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🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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FTC restores net neutrality, ends non-competes; TikTok divest-or-ban bill passes; more bad news at Tesla; X TV; Amazon ends California drone deliveries; AI in law enforcement is just a bad idea; META's oversight board remains useless; Instagram blurring nudity rather than just banning it; post and boast law; Voyager 1 is back; Worldcoin Orb shortage; bird flu not looking great; Franklin; Disney+ looking to FAST; dystopian future of AI TV; YouTube ghost gun videos; saying no to Spotify; White Trash Wins Lotto; Lollapalooza doc; 24 in 24; Parish; Civil War; USB enter key; Rabbit R1; the ongoing appeal of the Muppets; gaming the lottery; BrickIt app; old man vision.
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IN THE NEWS
FCC votes to restore net neutrality protections
TikTok Divest-or-Ban Bill Passes in the Senate
ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off
Tesla halts Cybertruck deliveries due to 'unexpected delay'
Tesla Autopilot investigation closed after feds find 13 fatal crashes related to misuse
FACEBOOK COFOUNDER SAYS TESLA HAS COMMITTED "CONSUMER FRAUD ON A MASSIVE SCALE," WILL END IN JAIL
Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote
Amazon ends California drone deliveries
Noncompetes Are Dead—and Tech Workers Are Free to Roam
Cops Are Now Using AI to Generate Police Reports
Los Angeles is using AI in a pilot program to try to predict homelessness and allocate aid
The world's leading AI companies pledge to protect the safety of children online
Meta’s oversight board to probe subjective policy on AI sex image removals
Instagram begins blurring nudity in messages to protect teens and fight sexual extortion
Teens Who Allegedly Stole Cars Face Two Extra Years for Bragging About It on Social Media
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
Amazon launches a new grocery delivery subscription in the US
Oh No, There's an Orb Shortage
The Bird Flu Situation Is Not Looking Great
MEDIA CANDY
Disney+ may add cable-style streaming channels focused on Marvel and Star Wars
The Dystopian Future of TV Is AI-Generated Garbage
Manhattan's DA wants to know why YouTube is pushing 'ghost gun' tutorials to kids
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Official Trailer | Premieres May 12 | AMC+
As Spotify Amasses Power, Some Artists Find Success Without It
White Trash Wins Lotto on Conan
Lollapalooza Documentary to Premiere on Paramount+ in May
APPS & DOODADS
Apple Vision Pro Gets a Reality Check
Sonos unveils app overhaul with customizable Home screen, search across all services, more
Rabbit R1 hands-on: Already more fun and accessible than the Humane AI Pin
How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team.
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
This Jim Henson Documentary From Director Ron Howard Already Has Us Weeping
Jim Henson Idea Man | Official Trailer | Disney+
The original model for Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise emerges after being lost for over 40 years
How someone stacked the odds in their favor to win a $95 million Texas Lottery jackpot
Turn those boxes full of Lego into useful projects.
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
The man who saved Star Trek has died
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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 Shellmeister. |
0:20.0 | I just want to cover this real quick, Brian, don't want to labor on it too much we weren't here last week because my my dog bam bam bidee died so |
0:28.4 | it was very sudden and just wasn't really in the mood to do a show if you |
0:33.2 | understandable yeah very understandable yes a huge thank you to everyone who |
0:38.6 | wrote I really really appreciated I really really needed it and a super big thank you to Rocky R who |
0:44.4 | sent me some cash to help cover the burial expenses which were significant |
0:49.2 | unfortunately so when when your dog dies they they give you a leash a collar and say will that be cash or credit? |
0:56.6 | It's the most inhumane shit I've ever had to go through it's terrible to kind of do that with people too |
1:01.6 | Jason. Yeah I know yeah but generally it's not at the same moment that's true. Yeah not at the same |
1:08.9 | it out a little bit you get a little bit more time yeah a little bit more time but the one thing |
1:13.7 | didn't happen that everybody was worried was happened I didn't I didn't go get |
1:16.9 | loaded so I am four hundred and seventy eight days sober today so there we go |
1:20.6 | congratulations I got a lot of people asking me about that, so I just wanted to cover that on the show too. |
1:25.4 | So with that, let's move on to the news. |
1:27.8 | In the news. |
1:39.3 | All right, let's try to establish some normalcy and Welcome to Grumpy old Geeks, Brian. |
1:43.0 | Well, the FCC's been on a tear to try to get things back to the way they could have once been and |
1:47.7 | sort of once were. |
1:48.7 | They've decided to vote to reinstate net neutrality protections that were killed during the Trump administration, |
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