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Grumpy Old Geeks

616: Cheech & Chong for President

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Twitter may not have legs, but Meta finally does; blown Foxconn promises; SEC charges Impact Theory for NFTs; Worldcoin already dying; Cat, I Farted Enterprise for Business; AI regulations summit; META in court in Ireland over disinformation claims in Myanmar; Amazon CEO not cool with remote work anymore; there's a Copyright Claims Board?; Full Self Driving right through a red light, Elon Mode; Wheel of Time; Justified; AMC moving shows to Max; podcasting away loneliness; Levar gets Trivial Pursuit TV show; Apple kills CSAM photo scanning; iOS & iPadOS 17; Richard Blade; Derren Brown; some interesting feedback.

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FOLLOW UP

'Bring Back Twitter!' Elon Gets Booed at Video Game Tournament

Meta's avatars finally grow some legs

Exclusive: Meta's Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usage

Foxconn's promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory


IN THE NEWS

SEC Charges LA-Based Media and Entertainment Co. Impact Theory for Unregistered Offering of NFTs

Tom Bilyeu’s statement

SEC settles first NFT enforcement case, fines LA media company $6M

Just a Month After Launch, Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Is Already Dying

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Enterprise For Businesses

Tech Chiefs to Gather in Washington Next Month on A.I. Regulations

Myanmar genocide refugees take Meta to Irish court over disinformation claims

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’

Copyright Claims Board Awards Photographer $3K After Defendant No Shows

Copyright Claims Board

Elon Musk’s FSD v12 demo includes a near miss at a red light and doxxing Mark Zuckerberg

Tesla Ordered to Turn Over Data on Its Safety-Disabling 'Elon Mode' Autopilot Feature

Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election


MEDIA CANDY

Everything to Remember About Wheel of Time Ahead of Season 2

Justified: City Primeval

Interview With the Vampire and Fear the Walking Dead Will Pop Up on Max

AMC Reaches a Deal With SAG-AFTRA to Resume Production

The nonstop podcast listeners are on to something

LeVar Burton Close on Deal with CW for Trivial Pursuit Hosting Job


APPS & DOODADS

Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy


AT THE LIBRARY

World In My Eyes by Richard Blade

NOTES FROM A FELLOW TRAVELLER by Derren Brown


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bob Barker, Iconic 'The Price Is Right' Host, Dead at 99

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Whether you're driving to work, cycling to a friend's place or on the way to your next

0:04.6

holiday, Amazon Music has your news fix covered.

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As an Amazon Prime member, you have access to ad-free top podcasts.

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To start listening, download the Amazon Music app or visit amazon.co.uk forward slash

0:18.5

on the go news.

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That's amazon.co.uk forward slash on the go news and listen to your favourite podcasts

0:26.0

on the go.

0:29.8

Brumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo

0:34.5

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

0:43.7

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:48.2

We are recording it an off time, Brian, because apparently the air show's in town.

0:52.8

Well, yeah, there's a bunch of jets flying over during the day doing their practice runs.

0:56.9

The air show in Toronto is this weekend, which is usually when everybody leaves town because

1:03.0

it's loud.

1:04.0

They don't want to stay for the show.

1:07.6

Well, some people do, but in general, people that lived here a long time or let's get

1:13.1

the hell out of here.

1:14.1

I always like the air show, but anyway, we're recording at an off hour and the thing about

1:19.9

this studio here is that after a day of air conditioning, it gets really, really hard

1:25.8

to breathe because there's no humidity.

1:28.4

And I thought to myself, man, what can I do?

1:30.2

I don't want to get a humidifier just for the office and I look around and I found, I found

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