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🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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AI, Climate Doomerism & SolarPunks, oh my; GPT-4 is coming; don't plan your abortion on social media; Sam Bankman-Fried gets a flip-phone; Elon Musk, worst human of 2023; Tesla wheels coming off; researchers use AI to generate images based on brain activity; no robot dogs for LA; Star Trek: Discovery ending, Picard riveting; the Punisher returning; Chris Rock; Silo; Perry Mason; Godfather of Harlem; Wakanda Forever; History of the World, Part II; doorbell privacy loopholes; VR headsets not flying off the shelves; everyone's adding ChatGPT - DuckAssist, the Summarizer, Clyde & Einstein; Mastodon apps; Proust & the Squid; Dead Famous.
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IN THE NEWS
GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany
Justice Department wants Sam Bankman-Fried to use a flip phone for the rest of his bail
Elon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023 by Ethan Zuckerman
How a single engineer brought down Twitter
US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off
Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People's Brain Activity
City Council weighing whether to accept donation of robot dog for LAPD
MEDIA CANDY
'Star Trek: Discovery' is ending with season 5 next year
Jon Bernthal Returning as The Punisher for Daredevil: Born Again Series
'Silo' teaser reveals Apple's latest post-apocalyptic drama
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
APPS & DOODADS
The privacy loophole in your doorbell
Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets
DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool
Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results
With the help of OpenAI, Discord is finally adding conversation summaries
Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now
The making of Ice Cubes, an open source, SwiftUI Mastodon client.
Ivory now lets users create a Mastodon account directly from the app
AT THE LIBRARY
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
Deep Questions with Cal Newport - EP. 238: THE JOYS OF THE READING LIFE
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
A Privacy Hero’s Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI’s Future
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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. |
0:16.7 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. |
0:17.7 | I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
0:20.5 | Okay. |
0:21.5 | Brian, since we're old and Dave's not here, I guess it's time to get the obligatory |
0:24.3 | health follow up out of the way. |
0:27.6 | How is the fallout from the colonoscopy going? |
0:30.4 | You all better? |
0:31.4 | Yeah, I mean, I feel pretty good, really. |
0:34.6 | I have to start a short routine of chemotherapy that they want to do, kind of just like mopping |
0:41.8 | up and making sure that nothing has been left behind and will bite me in the ass. |
0:50.8 | In the future. |
0:51.8 | I'll start that in like two weeks and it's about a three month thing, but most of it is |
0:57.9 | done from home and two weeks on one week off kind of thing. |
1:02.3 | I've heard it's not pleasant even at the lower levels, but it is what it is. |
1:08.0 | It's what the doctors say to do to make sure I'm going to be okay. |
1:11.0 | So I'm going to do it and that's that. |
1:13.2 | And hopefully after that, it's just, you know, they'll have pretty regular checkups just |
1:19.0 | to monitor things, you know, they'll do the scans, making sure I don't have any appearances |
1:23.1 | of cancer anywhere else. |
1:24.5 | And I'll be on a pretty regular colonoscopy schedule. |
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