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Grumpy Old Geeks

82: I Can Haz Ubercorn?

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

Vibe Coding, Elon, Bitcoin, Nfts, Tesla, Meta, Cyber, Google, Palantir, Entertainment, Tech, Music, Lifestyle, Code, Technology, Crypto, Social, Facebook, Ai, News, Internet, Elon Musk, Web, Apple, Tech News, Security, Kanye, News Commentary, Movies, Engineering, Spacex, Scams, Business

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2014

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Brian hammers home some more bad news about the sharing economy and Uber. Many people are in search of the elusive Ubercorn. Why is hash-tagging done so poorly. Anonymity online is a fools errand. More books, podcasts, and even an app! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/82 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian and Jason, discussing the finer points

0:09.9

of what went wrong on the internet and who's for blame.

0:13.6

Let's get started.

0:16.4

Hashtag Good Morning Hashtag Brian, how are hashtag you today?

0:19.5

Oh shut up Jason, I'm hashtag fucking fine.

0:23.3

Actually I'm starting to have almost a poov- have lobby in response to when we do this

0:27.9

podcast and I feel like my nose plugs up immediately.

0:30.4

I think you're making me sick Jason.

0:32.2

It happens.

0:33.7

Hashtag bastard.

0:36.1

Many people have said that in the past.

0:37.9

No, the only reason the hashtag thing, it's just, it's really started to annoy me the past

0:42.4

couple days.

0:43.4

I think it's gotten out of hand or I just have following the wrong people.

0:47.6

It seems to be particularly for people trying to get out there and make their mark.

0:52.4

Without naming names, I do have a friend that's attempting to kickstart.

0:57.6

Not really kickstart, kickstart in the old school sense of the word, a music career.

1:02.3

I have another friend that has a product here, trying to start a new beer.

1:07.6

Both of them, I don't know if they do their social media themselves or not, but every

1:11.6

single time they post, it's seven lines of, you know, seven words of actual information

1:18.0

and then about 75 hashtags per post.

1:21.1

Well, you see, hashtag overload is not new.

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