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Grumpy Old Geeks

652 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6K ratings

As one of the longest-running podcasts, "Grumpy Old Geeks" discovers what went wrong on the Internet, and who's to blame. Every week they cut through the BS from big tech and tell you what's really going on. With wide-ranging topics, this show has something for everyone. There is a reason Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and that crowd all hate this podcast. Listen and find out for yourself!

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Episodes

644: Grok Hole Sun

April 13, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MB

ISP's get nutrition labels; Truth Social continues to drop; X, for free speech, gets anti-speech lawsuit dismissed; Grok fake news; Tesla taxi, maybe; problems with Starlink; Biden considering dropping prosecution of Assange; training AI on Youtube; Geek Squad layoffs; Texas replaces human graders with AI; Dove stays on brand; no selfie zones; Dune Part 2 leaks; Fallout; the Regime; Shaun of the Dead; Renegade Nell; Roku ad injection patent; Humane AI; the Anxious Generation; Wool; ...

643: Mechanical Goslings

April 06, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 75.9 MB

Gmail turns 20; Google isn't good; coding with ChatGPT; court bans "AI-enhanced" evidence; AI Goslings everywhere; NYC chatbot spews out dangerously inaccurate information; Amazon's mechanical turks; California right to disconnect bill; Elon Musk has hurt the Tesla brand; Constellation; Road House; Jon Stewart; Star Trek: Discovery; AI in music; DVDs; Sherlock Holmes; Super Monsters Ate My Condo, +; app feedback: Canva, Apple Vision Pro, Kagi; new Star Wars content; Avatar: the Last...

642: Nerd Plumage

March 30, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MB

Apple Vision Pro in the wild; everyone hates Sam; META's Project: Ghostbusters; getting device-blocked on Facebook; Meta & Google restricting reproductive health ads; anti-trans hate widespread on META properties; X testing NSFW communities, caught selling data to government while complaining about surveillance; FTC might sue TikTok; school boards suing social media giants; Truth Social stock; Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; 3 Body Problem; Constellation; Heathers is 35 years old; the ...

641: Subscription Screaming

March 23, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB

Lots of suggestions, no regulations: cars, broadband, AI & more; Apple lawsuits; drone delivery, again; Starbucks NFT program ending; Glassdoor adds real names to accounts without consent; AI news round-up; Stability AI wobbles; cyberflasher conviction; Russia warns of potential SpaceX strikes; data broker bar, sort of; happiness rankings, the kids aren't alright; Better Call Saul; the Acolyte; the juice is loose; the Regime; music revenue has grown (along with prices); Poe; Reddit ...

640: A Minute of Silence

March 15, 2024 18:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB

11 years & nothing's changed; IG impersonators & weird animal video creepiness; Apple restores Epic, for now; TikTok ban bill passes House but will most likely die in Senate; X usage declines, launching video app, Elon cancels Don Lemon show because he's a little beyatch; running out of power; AI Marilyn Monroe; NeMo, Devin & Gemini - one Poe to rule them all; bypassing AI guardrails; more bad Tesla news; Bluesky outsourcing - and charging - for moderation; Schmactors; Somebody Feed...

639: TikTok MotherF#C&3R!

March 09, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 78.2 MB

Cybertruck vs. sign; the UK loves short weeks; US wants TikTok ban while TikTok frets; Meta's support sucks; Apple fined $2B; Musk sues OpenAI; Klarna's AI job fears; Twitter execs sue Musk; NFTs seek meaning; Bitcoin's inflation-adjusted; flop—science nixes sun dimming; Netflix drops 'The Brothers Sun'; 'Crime Scene Kitchen' cooks on; Tech toys abound, and books offer escape; Cyber threats grow; FCC fights shady doorbells; AI spooks; and TikTok's conspiracies rise. Sponsors: 1Pas...

