and Perverse. And then they kind of got dropped from the labels after that because Perverse was way too ahead of its time. It was definitely like it was the early electronica rock crossover and they nailed it. It's an amazing album.

But it got them dropped by their label and then they kind of went off into the wilderness for quite some time, released a few albums that weren't that great. This is called Twilight. It just came out last week, I believe. And I actually have listened straight through it a couple times and really enjoy it. So, yay. Good for Jesus Jones.

And they did make a big announcement that it's actually the 35th anniversary of their second album, the breakthrough one, Doubt, that I had right here right now on it. So, they're going to be doing something special for that. And I love that album, too. So, kind of excited. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus Jones is just one of those bands I put on that makes me happy.

Yeah. They're fun. Yeah. I put them on and the other one's not as much fun, but I just love putting them on in the background. The Pixies. You know, Jesus Jones and the Pixies are just my happy go- to places, you know? Yeah. I mean, who doesn't love the Pixies? Pixies are great. One of my other all-time favorite bands is The Church, and they actually have a new single out now.

It's coming from their new album, Lacuna, which will be released October 30th. The single's called Western. Got the link for that in the show notes. Two tracks. I don't know if the second track is what us olds used to call a B-side, or if it'll be on the album or not.

Who the fuck knows? But I like both songs. I love this band. They're another one of those bands that the last couple releases that they put out were not my thing, a little too off in the wilderness. But you go back to their early albums and even their albums up until 2010s.

They were all fantastic. Steve Kilby is one of my favorite lyricists and singer-song writers. And I like both these tracks. Really looking forward to this album. And I hope this one's got actual tunes on it, because it kind of went radiohead the last few albums and stopped writing songs. Nothing good about that.

No. Nothing good about that. Going radiohead. Some book news. D, Heavy Water, a gripping historical espionage thriller set on the eve of World War II, Bomb Light Book II by Neil Stevenson. Hold on a second.

When did they start putting descriptive sentences into the title set on Amazon? Shouldn't this be D, Heavy Water? Wow. Yeah. I mean, I'm used to this on products, Jason.

We've been making fun of the product names on Amazon for years now, but this is the first time I've seen it in a book. It is pretty... Unless that is the actual title of the book. If that was the actual title of the book, fucking props to Neil Stevenson. Yeah. But I'm guessing it's not.

This comes out October 13th, 2026. I have to admit, I have fallen hard off the Neil Stevenson train. I've definitely... In my opinion, recently, the number of pages is inversely proportional to how good his books are. I've liked the short books that have come out recently, but I have not liked any of the longer books.

My understanding that is Bomb Light Book I in this series was quite a long one. I didn't read it. I don't think you read it. I don't know anybody that read it. So I don't know if it's good or not. Well, let's just go look and see what Bomb Light Book I was .

Because for some reason, I wanted to think that you did read it. Oh, no, it's not. That was Polo Stan, was Book I. Because I thought he did one on heavy weather. Wasn't it called Heavy Weather or something like that? I don't recall. Because the last one, you and I did not see eye to eye on.

Yeah. So that was the last one that he did. And I mean, we both liked Seven Eves. Seven Eves was good. Yes. I wish he would have just stuck with that. Because that would have been great. If he'd have just stuck with Seven Eves. Because he set up an entire world.

Yes. And it was ready to go. Yeah. No. And Remdi, that was one of his shorter ones. That was, yeah, that was decent. Which I liked that one. That was good. Yeah. Yeah. And neither of us really care about the Baroque cycle.

Even though I read them all. I bought them all. And then never read them. And I never will. I think Termination Shock was the one, the last one that we disagreed on. You liked that one and I didn't care for it that much. Yeah. I thought it was all right.

I mean, not his best, but it was fine. So. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah. I mean, but still going back to, for me, Neil Stevenson. I mean, everybody talks about Snow Crash because that was where the metaverse came into play. But my favorite book is Diamond Age.

Hands down. My favorite book of his is Diamond Age. Mine is Seven Eves. It really is. I love that book. It was good. I should go back and read it again. Yeah. Or listen to it again because I don't read. Yeah. As you like to point out. So I briefly got into Andrew Huberman's podcast for a little bit because I thought it was- It was well-learned and interesting and I'm all about like, what can we do to make our bodies bigger, better, stronger, all that sort of stuff.

I quickly realized- Protocols. Protocols. Protocols. Protocols, Brian. Yeah. And then I quickly realized he's a fucking charlatan. But some people out there still don't know that. So there's a review of his new book. He's got, yes, he has a book coming out, of course.

