497: Not F’n Tangible

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

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Baseball cards on the blockchain, NFT's go mainstream; Grimes 133tsp33k; Coinbase admits Bitcoin could crumble; pandemic stats; Twitter announces Super Follows; Star Trek news; Frasier's listening; the Lady and the Dale; Boss Obama not-a-podcast; Gell-Mann Amnesia; bye, bye Fry's; gadget ages; Radio Garden; Citizen notifications; Dispo; Where For; Sigh, Gone; subtitles; Facebook privacy lawsuit; Tom Cruise deep fakes; Microsoft's decentralized IDs; German pandemic words; feedback.

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0:00.0	Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason
0:06.7	DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:16.7	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:19.5	And I'm Brian Schulmeister. Got a little reply all follow up.
0:23.1	Okay. Is there stuff we don't know?
0:25.3	A little bit. Well, apparently that they yes, this is the on shit we,
0:30.4	shit we already know is now some shit we're never going to know because they have halted production
0:34.8	of the show. For now, they've paused. All right. Pause. Yeah. I don't know what they're going to do.
0:40.4	But it's just it's an update. It's follow up. Well, luckily there's no lack of tech podcasts out there.
0:46.2	No, there is not sadly sadly enough for us. Yes, but tell your friends if they need,
0:53.2	if they're going to miss their reply all fix come join us. That would be nice. Yeah, we promised
0:58.0	not to do an in-depth series about horrible workplaces and have a horrible workplace ourselves.
1:03.2	We won't do that. In the news.
1:12.3	Well, Brian, it seems NFTs have taken over the world this week as far as at least tech news goes.
1:17.2	Yeah, they got a good publicist this week. This stuff's been around for a bit.
1:20.4	You know, I, it's ridiculous.
1:27.6	Yes. So NFT stands for non-fungible tokens or as I like to say,
1:34.0	not fucking tangible because there's nothing there. It is just a, it's just a file with
1:39.6	some blockchain involved. You sprinkle a little blockchain on it. Now, if you remember 2017,
1:44.2	there's crypto kitties. Come on, you remember crypto kitties? I remember crypto kitties. Yes,
1:48.3	we all had a good laugh at that, but they're back. I like to call this, I do like your,
1:53.2	your terminology as well. I call it baseball cards on the blockchain. That's pretty much it. Yeah.
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