650: The Ewok Line
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Google AI search is a mess; robocall fines; no one wants a used Tesla; Neumann gives up on WeWork; OpenAI, Twitch give up pretending they have Safety Advisory boards; Vimeo says no to AI; xAI raises 6 billion; massive Ticketmaster hack; Star Trek Discovery ends; Moana 2; Stax: Soulsville USA; Ken Burns the Civil War; Wu-Tang Clan album; the Night Manager; Sony Pictures to focus on AI; Showrunner app; ICQ shuts down; Instagram "limit" & "restrict"; SEO is dead; UniSuper cloud gets nuked; Amazon AI-powered Fire TV search; no one really understands clouds; the Ewok Line; we are all nostalgic for our youth; RIP Richard Sherman; Bats Day at the Park.
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FOLLOW UP
Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
Political consultant behind fake Biden robocalls faces $6 million fine and criminal charges
FCC Proposes $6M Fine For N.H. Robocalls
Who Wants to Buy 30,000 Used Teslas From Hertz?
IN THE NEWS
WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Abandons Bid to Regain Control of the Company
OpenAI’s new safety team is led by board members, including CEO Sam Altman
Twitch removes every member of its Safety Advisory Council
Vimeo Sides With Creators, Will Not Allow AI Companies to Scrape Content
The Atlantic and Vox Media made their own deal with the AI Devil
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B from Valor, a16z, and Sequoia
xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion.
Elon Musk Blind With Rage After Analysts Recommend Rejecting His $56 Billion Pay Package
Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts
Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities
Ticketmaster Hack Reveals Sensitive Data for 560 Million People
MEDIA CANDY
The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns
'Dungeons & Dragons' Live-Action Series Not Going Forward @ Paramount+
Sony Pictures Will Cut Film Costs 'Using AI, Primarily'
This AI App Lets You Create Your Own TV Episodes That Look Just Like ‘South Park’
APPS & DOODADS
ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years
Instagram is expanding its anti-bullying features for teens
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account
Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
Hands-on with Amazon’s new AI-powered Fire TV search - The Verge
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
No One Really Understands Clouds
Hate "The Phantom Menace"? The Ewok Line theory could explain why
America’s best decade, according to data
Disney Musician Richard Sherman Has Died at Age 95
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Spizz Energi - Wheres Captain Kirk - (Official Video 1979)
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Transcript
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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. Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason de Philip O. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:20.0 | Brian, I am back in the garage because the more things change the more they stay the same so if you hear birds and |
| 0:26.2 | People walking their dogs that's just the way it's going to be now. I'm sorry |
| 0:30.1 | Well speaking of the more things change, the more things stay the same. |
| 0:33.7 | When we started this podcast, I was still running my own company and then I stopped and I was basically |
| 0:39.3 | a stay-at-home dad and then I moved to Toronto and I started working for a company and I got pink slipped. And I got pink slipped. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh dear, I'm sorry Brian. |
| 0:48.0 | Nah, it's okay. |
| 0:49.0 | There was corporate shenanigans and takeovers and it ended up being a place I don't want to be anyways. |
| 0:54.8 | You and I have avoided the corporate life as much as possible and they were going that direction again. |
| 0:59.4 | Just like that old company that you and I both used to work for called Box Stop. |
| 1:02.4 | Oh, Box Stop, yes. |
| 1:04.0 | Yes, yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | A shit show that was. |
| 1:06.0 | So here I am at home with a very large list of things to do around the house. |
| 1:10.0 | So expect lots of reviews of YouTube pages that fix things. |
| 1:13.4 | All right, I'm in. |
| 1:15.5 | Because yeah, I'm back at home too because I too got many, many of pink sli-slip, |
| 1:20.0 | not a pimps lip. |
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