Tonight on CEP!

• Apprentice Palmer brings his uncanny technical sense of smell to help me thrash some articles. (He's the guy who's been manning the fort so I can go on the book tour!)
• We read several articles on the same topic: The Windows 10-11 End of Support, or what could be the greatest Cash Grab I've ever seen.
• People are under the impression that their computers are going to get viruses or cease to operate after an arbitrary date in October of 2025. Microsoft is encouraging them to buy new PCs.
• The requirements to upgrade your current PC to Windows 11 started out very arbitrary and excluded recent and powerful PCs. When PIRG stared them down, MS relented, but they didn't bother telling anyone about their relaxed requirements.
• As such, an estimated 240-400 MILLION PERFECTLY GOOD COMPUTERS are at risk of being thrown in the landfills.
• One article claims they'll all be recycled, yet another article reports that only around 22% of ewaste is recycled.
• In reality, you can keep using those machines for at least another 3-5 years. After that, we can bypass the requirements and upgrade your older PC to Win11 (and beat it up so it's usable) or liberate you from the Microsoft Circus with a product called Mint!
• "We deserve better than a world where nothing's designed to last."

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Tonight on CEP!

• A blast from Marc's past emerges to talk about his new bookS!
• Author Billy Swan discusses "Junior's Tale", his comfort story of self-discovery.
• He also published a book of group-activity short mysteries "Quick Cases for Clever Minds" that actually bring people TOGETHER!
• While he used AI to assist him in writing the short mysteries, he describes the painstaking care and "moral brakes" he applied, rather than just have it to spit something out and publish it.
• Was Riding the Short Bus any worse than riding the Long Bus?
• Finally, we discuss a really funny Ezra Dyer article that some people can relate to!

Learn how to protect people from technology at becomeanexorcist.com and check out Billy Swan's books on Amazon or click here:

Junior's Tale

https://www.amazon.com/Juniors-Tale-Familiar-Billy-Swan/dp/B0FDRD5BRX/

Quick Cases for Clever Minds

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGZ5YM97?binding=paperback

Tonight on CEP! Economist and IT bureaucrat James Coffin joins us for a one-hour special. We react to articles and expose some of the hypocrisy and outright madness going on in the realm of our government's environmental policies - LEARN how they incentivize tech companies to make garbage, by reimbursing them for recycling their own products!

• Reading an email from an Apple impostor
• Surprise-attack deprecation - how the industry randomly removes useful features your organization relies on.
• "I haven't seen any artificial intelligence that's intelligent."
• The vocabulary of IT: How the industry creates new terms willy-nilly, and people (and AI) are expected to keep up with it.
• WD was caught in a bait-and-switch, inserting slower chips in their products without notice
• The complex 14,000-mile supply chain scattered across the globe
• Linux is now usable on newer M-chip Apple computers: How that will lead to the liberation of many Apple computers, but also iPhones and iPads as well
• An exploit in Apple Pay, how Visa was right to avoid overreacting, and our discussion on how wireless payments in general are massive security hole!
• Canon being sued for making multi-function printers that refuse to scan whenever they're out of ink!
• CA's sequel to Cash for Clunkers - and the adverse effects that they didn't bother to consider, that will harm the poor and the environment
• "If you actually care about the environment, stop making laws and start actually doing something!"
• How CloseTheLoop.com helps curb the ewaste nonsense
• Discussing Aaron Clarey's video "Why are corporations even in business?" and how offshoring in the 1980s sparked the cheapening of products

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Tonight on CEP!

• Author Monty LeBlanc returns to finish discussing his book, Somnium Pandorae.
• We continue our discussion on the effects of AI-curated feeds - our attention spans are so roasted, we crave shorter and shorter videos to give us dopamine "hits", and are less prone to deep thought, deep work, or critical thinking. "AI has hacked our brains, and now real life feels slow in comparison."
• We discover a recent viral video "AI 2027: A Realistic Scenario of AI Takeover"
• People now consult AI for therapy and medicine, and even use it as a substitute for a boyfriend/girlfriend.
• We also explain ways to avoid the doomsday scenario - Nip it in the bud, raise your kids right, teach people to think critically.
• Technology can be used for good! RAISE AWARENESS for what's going on, and stop feeding the beast.
• AI divides us to conquer us. Get out of your own customized echo chamber and hang out with people from all political persuasions. You'll soon learn they're people just like you, and we're all being pitted against each other.
• Marc explains how he combats the endless feed with a "Finiteness Room" in his house. It has books, VHS tapes, DVDs, and this thing called quietude.

