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🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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MoviePass, if at first, you don't succeed; Musk, absurdly broad & overly burdensome; crypto games; virtual rappers; stealing Project Titan; bitcoin mining, data centers & a global energy crisis; Neuralink's Halloween show-and-tell; SpaceX & T-Mobile team up; the Gen-X joys of Top Gun: Maverick; Day Shift's dialogue; Light & Magic; She-Hulk; House of the Dragon; Going Back to Xanadu; our preferred chairs, browsers, and fitness apps; trackers on bikes; Netflix games; Binance scammers get scammed; those Chinese surveillance cameras; Twitter's whistleblower claims.
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IN THE NEWS
Elon Musk’s ‘Absurdly Broad’ Strategy Against Twitter Is Losing
A Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here's What Happened Instead
Axie Infinity Leaves Filipino Players Penniless and Defeated
Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes
Former Apple engineer pleads guilty to stealing Project Titan trade secrets
Bitcoin Mining Company Sells 26,200 Rigs to Eliminate $67M Debts
Microsoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in Ireland
Elon Musk's Neuralink will show brain implant progress at a Halloween show-and-tell
SpaceX and T-Mobile to Connect Starlink Satellites to Mobile Phones
MEDIA CANDY
Going Back To Xanadu (2008 Xanadu documentary)
APPS & DOODADS
Opera GX review – worth using in 2022?
Auto resistance on Peloton Workout and Charts for your Echelon bikes with qdomyos-zwift
How to Play Netflix Games for Free
SECURITY HAH!
Hackers reportedly deepfaked a Binance exec to carry out listing scams
Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras
Twitter whistleblower claims company’s practices pose national security risk
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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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 who's to blame. |
0:16.4 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. What's the |
0:21.6 | haps Mr. B? You know busy week I call this hell week both my son and my wife have |
0:27.9 | birthdays five days apart so it's been a lot. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Lots of |
0:34.3 | presents out of pocket there. Lots of lots of planning, lots of lots of presents, lots of |
0:39.8 | making sure everybody's happy, lots of no nothing for me. This week is not about me. No it's not. |
0:46.4 | This is where you're the dad. You have to be the man of the house. Yes, yes. So it's been a lot. |
0:51.2 | We had a we had a party for my son at our house over the weekend with him Egyptian water balloon |
0:56.6 | fights and I made about 7,000 hot dogs. I'll catch up only please because six year olds. |
1:02.7 | It was a lot of fun. I can't he had a blast. My house is basically I now live in Lego land. |
1:09.6 | We have so many Legos. It's ridiculous. He's so into it though. So it's kind of cool and fun. |
1:15.2 | You know, you just got to embrace the parenthood and I do. All right. Well, if it makes you happy, |
1:21.0 | it makes you happy. Happy is a stretch. So I've heard so I've heard content. |
1:27.7 | Content. How's that? All right. We'll go with that one. I got a little podcast magazine follow-up. |
1:33.0 | I finally got my my issues in the mail. They're beautiful. And I got some feedback that I may have |
1:39.9 | dog doubt podcast magazine on the last show when I talked about them. And that was not my intent. |
1:45.1 | That was not mine. Okay. Oh, because you weren't picked. That's why I don't care. No, I am very |
1:53.3 | honored to be in the podcast magazine 40 over 40. So thank you for the honor because I also got |
1:58.4 | my who's who. And you got it. Yeah, you got it. It's right. I was not I was not asked to be in |
2:05.0 | who's who. So I don't believe I'm actually in it because I didn't pay. So yeah, right. But if you |
2:10.1 | would have paid, you would have been I'd be fine. Yes. Mm-hmm. I've got a bit of follow-up here. |
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