462: Laser Power Condom

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Declaring email bankruptcy & we attempt to get to feedback zero; Gates calls Microsoft's TikTok deal a poisoned chalice; looking back at Deep Space Nine; Lower Decks; Umbrella Academy 2; socially distanced concerts don't work; Daniel Ek hates music; Derek Sivers; no shoes, no pants, no education; Mandy Patinkin deleting emails; wireless power in New Zealand; ditching charging pads; tons & tons of 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
0:10.5	who's to blame.
0:15.9	Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.
0:21.0	Yeah, a long night Brian, so I'm gonna try and be perky as much as I can.
0:24.6	You do that. We're recording pretty late in the day and it's pretty big
0:29.6	breaking news just hit so I'm gonna try to pretend I'm not looking at Twitter.
0:33.5	Okay, it was on it was on CNN a second ago, so yes, yes, so that yes.
0:39.7	Sleepy Joe picked to pick somebody I guess. Yes, yes, yes he did.
0:44.8	Yes, no, I just I've just been up all night because my roommate was taking the
0:48.2	hospital at 11 p.m. and is still there and they don't know what's wrong with her.
0:51.4	So I'm tired. Yeah, I'm tired. Yep, so a little bit of follow-up here.
0:57.4	Bill Gates has called Microsoft TikTok deal a poisoned chalice, which
1:03.5	uh, you know, nice turn of phrase, I guess, but he's like, they have no idea what they're
1:08.4	getting themselves in for, especially for the moderation alone.
1:11.9	No, no, there's, Microsoft does not have a social network.
1:15.7	They've stayed away from it wisely. So they do not have any, I mean, they still have
1:21.8	LinkedIn. Come on, that's a social network sort of.
1:24.0	Please kind of not really not not in terms of like the moderation that's necessary.
1:28.8	Not not you know, LinkedIn is what it is. Sure, you get your trolls and you get your people
1:32.9	going on there and spamming the hell out of it and all that.
1:35.2	And let's be honest, LinkedIn doesn't exactly do the best job of taking care of that very quickly.
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