665: Human Referees
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Gaiman & Good Omens; Waymo means Uber drivers are cooked; local muggers; EU not messing around with Apple, Google; DOJ after Google as well; another genetic testing company with security breach disasters; META scraping Australian users' accounts to train AI; banning social media for children; AI to determine unemployment benefits; Lower Decks; Hope Solo vs US Soccer; Alan Cumming; the Perfect Couple; KAOS; Tears for Fears; FruitJuice; iPhone 16 pre-ordering process; AirPods Pro 2 as hearing aids; Flipper Zero; AI Audible narrators; Google AI Notebook podcast generation; RIP, James Earl Jones; Disneyland's Club 33; Overcast follow up; parcopresis & the politics of pooping.
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FOLLOW UP
Dashaun Wesley & LE SSERAPHIM on Instagram
Good Omens Season 3 Reportedly Paused Amid Neil Gaiman Controversy
Report: Neil Gaiman May Step Back From Good Omens‘ Final Season
What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'
Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos
IN THE NEWS
Apple ordered to pay back its illegal $14.4 billion Irish tax break
Google loses its seven-year fight against $2.7 billion EU antitrust fine
DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial
Google Teams With the Internet Archive to Revive Cache Feature
Genetic Testing Company Must Issue Refunds After Security Breach Disaster
Meta scraped every Australian user's account to train its AI
Australia’s Prime Minister wants to ban social media for children
Google’s AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits
Utah judge blocks law preventing youth from accessing social media freely
MEDIA CANDY
Star Trek: Lower Decks Is Back One Last Time With a Swashbuckling New Clip
Untold: Hope Solo vs US Soccer
Alan Cumming Wins Best Host Emmy for ‘The Traitors,’ Ending RuPaul’s Eight-Year Streak
The Penguin | Official Trailer | Max
Salem's Lot | Official Trailer | Max
APPS & DOODADS
Apple just got authorization for AirPods Pro 2’s hearing aid feature
Meet the first major release of Flipper Zero firmware — version 1.0.
Audible narrators to create voice replicas using AI
Google's AI notebook can generate a podcast about your notes
Man Used Fake Rock Camera to Film 1,000 Women Bathing in Hot Springs
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
James Earl Jones, Distinguished Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies at 93
“It’s a Cult, and Walt’s the Messiah”: Meet the Couple Who Sued Disney Over Secretive Club 33
Can’t Poop at Work? Why Public Bathrooms Give Us Anxiety
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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 |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. And I'm Brian Scholmeister. |
| 0:21.0 | Interesting week for me, Brian. |
| 0:23.0 | It might bring back some fields for you. |
| 0:25.7 | I've been dealing with the music industry this week. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh God, I'm sorry. |
| 0:29.2 | No, it's been amazing. |
| 0:30.4 | It's been amazing. Well, because mainly we're on the periphery for this one. |
| 0:35.0 | One of the artists we work with Deshaun Wesley |
| 0:38.0 | has done a mixed track with this super duper K-pop group called Lisseraf M who I don't I don't know if you watch the VMA's they opened and closed the pre-show of the |
| 0:47.6 | VMA's this this week I know nobody will be shocked to hear is anymore |
| 0:50.7 | you'll be shocked to hear that I did not. Yeah, yeah. Trust me the only reason we watch it because they were on it. But I got to we had a piece that we filmed with Deshaun and the girls in New York City and their social media team is like SEAL team six. |
| 1:08.0 | It is incredible to deal with them. They've got, they've got a, you know, I'm sure you were probably on this team for your |
| 1:14.8 | artist, the ones that followed them around, take the photos, the videos that are following them |
| 1:18.3 | 24-7, right? Yeah, I did that a couple times. |
| 1:21.3 | Mm-hmm. Yeah, I, weren't you on that for Coldplay? |
| 1:24.0 | I did the, not so much for Coldplay. I did that a lot for Atlantis and the Google dolls. |
| 1:29.0 | Ah, yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | Got it. |
| 1:31.0 | So, we were just dealing with them with scheduling and things like that and these guys knew to the minute which video like you know like almost a week ahead they had they had scheduled videos that they hadn't shot that were already in the queue to get published, |
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