638: Dave’s Lumber Yard

March 02, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MB

AI's unintended consequences; chat bots; pink slips in podcasting, Playstation, Electronic Arts & Fisker; Tesla racism class action lawsuit; Apple pivots away from an electric car; TikTok's tussle with Universal Music continues, but UMG is just fine; call me on X; Bitcoin up, crashes Coinbase; OpenAI probe; Gemini woke prompt re-writing; Facebook News tab going away; Glasgow's sad Ooompa Loompa; where's the surge priced beef; Constellation; Neuromancer; The Crow Flies Again; Naked G...

637: Outragery!

February 24, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MB

Let's game the system; Rivian layoffs; Air Canada's chatbot lied; Twitter didn't violate data security because they ignored Musk orders; Science Corner: smartwatches & rings don't measure blood sugar, AMOC collapsing, Taylor Swift's planes could use new paint, red light improves eyesight; we're back on the moon; ChatGPT goes temporarily insane; Pentagon testing LLMs; the Bad Batch; Last Week Tonight on YouTube to be delayed; Amazon shutting down Freevee wait no they aren't; FuboTV a...

636: Verified Terrorists

February 17, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

Layoffs at Paramount, Instacart & Mozilla; Musk must testify in SEC investigation of Twitter takeover; Tesla driver not sure if he killed pedestrians because he was on autopilot; crowd burns Waymo car; 23andMe selling DNA data; Amazon Prime Video pulls Dolby Vision, Atmos on ad-supported plan; queer.af shut down by Taliban; X blue checks sold to literal terrorists; Past Lives; We Are the World; Jacqueline Novak; Somebody Feed Feel; Star Trek Disco; Downtown Abbey; AMC fined for 1988...

635: Optical Vortex

February 10, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.5 MB

Science should be taken seriously; Read Write Own; layoffs at Snap, Microsoft, Grammarly & Warner Music Group; Americans going back into credit card debt; Amazon new AWS charge; Google's confusing Gemini AI plans; AI robocalls outlawed; META's confusing AI approach & continued useless Oversight Board; Moviepass shenanigans; Taylor Swift's private jet tracked; Optical Vortex to correct vision; Poor Things; Leave the World Behind; Moana 2; Apple Vision Pro reviews; Bluesky open to eve...

634: How the Sausage is Sequenced

February 03, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB

AI Carlin was people; FTX not coming back; Neuralink implants a human; Yaccarino invents a new company; Senate hearing on online child exploitation; Universal pulls its music from TikTok; music piracy is back; Comcast forced to drop misleading 10G Network claim; 23andMe almost worthless now; FCC takes on AI-generated robocalls; Musk's bad week, Tesla sued, Musk loses case, voted most overrated CEO, SpaceX sued; Monarch: Legacy of Monsters; Eugene Levy; SiriusXM vastly overpays for S...

633: Brie Break

January 27, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB

Ello, Goodbye; Layoffs at eBay, Alphabet, Microsoft & TikTok; more doomed crypto firms; sneaking porn onto Wikimedia & Instagram; France fines Amazon over employee tracking accuracy; facial recognition leads to wrongful jailing; Meta Oversight Board remains useless; cool medical science; EVs need new tires shockingly often; Lift; Death and other Details; the Brothers Sun; Ultraviolet; Jon Stewart back to the Daily Show; more Apple+ sci-fi; Masters of the Air flies; Netflix kills low...

632: Stuck in Porn Mode

January 20, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 78.5 MB

Google search results really are getting worse; Artifact shutting down; more Google layoffs, even more coming; Uber shuts down Drizzly; Sandberg leans out of Meta; Zack's general intelligence; OpenAI a-ok with military & warfare; drone attack prep; Bluey; the Brothers Sun; Bear; She-Hulk; Fargo; Weird: the Al Yankovic Story; Carlin AI special; Rick Rubin; What Next: TBD; BBEdit; Vienna RSS; Permute; Apple overtakes Samsung; AI binoculars; self-checkout nightmare; Wordpress; Greg Bea...

