454: Pennies From Jack
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Jack dips his toes into Universal Basic Income; Facebook fails civil rights audit; Elon Musk says self-driving cars will happen this year; Walmart to launch Amazon competitor; Loon balloons; Quibi users quit; tech & pro sports; Palantir going public; metamucil & back problems; Clearview AI preemptively pulls out of Canada; TikTok troubles; living the Slack free life; digital assistants & routines; social media time management.
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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. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks on Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Brian, I'm having a |
| 0:21.5 | lovely cup of that saying su-shong tea this morning. I sent you some. Did you get a chance to try it? |
| 0:26.3 | I did, thank you. It's tasty, it's good. Not going to replace coffee for me in the morning, but |
| 0:31.5 | nice tea. Doesn't it smell like whiskey though? A little bit. I'll add some whiskey to it later |
| 0:38.7 | and do a taste test. There you go, before and after. It just reminds me of a nice scotch for some reason. |
| 0:45.1 | Oh yes, but without the pleasant side effects of the scotch. Right, but it is eight o'clock in the |
| 0:50.4 | morning and even though I would like a scotch right now. I'll let this point. Does it really matter? |
| 0:58.7 | It doesn't really matter is what I'm starting to wonder. Certainly isn't for a lot of my friends. |
| 1:04.0 | This is what I've noticed. So yeah, I've been down that path already in C19. I think I'm good with |
| 1:09.9 | tea for a while. I'm sure I'm sure there's going to come a point where I'll get back to it. Yeah, |
| 1:14.5 | right now I'm trying to stay on the other side of 6 p.m. for my alcohol consumption. |
| 1:20.0 | 6 p.m. I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I know you are, but I like to get to the wind up and to at least the |
| 1:26.9 | bath portion for my kid before I start lubricating myself. Gotcha, yeah, don't need any bathroom |
| 1:32.6 | accidents. It'll be bad. So I got a little follow up here. We have talked a lot about universal |
| 1:37.6 | basic income over the years on the show. It would have been nice to have right about now, wouldn't it? |
| 1:42.8 | Yeah, it kind of would have been. Could have shed a kind of wood. Yep. Well, we talked a bit |
| 1:48.6 | also a while ago about Jack Dorsey and his $1 billion giveaway fund. Well, we're seeing the first |
| 1:55.6 | money getting doled out for that. Right. And it's Jack Dorsey is donating $3 million to US mayors |
| 2:01.6 | for universal basic income pilot programs in 15 cities. Right. Okay, so $3 million down $997 |
| 2:09.5 | million to go. Yes, an awful lot to go. $3 million does not seem like a lot for 15 cities. |
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