560: Wankpuffin
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Fun with compound pejoratives; TLDR; the layoffs are coming; old-timey Uber problems; Airbnb parties no more; space travel & the environment; limiting sales of Plan B; Facebook seems to be able to moderate abortion pills posts but not much else; cryptocurrency still a joke, massive losses of money; Apple exec busted for insider trading; HBOMax app issues; Roadrunner & revisiting Bourdain; Westward; the Orville; charging cables; Snapchat+ lets you pay to beta test; Opal C1; Disneyland; TikTok; what to do about privacy data; Things Dave Likes.
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Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from buttface to wankpuffin
IN THE NEWS
Tesla reportedly lays off 200 Autopilot employees in latest jobs cut
Airbnb is banning party houses permanently
Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn
Amazon to limit purchases of Plan B and other emergency contraceptive pills
Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills
Swedish Radio created fake pharmacy - reveals how Facebook stored sensitive information
‘Axie Infinity’ is back open for business following $625 million hack
Former Apple exec tasked with enforcing insider trading rules admits to insider trading
MEDIA CANDY
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
How Do You Tell the Story of Anthony Bourdain?
The Orville: Scrapped Season 3 Episode to Be Released as Novella
The Nevers Season 2 Release Date – HBO’s Sci-Fi Drama Is On The Way!
Cinerama Dome Returning With New Name, Plans for Two Bars and Restaurant
APPS & DOODADS
Snapchat+ is a new $4 monthly subscription service for 'passionate' users
NOAA triples its supercomputing capacity for improved storm modeling
AT THE LIBRARY
The Year Under the Machine by Peter Danielsson
SECURITY HAH!
FCC Commissioner urges Google and Apple to ban TikTok
TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court
The post-Roe data privacy nightmare is way bigger than period tracking apps
NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach
Feels Like Fingernails Buffalo Horn Back Scratcher
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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. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to a Grumpy old geeks on Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:21.2 | Brian, I'm coming to you today from the offices of the West Valley podcasting company. |
| 0:25.9 | The WVPC or just West Valley podcasting. We're going to go with WVP. |
| 0:32.2 | I did get I did get West Valley podcasting.com and I tried all the other ones but the problem with West |
| 0:38.4 | Valley, if you use that as a as just an acronym at the beginning of WV podcasting, most people |
| 0:44.4 | will think it's probably West Virginia. True. And I know I'm far away from Los Angeles, but I'm not |
| 0:49.3 | that far might as well be kind of kind of they are actually actually you could probably get to |
| 0:56.7 | West Virginia faster. If you're on that side of the hill, just go to LAX, you can get there faster. |
| 1:01.4 | Most likely. Yeah. So it's been a fun week just unboxing unpacking and posting videos on social. |
| 1:06.9 | So if you want to see how it's going, everybody can go there. I'm at JP DeF on the Twitter and |
| 1:11.6 | JPD on the Instagram. You picked a really good week to be super busy and not just doom scrolling. |
| 1:16.8 | I'll give you that. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of like that side of things. Just kind of you know, |
| 1:21.4 | off doing my thing. It's amazing how how hobbies and everything else gets put on the back burner when |
| 1:27.4 | you actually have a business to get going. I am so far behind on everything, but it's great. |
| 1:34.4 | It feels good. It feels really good. Well, I'm glad you're chipper. I keeping you keeping busy |
| 1:39.8 | has kept you in a good mood. I have just been in doom and gloom mode. I'm what two hours now into |
| 1:46.9 | my son's summer break. I'm already losing my mind. News is unrelentingly bleak everywhere. I've |
| 1:52.2 | gotten bad personal news. I am ready to pack up and get out of here and have a change of scenery. |
| 1:58.3 | So excited about that. And then I'll yeah, at some point I'll come see the WVPC. |
| 2:03.0 | Just the WPV whatever. Just the WPV not HPV. Yeah, I want to avoid that too, especially since there's, |
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