Grumpy Old Geeks8 Okt 2022

573: Firing On Zero Cylinders

Getting hit by a Tesla at Whole Foods; Deepcake; Elon's wild Twitter week, TeslaBot Prime; Kim K pays up for crypto pump-and-dump; Bitcoin, climate change & personal impact; Coinbase allows buys, unable to cash out for 6 hours; FCC taking robocall database seriously; Love and Thunder; reassessing Sinead; Pose; Deshaun; the Real Bling Ring; Food Network; more Dune coming; Spotify downsizes podcast division; Twitter edit; too big TVs; another drone; Metaverse fashion IRL; Media, HAH; Andor, She-Hulk and short seasons & series; Spotify looking for harmful content; Uber cover-up; Orson Wells, Johnny Carson and the theater of the mind.

Show notes at https://gog.show/573

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FOLLOW UP

Bruce Willis’ Rep Refutes Report That He Sold His Digital Likeness to Deepfake Company

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius

“Are You Going to Liberate Twitter From the Censorship Happy Mob?”

Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share

Musk’s Twitter Deal Has Employees Asking: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

Kim Kardashian will pay $1.26 million to settle SEC charges over a crypto post

Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital gold

Coinbase users were unable to withdraw funds to US bank accounts for six hours

FCC will start kicking voice providers out of its robocall database

MEDIA CANDY

Thor: Love and Thunder

Nothing Compares

A New Movie About One of Our Most Controversial Pop Stars Shows We’ve Still Got a Lot of Reassessing to Do

Pose

The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist

Bobby’s Triple Threat

OutChef’d

Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson to Star as Harkonnen Siblings in Sisterhood of Dune

Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of podcast staff

APPS & DOODADS

Twitter finally starts rolling out the edit button, but US users will have to wait

Amazon Fire TV 75" Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV with Dolby Vision, hands-free with Alexa

DJI Avata

Loewe's Metaverse Fashion Works IRL

SECURITY HAH!

Mandalorian Dark Saber

The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast

Griftonomics

Spotify acquires firm that detects harmful content

Former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan Found Guilty Over Breach Cover-Up

Orson Welles and Johnny Carson discuss the merits of audio content

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Loretta Lynn’s Family Statement and Obituary

Judy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing Comedian, Dies at 72

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