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Grumpy Old Geeks

645: A Man on the Nude

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

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.

Show notes at https://gog.show/645/


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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 Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Killing Motorcyclist While Browsing His Phone On Autopilot

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

Franklin

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

White Trash Wins Lotto on Conan

Lollapalooza Documentary to Premiere on Paramount+ in May

24 in 24: Last Chef Standing

Best Bite in Town

Parish on AMC

Civil War


APPS & DOODADS

Big USB Enter Key

PEARLA

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

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

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

Call Me Donovan

The man who saved Star Trek has died

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Transcript

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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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