631: Zamboni Sunsets

January 13, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB

We're back; class-action lawsuits; Hertz ditching TVs; SEC approves Bitcoin ETFs but does not endorse Bitcoin; ChatGPT store, auto implementations; a pink-slip tsunami: Unity, NASA, Duolingo, Amazon, Audible, Twitch, Pixar, Humane, Google, oh my; Happiest Season; Family Switch; Barbie; Trevor Noah; Dave Chappelle; the Killer; Mission Impossible; food documentaries; the Traitors; Reacher; Monarch: Legacy of Monsters; upcoming shows; Audacity files for bankruptcy; Tom Lehrer; Squaresa...

630: Roast Beast

December 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MB

Last show of the year; YouTube jail; Google; Blue Origin; AI bubbles; dealing with Musk; Hue pink slips; brain-scale supercomputers; more tech fraud; X under EU investigation; Teslas crash most; Adobe Figma deal off; Hyperloop One done; AI dataset riddled with CSAM; Bird goes bankrupt; stop planting trees; Kang verdict; potential Discovery/Paramount merger; the Family Plan; Monarch; Reacher; Slow Horses; Bookie; The Crown; French streaming music tax; Apple Watch sales halted, sorta;...

629: Throbbing Rocket

December 15, 2023 23:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MB

Pink slips and "challenging environments" at Hasbro, Etsy, Cruise & Twit; San Fran tech CEO slave contract; Epic will case vs Google; Meta fact-checking plan for Threads; Starlink loses out on subsidies; Microsoft plays nice with unions; Tesla's Swedish Trash Metal, recalls over Autopilot software, Cybertruck; SpaceX & Blue Origin; communing with the whales; more Traitors; Slow Horses; Sliced Bread; streaming consolidation & confusion; Netflix metrics; Murderbot; Apple updates; GM d...

628: Same Day Pink Slip

December 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB

California Forever, EPCOT & Story Living; Cruise threatened by regulators; pink slips flying at Spotify, Tidal, Washington Post, New Yorker & more; Weird Al's Spotify Wrapped message; podcast industry problems; Mint, Google Podcasts shutting down; anti-woke AI Grok is here, what could possibly go wrong; Google launches Gemini, fakes demo; Amazon sued over "guaranteed delivery"; Star Trek: Discovery back for final season; Foundation season 3; Disney+ Hulu integration begins; Titans; ...

627: Lords and Peasants

December 02, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 80.4 MB

Unsubscribe season; Unwrapped & unpaid; Q-bot; META's all for the kids; stealing page views with AI; the coming change in the web; Boring; Ronaldo NFT lawsuit; pink slip season appetizers; DevTernity female cos-play; death at Amazon; Moscow's criminal wanted list adds Andy Stone; locked out of Google; as the TwiX turns; Mr. Free Speech; The Crown; Welcome to Wrexham; Doctor Who; Squid Game Challenge; Milli Vanilli; AI video goes Giffy; no-BS games; Jason beats Auphonic; IKEA's smart...

626: Slammer Cast

November 25, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

While we were away; Thanksgiving gratitude bombs; OpenAI's overworked HR department; Meta disbands Responsible AI team; Truth Social hemorrhaging money; no idea how many people Cruise have hit; JenniCam & Justin.tv; Binance money laundering; Jason vs CZ; YouTube adblocking causing "suboptimal viewing experiences"; Amazon's AI Olympus; Loki finale; lawmakers stepping into media; the Traitors around the world; Pigeon Tunnel; Slow Horses; anime; mildly buzzed on a plane movie reviews; ...

625: If I Only Had a Brain

November 11, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MB

Adventures in Covid; Bored Ape NFT event causes severe eye-burn; WeWork files for bankruptcy; Microsoft watermarks for deepfakes; Cruise's robotaxis even worse than previously reported; OpenAI's expanding; Google generative AI ads; bros on a boat; AI bot engages in insider trading, lying about it; Loki, the Marvels & superhero fatigue; SAG-AFTRA strike ends; Musk biopic; streaming media accounting; Marianne Faithfull; Star Trek escape room; the Traitors; YouTube ad-blocking; Humane ...

