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TechGrumps 3.42 – Three thefts don’t make a right
(Or I drive a Snitch)
It’s hot in London and Manchester, but not as hot as the blazing heat of AI nonsense.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.42
AI bin
- Munich court decision on AI Overviews/Google: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
- Youtube is cooked – People using AI to generate their own videos
- Code Reveals Meta Smart Glasses Can Use ‘Faceprint’ Tracking, Raising Privacy Alarms https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/meta-smart-glasses-code-face-recognition-biometric-tracking-privacy/
- Last stakeholder gives up on gigantic data center in northern Virginia after years of litigation over land rights.
- AI cheating scandal at Brown University: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
- Waymos ran out of power in SF July 4 congestion
- AI is pushing up emissions at google, Amazon, Microsoft…the wrong kind of hockey stick growth (Guardian and Ketan Joshi)
- Protests against data center for high-freuqqency trading in Brick Lane (council and residents want affordable housing)
Rest of World – AI analytics at the World Cup
- Watch the world cup, and all the stats hand made by mechanical turks in Cambodia, India and the Philippines for endless betting possibilities
Ian’s been playing with local hosted AI systems, finds so much you can do without a GPU and massive rig.
- But what the hell with the RAM – https://techwontsave.us/episode/335_the_ram_crisis_is_coming_for_all_your_tech_w_chris_person/
Waymo holds robotaxi in a parking lot
- when two 15yos shoot water beads out of the window while drinking alcohol to await cops, who arrive guns drawn.
AOBs
- EMF camp, Ian talking:https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/151, Ian DJing:https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/15-in-a-trance-within-the-null-sector
- Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Tamara Kneese)
- Ryan’s New NAS
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TechGrumps 3.42 – Three thefts don’t make a right
(Or I drive a Snitch)
It’s hot in London and Manchester, but not as hot as the blazing heat of AI nonsense.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.42
AI bin
- Munich court decision on AI Overviews/Google: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
- Youtube is cooked – People using AI to generate their own videos
- Code Reveals Meta Smart Glasses Can Use ‘Faceprint’ Tracking, Raising Privacy Alarms https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/meta-smart-glasses-code-face-recognition-biometric-tracking-privacy/
- Last stakeholder gives up on gigantic data center in northern Virginia after years of litigation over land rights.
- AI cheating scandal at Brown University: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
- Waymos ran out of power in SF July 4 congestion
- AI is pushing up emissions at google, Amazon, Microsoft…the wrong kind of hockey stick growth (Guardian and Ketan Joshi)
- Protests against data center for high-freuqqency trading in Brick Lane (council and residents want affordable housing)
Rest of World – AI analytics at the World Cup
- Watch the world cup, and all the stats hand made by mechanical turks in Cambodia, India and the Philippines for endless betting possibilities
Ian’s been playing with local hosted AI systems, finds so much you can do without a GPU and massive rig.
- But what the hell with the RAM – https://techwontsave.us/episode/335_the_ram_crisis_is_coming_for_all_your_tech_w_chris_person/
Waymo holds robotaxi in a parking lot
- when two 15yos shoot water beads out of the window while drinking alcohol to await cops, who arrive guns drawn.
AOBs
- EMF camp, Ian talking:https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/151, Ian DJing:https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/15-in-a-trance-within-the-null-sector
- Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Tamara Kneese)
- Ryan’s New NAS
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TechGrumps 3.41 – The KardashElons of AI
Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Elon tell their stories of large language models, from the pressures of running trillion-dollar businesses to the joys of starting a fascist riot.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.41
- AI roundup
- AI elites don’t get it
- Mathematicians worries
- Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I.
