648: Some Superheroes Ride Motorized Scooters
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Inappropriate portal behavior; RTO drives away top talent; Apple may add OpenAI to iOS; garbage in, garbage out; AI continues to promise more than it can deliver; Twitter redirecting to X; entire Supercharger staff fired; enshittification of the Web speeds up; Google AI search will kill what's left of the old internet; Uber announces new, worse bus; Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare; the Rings of Power returns; Dune: Prophecy; MoviePass, Ashley Madison docs; bundling & a return to cable; no MTV Movie Awards this year; ToDoIst; Sonos app; PPSSPP; META Quest on a plane; the Far Reaches & Forward Collections; Erik Larson; Neal Stephenson; Star Wars Oreos; Chuck E. Cheese Band, Jasper T. Jowls in the wild; Fabio and the Goose; Thelma.
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FOLLOW UP
Portal Between New York And Dublin Closed After A Week Due To "Inappropriate Behavior"
The OnlyFans Model Who Ruined the Portal Previously Went Viral for Licking a Toilet
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away | Ars Technica
Is the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-being
IN THE NEWS
Apple Reportedly Close To Deal With OpenAI To Add AI Features To iPhone
OpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit data
Google Project Astra hands-on: Full of potential, but it’s going to be a while
For self-driving cars, the free ride is over - The Verge
Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says
Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff - Autoblog
As Google AI search rolls out to more people, websites brace for carnage - The Washington Post
Google is overhauling its search results page with AI overviews and Gemini organization - The Verge
Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results
Google I/O 2024: Here's everything Google just announced | TechCrunch
Learn how to use ChatGPT for SEO
ChatGPT likes to fight. For military AI researchers, that’s a problem
Uber announces its new, worse version of a bus
MEDIA CANDY
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power - Official Teaser Trailer
The Stars of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Promise Things Will Actually Happen This Season
Max Releases First Dune: Prophecy Teaser: Watch
Dune: Prophecy | Official Teaser | Max - YouTube
HBO’s upcoming MoviePass documentary is a must-watch for fans of tech trainwrecks
Ashley Madison - Sex, Lies & Scandal
'The Boys' Renewed for Season 5
Jimmy Kimmel Unleashed at Disney Upfronts: See His Best Jokes
A ‘vastly reduced’ Netflix, Peacock and Apple TV+ bundle is coming this month
The MTV Movie & TV Awards Scrapped for 2024, Returning Next Year
Sony Music Warns Companies to Stop Training AI on Its Artists’ Content
APPS & DOODADS
Is Sonos' New App a Podcast Killer? : r/sonos
Apple brings eye-tracking to recent iPhones and iPads
PPSSPP game emulator now available on the iOS App Store
Meta encourages you to disregard your seat mates and use VR headsets on a plane
AT THE LIBRARY
The Forward Collection, curated by Blake Crouch
Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light by Neal Stephenson
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Oreo's Special Edition Star Wars Cookies Are Here to Feed Your Inner Wookiee
The Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band Is Breaking Up
Thelma - Official Trailer | June Squibb, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Fred Hechinger
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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 |
| 0:10.5 | who's to blame. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. And I'm Brian Schillheister. |
| 0:20.0 | Happy birthday Brian. |
| 0:22.0 | Well, thank you. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, old. |
| 0:26.0 | Er. |
| 0:27.0 | Don't really feel it. |
| 0:28.0 | I got to say I remember talking to like my mom when I was like, I don't know, I was in college and she would have been roughly my age or something like that now and she just said like you know what my body doesn't work as well as it used to but I don't feel old and I'm kind of there. |
| 0:44.1 | Oh yeah no I still feel like I'm 18 but my yeah my body says no no yeah oh no I was |
| 0:52.4 | over to friend's house last week helping to set up some audio equipment and he's got like a stone floor and I had to keep getting up and down off the floor and oh my God I was just like I had to roll over and push |
| 1:06.5 | with it was like ridiculous yeah that's what makes me happy that I've been |
| 1:11.7 | keeping up with the yoga over the years, so I don't have those issues yet. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, walk more eat better veggies keep up with your yoga. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, yoga gets more and more important I've discovered as I get older and older because it has kept me relatively mobile. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah, I should really look into that. |
| 1:29.6 | You should. |
| 1:31.6 | Anyways, one of our not exactly craziest predictions we've ever made has come true, |
| 1:37.8 | Jason. |
| 1:38.8 | Oh, what's happened now, Brian? |
| 1:40.3 | You know that portal between New York and Dublin that we talked about last week and I said that's going to last a couple days. |
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