Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Happy 2023.

Yeah, 2023. In year the land of the orange right now. I am. I am in the last few days of my

trip out to see my mom and in lovely Orange County, California. The weather's been miserable,

basically the entire time I've been here. And yes, the argument can be made that the coldest cold

here is you know, harkens back to the very end of summer in Toronto. It's way colder in Toronto.

The difference being in Toronto, they build for weather. Yeah, they don't do that here. I've been

colder here inside every building that I've been in Toronto the entire winter with snow.

So yeah, and it's just been gloomy and this is not what you come to California for. So

and there's been a it hasn't been the the best trip out here. There's been all kinds of

whatever, but such as life here we are. That's what makes us grumpy, right? So

adversity, God damn it.

Yeah, seriously. Can't be sunshine and unicorns all the time.

Be nice if it was every now and then. Every now and again would be nice. Yes.

But we take what we can get. We take what we can get. We do. So since the last episode,

I've still been off Twitter. It's been lovely. I noticed that you're you're very much on

Instagram though. You send me reels the same way that people used to forward emails back in the 90s.

That's fun. I just sitting on the crapper. What the hell? That doesn't take it. It doesn't have

the same cognitive load as Twitter does. You know, that's true. But I found this article called

in praise of real not tweetable conversations by John Steinberg. This is over at I believe this

is the information. It's a really good article. It's short, but it talks about how you know,

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