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Grumpy Old Geeks

571: Furry Stormtrooper

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Patreon & MASH; TikTok treats celebrities not just like us; everyone's getting fined - Uber, Meta & Morgan Stanley; Deep Space Whine; Constantine sequel; Scanners remake; Apple TV+ upcoming projects; Succession; The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick; Serial has an update; Kurt Cobain's abandoned house photography; music for programming; Rogue Amoeba celebrates 20 years; OpenAI open-sources Whisper; AI imagery and legal challenges; Douglas Rushkoff and the horrific tech billionaires; Star Wars: Andor & Larry; ILM and the trench run; AI gone Furry.

Show Notes at https://gog.show/571/

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FOLLOW UP

Patreon Acquires Memberful

Patreon was in talks to onboard MrBeast in a deal that could have been worth millions but never came to pass

MAS*H Matters


IN THE NEWS

TikTok reportedly gives 'a bit more leniency' to popular accounts

Uber Agrees to Pay N.J. $100 Million in Dispute Over Drivers’ Employment Status

Meta ordered to pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer $175M for patent infringement

$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned


MEDIA CANDY

Deep Space Whine

‘Constantine’ Sequel Officially Announced with Keanu Reeves Returning!

‘Scanners’ Series Remake In The Works At HBO – Deadline

Apple TV+ lands Vince Gilligan’s new TV project with two season order, starring Rhea Seehorn

Wool — cast, plot and everything you need to know about the dystopian sci-fi drama

Succession Season 3

The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick

Judge orders release of ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan Syed

Photographer spent the day inside Kurt Cobain's abandoned house

musicForProgramming();


APPS & DOODADS

Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Celebrate Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary

DJI Osmo Mobile 6

OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

"As If Nothing Happened": I Used Artificial Intelligence To See How Some Celebrities Would Look Today If They Were Alive

How AI Sees LA

Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges


AT THE LIBRARY

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Andor

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 1

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 2

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 3

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 4

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 5

FXRant: The Death Star and the Final Trench Run

Celebrating 70 Years of Walt Disney Imagineering

Fur Affinity bans AI-generated art, but AI has a plot to return.

Stable Diffusion running on M1 Macs

Inside Russia’s Vast Surveillance State: ‘They Are Watching’ - The New York Times


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

SAVANNAH COMIC CON 2022

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Transcript

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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.

0:16.3

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. It's cold.

0:21.8

Shut up. The one thing I get over here is, well, I mean, first off, it's weather. I don't, I didn't

0:31.2

grow up with weather. I don't know what weather is. But we literally went from, oh, it was 84

0:38.2

and humid and I was walking home from work in shorts and a t-shirt and I was sweating on Wednesday

0:44.7

to waking up Thursday morning and it was 40 degrees. Okay. So fall hit in one day. Yeah. Well,

0:54.0

it is the end of summer. So this is, this is, you know, dynamic content. We are old guys starting

0:59.3

off a podcast about technology with the weather. That's right. But you know, there is a, there is a

1:06.4

technological bent there. There's nobody's figured it out yet to fix it because yeah, it was 60

1:12.0

something the other morning and tomorrow or Monday, it's going to be 107. So yeah, you want to

1:18.3

swing. You got what a 50 point swing. I got over 60. So and you said you didn't grow up with

1:24.8

weather. Well, it came after you left because it is certainly here now. Yeah. Well, Al Gore may not

1:31.8

have invented the internet, but he was pretty right about that climate change thing. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

1:36.4

you know, he also stole that from old hippies too. So he's, he's got a, he's got a good record

1:41.3

of that lock box. All right. You got some Patreon follow up in here. We do walk him wrote in and

1:47.1

said, Hey, guys, just listen to your last episode and heard about the Patreon allegations, sad story.

1:53.0

Still just allegations. Yeah. No news about it again. No zero news. No, no, so you mentioned that

2:01.1

you're looking at memberfuls and alternative. Just wanted to mention that memberful belongs to

2:04.8

Patreon. So it's not really solving the problem. Keep up the good work. What was that company in

2:11.8

the Simpsons that that that I actually registered the domain at one point hyper mega global media

2:17.5

corp. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. I didn't know that was from the Simpsons. I didn't know

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