TEH 258: Gravity Wins: Leo’s Fall. So many subscriptions. Faking AI Fakes.

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This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• 0:00 LN: Gravity always wins
• 6:00 LN: My new machine (you know, a “present” for getting sick?)
  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X 24-Cores, 4200 Mhz
  • 128GB
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (and how I backed into this)
  • 12:00 Davinci Resolve “speed editor”
• 13:00 GR: Apple Creator Studio https://www.apple.com/apple-creator-studio/
  • Is it “freemium?”
  • 24:00 LN: Afinity and Canva
• 25:00 So many subscriptions!
  • Good and bad
• 28:00 GR: Strudel.cc 
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M
• 33:00 GR: AI fakes aren’t always going to be someone talking and saying something they didn’t. 
  • https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/renee-good-car-ice-image
  • 35:00 Believe what you want to believe
  • 37:00 GR: Subscribe to Snopes
  • Snopes Newsletters: https://www.snopes.com/newsletters/
  • 41:00 Studying media bias
• 42:00 GR: Connections in the wilderness
  • Satellite text messages, not just for emergrncies
  • 45:00 LN: Recent outage when everyone’s phone only said SOS?

Ain’t it Cool

• 46:00 LN: Google Recorder (Pixel) – a tool I relied on
• 49:00 GR: Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Audible)

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 53:00 LN:  An Unexpected Way Videos Can Expose Your Location – askleo.com/167448
• 56:00 GR: https://macmost.com/why-ai-cant-replace-tech-help-yet.html Why AI Can’t Replace Tech Help (Yet)

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