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🗓️ 2 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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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
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
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
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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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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