538: Bookmark and Forget
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
NFTs, destroyed; FCC & ISP choice; Bitcoin is just a tech stock now; Diem dissolved; Elon's brain implants; autonomous cars & legal responsibility; TikTok's creator fund; Neil Young tells Spotify, Rogan or me, Spotify chooses Rogan; Google's new cookies; META supercomputer; Beforeigners; Ozark; Eternals; Salvation; the Critical Drinker; iPad doodads; Pestle; Twitter's Flock; Aftermath by Levar Burton; Stronger After Stroke; Depeche Mode; Boba Fett sans Boba; VPN questions; Attorney Generals suing Google; Bittner's got a gun.
Show notes at https://gog.show/538
FOLLOW UP
The Problem With NFTs by Folding Ideas
IN THE NEWS
FCC chair plans to block exclusive deals that limit ISP choice in apartments
Bitcoin Is Just a Crappy Tech Stock Now
Facebook-backed Diem Association may be close to dissolving
Steve Bannon Is Key Player In New Cryptocurrency. What Could Go Wrong?
Experts Are Ringing Alarms About Elon Musk’s Brain Implants
Major legal changes needed for driverless car era
Tesla driver faces felony charges in fatal crash involving Autopilot.
Why TikTok stars are criticizing its creator fund
Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum
Google is testing a new replacement for third-party cookies
Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be the world's fastest by mid-2022
Meta's 'free' internet is costing people money in developing countries
MEDIA CANDY
Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Written By Children - by The Critical Drinker
APPS & DOODADS
Twitter's experimental 'Flock' feature will let you share tweets with your closest friends
AT THE LIBRARY
Stronger After Stroke, Third Edition: Your Roadmap to Recovery
Stripped: Depeche Mode by Jonathan Miller
SECURITY HAH!
Washington DC's AG sues Google for 'deceiving users and invading their privacy'
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell singer dies at 74
Louie Anderson Dies: Comedian & Emmy Winner Was 68
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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. |
| 0:16.6 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. We got a little follow-up. |
| 0:22.2 | This is a great link that I saw all over the place, but Raff was the first person to send it in and said, |
| 0:27.2 | just an epic take down of NFTs. I wish everyone watched this. You can skip one hour straight to |
| 0:31.7 | the NFT segment. It's about 50 minutes, I think, to the NFT segment. But the whole thing is worth |
| 0:36.4 | watching. And it's called the problem with NFTs by folding ideas on YouTube. Yeah, I was going to |
| 0:41.2 | say, do not skip one hour straight to the NFT segment. I actually, this should be shown in schools. |
| 0:47.2 | We should clockwork orange all the people that are hexagoning their Twitter profiles with their |
| 0:54.0 | NFTs and force them to watch this. It's good. It's really good. It's really good. It is a nice take-down |
| 1:05.0 | of how the game is stacked against us and has been for a long time by the powers that be in the powers |
| 1:10.5 | with money and how basically unless you start with the money or not going to make the money, |
| 1:15.3 | these are all grifts and they're all scams and it starts with the housing and the banking. And it |
| 1:20.8 | goes on from there and I haven't even finished it yet, but I intend to tonight. It's phenomenal. |
| 1:27.2 | That's really good. Yeah, it's a little over two hours long. I watched the whole thing and it is |
| 1:31.2 | well, well worth it. There are much worse ways to spend two hours of your day. I got to say. |
| 1:35.7 | Yeah. And you will never purchase an NFT once you've done that or get involved in crypto. In fact, |
| 1:40.8 | it's actually making, I'm just waiting for another little up because Bitcoin's been up and down. |
| 1:45.8 | And when it's up, I'm selling. I'm out. You're not going to buy the dip man by the dip? |
| 1:49.6 | Nope. I'm completely done. You know, because I, you and I have a pretty good technical |
| 1:55.0 | understanding and we've got, we've certainly felt the same way that this guy has pointed out how |
| 2:00.8 | things actually work, but I didn't really know how things worked until I watched this and now that I |
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