620: Hello Sluts!
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Authentic pub experiences; Yaccarino's bad X week; Amazon monopoly lawsuit; FTC challenging Microsoft's Activision bid, again; H&R Block, Meta & Google slapped with RICO lawsuit; Epic Games layoffs, sells Bandcamp; Meta ignored Metaverse for AI, no one wants their insane visions; California governor Newsom vs Teamsters; US electrical grid in trouble; human radiologists still better than AI; Pudgy Penguins & NFT stories; torrents are 20 years old; Getty goes AI; WGA strike ends; Tinder Select; desalination system, maybe; AG Riddle, John Scazli, Douglas Adams & Asimov's Foundation; Ultra 2 review; Ahsoka; delivery robots & privacy; good evening, Bismark!
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FOLLOW UP
Elon Musk and X/Twitter's CEO Can't Seem to Agree on Whether Their Election Integrity Team Is 'Gone'
Watch Linda Yaccarino’s wild interview at the Code Conference
IN THE NEWS
U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail
Amazon Bedrock is available now.
The FTC is challenging Microsoft’s $69 billion buyout of Activision again
H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data
Epic Games is laying off 16 percent of its workforce and selling Bandcamp
Meta’s metaverse is getting an AI makeover
MARK ZUCKERBERG SHOWS OFF WILDLY IMPROVED METAVERSE WITH LIFELIKE AVATARS
California governor vetoes a bill requiring humans in autonomous big rigs
Gavin Newsom Under Fire From Teamsters Over Veto of Driverless Truck Bill
Meta to Push for Younger Users With New AI Chatbot Characters
The US electrical grid is in desperate need of upgrades, watchdog warns
Human radiologists beat AI in diagnosing common lung diseases on X-rays
Walmart to sell Pudgy Penguins toyline in 2,000 stores
Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless
News flash: 95% of NFTs have ALWAYS been worthless
If You Invested $1,000 In Donald Trump NFTs, Here's How Much You Would Have Today
REDEEM YOUR TRUMP DIGITAL TRADING CARDS SERIES 1 PRIZE NFTs
MEDIA CANDY
The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old
Getty is going to offer AI-generated images after all
The WGA strike ends with protections against AI set in place
APPS & DOODADS
Tinder’s $500 a month tier is here
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
AT THE LIBRARY
Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches Collection) by John Scalzi
Making It So - A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Douglas Adams & Kevin Jon Davies
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
A food delivery robot's footage led to a criminal conviction in LA
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Michael Gambon, Who Portrayed Dumbledore in Harry Potter Films, Dead at 82
Senator Dianne Feinstein Dies at 90
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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| 0:30.2 | Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo |
| 0:35.0 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:46.7 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. A reminder, we're off next week. I'm heading off to London. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm very excited about this trip because, you know, I've always been a big traveler. |
| 0:56.5 | You used to be as well, Jason, before you wouldn't go three straight blocks. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah. Any more? But yeah. |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah, so I used to love traveling. My wife and I used to love traveling together. |
| 1:06.7 | Then we had a kid and then all of a sudden the only travel that we did was when we were living in LA |
| 1:11.0 | was coming to Toronto to see the in-laws and now that we live in Toronto, we only go to LA to see my family. |
| 1:16.4 | It's nice to be going somewhere different, so I'm very excited to be going to London. |
| 1:22.2 | We talked a little bit last week about the death of the English pub and then |
| 1:26.7 | one of my oldest friends. I have known Ross since I was like 13. We were Disney buddies running around |
| 1:32.9 | Disneyland together. And he also actually listens to the show, which thank you Ross. |
| 1:37.6 | That's very nice of you. He was actually in London when he listened to the show about that and he |
| 1:42.7 | wrote in regarding your comments on the death of pubs in England. I visited several while I was |
| 1:48.8 | there and the experience was consistently underwhelming. Just not the lively watering holes I was |
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