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🗓️ 23 June 2021
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Road tripping a very re-opened California; crypto & NFT drops; Facebook launches Live Audio Rooms, Clubhouse adds DMs, they all start to morph together; Google seeks to stop slander; Google AI/ML/AI/ML; Amazon worries about running out of workers to exploit; introducing Amazon Sub-Prime; Onlyfans pivots; Penn's poor Op-Sec; Reality Winner released; caught by smartwatch; Bo Burnham Inside; pandemic-inspired music; Lupin; Legendary; moving to Podpages; Facebook VR ads; tweaking Twitter; Neeva might be great, someday; Ted Chiang; the world's greatest con.
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IN THE NEWS
Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US
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MEDIA CANDY
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APPS & DOODADS
The one developer that publicly agreed to try Facebook’s VR ads is already backing away
Day one has been acquired by Automattic
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AT THE LIBRARY
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
SECURITY HAH!
Smartphone and smartwatch data led husband to confess to murdering his wife
Vigilante malware rats out software pirates while blocking ThePirateBay
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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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. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:18.9 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome back from your vacation Brian. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm tired. |
| 0:23.1 | Uh, yeah, we took a bit of a farewell California trip last week, which coincided with the |
| 0:29.1 | pandemic's over. |
| 0:30.1 | We're opening up July or June 15th or whatever date it was. |
| 0:34.4 | And boy, oh boy, are we open? |
| 0:36.4 | Yep. |
| 0:37.4 | We are very, very much open. |
| 0:39.2 | Not a mask was seen really sat at a bar and ordered a beer from a bartender. |
| 0:44.5 | I've not done that in the year and four months, five months. |
| 0:47.8 | Like he olden times. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, it's pretty done. |
| 0:52.3 | Which I, you know, I have to admit, I had a moment when I was walking around and saw |
| 0:57.7 | people everywhere living their lives. |
| 0:59.9 | I actually got a bit emotional. |
| 1:01.7 | I was like, holy shit. |
| 1:03.0 | Man, I miss living. |
| 1:06.4 | So yeah, hopefully it all goes well. |
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