405: A Graveyard of Good Ideas
Grumpy Old Geeks11 Jan 2020

405: A Graveyard of Good Ideas

Facebook holds tight on political ads, places ad in Teen Vogue; CollegeHumor decimated; Lime trying to be profitable by shrinking; Uber changes in California; GrubHub for sale; AI trash; military app bans; Ring employees fired for watching videos; Delta Minority Report; red light cameras; Christmas apps & doodads; ball pits; forcing a smile makes you drink; calling bullshit.

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676: Gay Nuclear Frogs

676: Gay Nuclear Frogs

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675: A Thanksgiving Blast from the Past with Tim Ferriss

675: A Thanksgiving Blast from the Past with Tim Ferriss

Welcome to our Thanksgiving Weekend Blast from the Past! This is a cleaned-up replay of our very first Thanksgiving with Tim Ferriss. We hope you enjoy and we’ll be back next week in all of our Grumpy...

30 Nov 20241h 7min

675: Your Own Personal Jesus

675: Your Own Personal Jesus

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we dive into the wild, wacky, and often worrying world of tech, media, and everything in between. From a Swiss church using AI to preach the gospel to OpenAI facin...

23 Nov 20241h 19min

674: Welcome to DOGE! The Department of Grumpy Entertainment

674: Welcome to DOGE! The Department of Grumpy Entertainment

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we break down the latest chaos in tech, pop culture, and humanity’s never-ending quest to out-stupid itself. Hackers are raiding Ticketmaster accounts (again), and...

16 Nov 20241h 19min

673: Copyright Win for OpenAI, Internet Shock for North Koreans, and much more...

673: Copyright Win for OpenAI, Internet Shock for North Koreans, and much more...

Just Some of the Topics Covered in this Episode:Copyright Lawsuit Dismissal: A federal judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, filed by news outlets claiming misuse of their content in AI ...

9 Nov 20241h 9min

672: Elon or Not?

672: Elon or Not?

Cash App class action; Tesla camera-based FSD questioned; Trump Media stock swings; standing desks are the new eggs; Dropbox layoffs; OpenAI Whisper invents parts of transcriptions, frequently; ChatGP...

2 Nov 20241h 12min

671: Lorum Ipsum Is My Sister

671: Lorum Ipsum Is My Sister

San Fran embracing self-driving cars; not-Bitcoin creator in hiding; i h8 ai; anti-AI artist open letter; X updates their policies; more people leave OpenAI; SynthID; 23andMe and your genetic data; no...

26 Okt 20241h 7min

670: Just Buy the Thing!

670: Just Buy the Thing!

More Wordpress & WPEngine shots fired; hate mail; European road organizations reject the Cybertruck; EU fines against X; civil rights commission pans FART (facial recognition technology); FCC looking ...

19 Okt 20241h 11min

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