342: Fortress of Loneliness
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
The dark of war; unionization efforts in tech; Facebook’s new push to “privacy” & problems with “AI”; Google’s voodoo doll avatars; bored lonely angry stupid; conspiracy correlation matrix; Latch problems; no more getting lost; respect my authority!; what does delete & privacy mean; Apple iPad & pencil; sound machines; the case against dark mode; wood wide web.
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| 0:25.2 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister |
| 0:28.8 | and Jason DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:43.2 | I am nice and caffeinated today and really grumpy. |
| 0:46.4 | So this should be a good one. |
| 0:48.4 | All right. |
| 0:49.4 | Fantastic. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm going through my Canadian coffee still. |
| 0:52.1 | Lovely stuff. |
| 0:54.3 | I am an olio. |
| 0:55.5 | We're both drinking Canadian coffee |
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