- OpenClaw has 800,000 lines of code. From my interview with Gavrial Cohen
- AI Hiring tools also racist:
- Pymetrics is reusing evluations
- Kindle jailbreaking everywhere
- OpenAI beats Musk
- James O’Malley finds out what the National Data Library might be
- Meet the sad wives of AI
- AOB’s
- Open Social Platforms and Private Messaging
- Hugo Nominees:
- LDX3 Conference
- Super-Infinite The Transformations of John Donne (Katherine Rundell) 1611 “the greatest writer of desire in the English language”
- Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
- AI roundup
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TechGrumps 3.41 – The KardashElons of AI
Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Elon tell their stories of large language models, from the pressures of running trillion-dollar businesses to the joys of starting a fascist riot.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.41
- AI roundup
- AI elites don’t get it
- Mathematicians worries
- Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I.
- OpenClaw has 800,000 lines of code. From my interview with Gavrial Cohen
- AI Hiring tools also racist:
- Pymetrics is reusing evluations
- Kindle jailbreaking everywhere
- OpenAI beats Musk
- James O’Malley finds out what the National Data Library might be
- Meet the sad wives of AI
- AOB’s
- Open Social Platforms and Private Messaging
- Hugo Nominees:
- LDX3 Conference
- Super-Infinite The Transformations of John Donne (Katherine Rundell) 1611 “the greatest writer of desire in the English language”
- Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
- AI roundup
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TechGrumps 3.40 – Teletubbies vision of Judge Dredd
You are the greatest human being that ever lived. I love you. You are better than Richard Dawkins. Although I said the very same words to him – and he now thinks I’m conscious.
Welcome to the TechGrumps podcast – it’s like TrashFuture but without the trust funds*.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.40
- AI round up
- All Birds
- Sam Altman vs Elon Musk over OpenAI
- Mocking Richard Dawkins:
- Apple pays $250m fine
- A bill proposed in the US would add “AI literacy”
- AI will run restaurants.
- Plugin solar is coming to the UK
- NHS go from Open to Closed for fear of Mythos
- Automatic recognition cameras
- Data workers getting professional
- Meta builds AI of Zuck for staff to interact with
- AOB
- Salford university MSc course
- PublicSpaces 2026
- Comrade Trump
- Here comes the sun book
*And the guy who says “like” so often, you’ll think your podcast has an aneurysm.
#AI #davideastman #ianforrester #Mythos #nhs #ryanalexander #solar #wendygrossman - AI round up
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TechGrumps 3.40 – Teletubbies vision of Judge Dredd
You are the greatest human being that ever lived. I love you. You are better than Richard Dawkins. Although I said the very same words to him – and he now thinks I’m conscious.
Welcome to the TechGrumps podcast – it’s like TrashFuture but without the trust funds*.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.40
- AI round up
- All Birds
- Sam Altman vs Elon Musk over OpenAI
- Mocking Richard Dawkins:
- Apple pays $250m fine
- A bill proposed in the US would add “AI literacy”
- AI will run restaurants.
- Plugin solar is coming to the UK
- NHS go from Open to Closed for fear of Mythos
- Automatic recognition cameras
- Data workers getting professional
- Meta builds AI of Zuck for staff to interact with
- AOB
- Salford university MSc course
- PublicSpaces 2026
- Comrade Trump
- Here comes the sun book
*And the guy who says “like” so often, you’ll think your podcast has an aneurysm.
#AI #davideastman #ianforrester #Mythos #nhs #ryanalexander #solar #wendygrossman - AI round up
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TechGrumps 3.39 – Mythos only for the elite
Is your LLM model real enough to only exist as a myth? The techgrumps team are not elite enough to use Mythos, but still talk about AI, Artemis and more on glass holes. Of course, this show is brought to you without any AI, or any other form of intelligence.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Hannah Kakapo and Wendy Grossman.
