The Problem with ProtonMail and the Metaverse

ProtonMail's service is encrypted, but that doesn't make it immune to government overreach. A court order could force them to modify their service to capture decryption keys, which wouldn't be fair. The metaverse, on the other hand, does exist – albeit in a few apps that are excited to roll out into new places. Facebook's attempt at building the metaverse was a disaster, with its launch in Spain looking like a mess. The images uploaded by Facebook were subpar, with poorly photoshopped versions of Mark Zuckerberg and a lack of anything resembling legs.

The floating torsos in the metaverse are particularly jarring, with nothing having any knees or legs to speak of. It's hard not to compare it unfavorably to the Wii, which launched with higher-fidelity graphics than this. The overall aesthetic of the metaverse feels sterilized and lacking in authenticity. The cyberpunk-inspired metaverse is the only one that comes close to capturing the gritty, dystopian feel we're used to seeing in movies like Blade Runner.

But even this doesn't seem genuine. Who's behind the cyberpunk metaverse? We want to get behind them and see if they can deliver on their promises of a dark, dystopian world. Maybe they'll finally capture the feeling of being trapped in a never-ending loop of social media. Perhaps they'll overlay prison bars over everything we see in the metaverse, because that's what it feels like – a prison for our minds.

The Dark Side of Burnout

Burnout has turned Twitch streamers' dreams of playing video games full-time into nightmares. The algorithm demands that they play certain games to keep their viewers engaged. But when they want to switch to something else, the chat gets angry and demanding. Big streamers have spoken out about this phenomenon, with some confessing to feeling like they're stuck in a never-ending cycle of playing the same games over and over.

The irony is that these streamers are often more popular when they play different games altogether – but their viewers won't tolerate it. They'll just tune out if they don't get what they want. It's a vicious cycle, with the algorithm demanding more and more content to keep the viewers engaged, while the streamers feel like they're losing themselves in the process.

Amazon's Product Search is a Joke

Amazon has internally tested a TickTock-like feed in its app, but it's not going to be much use. The product search filters are terrible, and it often feels like Amazon doesn't even try. Users have resorted to using Google to find products because it's so bad – a simple and effective solution that Amazon clearly hasn't figured out yet.

The reason Amazon struggles with its product search is because it's not very good at creating engaging content. People don't tune in to watch tech talks about Chinese products; they just want to see reviews. And Amazon has been criticized for its fake reviews, which only adds insult to injury.

A Glimmer of Hope?

But what do we have for Friday? Nonsense and robots and spaces – the best categories on this podcast? We'll see you guys then, with a whole lot more nonsense and possibly some actual content.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello today is august 24th and we're doing business and social links to share with your friends because we're sharing with you because you're our friends in a way not the normal way in the parasocial sort of way anyway let's talk about amazon well we got the holiday season coming up how exciting it's going to be so much fun with hyperinflation and amazon sees that coming by mile amazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage the third through your turn i think the tick bite might be getting to you you're struggling with these headlines today what is going on through is the word you look through amazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage through surging inflation because of surging inflation through doesn't make sense there to me for some reason it's managed through yeah it's a terrible it's technically correct but it doesn't flow very well when you say it out loud so they're saying they need to manage because during yeah like to get through them yeah that's that's who is this annie palmer she might not be the editor though it's the editor who makes the headlines at any point oh you're probably right yeah maybe we shouldn't but since danny palmer is the only name we know that's that's the person you're gonna have to tweet at it's interesting though that they're raising the seller fees not just raising the fees but that's going to they're gonna pass that along to us i think that's the idea right it's like oh don't talk to amazon it's these nasty sellers i've had some sellers angry about this because they're like well i have to you know compensate for this but amazon put me in this position is it actually more expensive i mean the compute part of it hasn't gotten more expensive when is computing ever gotten more expensive well fuel is down from the peak at least right yeah but it's also by winter it might go higher because of heat what does amazon know that we don't yeah well what wood stove's starting to look real good but how it's expensive to install and by that same token what does apple know apparently what all the other tech companies know apple reportedly lays off 100 contract recruiters after committing to hiring on a quote-unquote deliberate basis again this is a terrible headline were they doing involuntary