438: Zuckerbergian Slip

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Existential Me Time; Quibi & Katz; Facebook finally gets a Star Chamber; Libra lingers on; FCC ordered to release fake comments; arrest Musk; Stack Overflow furloughs; Influencers are just fine; micro- & teeny-tiny-influencers; monitoring at home & at work, ick; Slack ya later, alligator; Mitigator; Spotify's contact-tracing; TARDIS Zoom; the best chair, ever; Disneyland in 1957; black holes next door; feedback loop.

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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
0:10.3	who's to blame.
0:16.2	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. This is the
0:20.9	ass crack of dawn edition of Grumpy Old Geeks. It's very early in the morning.
0:25.4	Yeah, scheduling can be fun sometimes. Yeah, so wife is still extremely busy with
0:33.8	work. We still don't have any daycare solutions because there are none to be had.
0:39.4	And yeah, I'm on my last week of work for the job that I had started until I got
0:46.2	furloughed because everything sucks. But that means I have a lot of work this week.
0:50.4	So I'm trying to wrap up every project that I was working on. So good times.
0:54.2	7th or 3rd of the morning. Hello. Yeah, and thanks for everybody who didn't
0:58.7	bitch and moan about us taking an episode off. We needed some, I needed, well, me
1:02.9	personally, I needed some existential me time. Oh, yeah, what does one do with
1:06.6	existential me time?
1:07.6	It tries to figure out what the next week's going to be without going bug nutty and
1:12.9	sane. Oh, that's the case. We're down to one episode a week, Jason. I'm gonna
1:17.9	eat that every week. We're down to one episode a month, man. About it.
1:22.1	Mm hmm. All right. So a little bit of follow up. We talked about the the
1:26.8	Quibi fan podcast that got the season to assist from Quibi. And there is a
1:31.6	self-panned article over on slate. I'm a I like slate, but I'm a little upset
1:35.8	that they let this article go in because it is written by the the two founders
1:40.7	of that podcast. And it basically is an ad for the podcast. And I'll shape
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