After a 2-month hiatus, the team returns to their bullsh*t. A lengthy discussion on cloud computing follows a quick recap of news and events the team missed during their break. Randy's band The Bell Beat is searching for a 4th member. Inquire at thebellbeat.com.

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Randy's album on display is Lucius, Wildewoman.

The team welcomes analyst and writer, Elizabeth. A slew of authors, including Sarah Silverman are suing Meta, Google, and Microsoft/OpenAI for using their work in LLM training data. This leads the team to ask, "Is AI compatible with capitalism?"

Note: During the discussion of drag, the conversation quickly pivoted to gender bending presentations in glam rock, however this should not be construed as equating glam rock with the art of drag. Drag performers and the drag community have a rich and unique legacy that was not originated in any way by the predominantly straight men who made up the bulk of the glam rock movement, and in fact pre-dated it and has a rich history rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Randy's album on display is Iron & Wine, The Shepherd's Dog.

Zuck launched Threads, a Twitter clone where niceness prevails. SCOTUS gave bigots a big win. The culture wars are alive and well. In an effort to keep the fire burning, the team claims "the right can't make good art."

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Randy's album on display is Neutral Milk Hotel, In an Aeroplane Over the Sea.

After a week off, the team avoids leaving home. They quickly digress from the unfortunate end of OceanGate's carbon (crabon) fiber Titan to sonar liquidating the lungs of deep sea divers. Needless to say, this episode carries a content warning. Other subjects discussed: Elon fights Zuckerberg in a cage, SCOTUS gave Google a win against lyric website Genius, and Hitler was a criminal.

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Randy's album on display is My Morning Jacket, MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 (Return to Thunderdome).

Reddit is experiencing the company's worst "footgun" since launching in 2005. The team dives deep into CEO Steve Huffman's damage tour and the nuances that make Reddit unique. Google Domains has been sold to Squarespace, with no warning (check out Porkbun). The episode ends with a brief discussion of Google's murder history.

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Randy's album on display is Jeff Tweedy, Together At Last.

The team discusses (at length) Apple's first entry into the AR/VR headset space. Also, they manage to find time to answer a listener's question, "What is Web3?"

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Randy's album on display is Jessica Lea Mayfield, Sorry is Gone.

The team launches into two right-wing grifts, Trump Coin and 4thepure.com, a product and a service providing quality scams to unsuspecting marks. The conversation touches on the fallout from Bud Light's "woke cancel" (paid vacations for Budweiser executives). The communist United Kingdom is tyrannically stomping on the rights of grocers. Scientists are using CRISPR on mustard greens. Randy experienced a Google Bard "hallucination" leading the team to discuss the future of AI (again).

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Randy's album on display is Built to Spill, Keep it Like a Secret.

Who would've thought the team could talk for 30+ minutes about Drew hating that Carl hates the CSS library Tailwind? The rest of this episode is a meandering conversation about the Super Mario Brothers movie and video games that allow you to build video games.

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Randy's album on display is Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now.

Tucker Carlson is joining Twitter. Elon Musk is once again spreading conspiracy theories. Drew shares more Vercel Ship news leading the team to discuss WYSIWYG editors and the people that don't use them (but should). The team digresses even further with a debate on GUI vs CLI, with a tangent on the frustrations of exiting Vim (Vi IMproved).

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Randy's album on display is Marty Robbins, All-Time Greatest Hits.

Tucker Carlson & Steven Crowder were fired, the former from Fox News and the latter from marriage. Drew doesn't want us to be the E! News for right-wing grifters, so we only spend half the episode talking about right wing grifters. Vercel is robbing devs. The team revisits their 2022 end-of-year predictions.

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Randy's album on display is June of 44, Four Great Points.