This week's episode opens with a quick discussion inspired by a post seen on the BlueSky social network. We are against bureaucrats of all types doing stupid, unthinking, uncaring things. We strongly support the Very Short Introduction series of books from Oxford University Press and encourage you to pick up an item from your local library to read today.

We discussed a few news stories in this episode. We especially discussed why content creators should not be using Google at this time if they can help it.

Links:

• 9to5Mac Is Apple TV+ having a quality crisis? https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/04/is-apple-tv-having-a-quality-crisis/
• Ars Technica Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/roku-ad-push-continues-with-plans-to-put-video-ads-in-os-home-screen/
• Ars Technica Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/hdmi-customized-ad-insertion-patent-would-show-rokus-ads-atop-non-roku-video/
• Wired What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/

Our pick of the fortnight: Vagrant Queen

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