597: Annoyingly Well-Informed
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium perks; weather apps suck; Schmigadoon!; the Mandalorian; PayPal scam; don't login to company assets after leaving the company; Layoffs.FYI; OpenAI bug bounties; Juice Jacking is crap; cutting the cord, but what about baseball?
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FOLLOW UP
Everything You Should Know About the New MoviePass
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
The mounting human and environmental costs of generative AI
Twitter Isn’t a Company Anymore
Twitter Reverses NPR Label, Tweaks to ‘Government Funded Media’
NPR is ditching Twitter over 'government-funded media' label on its main account
PBS has also quit Twitter over its 'government-funded media' label
Elizabeth Holmes Will Have to Wait Out Her Appeal in Prison
Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech
Who is Nima Momeni, alleged killer of Cash App founder Bob Lee?
IN THE NEWS
Driverless bus service to start in Scotland in 'world first'
NASA launches powerful air quality monitor to keep an eagle-eye on pollution
NEW NASA GODDARD DIRECTOR EXPLAINS WHY SHE WAS SWORN IN ON A CARL SAGAN BOOK
Google Bard's new 'experiment updates' page lets you know what's new
Vimeo to pay $2.25M in AI-related biometric privacy lawsuit
Twitter Circles Is Broken, Revealing Nudes Not Meant For The General Public
FTC fines supplement maker $600,000 for 'review hijacking' Amazon listings
MEDIA CANDY
The Labours Of Hercule - The Adventure Of The Cheap Flat
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
'The Americans' cast celebrate show's 10th anniversary
How Brian Cox Felt About That Big Episode 3 Twist in ‘Succession’
Sure, 'Max' sounds dumb, but HBO Max needed a reboot
For the first time, you can now watch every Star Trek movie in 4K HDR
'Star Wars: The Bad Batch' is getting a third, and final, season
Disney is bringing ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’ back to theaters on April 28th
Honest Trailers | Avatar: The Way of Water
The Continental: From the World of John Wick | Official Teaser | Peacock Original
The Ongoing History of New Music Podcast by Alan Cross - History of Skate Punk
APPS & DOODADS
YouTube Premium adds more perks with SharePlay support, higher quality video and more
Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year
What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? by Cal Newport
Finalmouse Centerpiece Keyboard Reveal
FINALMOUSE CENTERPIECE KEYBOARD
AT THE LIBRARY
Make Something Wonderful - Steve Jobs in his own words
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
10% log back in to 'disrupt' business, report
Announcing OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | 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. |
| 0:19.1 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister, I believe Crenn, |
| 0:21.2 | congratulations are in order for you Jason. |
| 0:23.2 | Oh they are? |
| 0:24.4 | Oh, 100 days man. |
| 0:25.7 | That's right I'm 100 days sober today. |
| 0:28.0 | That is what they call a mother fucking milestone. |
| 0:30.5 | That is I got a cool hundi, cool hundi. |
| 0:33.5 | Good job man, I'm proud of you. |
| 0:34.8 | No thank you very much, thank you very much. |
| 0:37.0 | It's going well, it's going really really well. |
| 0:39.3 | Excellent. |
| 0:40.1 | Now I do have a new nickname for you too because you are going through some health issues |
| 0:45.1 | with your chemotherapy. |
| 0:46.3 | How are you feeling today? |
| 0:48.0 | I feel like fucking ask today because I just had my second of four infusions yesterday |
| 0:54.1 | and generally the first couple of days after that are kind of crap. |
| 0:58.4 | After that it's just pills for two weeks and then that week off and the pills weeks are fine. |
| 1:02.3 | So usually by I expect I'll feel all right by Sunday but right now I fucking feel like shit. |
| 1:07.6 | And you know my doc actually just mentioned oh by the way it's kind of cumulative. |
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