Max and 99 are back in action, (though IRL, Max is still on vacay!). They hit headlines on MAHA’s fault lines, Flock cameras tracking cars, the world’s most prolific Wikipedia editor, and OpenAI flying influencers to a luxury nature retreat. Then they tackle listener emails on the difference between socialism/communism/and fascism, and an Elon musk sycophant. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:33

Headlines: 00:18:18

Emails: 01:07:48

Feature: 01:26:43

Memberships: 01:35:32

Outro: 01:36:30

Resources

Mark Curry: Sorry About The Weather

The Independent: Women’s historic pro baseball game anthem goes viral for all the wrong reasons

The Baffler: Overmedicalization and Its Discontents

Business Insider: Flock cameras are everywhere. Here’s how they track cars.

404 Media: Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

404 Media: LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

404 Media: Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

404 Media: Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE

404 Media: Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows

404 Media: Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country

New Yorker: The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s Brain

Fast Company: Influencers are being dragged for indulging in a luxury New York nature retreat on OpenAI’s dime

The Wall Street Journal: Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.

Social Media Today: Meta still has widest social media reach

Inc.: 55 Percent of Leaders Regret AI Layoffs—and a Major Hiring Reversal Has Begun

Book Love

Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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