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Ep. 476: A Wild Week in Social Media! + Tech News, Picks, and Tips!
TikTok Bans, Meta Changes, and Little Red Book? The social media news has been fast and furious lately. We try to get caught up on it if that is even possible. Plus, with CES out of the way, there's plenty of other tech news to get caught up on. All so you can get out there and tech better!
*Sorry about Nate's echo the first ~35 minutes, we did fix it after that.
For full show notes, links, and more, visit: https://www.notnerd.com/episode-476-a-wild-week-in-social-media/
INTRO (00:00)
MAIN TOPIC: Social Media Madness (03:10)
- TikTok “Ban” - CapCut - Marvel Snap
- Conspiracies - Migration to Meta Servers, TikTok is CIA psyop
- Little Red Book
- Meta Community Notes
- Instagram 3 minute reels
- Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits
- X and Bluesky launch dedicated video feeds on the back of TikTok uncertainty
- Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
DAVE’S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: Hair conditioner as lotion, empty your pockets in the TSA line, use your horn. (25:30)
JUST THE HEADLINES: (32:25)
- China to host world’s first human-robot marathon
- Donald and Melania Trump launch a pair of meme coins
- China to build thorium molten-salt reactor in 2025
- Intel suffers worst year since 1971 IPO
- Sonos CEO steps down following disastrous app redesign
- Instagram begins randomly showing users ai-generated images of themselves
- AI beats human experts at distinguishing American whiskey from Scotch
TAKES:
- Apple Promotes Severance Season 2 with Lumon Industries pop up at Grand Central Terminal (37:40)
- Nintendo launches Switch 2 Trailer (41:00)
- Watch Duty, the crucial wildfire tracking app (45:25)
- How U.S. Forces and NASA could Inadvertently be Spying for China (47:55)
- Trump pardons, Ross Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road (53:55)
BONUS ODD TAKE: Infinite Craft by Neal iOS app - Episode 426: Vision Quest Pro (55:10)
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
Dave: Insta360 Go 3S (57:25)
Nate: TikTok - Crown Qu Selfie Stick Tripod (01:02:19)
RAMAZON PURCHASE - Giveaway! (01:05:00)
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