 Well, hello. If the concept sounds familiar, that's because Warner Brothers Discovery has gained traction with the match, tapping NFL players and tough golfers on TNT. Ah, yeah, so I'm reading about this Netflix cup thing. Global stars, Netflix is, I just want to, like, how are they going to be teamed? Here, let me add this in. To stream. Well, I stream concepts. Netflix Cup is sanctioned by the PGA and Formula One sanctioned weird. How sanctioned can sometimes mean we approve or we are sanctioning you. We're putting sanctions on you. Promoting both sports. Yeah, so is it golf players against the Netflix Cup? Maybe PGA tour will tell us. Formula One drivers, Alex Albin, Pierre Gasly, Lando Norris, and Carlos Sainz, against Ricky Fowler, Max Holman, Colin Maracaba, and Justin Thomas, starting Tuesday, November 14th. Well, that's one. Four pairs consisting of one driver and one PGA professional. Oh, OK, they play in pairs. There we go. That's what I wanted to know. Sadly, no, it is not Formula One Grand Prix. It is rather people playing golf. Proud to participate in the significant milestone. I don't think this counts towards the PGA tour, though. I'm just guessing. So there you go. What else is new? What's on the old feeds? Google and Xbox announced accessibility features. Why Google? Oh, there's different announcements. I see. Good. Good, good, good. Oh, yeah, YouTube's a whole bunch of new features. Those are for the summer. It's now easier to speed up videos if you want to listen to podcast at 2X, like I do. Apps launching bigger preview thumbnails, haptic feedback, vibrates when you hover over, new lock screen tool to avoid accidental interruptions while you watch stuff, stable volume feature, relative loudness. Library tab is now called You. Access to previously watched videos, playlists, downloads, and purchases. Onscreen visual cues appear when creators ask you to subscribe, dopamine-enhancing sparkles when you smash that like button. An animation that follows the view count. There are videos for the first 24 hours. Tiered release, company said it should be a few weeks before it reaches everyone throughout the planet. All right. Basketball, wives. There's that. Oh, web and magic. I'm glad you were reading the old newsletter, the Tech Tom newsletter. What did you think? What did you think of this edition? Azoey brings bacon. I said hi to Ryan, but I did not say hi to you or bio-cow, good day bio-cow. Good. So I feel like it's good. People are enjoying it, because I'm not getting much. Always try to keep your chips down. Good, yeah, me too. I'm not getting a lot of feedback saying, hey, I don't like this or that. So it's not bad. I'm just wondering, what can I do to make it even better? If you don't know what I'm talking about, here I'll do Tech Tom. Oh, I've never typed it into this browser before. I guess not. Here we go. It's tech-tom.substack.com. I need to pretty this up. Not gonna lie, it's very default. Congratulations, news pubs. You scared meta. Will Apple be okay? The one thing you need to know about the Microsoft Activision Blizzard merger, which Apple rumors should you believe? And Mark Andreessen's cry for help. Those are the things. And then what we're, I actually have not logged in on this. So yeah, it's gonna hit the paywall, but let's see if I go back to this one. Yeah, that's the same thing on all of them, nevermind. I thought I had one of those. Anyway, yeah, so there you go. Apple Pencil, I called it. You just, I think I ended up talking about Apple rumors yesterday because I just felt like calling my shot and I'm like, I know what's gonna happen. Here you go, let me tell you, and it did. So there you go. Now, watch us get an iPad tomorrow and I don't have to eat my words, but right now I'm feeling pretty well chuffed. This is my, my God, weird. What else is going on in the world? Oh my gosh, I have so much email. Yeah, when I make farther out opinions, Zoe, I don't have much faith in them, but then, but reading the rumors, pretty good at. Got a new CPU cooler. You know, Joe, theater monkey who does our Twitch stream, he just had to order a new CPU cooler is supposed to come today. I'll be interested to find out how it went if it showed up. Thanks, TaxiCab, you do rock. Thank you for the subscription. More powerful platforms. I have access to a screener. Spectrum internet statement is ready. Yeah, I'll ask him why by magic. I don't know which one he got. Yes, indeed. Get in front of new shoppers. Brief Facebook conversation we had years ago. Oh, that's an editor's desk question. Not doing the editor's desk today. Shocked that you did not pick up on the most obvious use of the charging system, which is installing it over your desk. I don't know about that. Somebody's worried about the infrared in the wireless charging that we talked about on yesterday's show. It's a pretty narrow beam. I don't think it's gonna heat up anything. Yeah, TaxiCab, I agree that updating an iPhone while it's still in the box. I've gotten a couple of emails with people going, maybe they're doing this, maybe they're doing that. Some good stuff. But nothing definitive. I mean, we don't really know. Sawyer has a vet appointment. I'm gonna add that to my calendar. I'm just reading my email now. Oh, no, it's definitely a cheat thing. What I'm curious about is the security. Like how do they keep it from being subverted and misused? My receipt, my account statement, these are all vet related things. I had to pay for Sawyer's medication. He has heart medication because he's 105 years old in human years. He's an old dog. But you know what I did yesterday? I taught him a new trick. Fun to say. Okay, that's really Gmail, sticking an ad like halfway down through all the promotional emails is not cool. Yeah, Ryan, somebody else suggested the SSID thing. That's a good call. It seems likely. Oh, you get fingerprinted for a background check. I've had that done. Not in a while. Yeah, probably I did mine in 2005 or six, 2006. And when I did search and rescue stuff, I had to clear me to work with the sheriff's department. Oh, I need to promote cord killers. I didn't post on the socials. Cord killers, on the latest