626: Slammer Cast
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
While we were away; Thanksgiving gratitude bombs; OpenAI's overworked HR department; Meta disbands Responsible AI team; Truth Social hemorrhaging money; no idea how many people Cruise have hit; JenniCam & Justin.tv; Binance money laundering; Jason vs CZ; YouTube adblocking causing "suboptimal viewing experiences"; Amazon's AI Olympus; Loki finale; lawmakers stepping into media; the Traitors around the world; Pigeon Tunnel; Slow Horses; anime; mildly buzzed on a plane movie reviews; Not Today, Pal; the President's Daily Brief; Apple Watch; Spotify; Sonos; Filoni given the Star Wars keys; Apple Watch; Autozone breach.
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WHILE WE WERE AWAY
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team
Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows
Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians
Cruise's Kyle Vogt resigns as CEO of the robotaxi company
Cruise co-founder resigns following CEO exit
IN THE NEWS
Binance Founder Agrees to Plead Guilty to Violating Money Laundering Rules
Google admits YouTube's war on ad blockers is resulting in 'suboptimal viewing' experiences
Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus' -sources
OpenAI drops a big new ChatGPT feature with a joke about its CEO drama
MEDIA CANDY
Lawmakers Press Apple on Whether Jon Stewart’s Show Was Canceled Because of China Concerns
Senator Joaquin Castro on the WBD decision to cancel the Coyote vs. ACME movie
The Traitors Season 2 Features an All-Star Reality TV Cast
Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
The James Webb telescope is a giant leap in the history of stargazing.
APPS & DOODADS
How to try out the new double tap gesture on your old Apple Watch
A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees
Spotify confirms it won't offer payouts for songs with fewer than 1,000 plays
Sonos' long-rumored headphones will reportedly arrive by April 2024
THE DARK SIDE WITHOUT DAVE
Dave Filoni Just Got a Bigger, More Important Star Wars Job
Apple Watch battery life bug is fixed with watchOS 10.1.1
AutoZone warns almost 185,000 customers of a data breach
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | de Philippo discussing with finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.5 | who's to blame. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks on Jason de Villepo. And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:20.0 | Happy Black Friday, Jason. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, happy Black Friday to you, Brian. |
| 0:25.0 | It's the most wonderful time of the year. |
| 0:29.0 | I gotta say, I'm very happy to be in a studio with you today instead of braving the crowds. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, I mean we're old man. What do you need? |
| 0:40.0 | Nothing. |
| 0:41.0 | Amazon. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, you got Amazon for anything you do need and yeah, so whatever. Yeah, I'm well beyond the age of just wanting stuff. I don't care. I've got everything I need. Maybe some some new underwear I'll look for that later today. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah it's funny I'm doing most of my Christmas shopping probably today and tomorrow and this weekend and I'm going |
| 1:01.1 | direct every as much as possible going direct to the actual provider |
| 1:06.4 | To get my stuff I'm trying to avoid Amazon as much as humanly possible |
| 1:10.6 | No, that's that's's noble of you. |
| 1:13.0 | Also difficult. |
| 1:14.0 | And probably more expensive. |
| 1:15.0 | You'd be surprised if you don't care about shipping times, you can still kind to get free shipping |
| 1:21.3 | on most things. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.2 | And I'm not in a rush. |
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