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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 3.40 – 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 3.40 – 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 3.39 – 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 3.39 – 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 3.38 – The Bettification of everything
I bet you don’t know what we are complaining about. I bet you $20
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.38
AI Roundup
- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-statement/ Comparing and showing diffs of the openai mission statement over time, you can watch the compromising happen!
- The new web is markdown, because the agents don’t want ads https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/
- RA: https://tomloosemorework.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/ai-and-the-end-of-friction-as-a-policy-lever/ very interesting point about agentic AI taking on the engineered process friction put into the processes of accessing many public services.
- App detects if Smart glasses are near by https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800 LLMs can de-anonymize pseudonymous online accounts. Similar to Discord offering to judge age “stochastically”
- Paper showing that LLMs can link profiles and postings at speed and at scale, pretty much killing online anonymity: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800
Main attractions
- Prediction market is insanity!
- Disappearing web
- Eternity Service
AOB’s
Fediverse share this link: https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr156-share-where/
#AI #davideastman #ianforrester #PredictionMarket #ryanalexander #web #wendygrossman -
TechGrumps 3.37 – AI Discussions sandboxed for your security
Who watches the watchmen? Oh wait, no one does – we did that last week, This week we compare LLMs to god level Owls, expose ourselves at the Church of Moltbot and watch BBC turn Britain off one channel at a time.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David ‘Andy’ Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.37
- The AI Skills Hub is a bit lightweight.
- Anthropic has invested 1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
- ChatGPT launching advertising in chatGPT products:
- the current actual costs in terms of electricity and water for LLM usage
- Voice cloning is now available to anyone with a GPU
- Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw
- A related dramatic reading
- BBC’s plan to turn off Freeview TV?
- AOB
- Making the familiar strange podcast with Albert Fox Cain
- Feed in to the future of the BBC (Green paper)
- Are hearts are with Minneapolis and other parts of America
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TechGrumps 3.36 Men are weird: The Return of the Glasshole
Who watches the watchmen? We don’t answer that type of dumb question in this podcast; we just wonder who is looking at your junk. And we look at why you may not want to stay on CSAM champion Elon Musk’s X platform.
Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David ‘Andy’ Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.36
- Mozilla, Firefox and AI
- The return of smart glasses and wearables
- Now at the “Get The F*** Off X/Twitter” stage
- Paper about fake parts of real videos:
- Tony Blair wants to be a Tech Bro, building AI tools to rival Palantir
- AOB
- The AI summary in which a police officer turned into a frog (or in discussion of The Owl Who Was God)
- Making the familiar strange podcast
- Feed in to the future of the BBC
- FOSDEM 2026!
- Checkout scanners can tell you that you used a QR code not the barcode
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Techgrumps 3.33 The Final Step Is Removing the Consumer
This time AI wants your browser. With OpenAI launching Atlas and the Apps SDK, first they will bypass the web and finally cut the end user out of the economic decision process.
Also the AWS crash
- AI browsers, WTF?
- Amazon goes down, what next?
- Python software foundation rejects DEI strings
- AOB
- Mozilla Festival 2025
- Enshittification (the book)
- QED
- Ian talks AI to the health insurances
- Sir Tim’s book – https://bookwyrm.social/book/2087203/s/this-is-for-everyone
- Is Solid like Zandando? – https://fil.org/ecosystem-explorer/anytype
- And sky hooks explained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise
#AI #AWS #davideastman #ianforrester #ryanalexander #wendygrossman
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Techgrumps 3.32 Your Illegal Racially Motivated Stops Will Go More Smoothly
With the UK’s steps into the age gated internet and digital ID back again like the renegade master, the techgrumps have plenty to be grumpy about in this month’s podcast.
Grumps this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Ryan Alexander and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.32
- UK Digital ID
- Christie’s has quietly shuttered its digital art department
- Age verification and online safety
- Meshtastic and different networks
- AOB
- Digital legacy – https://machinereadablewishes.cc/
- Fediforum 2025 – https://fediforum.org/ – October 7-8th
- Ian’s digital dating manifesto – https://datingmanifesto.cc/
Enjoy the mp3 audio, and why not share it with others.
#agegated #AI #art #DavidEastman #davideastman #digitalID #ianforrester #NFTs #ryanalexander #UK #wearable #wendygrossman
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Techgrumps 3.32 Your Illegal Racially Motivated Stops Will Go More Smoothly
With the UK’s steps into the age gated internet and digital ID back again like the renegade master, the techgrumps have plenty to be grumpy about in this month’s podcast.
Grumps this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Ryan Alexander and Wendy Grossman.
Techgrumps 3.32
- UK Digital ID
- Christie’s has quietly shuttered its digital art department
- Age verification and online safety
- Meshtastic and different networks
- AOB
- Digital legacy – https://machinereadablewishes.cc/
- Fediforum 2025 – https://fediforum.org/ – October 7-8th
- Ian’s digital dating manifesto – https://datingmanifesto.cc/
Enjoy the mp3 audio, and why not share it with others.
#agegated #AI #art #DavidEastman #davideastman #digitalID #ianforrester #NFTs #ryanalexander #UK #wearable #wendygrossman
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Techgrumps 3.26 – Its like being in a whirlpool of apps
We are back after a quick turn around and there is plenty to be grumpy about!.
Leading the grumpiness this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Hannah Field and Ryan Alexander.
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, just as our special guest did!
Topic discussed this month…
Techgrumps 3.26
Stay grumpy, tell your friends, subscribe and play it again…
#DavidEastman #hannahfield #ianforrester #ryanalexander #techgrumps
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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