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Technology Blows

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A techno-pessimist podcast by @danslimmon.bsky.social: techblows.net

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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
he'll yeah #technologyblows #design #chrysler
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
techblows.net/19 This week's episode of Technology Blows is for the New Englanders! Marty is a fully automated dipshit that wanders around the Stop & Shop getting in everyone's way and posing for selfies. Sometimes it hugs a cancer kid. #technologyblows #marty #stopandshop #retail #robotics #podcast
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"Virtual reality hat" patented by Facebook in 2019. Not sure what the guy in Fig 15 is doing but he should definitely not be allowed within 500ft of a school #vrgaming #virtualreality #meta
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Slake your podcast thirst with Episode 17! Part 2 of our 3-part metaverse bacchanal Full episode: techblows.net/17 YouTube: techblows.net/yt #technologyblows #virtualreality #gaming #meta #horizonworlds #podcast
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Episode 16: "Horizon World's: Mark Zuckerberg's Legless VR Utopia" is ouuuut. It's part 1 of our first 3-parter! Suit up, jack in, and Zuck out techblows.net/16 #technologyblows #virtualreality #vr #meta #vrgaming #podcast
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
No new episode tomorrow (😢) but next week, we start our first 3-parter (😃), which is mostly talking shit about Mark Zuckerberg (🤡). High five! #technologyblows #meta #horizonworlds #vr
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Perk yourself up with Technology Blows Episode 15, on Keurig! We explore: – How Keurig was born out of antisocial office culture and a deep ambivalence for quality – How digital rights management disrupted the beverage industry – and much more! techblows.net/15 #technologyblows #coffee #keurig
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
On the other hand, it never hurts. Birds are sus
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I think this is just a Safari Reader formatting hiccup, but it's equally likely that Europe has been renamed, "Opinion Europe"
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
OUT TODAY: Cookies: How Ad Platforms Steal Your Mind (Part 2)! Dive into the mind-boggling infrastructure that Google et al have built to do reprehensible things with your data, like sell it to ICE techblows.net/14 #privacy #browsers #webprivacy #advertising #podcast
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
techblows.net/13 Episode 13: Cookies: How Ad Platforms Steal Your Mind (Part 1) The web didn't have to be this way. Friend-of-the-pod CJ Horton joins us for a look at cookies: the completely reasonable web protocol that became host to the parasitic ad industry. #privacy #cookies #browsers #podcast
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Kalshi: is it "the first federally regulated prediction market," or just a shittier FanDuel? Friend-of-the-pod Jeff Bonhag joins me to find out! Web: techblows.net/12 Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioqj... #fintech #kalshi #predictionmarkets #technologyblows
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
– Hey boss, for that article about how our robots are friendly digital teammates and definitely not dystopian oppression machines? – Definitely the one where the robot is looming over a busy employee, poised to instantly vaporize him if he steals anything
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
At one point they show footage labeled "[AI] Red Cross Victim Finder" that is clearly footage from a missile drone in the Middle East (there's even an explosion)
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ Visual Aids ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ICYMI, Technology Blows is your new favorite YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=chmF... #technology #podcast #technologyblows #youtube
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Technology Blows Episode 11 is out! "Scantron: the Little Green Sheet that Destroyed Education." Find out how Scantron uses infrared light to transmute your #2 pencil marks into college rejection letters #technology #podcast #technologyblows #testing #education
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
oh no oh fuck i'm gonna have to listen to this
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
oh no oh fuck i'm gonna have to listen to this
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
How does Shazam steal your butthole? Listen to the full episode to find out: techblows.net/10 / www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b3p... #technologyblows #podcast #iphone #shazam
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
You wouldn't Shazam… an AD! Catch part 2 of our extremely fun Shazam episode, featuring @rachelkiel.bsky.social, right now. Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b3p... Web & mobile: techblows.net/10 #podcast #shazam #technology #tech #software #iphone #music #technologyblows
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
really looking forward to reading lots of sentences like this for the next fucking week