hiring before we don't want you here but my hands are tied welcome aboard this what they mean is that apple had hired recruiters a hundred of them to just get people to come to apple just they just need butts in the seats like a press game yeah you stop at a red light they drag you out of the car and take you over to the apple the campus give you a job that photo of him is very douchey has he ever taken one the douchey aura so they get rid of those guys now it's gonna be up to internal people to to hire okay but what are the con where do you go if you're a contract recruiter like how does that even work aren't you paid on commission now this is august 18th i don't know if ted crunch was just really late to the party i think this is different though because last week we talked about the if you ask google a question and it just gives you the box that's the actual answer yeah they were gonna make that better this is not that this sounds similar but it's not that i think this might be like they were hoping we would confuse it with that yeah because what this is is probably election meddling that's what i'm expecting this to be google will roll out new updates to produce low quality and unoriginal content in search results so this is actually uh search engine spam i think they're saying search engine spam here because when i search for obscure things i get a lot of search engine spam gardening stuff you try to look something up and it's like there's a certain format of these sites and you know what you're looking at where it's like a table of contents but all the questions are just like completely random and then you can tell that they've just copied and pasted if i were in charge of google i would have developed the algorithm to detect the listicle format instantly minus 100 points well so they describe what you're saying as seo first content rather than human first content yeah i wonder who spearheaded the movement into seo first content what company could be responsible for the hell that we're living in the the crazy thing is that seo first is good for the ad dollars because you click on something and it's like oh this isn't what i want but you get all those ads then you click back and then you click on something again oh this isn't what i want you get all those ads again yeah i want to learn about growing this particular type of flower in zone six and it's like here's a hundred random posts about every other flower except the one you're looking for i'm telling you right now we're going to look back and at some point it's going to be like hey what about this embarrassing thing that politician x did right before the election and google's going to be like oh you know we made those changes i can't find anything that was a mistake but we fixed it and we're going to fix it in december are you saying that when i do garden searches it's still gonna pull up the crap that it's always been pulling up i'm afraid maybe it will and intel we've learned about their new gpus and then we immediately learned that they might be a little buggy and they might be a little less than was promised now we learned that there are more concessions although this one might not be terrible this is not terrible intel has dropped directx knot support on xe arc etc gpus and switches to directx 12 emulation so if you wanted to play old directx 9 games sorry some people do and if i wanted to play old directx 9 games maybe that would be a use case for one of these gpus they're weak they're not great are they cheap do they never price yet they're not super cheap they're okay you know what else is just okay but i've after owning one i'm like yeah i'm probably never doing that again android tablets not a great situation the update situation will eventually ruin it for you if you keep it long enough but they're going to keep trying the upcoming pixel tablet could ship with a 64-bit only version of android 13. that is really a tragedy i've still got a nexus 13 which used to play 1080p content with vlc just fine and now it can't i used one strictly as an e-reader until the battery completely crapped out at the at the very end a page turn took three seconds i was like how is this like what have you done to this planned obsolescence uh and qualcomm now qualcomm this is not the first time they've attempted this the last time abject failure unfortunate but they are undeterred qualcomm reportedly plans to re-enter the server chip market they're looking around at what amazon is doing and uh they think that they've got some room there because amazon and graviton the newest version of graviton is actually shockingly good like people inside of intel and microsoft should maybe uh intel and amd should maybe stop fighting with one another to look at what's going on with graviton because it's actually pretty good this was nuvia they were already working on a server chip qualcomm gobbled them up and now they're like oh yes we have a server chip we should do something with that it didn't really work out the the surface x qualcomm chip didn't really work out so i'm hoping this is less of a train wreck tsmc gosh i hope they keep running in the future because it sure seems like they could be disrupted which means we won't get this tsmc to begin three nanometer chip production next month apple is of course a customer as is literally everybody else of course apple's first in line because they demand it i really like this how often do you think they have to clean this somebody power