316: Balldazzled

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.9 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Facebook furor; Davos reveals our AI future; data saving except for ads; Huawei charged; electric scooters are dangerous, shocking; scoot scooping; Net Neutrality benefits don't exist; the Punisher; Ted Bundy; the Passage; the Dropout; the Traveler; Digital Minimalism; reply all apocalypse; let them eat cold goat. Show notes at http://gog.show/316 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason
0:06.8	DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:16.4	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:18.9	And I'm Brian Schulmeister, quick programming note where we're recording this entire episode
0:22.4	through Apple's FaceTime eavesdropping bug.
0:24.4	Talk about a tempest in a teapot with that one.
0:26.7	Geez. I know. We'll talk about that one later.
0:29.6	Yeah. Yeah. So I've got some follow up on Facebook.
0:33.2	Yes. I found an article on TechCrunch called the facts about Facebook and the writer over there
0:39.0	did a little bit more of a deep dive. Yeah. They did a little more of a deep dive on the Wall Street
0:44.4	journal op-ed from Zuckerberg than you did last time and wow. Oh my, Jiminy Jeepers.
0:51.3	Yeah, I thought I had my rage pill on, but not in comparison to this person.
0:55.7	Talk about some serious vitriol with facts to back it up.
1:00.2	Yeah. Well, I mean, she's not wrong about anything.
1:02.5	No, nothing, not a single thing.
1:04.0	Absolutely nothing.
1:05.7	She was definitely right on and you know, she covered points that you've made,
1:09.4	points that I've made, points that Bittner has made, about everything going on with Facebook.
1:14.4	We've got a lot of fun stuff about Facebook this time, but I just find that Ironic that
1:19.1	the first link at the end of the article is a share this on Facebook link.
1:23.2	It's not ironic. It's it's emblematic of exactly how everybody feels about Facebook right now.
1:28.6	We all realize it's horrible. We all hate it and we can't stop it.
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