410: Elite Buoyancy and Mass Despair
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
23andMe layoffs; surveillance capitalism; MoPub realtime data sharing; undermined trust in society & capitalism; Amazon employees speaking out; don't trust the blockchain; facial recognition in London; Byte spammed; Patreon's porn pirate problem; Amazon Prime Video by the people; Daniel Sloss; Elizabeth Wurtzel; Alice in Wonderland & Hitler; feedback.
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.1 | Feeling better Brian, don't have that coronavirus? No coronavirus, although give it time. |
| 0:25.5 | Don't spend too much time on the internet's reading what Epidemiologists think about this |
| 0:29.8 | because oh boy. Oh yeah, you lose some sleep. Yes you will, it's a little frightening and you know |
| 0:35.6 | it's actually kind of funny. I talked to a number of people, a number of my friends both here and |
| 0:40.5 | in Toronto. Obviously my my wife is of Chinese heritage and we had Chinese New Year over the weekend |
| 0:46.4 | and let's just say nobody really wanted to go anywhere where a bunch of tourists Chinese might |
| 0:50.5 | have been congregating for to celebrate the New Year. I wonder why. I wonder why. Yeah. Yeah, you stay |
| 0:56.8 | home this year. You stay home. Well, I got a little follow up here. 23 and me has laid off |
| 1:01.4 | 100 people or 14% of its staff believe it or not. Yeah. Yeah. CEO Ann Wajiski says that |
| 1:11.1 | she doesn't really know but she thinks it might be fears of a recession. Bullshit. And also privacy |
| 1:17.3 | concerns. You think I'm guessing it's the latter. Yeah, I think everybody that well first off, |
| 1:24.0 | the initial rush of this sort of stuff to three years it's been running and everybody that was |
| 1:28.7 | super into it went out and did it. I don't think it's just privacy. I mean, I think that's a huge |
| 1:33.0 | part of it but as we know doing the show a lot of people just don't give a second thought to privacy. |
| 1:39.6 | I think a lot of it might be just how all the reports about how inaccurate all this sort of |
| 1:44.0 | stuff is and how it doesn't really tell you what's going on and it's all just kind of second |
| 1:49.3 | guessing. Might have a lot to do with it as well. Yeah. Yeah. Now here's here's where the |
| 1:54.9 | metal or the rubber meets the road. The metal meets the road. That's you're in a bad state. |
| 1:59.1 | You need some new tires. You definitely do. What are they going to do since they're facing these |
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