wash this like once a week yeah there's one guy that works full time when he gets done he's good there's another one on the other side of the campus and he just has to rotate so yeah i got some charts here about speed improvement it does seem like there's going to be some some better stuff here we'll see we'll see if it ever gets fabricated and uh this we haven't had a lot of the work from home arguments for a while it seemed to cool down there for a while because you know everything got crazy again and they were like okay we're going to back off but now it seems the push is now for 2023. the the plot line has resurfaced as things have calmed down a little bit and they're they're still kicking the can down the road a little bit but they're saying hey guys next year for real for real next year for real for real back to normal as the kids say 18t workers fight return to office push we can do the same job from home indeed we can so yeah they point out all the benefits and how much better their lives are they also point out the measurements of productivity for inside att went up in some departments so what's the argument the the other argument is also if you want to come back we now have to get a babysitter and that's going to be wildly expensive in these inflationary times and how can you when you can't find somebody to do any kind of labor can you still find babysitters does child care oh childcare's terrible right now and if you drop your childcare off at a daycare center it's just swimming with yeah the diseases that we can't name streaming lots of streaming news this week and uh this is a milestone that i'm amazed it took this long to hit yeah but this is the high water mark uh what's the opposite of long live death to television i don't know play taps for television press f streaming viewership overtakes cable tv for the first time netflix and the other streaming services represented a record 34.8 percent share of total television consumption in the us last month i think this is probably i think streaming probably actually did overtake cable tv for the first time in a long time they're counting all those tvs that are on and all those nursing homes 24 hours a day seven days a week so wait if it's hospitals yeah if this is 35 but this is more than cable then that means this and cable are a total of 70 which means 30 is over the air still probably that's wild yeah i guess those would be the only people still watching it or just local channels i mean there are people that we know that just have the tv locked at the local over-the-air channel oh my god well it's not over the air but my parents it's just it's never off of msnbc that's all they consume and streaming services have been cracking down what's your what's the status of your netflix krista no it was working the other day so maybe it was just that too many of us were trying to use it at the same time or maybe they backed down because i think what they're learning is the more draconian they get and the more they raise these prices and everybody's raising prices people are like well you know maybe i don't need that all the time streaming services deal with more subscribers who watch cancel and go which will inevitably lead to releasing one episode a week oh that's already happening with a lot of shows i also think though like it's gonna is it eventually gonna be like a cable package where it's like you're locked into a contract yeah and they're trying to bundle them now yeah they're trying to get more and more services all on one so you can't skip around yeah speaking of bundling yeah this so we learned i was this might have been why you were out christian but walmart was courting all of the big walmart wants disney plus i don't think disney plus is ever going to play ball with walmart even if they did though like would would anyone allow that to go through probably but probably shouldn't it's that'd be quite the monopoly but a smaller crappier streaming service they're happy paramount to be bundled with walmart plus membership plus i can barely see the place there's a there's a walmart plus that was that was the real takeaway from the article for me that was yeah well there was a walmart plus they're trying to emulate the amazon thing yeah but here's the thing about this you get paramount plus with your walmart plus subscription oh that's great but it's ad supported why would anybody watch streaming and have ads that's counterintuitive but they're all going to that model now which it's like again well they are yes however there is a winner from the streaming award now they i think disney has an ad supported one too right they do yeah actually recently added right i think they even changed the terms of service on the ad free one to say that you might see an ad every now and then so when they get a really big ad it's like oh we can push it over the top oh my god and they are still losing but boy that gap is shrinking rapidly what streaming slow down disney plus added 14.4 million subscribers in q3 netflix now maintains just a 68.6 million subscriber advantage over the surging disney plus and if i can show my mom how to use my local media server they're going to be down one more subscriber but you actually have disney plus how's that going uh netflix oh netflix this is what a low rent superhero miss marvel looks like yeah that's not a good costume is that her is that her superhero costume she's wearing the mask i i don't think that's her superhero costume but it is kind