And he basically reads, and apparently it reads exactly like a podcast. He even talks about basically sponsored ads in his book. So the link is in the show notes to the review. Page 34 is brought to you by AG1.

The TLDR is there's very little actual science behind his protocols. Even if there are studies, they're small sample groups, sometimes a sample group of one, Huberman himself. Basically, he's saying, trust me. No.

No. I'm not going to spend thousands of dollars to trust you. He's a fucking optometrist. He's a glorified optometrist. I'm sorry. Go back and look at what he does. He's a skater turned optometrist. He's entertaining.

He's very entertaining. And he's on the same level of Rogan. He's like Rogan plus one as far as the bullshit factor goes . Because I've heard some of his episodes that he has whack jobs on there, like just straight out of fucking Rogan. Yeah. I'm not a fan.

I'm not a fan of his at all. I know the crowd that he runs in because I know the people in the crowd that he runs in. They're not savory people. So some of them showed up very famously in the Epstein files. So I would definitely be passing on this.

And I wish you were telling me you were getting into Huber man because Huberman is on that list of, you know, I like to debunk, you know, quack scientist bullshittery. And he's always been at the top of my list. So to be fair to me, Jason, my getting into Huberman was I listened to three of his podcasts.

The first two, I was like, huh, this is some interesting stuff. And by episode three, I was like, fuck this shit. Okay. We're not talking three months. We're talking three episodes. Okay. Okay. You get a pass. You get a pass. Okay. Just making sure. Just making sure. I could have saved you some time.

Yeah. That's all good. You know, sometimes you got an hour to kill. That's true. And some brain cells. Yeah. I have found this one. And this is a fun one for at the library. Scientists have found evidence of an ancient sheep disease by analyzing DNA preserved in medieval parchment.

Researchers examined sheepskin documents extracting genetic material not only from the parchment itself, but from historical pathogens embedded in it. The analysis revealed traces of sheeppox virus, suggesting the disease has circulated among sheep for at least 3,500 years.

Because parchment was made from animal hides and retains biological material, it can serve as an unexpected archive for tracking past infections. The finding could help scientists understand how sheeppox evolved, spread, and affected livestock over time, while demonstrating how historical documents can contribute to modern disease research.

Unless Amazon takes them all and shreds them and scans them for their AI bullshit. I was going to say, thank God that book wasn't made out of recycled sheepskin condoms. Ha ha ha! Well, maybe it was. Who knows? Maybe that was sailor pox.

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We shall. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. And some sad news for me this week. In another lifetime, many, many years ago, there was a great talk radio station in Los Angeles that I listened to religiously. They had Howard Stern on syndication before he went to Sir ius XM and then went into Frosty, Heidi, and Frank, which was my favorite show of all time.

And a couple other great luminaries of LA radio and talk radio were on that station. Once Howard Stern switched over to Sirius XM, they replaced him with Adam Carolla and the Adam Carolla Show. Now, before you huff and puff about Adam Carolla being a MA GA idiot, yeah, he is now, but he wasn't always.

He wasn't always that way. He had a really funny and really good talk show for many, many years. And one of the people that was on the talk show was a guy named Brian Bishop. He started as a call screener and quickly got a chance and found his calling doing drops on the show.

So he became a permanent member of the cast on the show, doing drops and chatting and pushing back on Carolla quite a bit when Carolla did start to slide to MAGA and occasionally did even back in the day, but got a lot of pushback. So he was, Balbrian was fantastic.

He was the master of the drop. I still remember some segments where he just played drops against each other or he played drops against a guest that didn't even know drops were being played. That were some of the funniest fucking things that I've ever heard in my goddamn life. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with cancer way back in, I believe, 2009.

He was given six months to live. 17 years later, this last week, he finally passed away. So sad to hear it. Love that guy. He lived a life. Well done for lasting as long as you did. And I will always fondly remember some of the comedy bits that you did.

So thank you, Balbrian. Yeah. When you put this in here, when you put this in here, it really bummed me out. I was just like, I really liked Balbrian. He was great. I mean, he was definitely a staple of the show and was super funny. Very funny. Yeah.

Yeah. No, it's one of those ones where it's just like, I forgot about him because Adam Carolla turned into a shit weasel. So, and he left the show. Especially lately. You know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because he was dying. So that's why you leave the show, I guess. Yeah.

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