619: Monkey Gone to Heaven
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Booting down; Unity, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Hudson & Bill Maher have heard you & have been listening; so much water; Tesla class action; Wayne testing robotaxis in LA; TikTok tracking employees, introduces voluntary AI content labels; Google Bard now lets you double check answers by... Googling, settles privacy lawsuit; some of Elon's Neuralink implant monkeys have, indeed, died, but looking for human volunteers, blue checks to blue chips; Good Omens; the Wheel of Time; Amazon Prime Video adding ads; Russell Brand; Secret Chef; Star Trek; Sex Education; Slow Horses; Microsoft Paint; Mahjong; Apple Watch; Star Wars; Disneyland music; Descript; the Overton Paradox; Zork & retro gaming.
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FOLLOW UP
Unity apologizes and promises to change its controversial game install fee policy
Microsoft’s $69B Activision merger on track for green light
Las Vegas Authorities Want to Know How Much Water Companies Use Before Letting Them Move In
IN THE NEWS
Tesla Detroit Derivative Action Settlement
Waymo begins testing the waters for a robotaxi service in Los Angeles
TikTok Employees Recoil at Return-to-Office Tracker App
TikTok introduces a way to label AI-generated content
Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers
Google settles California lawsuit over its location-privacy practices
Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners
Here are the details on the grisly deaths of Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys
Elon Musk's Neuralink Seeks Volunteers for Brain Chip Implant Study
Airbnb Really Is Different Now
MEDIA CANDY
Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads from early next year
Kate Winslet on War Photographer Lee Miller, and the Film She Was Born to Make
YouTube Demonetizes Russell Brand After Rape Allegations
Sex Education season 4 review: A fine, if overstuffed, sendoff
Slow Horses Season 3 Release Date Confirmed For December On Apple TV+
The Pigeon Tunnel — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
APPS & DOODADS
Microsoft Paint finally gets support for layers and transparency
Amazon Restricts Authors to Self-Publishing Three Books a Day, a Totally Human Amount
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Disneyland: Music Around the Parks
Disney's Polynesian Village Resort Music 6 Hour Loop
EPCOT Theme Park Music & Ambience
Descript has added a new feature (in Beta) called “Regenerate.”
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Britain Is Losing Its Precious Pubs
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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 |
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| 0:12.3 | To start listening, download the Amazon Music app or visit amazon.co.uk forward slash |
| 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 | Grumpy 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. |
| 0:46.3 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:47.8 | Well Brian, boot up is now shut down. |
| 0:50.5 | I was trying to work out the math. |
| 0:52.3 | Have you started and quitted boot up more often than you move back between LA and Chicago |
| 0:56.4 | during the tenure of the show? |
| 0:58.4 | No, because boot up was only up once and down or it was twice. |
| 1:02.2 | Okay, there we go. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah, boot up was only five. |
| 1:05.5 | Oh, it minimum, minimum. |
| 1:08.3 | Okay, well, I'm sorry to hear. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm not surprised as I look, I am nowhere near as deep into looking at the podcast industry |
| 1:16.4 | as you are, but all I see are basically just celebrities getting shows and even they |
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