Followflation, bot rot, young olds, and no apocalyptic rants for now.

Another Viral Wednesday on Thursday!

 

Happy New Year! What could go wrong?

 

Names in the pod today:

 

Mark Zuckerberg

Neil Young

Ashley King

Andrew Hutchinson

Anthropic

OpenAI

Meta

 

Links:

No Glasto for Neil Young

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/neil-young-pulls-out-glastonbury-2025-statement-1235867549/

Anthropic cedes some fair use grund

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/31/anthropic-copyright-guardrails/

OpenAI breaks a promise

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/01/openai-fails-to-deliver-opt-out-tool-it-promised-in-2024/

Meta Priotizes Bots

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/Meta-ai-bot-plan-boost-engagement-facebook-instagram/736242/

Bluesky crosses 25 Million

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/bluesky-adds-trending-topics-reaches-25-million-users/736250/

RoyFi

https://www.RoyFI.com

Hangout.fm

Https://hangout.fm

Lydia's V30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug