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The three hosts are back at the end of the summer, and the news has piled up. Meta settled with forty-seven state attorneys general for up to $17 billion, and Austin walks through what the company actually conceded, why those concessions leave the core product intact, and how Meta turned its own loss into a strike at Snap, TikTok, and YouTube. Andrew noticed that Claude’s memory feature excludes religious beliefs, which leaves a secular default sitting underneath everything else it personalizes, and Joel explains what really happened when models “escaped the sandbox,” whether a VPN is worth paying for, and why an ordinary church is an easy target.

A major Meta lawsuit and what it signals for platforms, youth, and accountability.

Meta's Orion glasses point past AR to a deeper bet about mediated reality, and what motivates the company building it.

Ian Harber joins to weigh AI companions, a fragmenting internet, and what is real when the feed is full of bots.

From Musk's Twitter to the arrival of ChatGPT, the hosts look back at the five tech stories that defined 2022, and why they still matter.

Can we be fully present in a virtual world? A look at the metaverse through embodiment, the incarnation, and what actually makes us persons.