617: It’s Just Business
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Burning Man; UK wises up about encryption; McPoutine; hello, Ello; ad free Facebook in the EU; META back to office; Grindr loses half staff due to unionization, we mean WFH; NYC regulates Airbnb; Mossberg departs X; facial recognition for stadiums; privacy nightmare cars; how to do business; Spotify financial woes; your pants are lying, perhaps on fire; Moviepass is back, again; Inside Man; Lincoln Lawyer; Winning Time; Wheel of Time; the Witcher; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Roku layoffs; Messi, MLS and AppleTV+ win; 3zekiel; Scalzi; Ahsoka; Only Murders in the Building; Apple Watch Ultra; AI homes.
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FOLLOW UP
Future of iMessage safe in the UK, as government backs down on encryption
Americans Should Feel Humiliated by Canadian McDonald’s
AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy
IN THE NEWS
Facebook and Instagram may offer paid, ad-free plans in Europe to sate EU privacy concerns
Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die
Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule
NYC’s ‘de facto ban’ on Airbnb is already removing listings
Veteran tech guru Walt Mossberg slams Elon Musk, deactivates X account: ‘Cesspool’
These 9 Stadiums Are Already Using Facial Recognition at Games
YouTube Vlogger Ruby Franke Charged With Six Counts of Felony Child Abuse
If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare
BMW drops plan to charge a monthly fee for heated seats
‘Hyundai Pay’ is the latest effort by car companies to make in-car payments a thing
Spotify’s $1 Billion Podcast Bet Turns Into a Serial Drama
Spotify reportedly locks white noise podcasters out of an ad program
Free audiobooks to be tested by Spotify; Audible competition plan
Spotify wants to put in-app lyrics behind a paywall
Elon Musk's X will use public data to train AI models
Are Your Pants Lying to You? An Investigation
MEDIA CANDY
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Roku Laying Off 10% of Employees, Will Take up to $65 Million Charge to Remove Streaming Content
Messi Drives Jump in Apple TV+ and MLS Subscriptions
AT THE LIBRARY
3zekiel (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron
NOTES FROM A FELLOW TRAVELLER by Derren Brown
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
NYPD will use drones to monitor private parties over Labor Day weekend
Cory Doctorow’s presentation on a better internet from Defcon
AI IMAGINES A TYPICAL HOME IN EVERY STATE
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville singer dies aged 76
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| 0:18.5 | on the go news. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 | Brompe 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 Garumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:47.9 | We got a little note from Kenny on the X. Brian says, uh, Jason, if the next episode of |
| 0:54.5 | GOG is a burning man special and it turns out it's just you leaving the tape running whilst |
| 0:59.0 | Brian laughs for 45 straight minutes, I'm good with it. |
| 1:02.4 | Take my Patreon money gladly. |
| 1:04.4 | Well, you can log off then Jason and I've got my, my, my mince here to keep me going. |
| 1:09.0 | So I'll start laughing now. |
| 1:10.8 | Okay. |
| 1:11.8 | I mean, come on. |
| 1:12.8 | It's hilarious. |
| 1:13.8 | Now, I, I do feel I have friends that have been going to Burning Man since before it became, |
| 1:19.2 | you know, tech. |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah. |
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