579: Something Elon This Way Comes
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Breaking news on Twitter, Twitter is breaking; it's World Cup time; Black Friday spam; Coachella VIP NFT's go poof; outdated Twitter news - move fast, break things; FTX & celebs being sued; Amazon layoffs; the end of the tech boom; the Mole 2022; the Crown Season 5; Netflix updates; the Peripheral; Andor; Jason's Audible Anniversary & inclusion; the Great Filter theory; Dennis E. Taylor - Roadkill, Outland; White Trash Wins Lotto; musical theater; Thriller in 4k; doom scrolling & ditching social media; Adobe Mic Check and audio utilities; Shasta Cola; an actual security story.
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FOLLOW UP
Coachella NFTs Seemingly Unavailable Amid FTX Crypto Collapse
IN THE NEWS
Elon Musk says Twitter Blue verification is coming back November 29th
Twitter fired employees who publicly called out Elon Musk
Elon Musk gives employees two days to commit to 'hardcore' Twitter or lose their jobs
FTX and Star Backers Including Brady, Curry Sued by Investor
Amazon reportedly plans sweeping layoffs that could affect thousands of employees
The End of Silicon Valley’s 20-Year Boom
MEDIA CANDY
Netflix now lets you log out of specific devices remotely
AT THE LIBRARY
NASA Scientists Suggest the Reason We Haven't Found Aliens Is They All Killed Themselves
Roadkill by Dennis E. Taylor - Narrated by Ray Porter
SECURITY HAH!
Thriller is on Archive.org in 4K
Europe’s Spyware Scandal Is a Global Wakeup Call
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Rob Sheridan’s Glitch Goods Store
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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 DeFilippo |
| 0:07.5 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:20.2 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister and I've got the fever for the flavor of an incredibly |
| 0:23.2 | corrupt and disturbing world cup built on the back of slave labor that starts on Sunday. |
| 0:27.5 | Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. |
| 0:30.5 | There's so many disturbing things about this, but it's still the world cup. |
| 0:34.8 | It's once every four years. |
| 0:36.1 | It's my favorite sporting event and speaking of which Eric over on our discord set up a |
| 0:40.2 | GOG pool for the world cup. |
| 0:42.2 | So head over there if you want to join up. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay. |
| 0:46.0 | It's a free first limited number of users. |
| 0:48.4 | So I'm not going to put the link in the show notes. |
| 0:50.3 | You've got to work for it. |
| 0:52.2 | Go sign up. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | We have breaking Twitter news, I think. |
| 0:58.3 | Now, here's the thing. |
| 1:00.7 | You were a little bit busy, so a little bit late starting and I found myself just kind |
| 1:04.8 | of sitting around and loaded up the Twitter bot as it were. |
| 1:08.7 | And yeah. |
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