578: The Psychosis of Billionaires
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Moving to Mastodon; doom scrolling & would you really miss social media; Boot Up shanghai'd; lingering COVID societal effects; Twitter's insane week continues - a masterclass is what not to do; Tesla's recalls; collapse through small cascading failures; META layoffs; Wings delivery via Wing; Welcome to Wrexham; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Disney+ catches up to Netflix; AMC attempts another pivot; Brave cookie blocking not working; Spotify Apple Watch update; still no iPad Instagram app; Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky; Magic Journeys, more Captain EO, Michael Jackson, Disney & Star Wars memories.
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FOLLOW UP
Come Join Me On Mastodon, Folks
IN THE NEWS
‘It’s Difficult to Resist’: Surviving Twitter Employees Weigh a Flood of Offers From Rivals
Twitter offering some laid-off staff only half what they’re owed, lawsuit says
Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back
Twitter starts rolling out its 'official' checkmarks to celebrities and publishers (updated)
Musk ‘killed’ Twitter’s official checkmarks after only a few hours
Twitter’s Free Speech Problem Is Tesla’s, Too
Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $3.95 bln days after Twitter deal
Tesla recalls over 40,000 cars to address power steering flaw
Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks
Stephen Fry Joins Celebrity Twitter Exodus, Says “Goodbye” With Scrabble Message
Facebook Parent Meta Plans Large Layoffs This Week – Report
Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees
Alphabet’s Wing drones will soon be delivering DoorDash orders in Australia
MEDIA CANDY
Disney now matches Netflix's subscriber numbers across its combined services
AMC Entertainment To Open “Zoom Room” Auditoriums At Theaters In 17 Markets
APPS & DOODADS
Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners
Spotify’s redesigned Apple Watch app feels less like an afterthought
Instagram on the web has been redesigned for large screens
AT THE LIBRARY
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
SECURITY HAH!
Magic Journeys - Full Film - August 1991
Disney's Captain EO Grand Opening
Captain EO - Rare Dance Rehearsals & More
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:21.9 | Twitter's been fun. |
| 0:23.4 | Oh my god. |
| 0:25.0 | Look at that in a bit. |
| 0:26.1 | Yeah, it's going as well as we could have hoped. |
| 0:32.2 | You know, I think I think Web 3 is going great, could have a run for the money with Twitter's going great. |
| 0:38.1 | Yeah, yeah, Molly. |
| 0:39.9 | Well, we're going to talk about Molly in a little bit too. |
| 0:42.1 | Okay. |
| 0:42.4 | All right. |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.2 | Well, first Mark asks us, are you guys on mastodon yet? |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah, he's over. |
| 0:49.5 | He's over on over social. |
| 0:51.4 | So yeah, um, me? |
| 0:53.2 | No, I'm not. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, I've been on mastodon for years. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm at JP DeF at mastodon. |
| 0:58.7 | Dot social. |
| 0:59.4 | So if you want to follow me, go ahead. |
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