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Grumpy Old Geeks

318: Sweet Dreams

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

Meta, Lifestyle, Palantir, Elon, Ai, Music, Scams, Social, News, Cyber, Vibe Coding, Crypto, Spacex, Tech News, Engineering, Security, Entertainment, Kanye, Elon Musk, Internet, News Commentary, Google, Web, Business, Movies, Technology, Apple, Tech, Tesla, Nfts, Bitcoin, Code, Facebook

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The American dream; Google raking it in; self-aware robot overlords; Snopes checks out of Facebook; your brain off social media; Slack goes public; Russia outlaws fake news; the end of crypto; self-driving parking; Gotti; Jim Jefferies; Sex Education; Russian Doll; Crash test girl; Load of Goop; feedback loop. Show notes at http://gog.show/318 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

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0:16.4

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason de Philippo

0:21.2

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:30.1

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason de Philippo and I'm Brian Schulmeister.

0:33.6

We got a little follow up on the net neutrality, kerfuffle, fisticuffs, goodness that's going on.

0:40.2

Yeah, I feel like we've been talking about this for the entire life of the show because we have been.

0:46.2

Yeah, I had a really weird dream last night that I got in a fist fight with Ajit Pai

0:51.4

at Davos of all places. That is an odd dream. Eddie hit me in the head with his ridiculous mug.

0:57.9

Right. They called him a. But what are you going to do? I think we just broke a record for

1:03.8

the seaword being dropped in the earliest the show ever. I'll see if I can put it in the in the

1:09.6

pre roll next time. Yeah, so the EFF has a breakdown of the court battle so far. And it sounds like

1:18.0

they're killing it, but you never know. You never know. Well, look, as we discussed last week,

1:23.6

none of the trickle down benefits that were we were told we're going to get the investment

1:28.4

in infrastructure and all that. None of that's happening. So yeah. Yeah, we didn't even get our flying

1:34.6

cars either. No. What are you going to do? I want my flying cars. So I found another article on

1:42.8

Vox called wire millennials burned out capitalism. And again, not just millennials. Sorry,

1:50.1

Fuxk stick. And this guy wrote a book about it. We're all burned out. I did six, 12 hour days

1:55.0

last week and haven't had a day off. And I can't can't remember when and even Brian, when you and I

1:59.3

were out in the woods at a fucking digital detox retreat, I still worked every day. Well, to be

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