563: Cracker Barrel Enthusiast
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Hot, Hot, Hot; Google fires engineer that claimed AI was sentient; Shkreli, Cracker Barrel enthusiast & ponzi schemer, is back; ghosted politician wants to make ghosting a crime; Senate grills Apple, Google over crypto app scams; Jon & Punch & the CHIPS act; Westworld turns the ship around; John Oliver is back; the Old Man; Spotify gains users, loses money, ditches Car Thing; hiding AirTags on bikes; Instagram's very busy week; Twitter Blue price hike; Snapchat+ inexplicably doing well; Tinder "desk mode"; smart scarves; Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler; Star Trek coffee table book; Happy Birthday Dave!
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FOLLOW UP
White House launches a website to help people cope with extreme heat
Google fired engineer who said its AI was sentient
GOOGLE FIRES ENGINEER WHO SAID ITS EXPERIMENTAL AI GAINED SENTIENCE
IN THE NEWS
Martin Shkreli Is Out of Prison, So of Course He's Getting Into web3
A Filipino politician wants to make ghosting a criminal offense
Senate committee chair grills Apple, Google over protection against crypto app scams
CHIPS Act passes House on way to Biden signing
MEDIA CANDY
Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money
Spotify has stopped making its Car Thing dashboard accessory
APPS & DOODADS
Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok
Instagram will survey US users about race to assess if it is ‘fair and equitable’
Instagram Pauses Changes to Feed After Week-Long Drama
Twitter raises the price of its ‘Blue’ subscription for the first time
Social subscription Snapchat+ is already faring better than Twitter Blue
Manchester City shows off a smart scarf that tracks fan reactions
Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard Fiasco Leads to a $50M Settlement
Latest iOS 16 beta limits the ability to edit and delete messages
AT THE LIBRARY
Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler
Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier: How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
David Warner, British Actor Known for ‘The Omen’ and ‘Tron,’ Dies at 80
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:19.8 | Well Brian, this is a little different from last week. I'm still in my studio and |
| 0:23.4 | you're still in Orange County sadly. Last time I was considering going to your |
| 0:28.2 | studio but then I realized that would eat up three hours of my day. At least. At least. |
| 0:33.0 | Well, that's just just just the community. Yeah. |
| 0:36.2 | Yes. Seriously. It was nice seeing you though. It was fun. It was fun and you know I |
| 0:40.9 | would love to be able to do that on the regular but you know we'd have to make |
| 0:44.6 | a lot more money. Grumpy old geeks.com slash Patreon. Or the other way around |
| 0:50.4 | patreon.com slash GOG. Oh yeah. That way. That way. Yeah. Yeah. But we got to have |
| 0:56.0 | some good Mexican food. That was nice. It was. You got to see you got to see my |
| 0:59.7 | ridiculously large Jeep. It is stupid. |
| 1:03.0 | But you know what? Life is for having fun. If it brings you joy, you know, I'm |
| 1:10.2 | the reverse Marie condo. If it brings you joy, buy it. Yeah. That you're coming |
| 1:15.0 | around the my way of thinking. That's it. You have joined the church of Jason |
| 1:20.0 | to spendy poo. Well, okay. There's a difference. Like the Jeep actually brings you joy. |
| 1:25.8 | You buy a bunch of things that you would then end up giving up giving away our |
| 1:28.8 | returning. So which brings other people joy, which also brings me joy. Okay. Well, |
| 1:34.7 | there you go. You've solved your problem. Yes. I didn't think I had a problem. |
| 1:39.8 | Everybody else did. That's the very definition of having a problem when everybody else |
| 1:45.1 | tells you you do. All right. Quick COVID update. Last week, we were talking about how L.A. |
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