Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Happy birthday, Jason.

Yay. Yay.

You said much more enthusiastic on Twitter about your birthday. Yeah, it's just untired. I'm very,

very tired. It's been a rough week. Hey, I'm 51. I don't care. I made it. Still kicking.

What are you going to do? Okay. Do a podcast. Yeah, let's do a podcast.

I said you, I did say to you a text this week that I thought was pretty interesting. I got an

email from Goodreads saying we are happy to confirm that we have completed your data request.

Your data will be available to download for the next 90 days. And it says this is the response

to your DSA R request on June 22nd, 2022. And I got the reply on July 30th.

July 30th. Goodreads owned by Amazon, not an unfunded company.

And I told you I was not surprised by this. In fact, I thought that was a rather quick turn around

given the fact that it does not be whove them to give you this data because it's the first step

to deleting your account. And nobody wants that. So this is not something that the

companies really want to do. And probably goes down to like some intern.

Hey, do you think that Goodreads has interns? Seriously?

I'm sure that there's some bookish young woman who is very excited with this job.

Is she is she in search of a dashing older professor to like whisk her off her feet and

well, those are her favorite books. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. She's a Daniel Suarez fan. She's in luck.

I just, I mean, I know Goodreads has a still has a very fervent following of people that

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