385: Pump Up the TikTok
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dipping our feet in the UBI waters; Libra, out; Facebook refuses to take down fake ads, looking out users; Uber pink slips; Samsung stops Blue-ray production; yet another scooter company; El Camino; Lost in Space; warp speed is really slow; music, on the blockchain; AMC home streaming; Eon; Brian Grazer; Rebooting AI; SpaceX screws Texas; feedback.
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister 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 Schultmeister. |
| 0:22.2 | Are you ready to go? Apparently. |
| 0:23.6 | I am. |
| 0:24.3 | Let's light this candle. |
| 0:25.8 | I've been dealing with a lot of entropy recently and always seems to happen at the same time, just things breaking and |
| 0:34.0 | so many things me fixing Jason and it's not technology for once. |
| 0:37.3 | It's all just like life stuff. |
| 0:39.0 | So good times. |
| 0:40.7 | Mine's just my body. |
| 0:41.7 | If you fix that, then we're in. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.1 | Well, we've been talking about UBI quite often on the show and the small little test that have occurred. |
| 0:51.4 | And I didn't even know Santa Monica's been trying it out for a little bit now. |
| 0:55.5 | There's a report on case here, W, our local station here that Santa Monica has been trying out UBI on seniors here, |
| 1:02.9 | because seniors are one of the fastest demographics that's falling into homelessness. |
| 1:06.6 | So Santa Monica is giving some of its low income seniors a monthly check ranging from 200 to 700 dollars. |
| 1:12.2 | So they're less likely to be forced out of this expensive city here, Rentsom's guy high and all that. |
| 1:17.2 | It's gone so well apparently that Santa Monica is going to expand the program to include a couple hundred seniors from a couple dozen originally. |
| 1:24.4 | That's good. |
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