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🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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We hear from Norway; billionaires in the... upper atmosphere? Just pay your taxes; Biden's Big Tech executive order; Trump's lawsuit has a problem...the law; Facebook owns a city; remote workers aren't leaving cities; TikTok meets LinkedIn; YouTube algorithm recommends policy violating content; bye, Knewz, we never knew ya; Monsters at Work; Black Widow & the new movie business; Summer of Soul; the joy of buying & cancelling; AI soundtracks; car talk; Audacity spyware; Iran's trains hacked; REvil disappears; Cosby wants to tour; Toomics reports... itself.
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SHOW NOTES
IN THE NEWS
Richard Branson Reaches Space on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity
Elon Musk booked a trip to space with Virgin Galactic
Biden’s wide-ranging executive order covers Big Tech, net neutrality and more
Trump sues tech firms for blocking him, and fund-raises off it.
Donald J. Trump: Why I’m Suing Big Tech
Black Mirror in Real Life: Facebook Now Owns and is Developing a City
Remote workers are moving out of big cities — but not to the Midwest
TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig
TikTok will automate video removals for nudity and violence
Judge dismisses Amazon’s legal challenge to JEDI after contract cancelation
Rupert Murdoch’s answer to Google News is dead after only 18 months
MEDIA CANDY
‘The Witcher’ season 2 will hit Netflix on December 17th
What Black Widow’s $60 Million Disney+ Haul Actually Means
Barry Diller says streaming services killed the movie business as he knew it
Exclusive TED chats are coming to Clubhouse
Epsteins Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell
APPS & DOODADS
Does Your Video Need a Better Soundtrack? Ask an AI to Write One
AT THE LIBRARY
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Polar Vortex by Matthew Mather
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
SECURITY HAH!
Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
MUSE GROUP CONTINUES TONE DEAF HANDLING OF AUDACITY
Cyber-attack disrupts Iran’s national railway system
The world’s biggest ransomware gang just disappeared from the internet
MORON OF THE WEEK
BILL COSBY WANTS TO DO COMEDY TOUR AGAIN Docuseries in Works
Toomics Reports Its Own Website for Copyright Infringements
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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 |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. We |
| 0:21.0 | got some email from our Norwegian listeners. Yes we did. Three of them even. |
| 0:26.0 | Three, I counted two of these. Wow. All right. Well we have more than we thought. |
| 0:31.5 | Yeah, so snowless, send us in an email that is very long but kind of described |
| 0:36.6 | how the regulations work that we talked about last episode on the people who |
| 0:42.0 | had to put in the label of this image has been edited. Yes. Basically it's just |
| 0:47.3 | supposed to get young girls. Yeah. So, but I do I do like the the last one here. |
| 0:54.1 | Number five, I agree. Fuck Norway. You live there. I personally believe this |
| 1:00.4 | that this ice-ridden hellhole should be closed down and evacuated every year |
| 1:03.8 | between October and April. The summers are occasionally quite nice though. |
| 1:07.0 | Not nearly enough to make up for the rest of the year but worth mentioning and |
| 1:10.0 | don't even get me started on the price of alcohol. Any who love the show keep |
| 1:13.4 | grumping on. Well, I got to say that if the price of alcohol is high up there |
| 1:17.8 | that's not good because you need it for those those dark days those dark days |
| 1:24.2 | will surely nights. Yes. Yes. It's very long ones. So I got to say, Brian, I |
| 1:29.0 | think the internet has a new, hey man, will you help me move or yo, dude, can |
| 1:33.8 | you give me a ride to the airport? Oh, it does. Those questions that we all love |
| 1:37.5 | to get from our friends that we are we agree. When you get them because you try |
| 1:41.5 | and find a way to say no. Going live in five minutes. Hey, I'm going live now. |
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