cord killers. I'm writing this in Untitled 11 for those of you who are fans. I'm actually just gonna steal Bryce's text. Sometimes Bryce always writes good text. Sometimes it doesn't really work in a social media post. It works better as a blog thing, but this week I can steal it and I will. I don't feel like anyone's looking at my posts on Twitter anymore or X, but maybe that's my fault because I don't post as much as I used to. Let's see, do they look at them on Mastinon? Well, I haven't posted there in a while either. Maybe I just need to post more often in places. Maybe I'm bad at social media. I haven't, I have not checked a blue sky since Saturday. Something isn't working on threads. So I have to reload threads. Okay, now I can post, thanks a lot. I didn't post DTNS yesterday. Well, okay then. There we go. I have now promoted, oh, I didn't promote it on. Why did that tab get closed? LinkedIn, boom, boom, boom. Thanks, Cliff Singer. Okay, I'm gonna stop sharing my screen in case I do something silly. Hi, Tom, are you hiring? Settle down, LinkedIn. Meta will now let you stop Instagram from tracking you across the web. Sable this kind of tracking to Instagram, allowing you to review which businesses are sharing information with Meta. Well, lucky there. Good for you. Did you all see Mark Andreessen's manifesto? It's a manifesto on optimism. It's a lot of one-line statements about what he believes in, which is very manifesto-like, to be fair. We're gonna talk about it on good day internet today. It's gonna be very interesting. Oh, we're also gonna talk with Patrick Norton. What happens to your internet? How do you back up your internet? Patrick, you're a fan of having plans in case of emergency. I'm gonna give that to Sarah. I'll clear out the for consideration. Reband smart glasses. And keeping the internet working plus the world. Okay, you should get a coffee, but it's always right to ask. I do like a good failover. Good failover options. You have clearance. All right, I know this is a little bit of a shorter stream today, but it's kind of all I got. So thanks everybody for hanging out. Any last, last requests? Oh, shelf tour. Which shelf? Which shelf have we not toured? That one we did. Do we not do this one? I think these bottom two are the only ones we haven't done. Yeah, am I right? Or am I right? All right, let's do this one. These are all books. The 2600 book I won at Nerdtacular, the very first Nerdtacular I ever went to. The Ray Kurzweil book, I actually got this as a review copy when I worked at Tech TV. Droidmakers is a great kind of unofficial description of all the tech that was developed leading up to Star Wars and ILM and all of that sort of thing. We came in peace. This is kind of a commemorative we landed on the moon book that I used to obsess over as a kid. It's older than me by a year. Oh, this is my film class syllabus. This is how I discovered Philip K. Dick. We're some notes on Blade Runner that are in this packet. This is the manual for my old realistic direct drive turntable. Oh, and this is a World of Warcraft volume one issue one, the Warcraft Mag. Your brain, the missing manual. That's an O'Reilly thing that I always just thought was clever. Richard Feynman's QED, Quantum Electrodynamics. Really good read, very simply written. If you wanna understand Quantum Electrodynamics, it's, I highly recommend it. Neil Stephenson's in the beginning was the command line. Another great book just on tech in general. Then we get some edgy stuff. Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. That's a frequently banned book, but it's not Satanism. It's words that weren't included in respectable dictionaries back in the day. Society of the Spectable by Guy Debord, a situationist text. The Illuminoids, which is like secret histories of the United States. A lot of Masonic stuff in there. The original Star Wars sci-fi book club hardback novelization, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Force Awakens, Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. All these are not sci-fi book clubs, but it's the hardbacks of all of those. This is a journal of astrology, I think. Yeah, it's an occult journal that I just thought was funny when I worked at a bookstore and I grabbed it. The Principia Discordia, which is a sort of absurdist text, I highly recommend. Where's my jet pack? Just something I say a lot. Some blank journals, I don't think they're written in. They're just blank. Dictionary of Hieroglyphics that BioCow and I were talking about the other day in another location. This is J-Wan from Laceraphim. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Book of the Egyptian Language, Historical Atlas Hardback. My cousin's compilation of my Grandma Roxy's stories, which I treasure. Some photo albums, pictures of me and stuff. Some journals, these are written in, pretty sure. Oh, is this me studying French? Yeah, this is from my French class. I took it at Austin Community College. Wow, what's in this one? Yeah, also, oh, this one's mostly blank. Another blank journal that looks like a hardback book, and this was, I don't even remember what this is from. I was making, oh, I think it's a picture that goes with the book. What goes with a book? I think it goes with the audiobook, Project Vera. I think this is an illustration that I was gonna, at one point I was gonna do Project Vera as like found items, and this was a thing that was gonna go in there, so it's like a scrap of ancient paper. At least it's supposed to look like that. Yeah, this is just blank. Oh, I wrote something. April 1997. April 1997. Why do I feel so old? I wrote as a 27-year-old. Is it because I surround myself with old things? Oh my God, I'm so dramatic. Oh yeah, that's Chey-Wan, the leader of the LeSera film web at Magic. All right, there you go. I will start scanning and publishing my journals right away by OK. Hey, PC Miles, are you good to see? All right, I gotta go check on some other stuff before I get going, see you all in just about an hour and a half for Daily Tech News Show with Patrick Norton, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, myself, and Joe. Talk to you then. Bye.