559: Black Box of Fools
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Breaking News! TikTok, COVID & coked-up shrimp; ad-targeting problems; Metaverse Standards Forum; designer clothes in the Metaverse; Tesla racial abuse; TikTok US data moved to Oracle; Twitter brings back Chirp, adds blogs; hail a Lyft with cash, sort of; crypto not so decentralized; tracking layoffs; beaver outage; the Orville; Crypto Critics Corner; Cal Newport; the Old Man; Animal Kingdom; continuing HBOMax issues; Cameo; flying death mobiles; levitating with sound; DALL-E; David McRaney changing minds; Obi-Wan wrap up; crypto's PR problem; Microsoft phases out some facial recognition tech; Sanas AI voice technology.
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FOLLOW UP
Khaby Lame is now the most followed TikTok star in the world after surpassing Charli D'Amelio
Shrimp Fail Drug Test For Cocaine, Ketamine, Xanax, And Valium
Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers
IN THE NEWS
Meta settles US lawsuit over housing discrimination
Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Unity and others form Metaverse Standards Forum
Meta is launching an avatar store, and designer clothes are the first products
Former Tesla contractor rejects $15 million payout in racial abuse lawsuit
TikTok Moves All U.S. User Data to Oracle Servers
Twitter revives its developer conference after a seven-year hiatus
Twitter wants writers to publish longform content with 'Notes'
You can pay for your Lyft ride with cash now
Cryptocurrency is more centralized than many advocates claim, according to report
Single beaver caused mass internet, cell service outages in Northern B.C.
MEDIA CANDY
The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class by Cal Newport
Deep Questions with Cal Newport - Ep. 201: Making a Living Online
The Obamas are leaving Spotify for Audible
APPS & DOODADS
Flying Car Company Boss Completes 'First Ever' Commute in $83K Space-Age Vehicle
SCIENTISTS ARE GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AT LEVITATING OBJECTS WITH SOUND WAVES
DALL·E mini has a mysterious obsession with women in saris
AT THE LIBRARY
Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
How Minds Change - The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney
Why are you removing multiple features on Goodreads?
SECURITY HAH!
Microsoft will phase out facial recognition AI that could detect emotions
That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm just DeFilippo. |
| 0:18.9 | And I'm Brian Schulmeister. |
| 0:20.7 | Beep, beep, beep, beep, breaking news, Brian across the country. |
| 0:24.4 | KB Lane is now the most followed TikTok star in the world after surpassing Charlie |
| 0:28.8 | Demelio. |
| 0:29.8 | I don't know either of these people. |
| 0:31.8 | KB Lane is the, he's a cynical, he used to work in a factory, he's 22, he's a young guy, |
| 0:39.1 | very, very funny TikToker. |
| 0:40.4 | I've been watching him for a long time. |
| 0:41.8 | He basically takes all these life hack videos that are on TikTok and shows people the right |
| 0:45.7 | way to do them. |
| 0:46.7 | And he says here, I fixed it for you. |
| 0:48.7 | He's really, really funny. |
| 0:50.3 | I've been followed him for a long time. |
| 0:51.3 | I didn't think he was that popular to knock off Charlie, but Charlie's been the top of |
| 0:55.9 | TikTok for a very, very, very long time. |
| 0:57.8 | She even got her own show on, on, was it Hulu? |
| 1:01.2 | I watched a third of an episode before I threw my remote at the TV. |
| 1:04.5 | That was about to say, how's that going? |
| 1:06.4 | How's that transition? |
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