533: Schrödinger’s Dorsey
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Zuck on a Truck, Taxis & NFTs; Dorsey departs Twitter; Square becomes Block; Logi are SLOBS; AI accountability; debt collectors wants to slide into your DMs; Elon seems to have misplaced all his money, can't help SpaceX; Shang-Chi; Hawkeye; Cruella; Get Back; Listening to Kenny G; Star Trek: Discovery's feelings; Lost in Space; Iron Maiden podcast; True Story; the Power of the Dog; old ears; Lucid; Blinkist; Craft; Bitmart hacked; scaling moderation issues hit Twitter, eBay; to Facebook or not to Facebook, that is the argument.
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FOLLOW UP
NFTs: crypto grifters try to scam artists, again
NFT CryptoPunk owner sold it to himself for $532 million in Ethereum
Long-time Lyft CFO departs to become CFO at NFT marketplace OpenSea
IN THE NEWS
Jack Dorsey Has Stepped Down As Twitter CEO
New Twitter CEO has already begun a 'major reorganization'
Square is changing its name to Block
Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block
OBS Project accuses Streamlabs OBS of stealing name and trademark
The movement to hold AI accountable gains more steam
AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before
Debt collectors can now text, email and DM you on social media
Elon Musk Frantically Warns Employees of Potential SpaceX Bankruptcy
MEDIA CANDY
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Christopher Moore on Discovery
Watch First Episode Of IRON MAIDEN Singer BRUCE DICKINSON's 'Psycho Schizo Espresso' Video Podcast
Laurence Fishburne Was Never Told Why ‘Matrix 4’ Left Him Out: ‘You Have to Ask Lana Wachowski’
Spotify Hired A Psychic To Channel Your Personal Audio Aura
APPS & DOODADS
Chatter Telephone™ with Bluetooth®
SECURITY HAH!
Crypto exchange BitMart loses $196 million to hackers
Twitter mistakenly suspended users after extremists abused its private image policy
eBay banned some users by mistake
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:19.5 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:21.0 | We're back from the holidays. |
| 0:23.0 | Yes. |
| 0:24.0 | It was. |
| 0:25.0 | No more turkey. |
| 0:26.0 | Crazy. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, if you can avoid air travel, I would do that. |
| 0:31.3 | Definitely. |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah, I do that when there's not a pandemic. |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah, not fun. |
| 0:37.0 | Not fun at all. |
| 0:38.0 | Lots of testing. |
| 0:39.0 | I've had more things up my nose than most artists from the 70s. |
| 0:42.3 | All right. |
| 0:43.3 | Telling you, man, we switched to anal testing. |
| 0:45.8 | Then those masks will go on real fast. |
| 0:47.6 | Yes, they would. |
| 0:48.6 | Yes, they would. |
| 0:49.6 | Anyways, though, on the plus side, I no longer own a property in the United States or |
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