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🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Apple WWDC; NFT market collapsed; Clubhouse shark-fin; Stack Overflow gets a buyer; Twitter's geo-political problems; Facebook ends special treatment for politicians; G7 moves to shut down tax havens; Bezos takes flight; Facebook rolls out Bulletin, which is not them but is; Apple employees don't want to go back; Old; Danny Elfman; A Glitch in the Matrix; assimilating your watch; Airport fetish gear; time travel books; Ring asks for assistance; FBI follows the Bitcoin; here's your bad guy phone; TikTok's delightfully evil algorithm.
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FOLLOW UP
Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2021 keynote
The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No
US Pentagon changes its mind about DJI Drones
The Drop-In Audio App Clubhouse Is Dying. It Was Fun While It Lasted
IN THE NEWS
Twitter suspended in Nigeria amid face-off over president’s tweet
Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban
G7 deal will likely raise taxes for tech giants like Apple and Google
Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of his company Blue Origin in July
Facebook’s ‘Bulletin’ newsletter platform could launch before the end of June
Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office
MEDIA CANDY
Danny Elfman Previews First Solo Album in 37 Years With New Song ‘True’
Here’s How Long it Takes to Binge-Watch More Than 50 Popular TV Shows
Apple Watch Faces / Borg and Startrek
Exclusive: watch Lush in A Far From Home Movie
APPS & DOODADS
Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla team up for a ‘common vision’ on extensions
Logitech MX Keys Advanced Illuminated Wireless Keyboard for Mac – Bluetooth/USB
AT THE LIBRARY
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
SECURITY HAH!
Ring Launches Request for Assistance Posts on the Neighbors App
Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang
Trojan Shield: How the FBI Secretly Ran a Phone Network for Criminals
DOJ Charges Criminal ‘Influencers’ Who Worked For FBI’s Honeypot Phone Company
TikTok Quietly Updated Its Privacy Policy to Collect Users’ Biometric Data
MORON OF THE WEEK
S.Korean designer creates ‘Third Eye’ for ‘smartphone zombies’
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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 who's to blame. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.4 | I think Apple had something come out yesterday, Brian. Oh wait wait no they didn't actually have |
| 0:24.8 | anything came out. Come out it was all about what might be coming out in the future. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, I saw, as you know, I never watched these things. I saw you tweeted a couple times as you |
| 0:34.9 | were up on it and I saw yeah there was a lot of, wow this might be cool whenever it shows up. |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah in the fall and of course it's going to be two years before it actually works correctly. |
| 0:45.3 | That's how Apple works. There was some neat stuff but man they really need to bring in some |
| 0:50.6 | professional talent for that thing. The nerds were definitely running the keynote. I mean it was |
| 0:55.3 | Craig Federicki was kind of painful to watch on some of those and I'm pretty sure Susie Sibilance |
| 1:01.3 | was running the soundboard as well because oh my god my ears hurt. I had I stopped watching because |
| 1:07.0 | there was so many s's throughout the whole thing that it was just it drove me crazy. |
| 1:14.3 | Well the production quality has gone down quite a bit since Steve Jobs left. Oh god give me a |
| 1:18.7 | breath. I think James Cameron fucking directed this thing or you kidding me. Paulie short-rode it |
| 1:25.7 | though. That's the downside. So yeah it doesn't need stuff in there. I'm looking forward to it |
| 1:31.1 | when it does actually come around to shipping. Right yeah nothing nothing really caught my eye. |
| 1:37.2 | Nothing seems to have blown up the the Twitter sphere either so. Oh god the universal. |
| 1:42.4 | The universal control thing is awesome. Yeah that's pretty cool. Yeah I like that part. |
| 1:47.9 | That's the one I dig the most I think but yeah I've got I've got enough tools around here to do |
| 1:53.4 | that already so I don't yeah kind of. It's just made made half your gear redundant now. Yeah so much |
| 2:00.4 | for Luna display they might as well pack up shop but yeah oh well that's a hundred dollars down |
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