Techgrumps 3.29 – Please verify your AI partner
From BlueSky non-growth, to AI boyfriends through staring at an orb. I remember in the old days you just paid thruppence and went to a dance in the church hall, now its all AI intimacy and splitting your iris into three parts. And that Elon Musk, he’s a right one isn’t he? Grumps this time […]
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From BlueSky non-growth, to AI boyfriends through staring at an orb. I remember in the old days you just paid thruppence and went to a dance in the church hall, now its all AI intimacy and splitting your iris into three parts. And that Elon Musk, he’s a right one isn’t he?
Grumps this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David “Andy” Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.29 audio
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Stuff we mentioned in the show
- The Fediverse and Bluesky
- World Orb launches in the UK
- AI Boyfriends
- AOBs
- Titan: the OceanGate Disaster = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35628853/
- Mountain Head – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35396529/
- BBC R&D’s Social research – https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-06-social-media-change-issues-problems-report
- The Bookworm and the Fireflies has launched – https://thebookwormandthefireflies.com/