of like she does have a lovely bracer with no shirt under it so it gets nice and sweaty and shapes and uh so yes netflix does have ads supported and they look at the ad supported people as somewhat lesser netflix's cheaper ad supported plan reportedly won't allow downloads for offline viewing so no watching on an airplane for you you'll have to watch the in-flight entertainment what a nightmare you think that's because they couldn't come up with an easy way to inject the ads into the offline viewing probably you could download everything you want to watch pull the plug and then watch it all never get an ad and they're like no we can't have that how do you think about that that's probably true i am uh right now i'm kind of angry because i'm enjoying the the rocket league golf game it's not called that it's called something else but it's rocket league turbo golf race that's what it is yep but i'm trapped into the xbox online portion because i'm on the game pass the microsoft game pass and i don't like playing with those people i want to play with the steam people but i can't microsoft finally admits xbox one sales were less than half of the ps4 oh that was kind of my reaction i was like oh that's not very good so was this supply chain or was this because product no it's because the ps4 was way better and maybe just better advertised i don't know but they didn't tell us that for seven years because it's embarrassing why would you well that's a good question why would you oh it's because you're trying to merge and you're trying to make yourself look like a loser versus sony because that's the anti-competitive part just a small indie company look we lose too oh yeah oh and you know what else we lose a lot of stuff to pirated keys man they're killing us we're just a little mom-and-pop organization we can't handle that microsoft sue's activation key and token sellers for enabling customers piracy this is a great image whoever did this little stock image in here that is nice it's got some like texture in the background too yeah they took some time with that they made it nice so yeah they're saying that if you resell these keys they're coming after you just don't activate it it works if you don't activate it there is kind of a dark chapter to this in the mark it's not enough that microsoft is going after this from the anti-piracy angle they're going after this from the you can't resell the license angle as well or what they're doing could close the door on that so like if you if you buy a piece of software that comes with a dongle and i give you the dongle then you could use the software right well not necessarily it's what microsoft is saying here too even if it's a legit dongle the horrific phrase was something about like we don't sell software we sell licenses yeah and if you don't have a license you cannot use art software yeah and they said that without realizing what a monster they are for saying it yeah no first sale doctrine for software and another monstrous thing that happens i was just reading about i'm fascinated by the caste system in india and i was just reading about i think there was a sexual assault but the two guys that did it were brahman and a lot of the high-ranking political guys were like hey these guys are brahmanas they would never do that yeah and that kind of thing as much as we would like to believe that it doesn't does bleed over in our h-1bs cased in california can't cast castrate in california tech giants confront ancient indian hierarchy and then the only line that i fixated on in this article was and apparently that's not illegal under california law right well it is if in certain situations for hiring i think but what this guy was complaining about was he was trying to get a promotion but all of his managers were upper caste indians and they basically told him that's never happening so microsoft or was it microsoft microsoft i got paywall microsoft legal oh it's like uh i don't remember it was apple and microsoft it was talking about this is a problem in all of the silicon gap yeah the one company in particular like it wasn't a company policy they didn't kick it upstairs and be like hey we're thinking about not giving this guy promotion because he's the lower cast it was just these two guys but how do you ever get past that and the lawyers pointed out ah you know it's not technically illegal we're just not going to give you a permission class discrimination totally fine in the u.s yeah we do basically do that do we but the thing about it is we have mobility right right if you win the lottery they'll welcome you into the upper castle well you're your new money in that case somebody might still be they talk elon musk is not new money but he doesn't fit in with money he's kind of a wild card but they accept him because of his money but in the caste system it doesn't matter yeah you're just like no i'm not touching you you're less here is our feel good story of the week unfortunately this man was uh in constant contact with john deere as he was doing this and they are furiously working right now to fix it new jailbreak for john deere tractors rides the right to repair wave a hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to popular models of the company's farm equipment this was a defcon and it was awesome it turns out that all of these tractors have an lte modem and are dangerously insecure and run unpatched linux and windows ce so all of our food supply really can be taken out by an angry 