623: Super Spanx!
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Our AI Super Hero, Cyber Sentinel, is joined by Tech Guardian & DataWraith; Happy Xiversary, everything Elon has broke in one year; SBF talking himself into jail; California suspends Cruise; robotaxi pushback increases; Uber driverless Waymo in Phoenix; AI & machine learning, again; poison pill for AI art generators; social media lawsuits; EVs & hybrids; Daniel Ek's Spotify whining, new royalty models; Get Gotti; Beckham & Messi; Loki; HQ Trivia doc; Apple workarounds; Urban Outfitter's vintage iPods; Word is 40; Scalzi & King; Flipper Zero; Dave is back on Facebook; self-righteous, f'ing liberal moronic comments.
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FOLLOW UP
Happy anniversary to Elon Musk’s Twitter
Everything Elon Musk Broke in the Year He’s Owned Twitter
Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks in 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail
IN THE NEWS
California DMV suspends Cruise’s driverless permits
Robotaxi pushback grows in Los Angeles as Cruise loses permits
Uber starts offering fully autonomous Waymo rides in Phoenix
Cruise pauses all driverless robotaxi operations to 'rebuild public trust'
Americans think AI is bad news for data privacy
White House to unveil sweeping AI executive order next week
University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade
Google ordered to pay $1 million to female exec who sued over gender discrimination
The Supreme Court will hear case on government’s contacts with social media companies
FTC Plans to Add Child Psychologists to Address Internet's Impact on Kid's Mental Health
41 states sue Meta for harming the mental health of its youngest users
GM and Honda punt on plan to build millions of affordable EVs together
Ford hits the brakes on $12 billion in EV spending because EVs are too expensive
MEDIA CANDY
Spotify looks set to overhaul its royalty model next year
Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia
Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia - Wikipedia
Apple TV+ Just Jacked Up Its Prices (Again)
APPS & DOODADS
How to customize double tap on the Apple Watch
Urban Outfitters is selling ‘vintage retro’ iPods and millennials’ feelings are hurt
Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
Amazon Rolls Out Passkeys as Big Tech Bids Farewell to Passwords
Microsoft Word Is 40 Years Young and Here to Make You Feel Old
AT THE LIBRARY
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency Book 1) by John Scalzi
Stephen King's The Stand Lives Again with New Anthology Book
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
You Should Probably Buy a Flipper Zero Before It's Too Late
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
'SHAFT' STAR RICHARD ROUNDTREE DEAD AT 81
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to Go Rumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schulmeister. Happy |
| 0:20.9 | anniversary, happy anniversary, happy anniversary, happy anniversary, Deilan |
| 0:27.0 | Musk and X. It's about to say you're a week early for my wedding anniversary. No, I |
| 0:32.0 | could get a shit. I don't even think you'd probably do. Well, one must to |
| 0:38.9 | maintain happiness in the household. Well, how has your ad revenue dropped with |
| 0:42.8 | your with your marriage? Hopefully, hopefully it hasn't, but Elon's has. Yeah, sure |
| 0:49.0 | has. Yeah, everybody is pointing out all of the all of the numbers now that |
| 0:54.6 | Elon has had X for a year. It seems like it was so long ago that he walked into |
| 1:00.7 | that lobby with that that sink, promising to change the world. Yeah, well, he |
| 1:07.6 | changed things. Yeah, yeah, definitely changed things. I don't know what to say |
| 1:12.6 | about it. I actually saw I didn't put this link in the show notes. I am throwing |
| 1:15.6 | it in right now because I'm just so burnt out on everything. Elon Musk, but |
| 1:20.7 | over at Slate, everything Elon Musk broke in the year he's on Twitter. And it is a |
| 1:24.8 | pretty exhaustive list. I they could have just stopped with they broke he broke |
| 1:28.6 | Twitter. Well, yeah, no, no, it says it right there. Everything he wrote, everything |
| 1:33.3 | he broke, he broke everything. That's it. Shortest article ever. Yeah, and I did see |
| 1:38.9 | threads is continuing to grow and X is continuing to to basically hemorrhage |
| 1:43.9 | users. Yeah, that's kind of it. I don't use either one anymore surprising |
| 1:50.0 | way. I like pop in every now and again because I just have the bookmarks and if |
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