Weekly News Roundup Podcast · Switched To Linux

The AI Tax and Digital Necromancy

·1 hr 51 min·5 clips

Why should we pay an AI tax when billionaires build yachts and underground bunkers with their wealth?

The opening is loose and live. The host welcomes everyone back, checks the volume as he goes, and turns the setup work into part of the show. Support links get time, especially switch2linux.com/support, along with the news that podcast versions of many episodes have launched and that Weekly News Roundup now has its own RSS feed. Travel slips in too. He talks about starting the trip back east, still being in Arizona, and wondering whether the cold has cleared out elsewhere. Then chat starts running the room. Viewers arrive from Rumble and Odyssey, Locals gets linked, and the host reads names, platform quirks, and troubleshooting notes like he is working the board in public. The AI warning comes in plainly. A chat line says not to run these AIs, and the banter stays suspicious instead of smoothing it over. Digital death becomes the joke. Mentions of an emotional card, a trial video, and a victim impact statement slide into Tomb of the digital undead. The bit turns dark, with seeing-dead-people riffs and Haley Joel Osment as the obvious shortcut. Psychology gets a hard side-eye. He says he is inclined to agree that psychology is bunk to a degree, then pares that back: useful as description, not something he would trust for real therapy. The podcast feed gets debugged in the middle of it all. Vendor-locked apps get blamed, while AntennaPod from F-Droid is the app that handles a normal feed. By the end, he is off into old web addresses, broken platform behavior, Frankenstein 3D, and research involving Atari, Nintendo, and other console games. It feels like a live room: tech suspicion, chat crossfire, platform complaints, and uneasy jokes about AI, grief-adjacent media, and digital afterlives.

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A loose Weekly News Roundup that turns podcast housekeeping and Windows talk into a conversational tech ramble.

The episode is a loose Weekly News Roundup that moves from support reminders to podcast-feed housekeeping, then into live chat, Windows, and old hardware.

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