11 year old may take a little more skill than that this guy definitely he did a lot of stuff he had to it was similar to the starlink hack oh yeah once once he was in there like this guy figured out a lot but he figured out that it was so rotten on the inside now we know what the weaknesses are you know it's we don't need luke skywalker to blow up the death star with fabulous piloting an eleven-year-old could trip over the wrong cord and cause the same result but hopefully this will make it so that some people can actually fix their tractors and probably he hacked two specific models probably skyrocketed the resale value of those two specific models tractors aren't cheap we looked into that briefly they are very expensive oh my god yeah yeah they're considerably more than a car considerably even used ones very expensive oh yeah if you've got a used tractor in good shape from like the 70s it has not gone down in value most of my neighbors like if they have a tractor it's an ancient one like that well here's a headline that no one ever wants to see i mean it doesn't affect me but i still don't like it your iphone may soon have more ads because apple is a trillion dollar company maps podcasts and books these are all the pre-installed apple apps that you can't get rid of they're adding ads to those now didn't we predict this when apple was changing the whole ad tech thing ah nobody's buying the apple ad tech okay let's make it harder for everybody else to use other people's ad tech oh look at that apples that tech revenues went up and they're quarterly earnings the big question is what does the ad purchasing control panel look like and are they doing all are they tracking after all to give you exclusivity to the tracking they'll probably try to hide that i'm imagining a scenario where like you're on maps and you're trying to navigate somewhere and you're getting ready to turn off at your exit but then an ad comes up and it's like you know play candy crush now and you miss your exit because of it sad hilarious is it that in all of the they got all the commodities and a drop down up here at the top one of them is cannabis oh i thought it was cannabis oil but oil is a there's a separate you just can't see it very well and well so electric cars they're catching on now we did learn recently that there's not enough actual raw material to keep making them so at some point we're going to hit a wall there i don't know what's going to happen but they are hard to get sometimes you have to get on a waiting list and then of course if that's a tesla you know how that goes he's going to raise the prices while you're waiting so this company says you know what we're going to buy a bunch right now and you guessed it subscription service california startup is selling electric vehicle quote unquote subscriptions what better way to make sure that you can't jailbreak it because you don't own it it's not yours not your tractor now i look at these prices and for a moment i was like okay 500 if you gave me like a model x for 500 for a month just to see what it's like maybe especially if i was thinking about buying one maybe i would consider that however then i read that there is a startup cost which i believe was sixty nine hundred dollars just to get started who who is this for still that's a lot of money and then up to 690 a month and you get 1 000 miles a month that's no problem i don't drive that much so i wonder if you have to pay that 5900 every time you switch to a new vehicle probably right that would really suck i just like why not why wouldn't you just get a beater at that point well to save the planet kristen listen i want to save the planet but i'm cheap as hell i'm poor i think technically getting a beater would save the planet more because you don't depend the production of new goods and because you're also like scared to drive it very far because it's gonna break down eventually you gotta you really gotta think about your mileage when you're driving a beater that's like losing weight because you're poor sleep for dinner and airbnb we've seen recently they have a big problem with parties turns out people will rent a big nice house and then pack it full of people and trash it and that's a big problem so how do you get around it well in the most dystopian way airbnb rolls out a new anti-party tech to prevent unapproved gatherings huh so this is an algorithm much like the beautiful algorithms that control of our lives so if you're in the same town if you're under 25 years old if you do not have three positive reviews or if you if some other flags come up it's like this is a partier they will they won't even send it to the owner of the house they won't even offer them the offer they just destroy it it goes into the memory hall excellent i had a friend who uh got an airbnb recently in florida and he said that they were the person that they got it from was very anti-party like that and they had a noise detector out in the parking lot that was like if it reached a certain point like they would call and say are you guys partying they should have taken some pots and pans out there and just went crazy i told him i was like you gotta test that but he didn't and then when they call it's like are you having a party just keep making up more like insane reasons that there's noise out the lizard people have arrived you know how they love their music before they invade well the the crypto space is suffering yeah it's not getting much better we've had