Testing Sniffspot: ‘Airbnb for dog parks’ gives dogs a safe place to play, and homeowners extra cash

More dogs. Not enough dog parks. Sniffspot is filling the void with its unique marketplace model. The company, which launched out of Seattle four years ago, has signed up more than 20,000 hosts across 3,600 cities. Taylor tested the platform with his chocolate labrador Ichi. Read his review and analysis. 

Why was a University of Washington professor’s Twitter account abruptly suspended after attempting to tweet a Washington Post story? 

• The answer still isn’t entirely clear, but what happened to Kathy Gill last week offers a glimpse into the erratic, arbitrary, and divided state of social media, communications, and economics. She joins us on a new episode of the GeekWire Podcast to explain what happened, and discuss what it says about the world in which we’re all living. 

• We also get a reality check on the new era of artificial intelligence, including the ongoing tendency of OpenAI's ChatGPT to generate facts out of thin air.

• Then we tie it all together, listening to a clip from 1999 that shows David Bowie was right all along about the "exhilarating and terrifying" future in which the rest of us are now living. 

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