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Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The flood of robocalls may soon abate due to a technology named after James Bond’s martini instructions to bartenders, an ethical debate over whether we can revive the dead’s voices to simulate what they said or wrote in life after a documentary filmmaker deep-faked Anthony Bourdain, and dropping fish from planes, Among Us in Irish, and the Hubble, rebooted. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Credit Karma, creditkarma.com/podcast Links: How Do You Stop Robocalls? (New York Times) National Do Not Call Registry FAQs (FTC) Robocall Mitigation Database (FCC) A new Android feature tells you why someone’s calling so you know who to ignore (Input magazine) Caller ID Authentication May Tame the Scourge of Spam Calls (TidBITS) Use the AT&T Call Protect app (AT&T) Scam Shield (T-Mobile) Screen and automatically block incoming spam calls for free with Call Filter (Verizon) An AI Bourdain Speaks From the Grave (Kottke.org) A Haunting New Documentary About Anthony Bourdain (The New Yorker) What Was Anthony Bourdain Searching For? (GQ) Ottavia Bourdain denying she gave approval (her Twitter account) Anthony Bourdain’s ex-wife says she didn’t say he’d be okay with recreating his voice for documentary (EW) Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions (Tech Policy Press) Helen Rosner on the Bourdain deep-fake audio (Twitter) Fred Astaire dances with vacuums in commercials set for Super Bowl debut (AP) A Plane in Utah Lets the Fish Fly (New York Times) Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources has released footage of an airplane dumping fish from the air into a lake (NPR’s Instagram account) Among Us gets an official Irish translation (The Verge) NASA Successfully Switches to Backup Hardware on Hubble Space Telescope (NASA) Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments (BBC Arts) New Order, olden style: A unique take on Blue Monday (BBC Arts) More Cover Songs from the Man Behind Orkestra Obsolete’s ‘Blue Monday’ (Dangerous Minds) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Kotkeh ride home for July 16, 2021.
0:09.0	I'm Glenn Fleischman in for Jackson Bird, who is on vacation.
0:14.0	The flood of robocalls may soon abate due to a technology named after James Bond's
0:19.0	martini instructions to bartenders,
0:21.5	an ethical debate over whether we can revive the dead's voices to simulate what they said
0:26.0	or wrote in life after a documentary filmmaker deep-faked Anthony Bourdain
0:30.4	and dropping fish from planes among us in Irish and the Hubble rebooted.
0:36.2	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
0:40.1	We all hate robocalling. Those are the automated, unsolicited calls made in the billions that
0:46.1	ring our cell phones and ever-declining homelines that try to defraud us by selling us crap,
0:51.4	claiming they're the IRS, or getting our credentials or personal information.
0:56.1	They're also mostly illegal by nature, even if a small percentage of them offer a legitimate
1:00.8	service or product. It's illegal to auto-dial. It's illegal to use a computerized or pre-recorded
1:07.0	voice. It's illegal to call before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. in your time zone. If you stuck
1:12.4	your number on the National Do Not Call Registry, it's illegal for commercial firms to call you,
1:17.4	even if they're legitimate businesses. Some motion has taken place on this front. As of June 30th,
1:23.8	2021, all companies that handle voice calls, from smallest to largest, had to register
1:28.9	in the Robocall mitigation database. Starting September 22nd, any company that hasn't registered
1:35.3	will be blocked by all other telephone carriers. The New York Times published a useful fact about
1:40.5	this a couple of days ago, but I think it's pretty obscure to most people. The changes imposed by the FCC have a chance of dramatically reducing the over 50 billion
1:49.4	robocalls placed each year by essentially locking out the companies taking advantage of lax
1:54.5	oversight and what has been a fairly clunky system that was never updated for the digital era.
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