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(Season 4) Episode 12 – Apple’s Tumbl(r)ing Chain Reaction [SEASON FINALE]

Happy New Year! Or, well, Mediocre Concerning New Year might be more accurate, for you. It’s 2022 (by the time we are recording this)- and it’s finally time to say goodbye to Season 4!

And, what better way to say goodbye than describing the absolute backwards-logic of Apple’s control over the iOS ecosystem. If you’re an iOS user- well, imagine if you couldn’t use the tagging feature of an entire social media website.

Sources:

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Opening Music: Dark Synthwave by MOKKA

(Season 4) Episode 11 – The Ongoing Sanitization of the Internet

Things have been… happening lately on the internet. No, we don’t mean your local favorite meme (but man it was funny, wasn’t it?) What we mean is.. sanitization, across the board. Come on in, and find out which corporations just seem to Hate Fun and Information.

Sources:

YouTube Dislikes:

Sexually-Explicit Content on Fandom Wiki:

“Removing sexually explicit content from r/all” @ Reddit.com

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Opening Music: Dark Synthwave by MOKKA

[Out-of-Order Release] (Season 4) Episode 10 – A (Meta) Crisis

Meta… like the concept? Meta, like metaphysical? Meta… like… a Facebook rebrand. Well, you know them, you know we don’t love them, but let’s talk about all of the changes that have come with this rebrand.

Sources:

Meta Name Controversy:

Facebook’s Metaverse Buildout:

Positive changes:

The Facebook Files: (The Wall Street Journal Link):

The Verge, 16 November 2021, “Meta Goes Into Lockdown”

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Opening Music: Dark Synthwave by MOKKA