628: Same Day Pink Slip
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
California Forever, EPCOT & Story Living; Cruise threatened by regulators; pink slips flying at Spotify, Tidal, Washington Post, New Yorker & more; Weird Al's Spotify Wrapped message; podcast industry problems; Mint, Google Podcasts shutting down; anti-woke AI Grok is here, what could possibly go wrong; Google launches Gemini, fakes demo; Amazon sued over "guaranteed delivery"; Star Trek: Discovery back for final season; Foundation season 3; Disney+ Hulu integration begins; Titans; Robbie Williams; Q Magazine; Playstation removes shows people paid for; holiday playlists; Clash Royale, end of an era; MacWhisper transcription; 23andMe hack much larger than originally reported; AI is spackle; COX Media is listening; shave & a haircut, two bits.
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FOLLOW UP
Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Continues to Go Terribly
World's Greatest Con - EPCOT - Part I
World's Greatest Con - EPCOT - Part II
GM’s Cruise Threatened With Fines Over Allegedly Misleading Regulators
IN THE NEWS
Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb
Spotify’s CFO is out days after mass layoffs
Spotify and its CFO Paul Vogel have decided to part ways
Tidal is laying off 10 percent of its staff
All the big tech layoffs of 2023
'Washington Post' journalists stage daylong strike under threat of job cuts
Satirist Andy Borowitz Out at The New Yorker Amid Cost Cuts
“Weird Al” Yankovic on Viral Spotify Comments: There’s a Reason Why I Don’t Release Albums Anymore
Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie
Here's how to move your subscriptions off Google Podcasts before it shuts down
Intuit is shutting down Mint, its popular free budget-tracking app
Elon Musk’s ‘Anti-Woke’ AI Is Here, Snowflakes Need Not Apply
Google just launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real
Amazon, fighting consumer lawsuit, says 'guaranteed' delivery has limits
MEDIA CANDY
Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season Goes Monster Hunting For a Premiere Date
The Last of Us Season 2 Will Debut in 2025
Apple’s sci-fi epic Foundation is coming back for season 3
‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Renewed for Three More Seasons at HBO
Disney+ adds a Hulu tab as the streaming services start integrating
PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For
BBC 6 Music’s Alternative Christmas
The Labours Of Hercule Podcast
Darknet Diaries EP 140: REVENGE BYTES
APPS & DOODADS
Entire team behind popular iPhone video app Filmic reportedly laid off
Half of London's famed black cab taxi fleet are now EVs
MacWhisper transcription now up to 3x faster on Macs with Apple silicon
Thieves return Android phone when they realize it's not an iPhone
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
23andMe hack now estimated to affect over half of customers
23andMe to Hacked Users: We Won't See You in Court
The cops think iOS 17’s NameDrop is dangerous
AI is spackle - from Mark Hurst.
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like, you know, a 13-year-old boy who just discovered lube. |
| 0:04.5 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and |
| 0:11.0 | Jason de Philippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet |
| 0:15.2 | and who's to blame. |
| 0:21.2 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason de Philipo. And I'm Brian Shellmeister. |
| 0:25.2 | Brian, do you remember California Forever? I remember California Uberallis. |
| 0:30.4 | No, that's a good song. Very good song. California Forever is that stupid |
| 0:35.3 | billionaire scheme that's going on outside of San Francisco where they're |
| 0:39.7 | trying to, where they were trying to secretly buy up all the farmlands so they could build their city of tomorrow. |
| 0:46.8 | I do remember that. |
| 0:48.3 | It's not going well. |
| 0:49.6 | Not going well at all. |
| 0:51.3 | I think mainly because everybody found out that that's what they were |
| 0:53.8 | doing. I remember that. I didn't remember it had such a stupid title. Yeah I |
| 0:58.9 | didn't until today until I saw until I saw the the article I'm like California forever sounds stupid. |
| 1:07.0 | It does sound very stupid but is that shocking? |
| 1:10.0 | No it's not shocking. |
| 1:11.0 | It's a stupid idea with a stupid title. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, and it's probably not going to work because everybody found out about it. |
| 1:18.0 | And apparently all of the residents are up in arms because if it goes through they won't be residents anymore. |
| 1:24.0 | I can see why they would be upset. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, that would bother me too. |
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