Ep. 476: A Wild Week in Social Media!

Notnerd Podcast: Tech Better

*Sorry about Nate's echo the first ~35 minutes, we did fix it after that.

TikTok Bans, Meta Changes, and Little Red Book? The social media news has been fast and furious lately. We try to get caught up on it if that is even possible. Plus, with CES out of the way, there's plenty of other tech news to get caught up on. All so you can get out there and tech better!

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INTRO (00:00)

MAIN TOPIC: Social Media Madness (03:10)

TikTok “Ban” - CapCut - Marvel Snap

Conspiracies - Migration to Meta Servers, TikTok is CIA psyop

Little Red Book

Meta Community Notes

Instagram 3 minute reels

Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits

X and Bluesky launch dedicated video feeds on the back of TikTok uncertainty

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

DAVE’S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: Hair conditioner as lotion, empty your pockets in the TSA line, use your horn. (25:30)

JUST THE HEADLINES: (32:25)

China to host world’s first human-robot marathon

Donald and Melania Trump launch a pair of meme coins

China to build thorium molten-salt reactor in 2025

Intel suffers worst year since 1971 IPO

Sonos CEO steps down following disastrous app redesign

Instagram begins randomly showing users ai-generated images of themselves

AI beats human experts at distinguishing American whiskey from Scotch

TAKES:

Apple Promotes Severance Season 2 with Lumon Industries pop up at Grand Central Terminal (37:40)

Nintendo launches Switch 2 Trailer (41:00)

Watch Duty, the crucial wildfire tracking app (45:25)

How U.S. Forces and NASA could Inadvertently be Spying for China (47:55)

Trump pardons, Ross Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road (53:55)

BONUS ODD TAKE: Infinite Craft by Neal iOS app - Episode 426: Vision Quest Pro (55:10)

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Dave: Insta360 Go 3S (57:25)

Nate: TikTok - Crown Qu Selfie Stick Tripod (01:02:19)

RAMAZON PURCHASE - Giveaway! (01:05:00)