little rallies and everybody's like oh it's over i don't think it's over i think there's some some more ways to go down and that is pretty obviously the reason that they have stopped spending money on advertising crypto ads starring matt damon and tom brady vanished from us television so we're gonna cover it in this news article which costs way less in terms of advertising the um the youtube video linked in this was very like the fortune favors the brave yeah i don't know i was like i don't think that's the quote but any of you recent crypto investors feeling very fortunate right now yeah we're gonna get one we're gonna get one response it's like oh yeah because i got in so and so and i sold here and not because i'm a master crypto trader and then we're gonna get a bunch of those posts where it's like oh my god this man on telegram saved my life don't click on those those are hard to click to keep on the spam list oh my gosh yeah i've had to go through and like manually remove so many and it doesn't matter also the the youtube anti-spam algorithm has gotten to the point where it doesn't show me the comments that i like to see it just shows me the comments that it's not sure are spam and so it's like is this spam and every time invariably that's you're training their algorithm and it's like that i'm doing the work of the algorithm here what's going on uh what is terrible world but the three of us at least still have employment and that's more than can be said for some people now crypto.com they made one of those terrible announcements and we put it in one of our many many like the long crypto layoff blocks and big tech layoff blocks however that was not the end of the story crypto.com laid off 260 employees and then they quietly let go of hundreds more oops you know you mentioned the quote and the other article where they're like oh this is not technically illegal they said the exact same thing here it's like well technically we don't have to tell you so stop asking technically not illegal but maybe a little unethical apparently somebody did some studies that were unnecessary because any person with an iq over 75 already knows this intuitively please stop buttons beat touch screens in cars and now there's data to prove it well yeah pretty obvious so here are some of these horrific of course tesla's the worst yeah but it's becoming more and more ubiquitous one's pretty bare bones what is that volkswagen i'm not opposed to the idea of like having a screen to display some stats but like there's just something about having a tactile button like if you need to change the volume or something it's so much easier to do that while keeping your eye on the road when you have something tactile to touch that you don't have to look at they timed these people but here's the thing about it they used people who had already been driving these cars for at least i think 100 days yeah so they were familiar with the car and yet twice as long hesitation versus the button and the touchscreen because you have to look at it you don't have to look at a button i like the steering wheel controls does tesla have steering wheel controls they probably i don't know now you know what i'm not going back it's too late we've already claimed they don't have steering wheels somebody in the comments will tell us the tesla people are always in the comments the tesla people will tell you that you can install the f1 style steering wheel it's just all the buttons and the switches yeah because i'm not paying enough for this this was a miss sort i don't know why i put this in business but let's we'll just do it yeah i was confused let's take a cursory look at it because it is important at wichita officer to face civil trial in deadly shooting on swatting call so this is the officer that shot a dude that was unarmed and had no reason to be shot but it was a swatting so he is not at fault for the swatting part of it but he is at fault for being a not particularly good police officer well apparently it was all the police officers on the call the article said that like they basically swarmed this guy's house the guy came out and was confused because he hadn't done anything and he wasn't expecting them and all the cops were shouting different commands yeah which they always do yeah when there's more than one cop they're all just screaming their lungs out and you have no idea what to do and people are always confused by it no well because it's it's a dick measuring contest is what it is like i want that guy to listen to me so they all just start yelling over compliance yeah you will comply with lawful orders to be fair people do tend to shoot at them and run whenever given the opportunity moving out well we've moved into social with that mis-sorted story i don't know why how that got in there but this is the one that you alluded to wendell that tick tock is like no seriously guys seriously we are not with the communist party and then we see evidence after evidence that they are absolutely that so they have to somehow try and convince us oracle oracle has stepped up and they are now auditing tick tocks algorithms there's part of this like that's not really the flex you think it is for having oracle do that this is just the u.s segment this is just whatever's running on oracle server that they can look at because they moved everything from china to oracle in order to guarantee that yeah nothing crossed over i think they will find exactly what tic tac tic tac tick tock