655: GOG’s Influencer

Happy Birthday, America; Amazon investigating Perplexity AI for scraping sites without consent; Texas age-verification law for porn going to the Supreme Court; Greece adopts 6-day working week; Paramount axes Comedy Central site, 25+ years of content; the first millennial saint; influencers aren't getting famous like they used to, urged to actually do something or have a skill; Google greenhouse gas emissions climbed 50 percent due to AI; new ChatGPT-based virus; taxing crypto-bros; full self-driving & full self-sanitizing; Winner shoots down drone; Inside Out 2; Celine Dion; Beverly Hills Cop; the Acolyte; Redbox; Canada, land of pirates; web accessible cameras in bars is bad; Japan says sayonara, floppy.