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On The Vergecast: The ongoing fight against sleep, Meta’s smart glasses mess, and the good thing about dumb TVs.

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Netflix has shows and movies. And video games. And live sports. And podcasts. And also, apparently, You Tube videos? For a company that used to seem like the next big thing in TV, it all feels a little frenetic, and maybe a tad desperate. For a company that sees sleep as its primary competitor, it might all make perfect sense.

On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay try to figure out why Netflix continues to expand its content machine and whether the company’s ongoing You Tube-ification makes any sense at all. Many have tried to compete with You Tube; none have succeeded. Does that mean Netflix might inch its way up the Go 90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services?

After that, the hosts look into the ongoing strangeness of Meta’s smart glasses strategy. The company is making some good, privacy-conscious moves, while also running full-speed into ever more privacy-invading features. Meta’s bet seems to be that its features will win in the end, but we’re not so sure. And we wonder whether Meta might be ruining smart glasses for everyone else.

Finally, in the lightning round, it’s time for Brendan Carr is a Dummy, some hilarious and bleak truths about X, the latest RAMageddon problems, the case for and against ghost guns, and a dumb TV mystery.

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