expects them to find yeah because i think they like that business i think so too facebook is uh i took the story out because i think we did the same article last week but they looked at a different portion of it and the portion that they focused on in this week was facebook kids just will not use it kids are allergic to facebook and so facebook is saying like well i guess we've got this bad privacy reputation it's bad pr how can we convince people that we're not spying on them even though we're spying on them facebook is testing encrypted chat backups so this will back up your chat to an encrypted file it doesn't really do anything for the rest of the chat facebook has also recently had to admit that they gave up chat messages to cops yeah they don't they don't currently do end-to-end encryption so presumably with this they could tell the cops we can't we can give it to you but it's going to be encrypted we can't give you the unencrypted stuff presumably but probably not don't forget that uh was it protonmail protonmail was like that it's like oh our service is encrypted we can give you the encrypted stuff and it's like oh here's a court order ordering you to modify your service to capture the decryption keys the next time somebody logs in that's not fair and the metaverse it does exist you might be forgiven for not realizing that because what is it exactly they have a couple of apps and they're excited to roll them out into new places i guess facebook launches in spain its first attempt to build the metaverse and oh boy does it look like a disaster oh it just looks terrible they uploaded a self that's a selfie of uh mark zuckerberg yeah there's a great photoshop version of that image where the rolling hills in the background have been turned into a pepe but no there's a there's an even better photo not on this article but they're all the the floating torsos we've talked about the floating torsos before nothing has any legs but everything was just sort of floating around a table and it's like i'm pretty sure that that uh when the wii launched we had higher fidelity graphics than than this it's very the knees yeah it's it's so sterilized yeah everything about the metaverse it doesn't nothing feels genuine who's doing the cyberpunk metaverse i want to get behind them the dark dystopian metaphors i think that is the one everything's just covered in trash and gritty but yeah i think that would be true right because it's the whole matrix thing yeah the metaverse is too perfect for us to trust and we know that there's evil behind it it should look exactly like how we expect it to which is probably moss iceland which they should overlay prison bars over everything that you see in the metaphors because that's what it is it's a prison for your mind this is a paid service only you can't access this part of the metaverse please connect your credit card i know this is not you know we've heard this before but i just thought it was funny because you know npr is now hip to it yeah burnout has turned twitch streamers dreams of playing video games full time into nightmares the algorithm demands that you play the game but i want to play something else no a lot of big streamers say that if they get off of certain games like no one watches them yeah they interviewed the guy and he was like well i play hades and that's how i got popular but now i'm kind of done with hades but my chat will not tolerate that said when you get to 200 viewers that's when you start getting people who start demanding that you do exactly what they want well we've done very good avoiding that we're not getting to 200 people oh yeah you're usually like around 150 or so so uh that is also full time we do not stream for eight hours a day yeah uh four hours a day he was doing 50 50 to try to appease them but four hours of a game that you're not really into yeah oh wait we have played a lot of pub g i'm sorry but it's fun for me and wendell and not for ryan and this is uh this is the marketing team just not getting it nope they don't understand they know that something is out there that people really like and they want to be like that but they don't know how to be like that amazon is internally testing a tick tock like feed in its app i don't so the product search is going to be even more useless yeah i was going to say this is just going to be a random feed of products that it thinks you might like but it's probably just going to be garbage i mean amazon doesn't realize how useless their product search has become i've literally resorted to just using google site colon amazon.com to find products because it's so garbage the filters are so bad like it has no idea and that wasn't always the case like a year ago it was less terrible so it turns out on tick tock it's actually uh really common to do content about amazon products so amazon sees that and they're like wait a minute why don't you just come to us for that our whole website needs to be reworked yeah the reason they don't come to you for that is because you're not entertaining you're an evil corporation but it's coming you're going to see it imagine trying to get to the reviews and you have to scroll through a bunch of like tech talks first you know how like all the chinese products have the fake reviews imagine how they're going to abuse this unfortunate dark yeah what do we got for friday what do we always have for friday nonsense and robots and spaces the best categories all right we'll see you guys then bye you\n"