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Ladies and gentlemen, we start today's program with just a little news of nice corp,

nice people, doing nice things.

Maybe not the best journalism in the world, though.

Apparently this week, the man, this is from semaphore,

the man at the heart of a high-stakes political mix-up that rippled,

I say rippled through global political journalism

in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign

was supposedly falsely claiming to be former New York mayoral campaign was supposedly falsely claiming to be former New York

Mayor Bill de Blasio.

That's what the Times of London reported.

But he wasn't.

He was a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill de Blasio.

But, you know, it's an easy mistake to make. And as a little news from this smart, smart world, it's getting dumber.

According to Axis, people are increasingly swapping smart devices for buttons, switches, and knobs in their homes.

Reading nooks, not books, reading nooks are being mentioned 48% more often in home listings compared with a year ago, according to Zillow.

A home where technology is always in the background working and listening feels anxiety-producing instead of restorative, according to one architect interviewed by Axis.

And of course, the shutdown of Amazon's cloud.

It's not a cloud last week, which made many smart devices, well, special needs devices, may have convinced some people that the future is behind us.

We'll see.

Hello, welcome to the show.

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