<p>Fresh back from&nbsp;<strong>round two of Graeme’s wedding</strong>&nbsp;(the “attention-based one,” his words) and a very soggy&nbsp;<strong>van week in France</strong>, we kick off with Paris myths,&nbsp;<strong>Versailles fanboying (Louis XIV, Napoleon’s big wall-sized portrait)</strong>, and why the city still slaps in the rain. That segues into the week’s wildest story: the&nbsp;<strong>Louvre-style museum heist</strong>&nbsp;done in&nbsp;<strong>broad daylight</strong>—think cherry-picker, glass cutters, seven minutes, scooters. Cinema.</p><br><p>Then the internet falls over. We unpack the&nbsp;<strong>AWS US-East hiccup</strong>&nbsp;that nuked everything from banks to doorbells, and Graeme’s current obsession:&nbsp;<strong>Yanis Varoufakis’ “techno-feudalism”</strong>—how Big Platforms became our new lords, why profit no longer matters, and what that means for the rest of us.</p><br><p>From there it’s&nbsp;<strong>AI deepfakes and Sora</strong>, TikTok’s talent for&nbsp;<strong>tricking boomers</strong>, and whether any video is believable anymore. Plus a very us detour into&nbsp;<strong>therapy vs. CBT</strong>, the reality of doing sessions remote, and one&nbsp;<strong>massage story</strong>&nbsp;you’ll wish you could un-hear. (Pot Noodle discourse is back too. Sorry/not sorry.)</p><br><p>It’s doomy, daft, and occasionally useful—<strong>Social Meltdown</strong>&nbsp;exactly as advertised.</p><br><p><em>Notes:</em>&nbsp;strong language, mentions of mental health.</p><p>PLEASE LEAVE A RATING AND SUBSCRIBE TO THIS SHOW FOR FREE EPISODES WEEKLY</p><br><p>FOLLOW US ON TIK TOK:</p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thesocialmeltdown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@thesocialmeltdown</a></p><br><p>ALL OUR LINKS:</p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/TheSocialMeltdown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/TheSocialMeltdown</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN

DYLAN EVANS AND GRAEME SMITH

The Louvre Job, The Amazon Web Wobble & Why AI has fed the everything bubble

OCT 22, 202572 MIN
THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN

The Louvre Job, The Amazon Web Wobble & Why AI has fed the everything bubble

OCT 22, 202572 MIN

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<p>Fresh back from&nbsp;<strong>round two of Graeme’s wedding</strong>&nbsp;(the “attention-based one,” his words) and a very soggy&nbsp;<strong>van week in France</strong>, we kick off with Paris myths,&nbsp;<strong>Versailles fanboying (Louis XIV, Napoleon’s big wall-sized portrait)</strong>, and why the city still slaps in the rain. That segues into the week’s wildest story: the&nbsp;<strong>Louvre-style museum heist</strong>&nbsp;done in&nbsp;<strong>broad daylight</strong>—think cherry-picker, glass cutters, seven minutes, scooters. Cinema.</p><br><p>Then the internet falls over. We unpack the&nbsp;<strong>AWS US-East hiccup</strong>&nbsp;that nuked everything from banks to doorbells, and Graeme’s current obsession:&nbsp;<strong>Yanis Varoufakis’ “techno-feudalism”</strong>—how Big Platforms became our new lords, why profit no longer matters, and what that means for the rest of us.</p><br><p>From there it’s&nbsp;<strong>AI deepfakes and Sora</strong>, TikTok’s talent for&nbsp;<strong>tricking boomers</strong>, and whether any video is believable anymore. Plus a very us detour into&nbsp;<strong>therapy vs. CBT</strong>, the reality of doing sessions remote, and one&nbsp;<strong>massage story</strong>&nbsp;you’ll wish you could un-hear. (Pot Noodle discourse is back too. Sorry/not sorry.)</p><br><p>It’s doomy, daft, and occasionally useful—<strong>Social Meltdown</strong>&nbsp;exactly as advertised.</p><br><p><em>Notes:</em>&nbsp;strong language, mentions of mental health.</p><p>PLEASE LEAVE A RATING AND SUBSCRIBE TO THIS SHOW FOR FREE EPISODES WEEKLY</p><br><p>FOLLOW US ON TIK TOK:</p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thesocialmeltdown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@thesocialmeltdown</a></p><br><p>ALL OUR LINKS:</p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/TheSocialMeltdown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/TheSocialMeltdown</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>