Buy Monty's book Somnium Pandorae on Amazon, and mine on thecomputerexorcist.com

Tonight on CEP!

• I've been saying that AI could possibly ruin the world - but at the very least, it'll make us dumber and keep us isolated in pods, feeding us data and harvesting our behavior.
• Network engineer turned author Monty LeBlanc joins us to explain how AI is already in control, doing just this.
• He explains how those algorithms, the curated "For You" recommendations, and your Facebook feed, are all DESIGNED to keep you reading, watching, and scrolling.
• He exposes how shadow banning works, and how we're already in the Matrix, except in reality we each get our own algorithmic simulation.
• The few techies who are aware of the impending threats are too scared to say something, lest they lose their job. However, he and I and maybe some of you, are exposing what's going on.
• He uses humor, snark, and analogies to explain everything in Plain English (sound familiar?) and even gives translations at the end of every section for Gen Z readers!

Buy his book Somnium Pandorae on Amazon, and mine at thecomputerexorcist.com, and stay tuned for Part 2 next week!

Tonight on CEP!

• The brilliant software developer/psychologist/linguist Udochi Okeke returns with more mind-blowing projects.
• As if resurrecting an ancient alphabet (Nsibidi) weren't enough, she's now producing a kids' cartoon to pass on the Igbo language to them. She's also creating an Igbo character universe - think "Nigerian Cocomelon"!
• She then explains how culture is truly passed down - not just through the media or even museums, but through each one of us, who lives and breathes that culture. This dissemination ensures the culture will live on.
• We discuss how people in the West are shaped and molded into one of a few distinct shapes, in order to conform to what we think the job market will want them to be.
• In Igbo culture (and in one of my next books), people are encouraged to discover their unique calling: What is the problem in the world today that only you are uniquely equipped to solve?
• We spend a few minutes explaining how AI will ruin yet another thing, in this case children's educational programming. It'll also ruin the lives of those hoping to create quality content for a living!
• Finally, we discuss a few funny scammer emails and explain what to look out for.

Learn Igbo at mmutadiuto.com , and of course check out my books at thecomputerexorcist.com

Tonight on CEP!

• Marc reads an article from Electrical Contractor Magazine that encourages contractors to to embrace newwww cloouuddd tecchhnollogiies for security systems, camera systems, and access control.
• They tout the tech as inevitable, highlight the ability to offer eternal milking subscription schemes along with it, and then they praise the Zero Trust mandate, which amounts to anti-empowerment of employees and the further consolidation of power.
• In reality, these are not only ultraproprietary systems, but their existence depends on a cloud server. Once that server is shut down, these massive access control systems become doorstops. No consequences are ever discussed.
• What could possibly go wrong?
• We then read an article about how one such centrally-controlled cloud system went awry at Facebook AND its subsidiaries, shutting down all of its access control systems. Of course, there are no failsafes or emergency systems.
• We then discuss the Pennsylvania Turnpike's electronic tolling system. Its system promised efficiency, but in reality an alarming percentage of tolls are going unpaid.

Yet more examples of a world so madly in love with technology, it never bothers to consider any consequences.

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Tonight on CEP!

• It seems like every show out nowadays is a killing show: AND THEN WE WONDER why the world is so violent!
• In order to address this, we welcome the very special guest Isaac Hernandez, a director of Christian TV and movies.
• He and his shows buck the trend by offering "Truth in a world of distraction."
• As usual, I draw a parallel to my industry, which makes itself worse every week.
• In the computer world, we say "garbage in, garbage out", in other words the results are only as good as what you feed the computer. The same can be said for human beings.
• Even if you're not Christian, you might recognize this epidemic needs attention.
• There have been some mainstream movies with positive messages, such as The Pursuit of Happyness, Reign Over Me, and Gran Torino.
• Donate to his show at FaithOnFilmTV.com

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