549: Chaos Muppet
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Boldly going; Kmart collapse; Elon Musk, Chaos Muppet; what to do with deleted tweets; dark personality traits & crypto; beastmode for kids; Etsy seller strike; Meta & its Oversight Board; autonomous Cruise makes a run for it; Moonfall, revisited; two thumbs up; Upload; Picard; Billions; Queen of the South; the Outlaws; Tony Hawk (or is it); Warner Bros, Discovery & CNN+; Twemex; PIP; DuckDuckGo browser; vigilante apps; evolution of self help; Peter Clines; data brokers; RaidForums bust; trackers all the way down.
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FOLLOW UP
Star Trek's first NFTs lean heavily on incentives
The Worst Part of Working From Home Is Now Haunting Reopened Offices
Once a retail giant, Kmart nears extinction after closure
‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280
IN THE NEWS
Elon Musk and the disappearing board seat: all of the updates about Twitter’s largest shareholder
Twitter reverses change that turned embeds of deleted tweets into blank boxes
The growing, lightly controversial industry teaching kids crypto
Over 14,000 Etsy sellers are going on strike to protest increased transaction fees
Meta announces huge new tech hub in Toronto with plans for 2,500 jobs
Meta will close a loophole in its doxxing policy in response to the Oversight Board
An autonomous Cruise vehicle left police confused when they tried to pull it over
The first all-civilian space crew has docked with the ISS
MEDIA CANDY
Netflix adds a ‘Two Thumbs Up’ button in effort to learn what users love, not just like
First ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ season three trailer teases a starship hijacking
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
Tony Hawk on the Oscars, Fatherhood and Taking Risks
The Warner Bros.-Discovery deal has officially closed
Fox Sports will stream every match of the 2022 World Cup
CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users
Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start
APPS & DOODADS
Sonos bought a startup that made a light-powered Bluetooth speaker
YouTube says picture-in-picture will hit all iOS 15 devices in the coming days (updated)
Epic Games and Lego team up to build a kid-friendly metaverse
DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop
NEW SPEEDCAM APP LETS ANYONE, ANYWHERE SUBMIT EVIDENCE OF DRIVERS SPEEDING
AT THE LIBRARY
Anthony Robbins' Personal Power II: The Driving Force!
The Broken Room by Peter Clines
Steelheart (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson
SECURITY HAH!
Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Ukrainians use 'Find My iPhone' to see where Russians took their stolen Apple devices
DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop
RaidForums hacking forum seized by police, owner arrested
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. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.5 | It has been an interesting day in Los Angeles. We have definitely been plunged headfirst into |
| 0:25.7 | third world country territory. Brian, you got out just in time. What's going on? Wake up, turn on |
| 0:31.3 | the light, put my pants on, boom, entire house goes dark. Like most of the San Fernando Valley |
| 0:36.2 | lost power this morning. Lovely, eh? Okay. So there's that one. Then over in Santa Monica, |
| 0:41.8 | your neck of the woods, there's apparently some kind of prowler on the loose, all in 1950s. One guy |
| 0:47.6 | has completely suspended mail service for part of Santa Monica because nobody can catch him. |
| 0:52.7 | Oh, okay. One guy. You're going to suspend mail service for one guy. Well, no big loss with |
| 0:58.8 | the mail service. I just remember that it was basically nothing but junk mail by the end of the |
| 1:03.2 | my tender there. So that's pretty much all it is now. Yeah. Anyways, well, that's fun. Things |
| 1:09.2 | have been moving along normally here. Of course, I'm going to say that and next thing I know, |
| 1:13.0 | beaver's going to chew through our power lines. So of course, of course. Moose out of nowhere. |
| 1:18.4 | It's funny. Following up a little bit from last week, we were talking about the coffee machines |
| 1:25.0 | in our respective offices. And I intellectually understand that the CEO of my company listens to |
| 1:31.2 | the podcast, but I don't let that affect me. I think you and I are both kind of like we're just |
| 1:36.7 | here doing the podcast and we're laying it out and whoever listens listens. And that is that. |
| 1:41.0 | But on the plus side, he on Friday, when I came in after he had listened, he kindly pointed out |
| 1:46.5 | the very well hidden power button for the coffee machine. So now I know where it is. All right. |
| 1:50.6 | And I guess I've discovered that this is the appropriate HR channel to discuss issues. |
| 1:55.9 | Brian, would you like a raise? That sounds good. That's cool. Okay. You know, I'm just saying. |
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