624: Captain Executive Order

November 04, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 70 MB

Tesla off the hook; bees; SBF guilty on all counts; White House AI EO; META mostly ad-free plan;, toothless oversight board; WeWork nears bankruptcy; more X shenanigan; Bezos has been a naughty boy; Google .ing a th.ing; Loki; finales for Lower Decks, Gen V & Billions; the Traitors; World Series drones; Highlander reboot; Disney buys all of Hulu; loyal Max subscribers get less for more; Apple Journal; Microsoft Copilot; YouTube cracking down on ad blockers; Obsidian; Scalzi's Interd...

623: Super Spanx!

October 28, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MB

Our AI Super Hero, Cyber Sentinel, is joined by Tech Guardian & DataWraith; Happy Xiversary, everything Elon has broke in one year; SBF talking himself into jail; California suspends Cruise; robotaxi pushback increases; Uber driverless Waymo in Phoenix; AI & machine learning, again; poison pill for AI art generators; social media lawsuits; EVs & hybrids; Daniel Ek's Spotify whining, new royalty models; Get Gotti; Beckham & Messi; Loki; HQ Trivia doc; Apple workarounds; Urban Outfitt...

622: Never Fear, Cyber Sentinel is Here!

October 21, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MB

Cancelling everything; Crypto-Winkle-Ferraris; we've gone 10G; leaving X/Twitter has zero impact on traffic; X starts to charge new users; TikTok's plans for misinformation; too much social media for teens; AI assisted lawyers; No Fakes Act; more tech layoffs; John Oliver & Bill Maher; Jon Stewart; Gen V; Loki; Beckham; Myspace & tech docs; Frasier; Upload; Doctor Who; Billions; Lupin; Spotify artist merch; british podcasts; Meta glassholes; 3d Printers; Apple pencils; more live mus...

621: Cryptomucil

October 14, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MB

The band's getting bigger; Microsoft closes Activision deal; sobriety & London boozers; misinformation everywhere, but X in particular; SBF/FTX trial recap; 23andMe data for sale after being scraped; Amazon launches Project Kuiper satellites; coin flips aren't 50/50; Weird Al is a national treasure; Gen V; Loki; 3 seashells; british TV; the Flash; Indiana Jones; Blackberry; Danny Elfman, Tim Burton & the Royal Albert Hall; the Night Agent; For All Mankind; Unity CEO steps down; gene...

620: Hello Sluts!

September 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MB

Authentic pub experiences; Yaccarino's bad X week; Amazon monopoly lawsuit; FTC challenging Microsoft's Activision bid, again; H&R Block, Meta & Google slapped with RICO lawsuit; Epic Games layoffs, sells Bandcamp; Meta ignored Metaverse for AI, no one wants their insane visions; California governor Newsom vs Teamsters; US electrical grid in trouble; human radiologists still better than AI; Pudgy Penguins & NFT stories; torrents are 20 years old; Getty goes AI; WGA strike ends; Tind...

619: Monkey Gone to Heaven

September 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

Booting down; Unity, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Hudson & Bill Maher have heard you & have been listening; so much water; Tesla class action; Wayne testing robotaxis in LA; TikTok tracking employees, introduces voluntary AI content labels; Google Bard now lets you double check answers by... Googling, settles privacy lawsuit; some of Elon's Neuralink implant monkeys have, indeed, died, but looking for human volunteers, blue checks to blue chips; Good Omens; the Wheel of Time; Amazon Pri...

618: Seal Team Aibo

September 16, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MB

AI using a ton of water; individual efforts just a drop in the bucket; X suing California over disclosure law; TikTok accidentally blocked strike videos, hit with fine over privacy settings for children; oral decongestant on sale for 50 years just doesn't work; Mila & Ashton's bad week, Stoner Cats; Lyft Women+ Connect; Bluesky hits a million Scalzis; manifesting yourself broke; government web design systems; no AI Grammys; Spotify payola; Milli Vanilla; Interview with the Vampire; ...

617: It’s Just Business

September 09, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB

Burning Man; UK wises up about encryption; McPoutine; hello, Ello; ad free Facebook in the EU; META back to office; Grindr loses half staff due to unionization, we mean WFH; NYC regulates Airbnb; Mossberg departs X; facial recognition for stadiums; privacy nightmare cars; how to do business; Spotify financial woes; your pants are lying, perhaps on fire; Moviepass is back, again; Inside Man; Lincoln Lawyer; Winning Time; Wheel of Time; the Witcher; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Roku layoff...

