Tonight on CEP! Dr. Mike joins us to celebrate 15,000 downloads, and we slay some articles.

• Shout out to Every1Camp.com, a new camp in Rochester for kids with disabilities.
• We discuss the new horror called "ambient computing" - where gizmos all around your house monitor your every move and then collaborate. Most of it will result in preemptive suggestion attacks, in other words the tech makes assumptions about what you want, and then starts doing things you never told it to do.
• Cars that display video ads on their evil dashboard screens.
• We call it "The False Promise of Technology" - the utopia never happens, but instead we see a decline in the quality of life, chaos, anti-empowerment, control, and helplessness.
• Rumor has it, New Orleans just replaced 911 dispatchers with AI dispatchers, which will result in a plethora of miscommunication.
• "We've already seen how restrictive and insanely incompetent ALL of this technology is. Just wait until it controls more of your life. More helplessness is coming."
• "A third of all actions performed by Alexa, it does proactively." In other words, presumptive auto-attacks, or helicopter parenting.
• Of course, all of this will be subjected to the eternal cat and mouse battle of cybersecurity, and your tech will blow false alarms against you. More fear and uncertainty.
• "DARE to keep kids away from technology." What's the antidote to this dystopia of tech-addicted braindead kids?
• 80s dystopian movies like "Chopping Mall" were prescient: They SAW where this was heading.
• What will save us? Smallternatives and good old human apathy. Let the big guys dry up.

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Tonight on CEP! It's one big scam call!

• A scammer calls me asking for Foghorn Leghorn by name! Yes, I've been using the name so often, that the name is now reflected in the databases the scammers sell to each other!
• Wait til you hear how they pronounced Wisconsin!
• She tells me that someone from "Consumers Clearing House" is coming to give me a huge "cash awerd"!
• Her false attitude is so saccharine it's disgusting - but I turn it against her at so many points. The awkward laughs are abundant.
• I then twist the knife into her by thanking her over and over again for helping the helpless seniors.
• She then has the audacity to give me a sneaky survey to figure out if I own my home, and ask for the types and amounts of my investments!
• At one point, the "senior attorney" gets on, and warns me not to talk to other scammers! I told her I give money to anyone who calls, and that piqued her interest.
• I then told her some other guys called and offered me more prize money, so I might go with them instead!

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Today on CEP!

• Companies using zero-trust are still hacked, claim it's because they're not using enough zero-trust. Paranoia ensues, and employees are even more infuriated than ever before. (As if they didn't have enough stress already!) The great irony is, we're so jaded from all the trillions of confirmation popups, so scammers are taking advantage of that.
• The Spectrum Loop Story - Wait til you hear what happened when my client tried to cancel Spectrum.
• When a Tesla's accessory battery dies, you can't roll down the windows, or open those silly electrically-actuated doors. Real physical door handles are there, but they are UNLABELED, so if you aren't a mind-reader, you won't be able to get out of the car. Many people worldwide are stuck in their cars, often in extreme temperatures.
• The AAA finds that Automated Emergency Braking sort of works, but isn't reliable. Designers can't get it right, but they've already moved on to developing full autonomy, because Jenga.
• The "Matter" protocol is developed to allow all of these new cloud-controlled gizmos to be controlled more simply. Hopefully this means the end of each gizmo being controlled by a totally different ultra-proprietary app and password.
• Finally, in good news, a lady invented a Rotary Un-Smartphone. It's a cell phone with nothing but voice call capabilities, protecting you from the frustration of using a touchscreen.

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