580: #DystopiYAY!
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Claritin to the rescue; Jack wasn't all that great; Trump is back, no he's not; celebrities leaving Twitter, questioning social media; Scrooge McMusk not paying contractors, charities; Sam-Bankman-Fried, FTX lawsuits; New York restricts crypto mining; EU investigating TikTok; Elizabeth Holmes sentences for fraud; Foxconn protests in China; FCC finally cuts off a voice provider for robocalls; A Christmas Story Christmas; Slow Horses; the Peripheral; Andor; Downton Abbey; Love, Actually; Disney Bobiverse; 1899; ScreenFlow Pro; self-driving betas for Christmas; social media alternatives; robots with deadly force; voice assistants are failures, financially; Meta's leaky Pixel; death by selfie.
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IN THE NEWS
Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump’s Twitter Account
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
All the Celebrities Who’ve Quit Twitter Because of Elon Musk
Twitter is reportedly failing to pay some suppliers amidst cost-cutting measures
Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a secret text
From Tom Brady to Shaq, FTX’s Celebrity Promoters May Be On the Hook for Damages
New York's crypto mining restrictions are the first in the nation
EU confirms multiple ongoing investigations into TikTok data practices
Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Fraud
Protests break out at a major iPhone factory in China
Mass resignations of iPhone workers after unrest, with report of 30% production loss
FCC cuts off a voice provider for failing to protect against robocalls
MEDIA CANDY
Love Actually Cast Reuniting for 20th Anniversary TV Special
Bob Iger is returning as Disney CEO in a dramatic shakeup
Amazon Plans to Invest $1 Billion a Year in Movies for Theaters
Planet Money - Sam Bankman-Fried and the spectacular fall of his crypto empire, FTX
Something's Burning - 1-Year of Access pass.
APPS & DOODADS
Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta is now available to everyone in North America
San Francisco police seek permission for its robots to use deadly force
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
SECURITY HAH!
Husband Lured Wife for a Selfie on Cliff Edge Before Killing Her
Researchers say iPhone usage data isn't as anonymous as Apple claims
Tax prep websites have been sending sensitive financial data to Facebook
MetaMask will start collecting user IP addresses
Ethereum: MetaMask Privacy Policy Is Worse Than It Looks At First Glance – Here’s Why
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. Brian, I have to say, |
| 0:21.8 | and we're going to start off this show real quick. Clareton is my hero. |
| 0:26.3 | Yay, pharmaceuticals. Oh my god. I, uh, for the past three months, like two to three months, |
| 0:32.8 | I have just been going slowly downhill and I couldn't figure it out. And I'm like, what the hell's |
| 0:37.5 | going on? I have no energy. I can't think, you know, it was getting bad and I was trying to do |
| 0:41.4 | boot up at the same time and I just couldn't do anything. And it turns out I had a very slow |
| 0:47.2 | creep seasonal allergy. That was about to say seasonal allergy, right? Yeah. It's killing me. It was |
| 0:52.4 | coming here. I have no idea. Even in LA. Oh, we have the worst air in the country. I mean, come on. |
| 0:59.3 | It's not surprising here. Yeah. And fortunately, I mean, unfortunately for him, fortunately, |
| 1:05.5 | for me, friend of the show Chris Lockead was going through the same thing and he got his fixed. |
| 1:10.6 | And I'm like, wow, he's just like medicine. I'm like, okay, let's try medicine. It's going to |
| 1:15.8 | get a deal. Yeah. I got an appointment with my doctor next week, but in the interim, I grabbed |
| 1:20.2 | the big box of claritan and I swear to God, it was like, you know, I went from like, you know, |
| 1:26.9 | my phone was at 3% and I put in a quick charge and I was back at 80% overnight. |
| 1:32.5 | You know, I'm just going to throw this out there. Maybe this applies to you. Maybe not. My wife |
| 1:38.0 | never really had allergies. She got them when she came to LA. You know, you changed the system. |
| 1:44.0 | You change all the stuff you're breathing in all that sort of stuff. And she was going, she |
| 1:48.3 | went like to every doctor known to man. She went through the whole process. What she ended up finding |
| 1:52.8 | out is she had, she's got a dust mit allergy and they have, they have a treatment for that now. |
| 2:00.1 | Wow. So you might want to get yourself tested, Jason. You never know because it was definitely like, |
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