616: Cheech & Chong for President

September 02, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MB

Twitter may not have legs, but Meta finally does; blown Foxconn promises; SEC charges Impact Theory for NFTs; Worldcoin already dying; Cat, I Farted Enterprise for Business; AI regulations summit; META in court in Ireland over disinformation claims in Myanmar; Amazon CEO not cool with remote work anymore; there's a Copyright Claims Board?; Full Self Driving right through a red light, Elon Mode; Wheel of Time; Justified; AMC moving shows to Max; podcasting away loneliness; Levar gets...

615: Cat, I Farted

August 26, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.2 MB

Stick around until the end for a BONUS episode of Boot Up with Jason! If you want to subscribe to the show (yes, you want to), go to BootUp.show! Unfortunate translations; a tech bro reckoning; Nvidia makes bank, carbon emissions; NFT & crypto collapses; jail vegan diets; if you're gonna launder, launder big; food delivery is tanking; the Feds tried to get what the Chinese do with TikTok; Gizmodo's killer headlines; Code Llama, rusted; The Peripheral canceled, Frasier returns; Dune...

614: Put Me In Coach

August 19, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

Humans are horrible; robotaxis; Trump, X, DMs, set visibility to screwed; OpenAI lawsuits might wipe ChatGPT clean; Snapchat's AI glitches; using AI to ban books; new tools borks images for AI - for now; bots better at beating CAPTCHAs than humans; NFT lawsuits; those smart contracts are meaningless; Elon throttling links he doesn't like; scientists fleeing X; AppleTV+; streaming costs more than cable; people watching less TV; Strange New Worlds & Good Omens; Billions; Painkiller & ...

613: Dirty Laundry

August 12, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 60 MB

Crypto Scammers & NFT Developers; superconductors & nuclear fusion; PayPal's crypto coin; opting out of TikTok's secret sauce; X sensitivity settings; Zoom wants people back in, not on Zoom, except for the rest of the world; blocking OpenAI's crawler; Lyft, robotaxis; supermodels & Instagram, oh my; Jason is Bourne; Good Omens, Star Trek cliffhangers; Tetris; Disney+ prices rising; Google, record label deepfakes; Callsheet; Flash games; JustWatch; Charles Stross Singularity Sky, Sea...

612: TwiX are for Kids

August 05, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MB

Threads is Twitter; Twitter is TwiX; Instagram preparing AI labels; META begins Canadian news blackout; NFT sales continue to decline; China considers more limits on kid's smartphone usage; Worldcoin offers up their digital ID service, no one wants it; Uber fatal self-driving case, turns profit for the first time ever; what Bores in Vegas; NASA loses contact with Voyager 2; Star Trek sings; Loki 2; Foundation Season 2 is horrific; Good Omens; 65; Shazam; Guardians of the Galaxy; Tee...

611: The Everything Episode

July 29, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MB

The X-files; everything is becoming an everything app; Spotify grew a lot, still losing money; Meta doing great, still sinking money into the metaverse no one wants; AI companies pay lip service to White House about safety & ethics; Tesla under investigation, again; Wayne gives us self-driving trucks for taxis; Meta, Microsoft & Amazon release open map dataset; Musk lies, a lot; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; Boys spin-off Gen V; Good Omens Season 2; Justified: City Primeval; Thread...

610: And You Get a Tent!

July 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

NFT bros are sad no one cares; Russia bans state officials from using Apple devices; Tesla directors overpaid themselves; Full Service Driving, which doesn't work, will be licensed to other automakers; military email problems; Instagram not liable for copyright infringement; Threads sees a downturn in usage; Inside Man; Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves; Women's World Cup; Netflix sees big subscriber bump due to password crackdown; streaming prices rising; Reddit deleted pre-2...

