627: Lords and Peasants
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Unsubscribe season; Unwrapped & unpaid; Q-bot; META's all for the kids; stealing page views with AI; the coming change in the web; Boring; Ronaldo NFT lawsuit; pink slip season appetizers; DevTernity female cos-play; death at Amazon; Moscow's criminal wanted list adds Andy Stone; locked out of Google; as the TwiX turns; Mr. Free Speech; The Crown; Welcome to Wrexham; Doctor Who; Squid Game Challenge; Milli Vanilli; AI video goes Giffy; no-BS games; Jason beats Auphonic; IKEA's smart home devices; Google drive files goes missing; DeepMind finds the Dark Crystal; finishing up The Last Emperox; Galaxy Outlaws; Fooled; Comixology; 404 Media; sleep data; AT&T Hemisphere; public transit & privacy; gadget catalogs; shaving & supple, elastic skin.
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FOLLOW UP
Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses
Meta turned a blind eye to kids on its platforms for years, unredacted lawsuit alleges
Instagram reportedly served up child-sexualizing reels to followers of teen influencers
Guy Brags About "Stealing" Millions of Pageviews by Rewriting Competitors' Articles Using AI
Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet
IN THE NEWS
Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1 billion class-action lawsuit for endorsing worthless NFTs
Mass layoffs reportedly hit Marvel Snap publisher Nuverse
A popular female coding influencer's Instagram is apparently run by a man
A 20-year-old Amazon employee died at work. Indiana issued a $7,000 fine.
Moscow adds Meta spokesperson to criminal wanted list, TASS reports
How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life
X May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out
Elon Musk curses out advertisers who left X over antisemitic content
X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly backs Musk after he says 'f*ck yourself' to advertisers
After Musk tirade, X faces prospect of more advertisers fleeing
Tesla starts releasing to employees FSD v12 – a critical update to self-driving effort
MEDIA CANDY
Doctor Who's Russell T. Davies On the Importance of Showing Trans Struggles
APPS & DOODADS
AI Video is Animating Classic Memes
Generative AI for Beginners - A Course
IKEA's new smart home sensors focus on safety and avoiding water damage
Google is investigating a Drive issue that causes files to go missing
New technology installed beneath Detroit street can charge electric vehicles as they drive
Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning
AT THE LIBRARY
The Last Emperox (The Interdependency Book 3) by John Scalzi
Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions, 1-16.5 by J. S. Morin
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Important Changes to the Comixology app starting December 4, 2023
George R.R. Martin Has No (New) Pages
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
US Senator calls for the public release of AT&T ‘Hemisphere’ surveillance records
Smarter public transit comes at the cost of rider anonymity
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
Viking Revolution Pre Shave Oil for Men
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Shout out to Ted (aka Trackpants) & Christine @ Reid’s Chocolates
Linda Salzman Sagan, co-creator of the Voyager Golden Record and Pioneer Plaque, RIP
Shane MacGowan, Pogues Singer, Dead at 65
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Transcript
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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 |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Brian Shellmeister. |
| 0:20.0 | We're down to the last few shows of the year. |
| 0:22.6 | Yes, we are, yes we are, Brian. |
| 0:24.6 | And you know what it is? |
| 0:25.6 | Tis the season to unsubscribe. |
| 0:29.2 | Hell yeah. |
| 0:30.2 | I love this part of the year. |
| 0:32.0 | So many emails for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, all the people |
| 0:37.1 | that you've thought were gone from your life. |
| 0:39.9 | Any mailing list that you accidentally ended up on or never signed up for will be |
| 0:44.3 | sending you mails. Yep, yep and it is your it is your God-given duty to purge |
| 0:50.2 | every single one of those. Yes, my finger got tired from clicking unsubscribe. It's |
| 0:57.0 | fantastic. I've got to say one of the best little features of Apple Mail is if it |
| 1:02.0 | recognizes any link in there it does that little |
| 1:04.2 | pop up unsubscribed and you just click the one little button. Oh I don't have that |
| 1:08.7 | a nice feature. Now you spark I like Spark because Spark lets you just, you know, when somebody comes in that you don't recognize, |
| 1:17.6 | they're like, would you like to block them forever? |
| 1:19.2 | I'm like, why, yes I would. |
| 1:21.0 | Your block list must be massive. Oh it's huge! It's huge! It's the size of China! |
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