582: Kind Of
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
We briefly focus on some hopeful technology breakthrough news, before returning to our bread & butter; we have achieved fusion, kind of; wind from another planet; AI revolution, Kurzweil & baby steps; Dramatron; social media for strangers; Meta's Hasher-Matcher-Actioner; Twitter's do what I say not what I do; Tesla's failure is not fraud; Sam Bankman-Fried & continued crypto arrests & lawsuits; Lord of the Rings marathon feast; Wednesday; The Peripheral; the White Lotus; Slow Horses; Drumpf NFT; too many tabs; Apple to allow outside app stores, dropping Webkit requirement; password managers; Twitter suspensions; the Marshall amp.
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IN THE NEWS
Scientists achieve fusion ignition, a major milestone in clean energy production
Audio from a Martian dust devil captured for the first time
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
DeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts
Google execs warn company’s reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology
Social Media Is for Strangers Now
Meta releases an open-source tool that can scan for terrorist content
A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety Council of external advisors
Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue logo is perfectly awful
Twitter Suspends the Accounts Tracking Musk’s Jet and The Man Behind It
Elon Jet, the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s flights, was permanently suspended
Tesla: Our ‘failure’ to make actual self-driving cars ‘is not fraud’
Tesla’s latest update adds Steam games and Apple Music
Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested by Royal Bahamas Police Force
Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX founder charged with defrauding investors
Celebrity Promoters Sued Over Bored Ape NFT Endorsements
Crypto Was Always Smoke and Mirrors
DOJ and SEC charge social media influencers in alleged $100 million stock pump-and-dump scheme
MEDIA CANDY
The Lord of the Rings Marathon Feast
APPS & DOODADS
Donald Trump Digital Trading Cards (NFTs)
FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring page
Chrome Gets Memory and Energy Saver Modes
Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws
Apple Considering Dropping Requirement for iPhone Web Browsers to Use WebKit
Apple’s new whiteboard app gives you and up to 99 friends an ‘infinite canvas’
SECURITY HAH!
Twitter has suspended the Helicopters of DC account.
FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked
The Story of the Marshall amp. from the BBC
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.5 | who's to blame. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.4 | Last show of the year. Thank God. Thank God. Yes. I am I am I'm ready for 2022 to be |
| 0:29.1 | done. Yeah well what fresh hell will 2023 bring? I'm sure it won't be better. Actually |
| 0:37.3 | you know funny you mentioned that because I I did kind of go on a bit of a tear in the show notes |
| 0:42.0 | this this week because of that. You think? Yeah a little bit. You know I I wanted to be a bit |
| 0:47.2 | positive. I want I want 2023 to be better because I feel like we've had three years of fresh |
| 0:53.7 | big shit pies and I'd like a blueberry god damn it. It's not so much to ask for. You've been in |
| 1:00.4 | Canada way too long. Yeah so I just thought since it's the last show of the year we we could |
| 1:05.6 | change it up a bit. I mean not for the whole show obviously because I'm so pleased. Come on. |
| 1:11.0 | Don't expect me to be positive Jesus. You know so it's been a couple shitty years and tech news |
| 1:15.8 | is somehow improbably only continued to get shitier and shitier and I'd prefer our last show |
| 1:21.6 | of the year to leave us with a bit of hope. I'm not going to lie it was hard to find some but I did. |
| 1:26.9 | You should have put this at the end not the beginning because I know because we're going to dump on |
| 1:30.8 | all of it at the end of it. Yeah I thought the Atlantic had a really great article the breakthroughs |
| 1:36.6 | of the year and and you know as much as we crap on technology here are 10 things that technology |
| 1:42.9 | has brought us this year that are kind of cool. Now hear me out on this first one because I'm |
| 1:49.4 | going to say no. Okay. Yeah. Number one is the generative AI eruption. |
| 1:56.4 | Stable diffusion dolly to chat GBT all things that we have shit on repeatedly on this show |
| 2:02.9 | and they do but they are saying it's not where they are now it's where they could go. |
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