Ozone Nightmare

Today on the 5: Over the weekend I came across a movie that has an interesting angle in being a blend of a giallo and a spy thriller. The title of the movie is Dagger Eyes, and it managed to merge tw…

Today on the 5: I read an article about Matter over on The Verge covering efforts this year to improve the newest smart home standard. I've added a few more Matter devices to our home, so I wanted to…

Today on the 5: I happened to come across a pair of Aftermath and Creative Bloq articles about the highly repetitive influence of AI slop. I've talked about the YouTube issue before, and I've absolut…

Today on the 5: I came across this piece on Vox about severing social relationships within a few days of Ant Pruitt talking about similar things on his Patreon. I think they both make very valid poin…

Today on the 5: I finished watching the newest Star Wars streaming series Skeleton Crew. The biggest problem I've had with Star Wars in recent years is the inability fior new shows to break away from…

Today on the 5: Last week the world lost a unique and wonderful artistic voice when David Lynch died. I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about why this loss hit me harder than the typical celebri…

Today on the 5: You may have heard that there's a potential Tik Tok ban on the horizon. While I doubt the ban will actually happen as currently proposed, even if it does I don't think it's about anyr…

Today on the 5: Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League hit the PSN+ free catalog this month, so Lando and I decided to give it a try and see how it is. While I certainly wouldn't call it a bad game, …

Today on the 5: I saw a news item about Amazon retiring the "Try Before You Buy" program at the end of this month. It's the latest in a series of small moves that are changing some things about the s…

Today on the 5: I picked up the 1960 film The Playgirls And The Vampire a while ago, but only got around to watching it this weekend. It wasnt quite what I expected it to be, which in this case is pr…

Today on the 5: Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta is ending third party fact checking on their platforms. The CEO claimed that this move would benefit end users, and I he may be right...j…

Today on the 5: Some of you may remember that in 2019 Apple placed an ad at CES touting their dedication to user privacy on their own devices. I'm not sure if the company would run that same ad toda…

Today on the 5: Yesterday Dell announced that the XPS, Inspiron, Latitude and Precision computer lines are being retired. While surpising, it's both long overdue and a strange ending of an era in com…

Today on the 5: Thanks to a wonderful B movie account over on Bluesky, I decided to watch a movie from 1983 titled Endgame. It's a wonderfully low budget slice of Itlian ripoff filmmaking.

Tonight Ant Pruitt returns to talk with me about the recent Adobe MAX Creativity Conference. We're going to talk about the major keynotes and the experiments that Adobe is working on to boost what cr…

Today on the 5: I came across an article over at Ars Technica about the issues around the deployment of passkeys as an alternative to passwords. It reminded me of whjy I've opted not to use them and …

Today on the 5: There are rumors that Apple is working on a folding tablet of some kind, possibly like two iPads glued together. The company is apparently confident it can create this product without…