593: This Is the Way
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Back in the USA; a golden age of misinformation; podcast bros; the sky is blue & FIFA is corrupt; it's tough to be an AI ethicist; more Meta layoffs, pivoting away from the meta verse; NFTs taking their swan song, except for Cookie Monster; Musklandia; Twitter's API pricing; Samsung's moon shots; fighting AI with AI on LinkedIn; Ethical Capital Partners invest in porn; Top Chef; Next Level Chef; Offline with Jon Favreau; the Menu; Ticket to Paradise; The Cure take on Ticketmaster; Artifact follow up; Spotify; Rovio and Angry Dad; Dave Does Disney!
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MEDIA CANDY
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APPS & DOODADS
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SECURITY HAH!
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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 |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. I am |
| 0:20.8 | back recording in the now office at my mother's house in lovely Anna |
| 0:25.9 | Heim, California. Did that used to be your bedroom when you were a child? No, this |
| 0:29.6 | was actually my sisters. My bedroom was the the other one. Has it been kept as a |
| 0:36.0 | shrine? No, no. So yeah, it's it's good to be back, man. Every time I come here, |
| 0:43.5 | the struggle is real. It's I'm just like, why did I leave again? Well, trust me, |
| 0:49.0 | everybody asked that question. Yeah, well, you know, I struggle with it every |
| 0:53.9 | time. And then I had a very real conversation with an old friend the other day. I |
| 0:58.0 | met her for a coffee and she's got two two school aged children and she's |
| 1:02.6 | like, yeah, every day when I drop my I worry and I wonder is today the day that |
| 1:08.3 | it's not going to be a live fire drill and an actual live fire. And that's not |
| 1:12.6 | something I think about. Well, Brian, we do make ballistic backpacks |
| 1:17.0 | nowadays. I've linked to some of the show notes. I know, I know, and I just can't |
| 1:20.6 | go that to Stopian. I like that in my books, not in my reality. Well, but |
| 1:25.6 | speaking of Stopian in my reality, yes, yes, open AI's new GPT-4 can |
| 1:31.7 | understand both text and image inputs. So meme away. And let's see, let's see |
| 1:36.2 | how we can destroy it by by killing it with memes. So yeah, I do like the tagline. |
| 1:43.0 | It's a harbinger of a new golden age of misinformation. Perfect. Perfect. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah, I like it. I like it a lot. Yeah. We can't do the videos or the image stuff |
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