704: I’m Lovin’ It
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Apparently, you can’t keep a good grifter down, as Billy McFarland’s seven-figure Fyre Fest deal collapsed, so he’s hawking the brand on eBay like a box of junk. Meanwhile, Indeed and Glassdoor are laying off over 1,000 workers, probably to pay for the AI that’s jacking up our electric bills. Speaking of AI, a Tesla robotaxi crashed itself while Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot went full Nazi, which is of course being installed in Teslas "next week." Fittingly, X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped down and promptly lost her blue check. To cap off the dystopian news, the DOJ is targeting an anti-ICE app developer, the 'click-to-cancel' rule is dead, and you can hack McDonald’s with the password ‘123456’. The future is now, and it's dumber than we ever imagined.
On the media front, Murderbot gets a second season, and the Jim Henson and The Beach Boys documentaries are must-sees. Sadly, Netflix canceled The Residence. We also got trailers for Neuromancer, Project Hail Mary, and Edgar Wright's The Running Man. Speaking of building the future, we took a deep dive into AI-assisted coding using tools like Cursor, building a functional app in hours with zero original code. It’s a stark reminder that while the "free lunch" of AI development is ending, the future for junior coders is already cooked. This glorious new world also includes playing every retro game ever on your phone, thanks to emulators like Delta and PPSSPP and the Backbone controller, which led to a nostalgic dive into the classic soundtracks of Mega Man 2 and Wipeout XL. This all culminated in a personal victory: conquering all 4,678 boards in Mahjong Titan+, freeing us from our porcelain thrones.
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FOLLOW UP
Billy McFarland Says His Seven-Figure Deal to Sell Fyre Fest Has Fallen Through
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IN THE NEWS
Indeed and Glassdoor are cutting more than 1,000 jobs
A Tesla robotaxi inexplicably drove into a parked car
Major US power operator says AI and data center demands are pushing prices up
An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs
‘Round Them Up’: Grok Praises Hitler as Elon Musk’s AI Tool Goes Full Nazi
Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X
Elon Musk says Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles just after it went full Hitler
Elon Musk Says He's Installing His Racist Grok AI in Teslas "Next Week"
X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down after two years
They took away Linda Yaccarino's blue check!
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
How SpaceX is blocking astronomers' view of space
New Research Bolsters Freaky Theory That Earth Sits in a Giant Cosmic Void
DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
Trump’s FTC Let Lobbyists Kill Popular Click-To-Cancel Rule, Advocates Say
EU regulators are once again investigating TikTok over data transfers to China
Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon
Bug Hunters Gain Access to 64 Million McDonald’s Job Applicants’ Info by Using the Password ‘123456’
MEDIA CANDY
Murderbot is getting a season 2 on Apple TV Plus
Netflix Cancels ‘Pulse’ and Shondaland’s ‘The Residence’ After One Season Each
Neuromancer — In Production | Apple TV+
PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer (2025) Ryan Gosling
The Running Man | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Edgar Wright, Glen Powell
AMC now warns moviegoers to expect ‘25-30 minutes’ of ads and trailers
APPS & DOODADS
Anker issues new global power bank recall over fire hazard
The Onion in 2056: A dystopian world of Flash animation
Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app that doesn't need the internet
YouTube prepares crackdown on ‘mass-produced’ and ‘repetitive’ videos, as concern over AI slop grows
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Backbone iPhone Game Controller
Major Nintendo Switch Piracy Website Seized By FBI
Update on the Anbernic emulator device
MegaMan 2 music performed by an orchestra
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DePhilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:19.8 | And I'm Brian Schulmeister coming to you from lovely Southern California. |
| 0:23.3 | Welcome back, Brian. Are you going to stay? Do you want to stay? |
| 0:27.6 | No. |
| 0:31.0 | We'll see. I mean, it feels like a bit of a wars brewing between Trumpiaifornia and uh you can definitely feel it here |
| 0:39.3 | it's a bit weird but it is i told you it was weird here it is weird traffic's not as bad uh actually it |
| 0:46.5 | is jason i don't think you leave woodland hills all that often i go to sherman oaks every week yeah that's |
| 0:52.6 | that's yeah you don't you don't cross over from the valley. |
| 0:55.3 | So Mondays and Fridays are not bad, but Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I guess that's the new |
| 1:00.0 | norm for people going into offices are pretty brutal. |
| 1:03.4 | Okay. |
| 1:04.5 | Okay. |
| 1:04.9 | Well, I travel on Wednesdays. |
| 1:06.2 | Nobody cares about California traffic. |
| 1:09.8 | Anyway, so what else is going on? |
| 1:12.1 | Well, not too much. |
| 1:13.3 | The Fire Festival's back in the news, Jason. |
| 1:15.7 | Oh, yes, it is. |
| 1:17.4 | If you've ever dreamed of owning a piece of the Fire Festival brand, now is your chance |
| 1:21.5 | again. |
| 1:23.1 | Owner and convicted fraudster, Billy McFarland, shared the news via Instagram on Monday after a planned sale of the brand fell through. |
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