TechGrumps 3.39 : Mythos only for the elite
- AI round table
- Open claw and the separation of concerns
- Esquire AI generates an actor who couldn’t make their schedule for an interview
- Mythos: Anthropic Mythos Only for the elite
- Good reddens Sora 2
- Ofcom reports that UK social media is declining
- Return of the glass hole (part 2)
- Artemis 2 replaces science with vibes
- The Deviation Game
- AOB’s
- https://replacebyclawd.com/
- OggCamp Manchester 25-26th April – Talking about digital legacy
- Gamers out reach
- AI round table
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TechGrumps 3.39 – Mythos only for the elite
Is your LLM model real enough to only exist as a myth? The techgrumps team are not elite enough to use Mythos, but still talk about AI, Artemis and more on glass holes. Of course, this show is brought to you without any AI, or any other form of intelligence.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Hannah Kakapo and Wendy Grossman.
TechGrumps 3.39 : Mythos only for the elite
- AI round table
- Open claw and the separation of concerns
- Esquire AI generates an actor who couldn’t make their schedule for an interview
- Mythos: Anthropic Mythos Only for the elite
- Good reddens Sora 2
- Ofcom reports that UK social media is declining
- Return of the glass hole (part 2)
- Artemis 2 replaces science with vibes
- The Deviation Game
- AOB’s
- https://replacebyclawd.com/
- OggCamp Manchester 25-26th April – Talking about digital legacy
- Gamers out reach
- AI round table
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Techgrumps 3.22.5 – The 2024 Holiday special
The damn solstice has come and gone, but the days are still dark. The Techgrumps look at their shiny RSS.com hosting and new podcast feed, decide to do something unthinkable for the festive holidays. Not exactly known for their festive cheer, they reach for their microphones and meet at night for this special festive bonus episode with some entertainment. Steady on, one shouts. We need to balanced this holiday joy with a extra heavy dose of grumpiness!
The grumps this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Wendy Grossman, Ryan Alexander and returning guest Ade Adewunmi.
Enjoy the mp3 audio and share with others.
Remember to use the #techgrumps on any social networks you maybe using to message us or learn more about how to be a guest on the show.
Topic discussed this month…
- Verbal review of Vapiano Great Portland Street, London
- Ed Zitron’s very long rant
- House of Lords debate about AI scraping and Robots.txt
- Earl Pomerantz, “Your Presents Are Requested” presented by the Techgrumps
- Any other business
- Chrome stopping common and useful adblockers
- James Lileks for preserving something digital
- Vote for Six feet under a data centre for SXSW London 2025
- Limitarianism book
- 10 years and the Apple M4 has no usable USB
- Ian is leaving BBC R&D
Stay grumpy, tell your friends, subscribe and play it again…
#adeadewunmi #DavidEastman #ianforrester #ryanalexander #techgrumps #wendygrossman
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@CREW tweets:
New report finds two members of Congress-elect and five state representatives-elect who should be investigated for engaging in insurrection, potentially disqualifying them from taking office.
#January6th #Election2022 #USCongress #USSenate #USHouse
#PaulGosar #DerrickVanOrden #AnthonyKern #DonnieLoftis #MattMaddock #MikeAzinger #DavidEastman
#Arizona #Wisconsin #NorthCarolina #Michigan #WestVirginia #Alaska
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/constitutional-disqualification-the-case-for-investigating-federal-and-state-legislators-who-participated-in-the-january-6th-insurrection/
https://nitter.poast.org/CREWcrew/status/1603631066551558144#m -
@CREW tweets:
New report finds two members of Congress-elect and five state representatives-elect who should be investigated for engaging in insurrection, potentially disqualifying them from taking office.
#January6th #Election2022 #USCongress #USSenate #USHouse
#PaulGosar #DerrickVanOrden #AnthonyKern #DonnieLoftis #MattMaddock #MikeAzinger #DavidEastman
#Arizona #Wisconsin #NorthCarolina #Michigan #WestVirginia #Alaska
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/constitutional-disqualification-the-case-for-investigating-federal-and-state-legislators-who-participated-in-the-january-6th-insurrection/
https://nitter.poast.org/CREWcrew/status/1603631066551558144#m