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🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Jason pivots; health care tech perks; Tesla beta pulled back; Blue Origin space station; Facebook's milk money math; Facebook, we got 'em this time!... er, no; Snap shares plunge with Apple privacy; TRUTH Social hacked pre-launch; WeWork goes public; Invasion; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Foundation; Another Life; ID10T, Curious Creatures podcasts; 20 years since the iPod; Ask Delphi; Facebook data scraping; eyeball scanning for crypto; the splinter net; you won't believe what Dave did this time!
Show notes at https://gog.show/528
FOLLOW UP
What you need to know about egg-freezing, the hot new perk at Google, Apple, and Facebook
Forget Kanye West. He's now officially just Ye
Elon Musk says 'issues' have forced Tesla to pull its latest full self-driving beta
Lyft report reveals more than 4K sexual assaults, 10 fatal physical assaults during 3-year span
IN THE NEWS
Blue Origin announces plans for a commercial space station
Facebook fined a record £50m by UK competition watchdog
Internal Facebook documents highlight its moderation and misinformation issues
Facebook agrees to pay French publishers for news reuse
Facebook’s oversight board faults its policy on preferential treatment.
Snap shares plunge 25% as Apple privacy changes hit ads business
Trump to launch his own social media platform, calling it TRUTH Social
Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network
Twitter’s own research shows that it’s a megaphone for the right. But it’s complicated.
A Changed WeWork Goes Public via SPAC
Warmer welcome for WeWork 2 years later on Wall Street
MEDIA CANDY
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 2 Easter Eggs and References
ID10T Episode #1138 – Danny Elfman
APPS & DOODADS
20 years ago today iPod changed the world, here’s what it means to us
The AI oracle of Delphi uses the problems of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice
YouTube will begin demonetizing 'low-quality' kids videos next month
SECURITY HAH!
In a fit of frustration I made a thing
Here’s the YouTube video that put me over the top
Facebook sues programmer who allegedly scraped data for 178 million users
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency
You Can Get This Free Crypto—If the ‘Orb’ Scans Your Eye
Worldcoin would like you to gaze upon this orb and receive free crypto
Russia Is Censoring the Internet, With Coercion and Black Boxes
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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. |
| 0:20.6 | Brian I've been having a little side project. Okay. It's called the Pivotier. |
| 0:25.5 | Yes, yes, yes, it's about here. No, it's about pivoting. Yes. I started one of |
| 0:32.2 | those fancy substack newsletters. And are they paying you? No, not yet. I'm |
| 0:38.1 | doing it free for now. I'm doing it free for now. Eventually if I get good |
| 0:41.6 | enough, then you know, maybe I'll charge a duck at her too. But for now, I'm |
| 0:45.6 | there's only one newsletter out. I'm going to be publishing twice a week, starting |
| 0:48.9 | next week. A new episode will be or a new episode. New issue will be out on |
| 0:54.0 | Thursday. And it's I think it's pretty fun. I've pivoted careers a bunch of |
| 0:58.6 | times and people always ask me about, you know, was it scary? How did you do it? |
| 1:01.7 | Blah blah blah. So I wanted something fun to do in my in my side time, which is, |
| 1:05.8 | you know, not very much. So I started this up. So check it out. It's at the |
| 1:10.2 | pivotier.substack.com. Follow along. It's free and check it out. There you go. |
| 1:15.8 | And I found this one that we had missed. It's called what you need to know about |
| 1:21.0 | egg freezing, the hot new perk at Google Apple and Facebook. And I was like, say what? |
| 1:27.2 | They're actually paying people to freeze their eggs. Holy shit balls. |
| 1:31.9 | Well, they're paying to let to have people freeze their own eggs. They're not |
| 1:36.4 | they don't own them. No, they don't own them. Google and Apple and Facebook are |
| 1:41.2 | not buying people's eggs. That would be fantastic if they did. That would be a |
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