Tonight on CEP!

• Marc recounts a harrowing tale and thanks those who saved him from it.
• Ever wish you could scrub your social media posts without completely deleting your account? There's finally a tool for that, and it's brilliant.
• There's yet another form of car theft made easy thanks to the wonders of car electronics. We were told that electronic FEEEATURES were a convenience, but really they're a massive security hole. Marc explains how it works in Plain English.
• We then talk about Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's very realistic approach to business. He knows MS is no longer a monopoly, and rather than be in denial, he's admitting it and opening up slightly to other platforms. However, the claim that Windows 11 is "calm, security, and openness" is far from correct.

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Tonight on CEP! It's another Torment a Scammer episode!

• I start breaking character and telling scammers to do something better with their lives. One guy told me he has hopes and dreams, so I turned him on to my Become an Exorcist site. Plot twist ensues.
• A diabetic "PARMAcy" scammer calls me up - I throw her a curveball about my glasses, and she doesn't notice it at all.
• A loan shark scammer calls me up and tries to lend me $100k - I promise to spend it only on my favorite food...
• Phone Scammers have an Evil Database that associates victims' names with phone numbers - so in my case, they're now calling and ASKING for Foghorn Legorn!
• They try and ask me what cable company I'm with, so I ask them, "Well, what company are you from?"
• I have a lot of fun misinterpreting what they say, and in a lot of cases it goes right over their heads

Hope you love these clips - more to come! Join the good fight at becomeanexorcist.com

Tonight, CEP's favorite mechanic returns to discuss:

• Pipes vs hoses on cars - ease of manufacture vs ease of repair
• BMW iDrive va Mercedes voice COMAND vs Lexus touchpads vs Audi confusion
• Rather than have one universal EV charging adapter, of course the industry has come up with several, with the ensuing sub-industry of adapters
• Robotaxis: Who's liable, especially if you're loaning your own car out to moonlight as one?
• ZipCharge Go - the EV equivalent of a gas can
• Solar roof panels on Fisker cars
• Edible car wiring
• The future of the auto industry

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Tonight on CEP!

• Apprentice Palmer brings his uncanny technical sense of smell to help me thrash some articles. (He's the guy who's been manning the fort so I can go on the book tour!)
• We read several articles on the same topic: The Windows 10-11 End of Support, or what could be the greatest Cash Grab I've ever seen.
• People are under the impression that their computers are going to get viruses or cease to operate after an arbitrary date in October of 2025. Microsoft is encouraging them to buy new PCs.
• The requirements to upgrade your current PC to Windows 11 started out very arbitrary and excluded recent and powerful PCs. When PIRG stared them down, MS relented, but they didn't bother telling anyone about their relaxed requirements.
• As such, an estimated 240-400 MILLION PERFECTLY GOOD COMPUTERS are at risk of being thrown in the landfills.
• One article claims they'll all be recycled, yet another article reports that only around 22% of ewaste is recycled.
• In reality, you can keep using those machines for at least another 3-5 years. After that, we can bypass the requirements and upgrade your older PC to Win11 (and beat it up so it's usable) or liberate you from the Microsoft Circus with a product called Mint!
• "We deserve better than a world where nothing's designed to last."

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Tonight on CEP!

• A blast from Marc's past emerges to talk about his new bookS!
• Author Billy Swan discusses "Junior's Tale", his comfort story of self-discovery.
• He also published a book of group-activity short mysteries "Quick Cases for Clever Minds" that actually bring people TOGETHER!
• While he used AI to assist him in writing the short mysteries, he describes the painstaking care and "moral brakes" he applied, rather than just have it to spit something out and publish it.
• Was Riding the Short Bus any worse than riding the Long Bus?
• Finally, we discuss a really funny Ezra Dyer article that some people can relate to!

Learn how to protect people from technology at becomeanexorcist.com and check out Billy Swan's books on Amazon or click here:

Junior's Tale

https://www.amazon.com/Juniors-Tale-Familiar-Billy-Swan/dp/B0FDRD5BRX/

Quick Cases for Clever Minds

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGZ5YM97?binding=paperback

Tonight on CEP! Economist and IT bureaucrat James Coffin joins us for a one-hour special. We react to articles and expose some of the hypocrisy and outright madness going on in the realm of our government's environmental policies - LEARN how they incentivize tech companies to make garbage, by reimbursing them for recycling their own products!

• Reading an email from an Apple impostor
• Surprise-attack deprecation - how the industry randomly removes useful features your organization relies on.
• "I haven't seen any artificial intelligence that's intelligent."
• The vocabulary of IT: How the industry creates new terms willy-nilly, and people (and AI) are expected to keep up with it.
• WD was caught in a bait-and-switch, inserting slower chips in their products without notice
• The complex 14,000-mile supply chain scattered across the globe
• Linux is now usable on newer M-chip Apple computers: How that will lead to the liberation of many Apple computers, but also iPhones and iPads as well
• An exploit in Apple Pay, how Visa was right to avoid overreacting, and our discussion on how wireless payments in general are massive security hole!
• Canon being sued for making multi-function printers that refuse to scan whenever they're out of ink!
• CA's sequel to Cash for Clunkers - and the adverse effects that they didn't bother to consider, that will harm the poor and the environment
• "If you actually care about the environment, stop making laws and start actually doing something!"
• How CloseTheLoop.com helps curb the ewaste nonsense
• Discussing Aaron Clarey's video "Why are corporations even in business?" and how offshoring in the 1980s sparked the cheapening of products

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Tonight on CEP!

• Author Monty LeBlanc returns to finish discussing his book, Somnium Pandorae.
• We continue our discussion on the effects of AI-curated feeds - our attention spans are so roasted, we crave shorter and shorter videos to give us dopamine "hits", and are less prone to deep thought, deep work, or critical thinking. "AI has hacked our brains, and now real life feels slow in comparison."
• We discover a recent viral video "AI 2027: A Realistic Scenario of AI Takeover"
• People now consult AI for therapy and medicine, and even use it as a substitute for a boyfriend/girlfriend.
• We also explain ways to avoid the doomsday scenario - Nip it in the bud, raise your kids right, teach people to think critically.
• Technology can be used for good! RAISE AWARENESS for what's going on, and stop feeding the beast.
• AI divides us to conquer us. Get out of your own customized echo chamber and hang out with people from all political persuasions. You'll soon learn they're people just like you, and we're all being pitted against each other.
• Marc explains how he combats the endless feed with a "Finiteness Room" in his house. It has books, VHS tapes, DVDs, and this thing called quietude.

Buy Monty's book Somnium Pandorae on Amazon, and mine on thecomputerexorcist.com

Tonight on CEP!

• I've been saying that AI could possibly ruin the world - but at the very least, it'll make us dumber and keep us isolated in pods, feeding us data and harvesting our behavior.
• Network engineer turned author Monty LeBlanc joins us to explain how AI is already in control, doing just this.
• He explains how those algorithms, the curated "For You" recommendations, and your Facebook feed, are all DESIGNED to keep you reading, watching, and scrolling.
• He exposes how shadow banning works, and how we're already in the Matrix, except in reality we each get our own algorithmic simulation.
• The few techies who are aware of the impending threats are too scared to say something, lest they lose their job. However, he and I and maybe some of you, are exposing what's going on.
• He uses humor, snark, and analogies to explain everything in Plain English (sound familiar?) and even gives translations at the end of every section for Gen Z readers!

Buy his book Somnium Pandorae on Amazon, and mine at thecomputerexorcist.com, and stay tuned for Part 2 next week!