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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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The DAO is just BBS's for the kids; NFT lawsuits; tracking oligarchs; steps are the new eggs; Amazon selling digital ads in stores they aren't closing; Ukraine and Big Tech's responses; Senators unsure if crypto can be used to skirt sanctions; Star Trek Discovery & Picard; MCU consolidation; Super Pumped; Pee-Wee goes dark; Truth Social; Amazon Luna; BookTok; Hindenburg; TweetBot; the End of Everything; Escape from Yokai Land; the Jeep Wave; IoT ranting; hacking Russia.
Show notes at https://gog.show/543
FOLLOW UP
Armijo v. Ozone Networks, Inc. d/b/a Opensea
NEWS SERVICE SHAMED INTO CANCELING SALE OF NFT OF DESPERATE MIGRANTS
The teen famous for tracking Elon Musk's jet has a new target: Russian oligarchs
Bitcoin’s Inequality Problem Is Putting the Dollar to Shame
IN THE NEWS
Amazon plans to sell digital advertising space inside its physical stores
Amazon is closing its physical Amazon Books, 4-Star, and Pop Up stores for good
BitConnect founder indicted by Justice Department has disappeared
Apple halts sales of all products in Russia
Facebook will demote Russian state media across its entire platform
Meta blocks Russian state media from running ads worldwide
TikTok follows Facebook in blocking RT and Sputnik in the EU
YouTube blocks RT and Sputnik channels across Europe
Reddit hides r/Russia from search and recommendations due to misinformation
Netflix refuses to carry Russian state TV channels
Microsoft is the latest to ban Russian state media from its platforms
Crypto Billionaire, Pussy Riot Join Effort to Give Ukrainians Money
Pornhub cockblocks Russian users
Did Pornhub Block Russian Users?
Crypto exchanges refuse to freeze all Russian accounts as Ukraine requested
Senators want to know if Russia can use cryptocurrencies to skirt sanctions.
MEDIA CANDY
Marvel's Netflix shows will move to Disney+ in the US on March 16th
Crypto Critics' Corner by Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin - Web3 is Wonky (Feat. Molly White)
Pee-wee Herman’s “Dark” Reboot: Paul Reubens Is Ready to Stage a Comeback
APPS & DOODADS
Amazon Luna launches for anyone in the US, adds free games for Prime members and Twitch integration
iZotope Compatibility with Apple silicon
Apple patents Magic Keyboard with integrated Mac inside to bring macOS to any display
Tweetbot 7.1 for iOS adds background notifications, refreshed icons, more
AT THE LIBRARY
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross
The Broken Room by Peter Clines
SECURITY HAH!
JEEP CULTURE AND THE JEEP WAVE
SEVEN STRATEGIC LESSON FROM THE FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE
Russian Electric Vehicle Chargers Hacked, Tell Users ‘PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD’
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Ethernet co-inventor David Boggs dies at 71
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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. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:20.1 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:21.5 | Brian, I was thinking this week as I was watching the news and hanging out on the |
| 0:26.3 | discord for kids these days, these DAO things, the Dow's. |
| 0:32.3 | I kind of get a feeling that it's this generation's BBS. |
| 0:36.8 | Decentralized autonomous organizations? |
| 0:39.3 | Yes, the Dow's because I've been hearing just so so many so many stories about the Dow's. |
| 0:45.0 | You know, these are the people that tried to buy the constitution and all that crap. |
| 0:48.7 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 0:49.5 | And just just hearing hearing these kids talk about it and the technology behind it and |
| 0:53.8 | like setting them up and just all this stuff. |
| 0:55.8 | I can see that glint in their eyes like when we would talk about our BBSs back in the day. |
| 1:02.5 | And yeah, so you know, I can't begrudge them the fun that they're having. |
| 1:07.8 | I just wish they weren't doing it with everybody's money. |
| 1:10.6 | That's all we didn't involve money in the in the and are trying to buy the constitution. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, we're just trying to run more phone lines. |
| 1:18.1 | That's all. |
| 1:19.1 | That was our big yes. |
| 1:20.1 | Our big money grab trading wears. |
| 1:22.9 | Yes, it's always how you snuffed out the not snuffed out, but smoked out the the new guy |
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