460: Pedestrians in the Sky

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Congress grills Big Tech, much ado about nothing; Social Media misinformation mayhem & demon seed; Facebook trying to poach TikTok stars; Spotify back to pre-pandemic levels, still losing money; Universal makes deal with AMC for shortened theatrical release windows; Genderify is a joke; Rite Aid facial recognition; Google advanced search operators; self-flying planes; art AI; Apple & right-to-repair; Chewbacca impersonations; lockdown personality changes; "Al Fresco" parking lot dining.

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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
0:10.3	who's to blame.
0:16.0	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Ready for
0:20.7	your trip? No, not yet. Did the first whole foods order? That so all that
0:28.3	food is shown up on Diwala because there is no delivery for the traitor Joe's. I'm
0:32.7	going to traitor Joe's tomorrow in the morning to stock up on that store to
0:37.7	stuff. So we have food and there's a lot of beer in the car but I still have to
0:42.2	pack up clothes and shit like that. Yeah, who needs clothes? You got beer provisions
0:46.4	provisions. Well, we are going with another family. So I think clothes might be a
0:50.6	plus. Yeah, depends on the family. No, I mean, it's a lot of angolies. Right. Yeah.
0:56.9	No, it's I'm looking forward to staring at four other walls for a while. So that'll
1:01.0	be nice. Okay. Well, there's got to be some kind of view. Yes, we have a pool and
1:05.4	all that sort of thing. So it's a nice lovely ocean side California. So the weather
1:09.6	should be fine and I'd be nice to go out and be able to enjoy things but whatever.
1:15.5	Take what you get. Speaking of that, I've just noticed, man, what a mess everything is.
1:21.3	I don't know about you, but in my walks and bike rides and my zipping about town as little as
1:27.3	I do, I have definitely noticed a decrease in masks for a brief period of time. People
1:32.3	were wearing them again and now they're not. I just got back from a walk with my lady friend.
1:37.1	This is our COVID cock blocked Thursday morning perambulation around the park. And yeah,
1:43.2	the kids are having baseball practice. People were playing basketball. Very few masks to be seen.
1:48.3	Yeah, it's kind of a joke and the numbers, of course, are still rising here in Los Angeles.
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