TWiG 801: Human Beans - Meta Stops Fact-Checking, Public Domain 2025
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
- Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X
- (30+) kottke.org: "oh shit new logo just dropped"
- Masnick: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta's New Content Moderation Policies
- Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down
- I watched the Nvidia keynote; can summarize -jj
- The Bitter Lesson
- Hank Green's Cripslock Test for AGI
- Public Domain Day 2025
- CES 2025
- New AI powered Samsung refrigerators will allow direct grocery ordering with Instacart
- Gemini is taking over Google TV - in a good way
- Google's AI Help Me Read feature
- Deepseek seems to be a big deal: Chinese model, cheaper to train
- Altman's latest gospel
- Choose your Silicon Valley Thinkbro
- Nicvember Post Mortum
- The Habermas Machine: AI mediating disagreements
- VPN Demand Surge in Florida after Adult Sites Age Restriction Kicks In
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twig this week in Google. Jeff Jarvis is here, Paris-Martineau. |
| 0:04.7 | Big changes coming down at meta properties, including Facebook, Instagram, and threads. |
| 0:10.6 | We'll talk about that and why it happened. Of course, we talk about AI and a little bit of a change coming to the show next month. |
| 0:19.1 | This week in Google, coming up next. |
| 0:24.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:28.4 | This is Twit. |
| 0:34.2 | It's time for Twig this week in Google. |
| 0:37.0 | Episode 801 recorded Wednesday, January 8th, 2025. |
| 0:43.2 | Human Beans. |
| 0:45.6 | It's time for Twig this week in Google, the show where we cover everything, but Google. |
| 0:50.5 | Well, we might have a little Google in this one. |
| 0:52.9 | Joining me right now, it's wonderful to have for our first show of 2025. |
| 0:58.9 | The woman who is born on 25, but not in 25, but her birthday will be in 25, 25. |
| 1:06.0 | You may that's entirely too confusing. |
| 1:07.8 | From the information. |
| 1:09.6 | To 5. |
| 1:10.4 | See if you can work that out, people who didn't listen to the pre-oional. |
| 1:14.0 | It's a riddle. |
| 1:15.6 | Happy 2025, guys. |
| 1:17.2 | I missed you. |
| 1:18.1 | And wanted to hear one of the last two weeks when, once we introduced that other guy. |
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