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Episode 9 techblows.net/9 is the first of a 2-parter on Shazam! The massive data analytics platform that occasionally tells you the names of songs. Find out how Shazam turns all your most beloved music into ones and zeroes #technology #music #iphone #podcast #technologyblows
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Are we not even making the AIs watch the movies anymore
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It looks like you're trying to listen to a podcast. Would you like some help with that? On episode 8, find out why Microsoft ditched the idea of Clippy ever shutting the fuck up techblows.net/8 #technology #microsoft #msoffice #podcast
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's extremely funny that RFC 2964, the IETF's Best Current Practice on the use of cookies, lists exactly 2 things you shouldn't do with cookies, and they are literally the 2 most common things we do with cookies #security #networking #browsers
Section 2.2.1 of RFC 2964Section 2.2.2 of RFC 2964
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Technology Blows: Episode 7: Washing Machines. techblows.net/7 Learn: - What fluid the ancient Romans used instead of detergent - What your washing machine's onboard computer is for - Why washing machines have gotten so much more efficient in the last half century #technology #smarthome #podcast
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This week, we wrap up our 2-parter on Jira! (Part 1: techblows.net/5; Part 2: techblows.net/6) Hear about: - The Atlassian founders' matching $100M houses - How Jira turns its own failures into more sales - Jira's special way of alienating us from our creativity and initiative
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
For research, I'm spending a week with this image staring at me from my 2nd monitor and it's day 2 and I'm already feeling distinctly uneasy. Oh no
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Not now, sweetie. Daddy's writing 301 words in the Slack knowledge base feedback widget
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Episode 5 is out! ==> techblows.net/5 <== This 2-part episode is about Jira: the bloated tick gorging itself on the software industry #softwaredevelopment #projectmanagement #jira #atlassian #podcast #productivity #saas
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Couldn't be more hype for the #NewLuddism conf in NYC on Friday!! #ButlerianJihad
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This is from my medical provider's website. "If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising" Bitch you are a hospital, have some self respect
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Is the world ready for an Internet-connected mattress that roasts you whenever AWS goes down, and also sometimes pisses itself? WE DECIDE! On this ep, learn about: - The Bourbons: France's sleepiest monarchs - What kind of animal Peter Thiel sleeps inside - The $5000 AI-powered bed that saved DOGE
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
just saw this on reddit… this is the elevator panel in someone's apartment building
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
1600 words into the Wikipedia page on "Bed" and I'm finally getting to the good shit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
i mean, the bus definitely will stop there
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Never believe a software model can represent a human being
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
How we reduce ourselves by acknowledging agents
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
NEW EPISODE! Remember those little tester strips they used to have on batteries? Ever wondered what happened to them? ==> techblows.net/3 <==
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
If you need AWS to make your bed not curl up and smoke like an overcooked shrimp, you might actually have a Dumb House
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
i'm listening… #azure
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Just accidentally pressed ⌘-T and learned that OS X calculator has a "Paper Tape" function. Technology can be good sometimes!
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Me: tries to make a spreadsheet Google Sheets: Use Gemini!! Me: okay… Me: (asks Gemini to do the simplest possible spreadsheet task) Google Sheets: (20 seconds later) erkk… uhghh… pfblffpt
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Hot off the podcast presses! Part 2 of the wireless headphones episode is OUT: techblows.net/2 Learn about: - Ether landlords - The demise of the iPhone aux jack - Why wireless headphones will never sync right
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Google Sheets? More like Google Sheesh
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
are we… married to "quishing" #qrcodes #security
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
what in the Mandela effect is this?? #microsoft #msoffice #productivity
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
TIL the first translatlantic radio transmission was just, "Ssssssssss". "The good news is: our invention works. The bad news is, the snakes have finally taken Britain"
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Last week's guest Steve sent me this meme, and it made me physically sad #technology #audio #bluetooth #iphone
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