644: Grok Hole Sun
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
ISP's get nutrition labels; Truth Social continues to drop; X, for free speech, gets anti-speech lawsuit dismissed; Grok fake news; Tesla taxi, maybe; problems with Starlink; Biden considering dropping prosecution of Assange; training AI on Youtube; Geek Squad layoffs; Texas replaces human graders with AI; Dove stays on brand; no selfie zones; Dune Part 2 leaks; Fallout; the Regime; Shaun of the Dead; Renegade Nell; Roku ad injection patent; Humane AI; the Anxious Generation; Wool; Lost in Time; fun with Suno; Apple Vision Pro demo.
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ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances
Trump Media shares close down by more than 5%, latest grim day for Truth Social owner
IN THE NEWS
Federal Court Dimisses X's Anti-Speech Lawsuit Against Watchdog
Elon Musk's Grok Creates Bizarre Fake News About the Solar Eclipse Thanks to Jokes on X
Tesla will unveil a robotaxi on August 8, according to Musk
There Appears to Be a Huge Problem With Spacex's Starlink
Biden Says He's 'Considering' Request to Drop Prosecution of Julian Assange
OpenAI and Google reportedly used transcriptions of YouTube videos to train their AI models
Best Buy’s Geek Squad agents say they were hit by mass layoffs this week
Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
Dove Says It'll Never Use AI on Women in Its Advertisements
Tourist Falls 170 Feet Off a Cliff to Her Death While Taking Selfie
MEDIA CANDY
Dune: Part Two Leaks Early on Pirate Sites ‘In Memory of EVO’
‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Returning to Cinemas This Year for 20th Anniversary
Edgar Wright Will Direct Glen Powell in Stephen King Adaptation The Running Man
Twitch CEO says DJs will have to share what they earn on the website with music labels
Taylor Swift’s Music Is Back on TikTok—Right Before Her New Album Drops
APPS & DOODADS
Roku looks into serving you ads on whatever you plug into its TVs
The Humane AI Pin is the solution to none of technology's problems
Humane's AI "Pin" Is a $700 Flaming Dumpster Fire
New Federal Bill Could Require Disclosure of Songs Used in AI Training
AT THE LIBRARY
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Setting the MIT open source license to music.
How Amateur Performers Are Making Porn in the Apple Vision Pro
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and |
| 0:06.4 | Jason de Philippo discussing with finer points of what went wrong on the internet |
| 0:10.2 | and who's to blame? |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philippo. And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:20.0 | Good morning, good morning, good morning, |
| 0:22.0 | Brian. How are you this week? |
| 0:23.0 | It's rainy and it's crappy and I'm depressed. |
| 0:25.0 | Ah, it's rainy, it's crappy and I'm depressed too. |
| 0:28.0 | You know, it's just like you're home, Brian. |
| 0:30.0 | It's just like your home. |
| 0:31.0 | See, us Canadians aren't all that different. |
| 0:33.0 | No, no, it's Coachella day. |
| 0:35.2 | Coachella's kicking off today. |
| 0:36.5 | Oh, it's my favorite weekend in LA because everybody's gone. |
| 0:40.0 | Every single influencer gone. Well, apparently they're having some problems this year, so I think some of them stuck around. |
| 0:49.0 | Damn. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm not selling out anymore like they used to. |
| 0:52.0 | All right. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, well, that's because their lineups suck. |
| 0:55.0 | That's kind of what I heard, but... |
| 0:57.0 | I mean, you know, they have to market to a younger demographic. |
| 1:00.0 | I get that. |
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