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#Techgrumps 3.39 - Mythos only for the elite

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At Gathering4Gardner's YouTube channel, mathematician and juggler Colin Wright and I <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPuBFIdQDE">talk about skepticism</a>.

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Long Island AI The peak of dot-com mania was identifiable even at the time: it was in January 2000, when AOL bought Time Warner for $183 billion. Peak podcast mania argiab;u c

This week's net.wars, "Long Island AI", calls the peak of AI mania: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/17/l...

This week's net.wars, "Waste management", sees the planned obsolescence of early Kindles, Microsoft's "just for entertainment" Copilot, and AI-driven new cybersecurity threats: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/10/w...

What's happening with The White Canon?

Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub - Skeptics in the Pub Online Welcome to Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub! Next talk on 13/April: “What we talk about when we talk about AI” by Wendy Grossman Greenwich SitP is currently the only branch of SitP in South East London. ...

Ego: speaking next Monday eve, April 13, at Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub on "What We Talk About When We Talk About AI": sitp.online/sitp/greenwich @skeptic.org.uk @profchrisfrench.bsky.social

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Can you be more specific about which report that's from?

Ig Nobel?

A favorite quote from the old days of Twitter, origin forgottten: "On tthe Internet, your home always leaves you."

The Silicon Valley chronicles We should have seen this coming. At Platformer, Casey Newton reports that Meta has discussed pulling funding for the Oversight Board after 2028 after already re

This week's net.wars, "The Silicon Valley chronicles", notes the likely pending deathe of Meta's Oversight Board and reviews the shift in Silicon Valley politics laid out in Jacob Silverman's book, Gilded Rage: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/03/t...

On the eve of #WeRobot2026, my updated list of summaries of all but one #WeRobot conferences back to its founding in 2012: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/03/18/a...

Clearview and the long arm of the law A tribunal in the UK has overturned a legal judgment about Clearview’s objectionable scraping of images of people’s faces from the internet.

Clearview argued that it should benefit from exceptions to data protection law meant for government law enforcement agencies. Judges disagreed.

But now it’s appealing, so the fight is on again.

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Very like a folksinger friend of mine who was often asked to play at various benefits where everyone was getting paid except the musicians.

context?

Eating the web "Traffic to my blog has plummeted," a friend said recently. Over decades, he's built a thriving community, and his core users persist. But Google was crucial fo

This week's net.wars, "Eating the web", watches Google, a creature of the open web, try to swallow the whole thing, and considers the potential far-reaching impact of this week's social media verdicts: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/03/27/e...

Turn left at the robot It's easy to forget, now that so many computer interfaces seem to be getting more inscrutable, that in the early 1990s the shift from the command line to graphi

This week's net.wars, "Turn left at the robot", goes to the Human-Robot Interaction conference and finds that in robots versus kids the kids win every time: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/03/20/t...,

Power games UK prime minister Keir Starmer's desire to bring in a UK digital ID is awake again with the announcement that the government plans to make the IDs available for

This week's net.wars, "Power games", finds the UK's digital ID proposals back in the news, along with alarming new amendments to the Online Safety Act: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/03/13/p...

Bedroom eyes We've long known that much of today's "AI" is humans all the way down. This week underlines this: in an investigation, Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten l

This week's net.wars, "Bedroom eyes", finds Meta's smart glasses scooping up intimate scenes, finds a new paper says LLMs end online anonymity, and notes wartime Internet risks: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/03/06/b...

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Is it the oldest pub in Britain?

Examples?

Saving no one In the early 2010s, after "nano" and before "AI", 3D printing was the technology that was going to change everything. Then it seemed to go quiet except for guns

This week's net.wars, "Saving no one", finds that 3D printing is enabling puzzle-making and ponders the mess of the Information Commissioner Office's fine against Reddit: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/27/s...

Information wants to be surveiled It has long been the case that the person sitting next to you on an airplane may have paid a very different price for their seat than you did. For two reasons.

This week's net.wars, "Information wants to be surveiled," discovers surveillance pricing, in which the pythons of industry use everything they know about us to wring out every last drop of profit: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/20/i...

Whooped In 2022, we noted a discussion by Julia Powles and Toby Walsh, summarized here, that warned about the increasing collection of data about elite athletes. The da

This week's net.wars, "Whooped", watches the recent Australian Open, where the powers that be disagreed about whether tennis players could wear Whoop fitness tracker bands in competition: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/13/w...

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Dave Farber, R.I.P.

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In search of the future Internet "What kind of Internet do you want [him] to inherit?" "Him" was then measuring his age in weeks. "Not *this* Internet." Now, when said son has grown to measur

This week's net.wars, "In search of the future Internet", goes to meetings building opposition to AI-withouth-public-consent: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/06/i...

I think any professional live performer gets that.