609: Freshly Wrong

July 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MB

xAI seeks to understand the nature of the universe; Twitter shenanigans continue; AI risks; FTC investigating ChatGPT; ye olde craftliee understandinge; EU decides USA has comparable privacy protections, because they are high; superalignment!; AI is still people, working hard for no money; Google medical AI being tested; US military wants to play a game; Sarah Silverman & others suing OpenAI & Meta over copyright infringement; Strange New Worlds; Silo; Hijack; Vapourspace; Black Mir...

608: The Way of the Grift

July 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB

Hello, summer; disinformation professor falsifies own data; AI is eating itself, recursion & model collapse looming; scammers, liars, grifters prosper; mandated return to office not working out great; Amazon's robot revolution; Congress limits AI usage; Vatican releases AI Ethics Handbook; Google violates its ad deal standards; Youtube disabling videos for ad-blocker use; Zoox!; IRL lied their asses off about users, still got $170 million from SoftBank; Aspartame & warm Mountain Dew...

607: Pagers and Paperbacks

June 24, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MB

We don't hate technology, we just hate how it's being implemented; Spotify grifters; car rental companies ruining EVs; Elon vs Zuck; Facebook blows uo their backyard for publishers; no news for you, Canada; the Reddit mess continues; Biden admin announces grants for rural internet; FCC looking at data caps; we long for life pre-internet; Lords of Uncreation; Grammerly; Google Lens; Midjourney; Felicia Michaels on WTF; 3 Body Problem trailer drops; Black Mirror; Star Trek; Silo; the ...

606: Peppa Swisher

June 17, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MB

Online mattresses; Holmes claims broke; Google class action lawsuit; Coinbase whines like a 4 year old; Reddit's kerfuffle; Spotify GDPR fine; Tesla's Autopilot & Mercedes adds ChatGPT; AI making lonely, sleepless alcoholics; Twitter won't pay the damn rent; food delivery wages upped as are layoffs; disappointment as a service; MGM casino changes photo policy, for now; the Idol; Crime Scene Kitchen; Black Mirror; Strange New Worlds; Quantumania; Foundation; Netflix sign ups increase...

605: The Golden Turd

June 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB

AI carpetbaggers; crypto bros all pivoting to AI; Meta putting AI everywhere; Salesforce will donate to charity if you come back to the office; Binance, Coinbase sued by the SEC; Microsoft UI issue causing problems with COPPA; Twitter ad sales plummet; Meta has a Twitter clone; Instagram's pedo problem; OpenAI sued for libel; Waymo kills a dog; Edinburgh's Golden Turd; Daniel Sloss; Mrs. Maisel wraps it up; Good Omens 2; Spotify cut staff in podcast pivot; Silo; Freshbooks goes stal...

604: Systematic Ambivalence

June 03, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 66 MB

Facebook generation wants boundaries; doom scrolling & devices are messing with us; AI boom running out of chips; AI is both an object of ridicule & presents risk of extinction - just like eggs; moral outsourcing in big tech; Kurzweil still truckin' along; Tesla leak reveals thousands of Autopilot safety complaints; that ChatGPT lawyer; Succession, Barry, Ted Lasso & Mrs. Maisel end; Good Omens is coming; Will Trent; future of baseball on TV; Dear Mama; a few good podcasts; Bluesky ...

603: Self-Driving Human

May 27, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MB

AI CEOs say AI poses existential threat, plow forward anyway; Meta fined for violating EU data privacy; Twitter #DeSaster; Lorem Epsom NoNummy Amazon snacks; can't get Twitter to work guy OK'd to put chips in your brain; DoorDash lawsuit; deleted tweets randomly restored; Soundcloud layoffs; AI exposing investor's natural stupidity; Succession; Ted Lasso; Mrs. Maisel; Young Jedi Adventures; Silo; AI mail, Photoshop generative fill; self-promo & marketing discussion; World Walker Boo...

