About this episode

The episode discusses the overlooked contributions of Gen X, the implications of new Census data, and the ongoing controversies surrounding Meta and AI technology.

This week, the world finally discovers what we've been saying for years: Gen X wasn't forgotten—we were quietly keeping the entire damn machine running. New Census numbers show America's 45-to-64 crowd is shrinking fast, which means the people who know where all the bodies are buried (and why you never reboot that one production server) are disappearing without a replacement bench. Meanwhile, Meta continues its speedrun toward becoming history's most aggressively unlikeable company, staring down a potential $1.4 trillion lawsuit over social media addiction while simultaneously launching AI features that happily remix your Instagram photos unless you remember to opt out of Zuckerberg's latest privacy experiment. Because nothing says "we've learned our lesson" quite like doubling down. The AI circus somehow gets even weirder. Illinois actually passed meaningful AI safety legislation—an event so rare it qualifies as science fiction—while Sam Altman reportedly floated the idea of AI companies handing the U.S. government an ownership stake. Anthropic published another paper that's already inspiring breathless declarations that Claude is "thinking," because apparently matrix…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister, Dave Bittner

Topics covered

• Gen X
• Census data
• Meta lawsuit
• AI legislation
• social media
• AI technology

Keywords

• Gen X
• Census
• Meta
• AI legislation
• social media addiction
• Cloudflare
• Sam Altman
• Anthropic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, Illinois, Amazon, Cloudflare, Anthropic

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