602: Urban Doom Loop

May 20, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MB

Theranos is the New Black; Section 230 upheld; UBI to combat AI; Montana bans TikTok; EU approves Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard; another Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving tech; Personal Voice; online brands opening actual shops; return to office & urban doom loop fears; car CEO wants you to go back to commuting; semiconductor workforce education ramp up; the Diplomat; Silo; Finch; YouTube ripping; Doctor Who 60th Anniversary; Fyre Fest 2.0; SoundSource; B...

601: How Does Work Work?

May 13, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

RIP, Metaverse; nobody knows how LLMs work; CEOs that don't go into offices want you to go in; ChatGPT is low-paid people; sure, let's let AI generate mRNA vaccines; OURA acquires Proxy, but not science; MTV News shuttered; writer's strike; Spotify removes tons of AI generated songs; Google text-to-music in beta; Tucker turns to Twitter; the Diplomat; Slow Horses; Silo; Ted Lasso; Succession; Barry; the Muppets Mayhem; Bupkus; Beetlejuiice 2; Foundation: here be dragons?; Good Omens...

600: Technically Sweet

May 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB

AI doesn't exist but may be dangerous anyway; self-destruct buttons are important for rockets; Kamala Harris & Snoop Dogg weigh in on AI; IBM pauses hiring, looking to onboard AI; Marissa Mayer takes another whack; open-sourced AI is where the real dangers are; Lyft is lost, no exit in sight; Google layoffs, cuts in perks but one hell of a CEO payout; Facebook furious they can't exploit youth data; Dune Part 2; Paramount+ doing well; RIP, Says You; NPR podcasts; Succession; Ted Lass...

599: Osaka

April 29, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

Spin the wheel of Invictus; more tech layoffs; ChatGPT's staggering daily cost; it's not your data; AI-generated political ads are here; Spotify CEO unsure about AI progress; Elon's The #26a7de Letter; SpaceX rocket goes really big boom, causing serious damage; Grimes wants to kill copyright, no, wait, hold on a second; Sean Connery on Zeist; Super Mario Bros; Succession; Ted Lasso; Ghosted; Brian Cox villains; Apple's kiss of death, journaling app, AI health coach; Farrago 2; LoopB...

598: Universal Loser Income

April 22, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MB

Spam calls are back; we're done with Twitter; human or not?; Buzzfeed News shuttered; TruthGPT; the race to AI without pausing for thought; Niantic shutters web3 project, no Pokemon NFTs; purgatory with perks; Facebook settlement; paying kids to get outside; Picard, Mandalorian finales; rebooting all the IPs - Galaxy Quest, Twilight, Harry Potter, X-Files; Barry; AI-generated music flooding platforms; Sega acquires Rovio; Instagram kills Linktree; Steve Jobs, Make Something Wonderfu...

597: Annoyingly Well-Informed

April 15, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Pre...

596: Me Want Cookie!

April 08, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB

AI disruption, the circle of life; prompt engineering; AIQL; Tesla workers sharing sensitive customer images; Twitter blue ticks still around, except for organizations Elon doesn't like; SpaceX Starlink satellites "deorbiting"; Midjourney bans Jinping images; Google's Bard spins conspiracies; TikTok fined; Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy; Meta cuts more jobs; Roku picking up properties; Picard; Succession; You're Dead to Me; Shirley Manson; World's Greatest Con; Zane Lamprey; Luck...

595: Tree Or Not?

April 01, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 73.7 MB

Dad tech jokes; influencer grift & bamboozle brokers; ChatGPT oversight; returning to the office, hybrid models; Twitter source code leaked; poor William Shatner; Microsoft baking AI into next Windows, slips ads into Bing Chat; Google's Tree or Not AI; science creates new paint; that AI open letter; Disney ditches the Metaverse; Binance charged; Google violates order to save chats; the Menu; Bert Kreischer; Picard; the Bad Batch; Shrinking; Ted Lasso; new Star Trek shows; new music ...

Guests

Sean Bonner
2 Episodes
Tim Ferriss
2 Episodes
Edward Snowden
1 Episode
Felicia Michaels
1 Episode
Jordan Harbinger
1 Episode
Mike Malinin
1 Episode
Scott Beale
1 Episode
Shane Nickerson
1 Episode

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