742: Uncouth Yet Highly Litigious In FOLLOW UP, while countries race to ban kids from social media, Estonia is opting out — its education minister arguing that bans just offload responsibility onto …

Ep 742: Uncouth Yet Highly Litigious

Estonia says social media bans don’t work. Australia proves it. Meanwhile AI gets linked to violence and praises fart music. Meta wants face-scanning glasses. France ditches Windows. Allbirds pivots to AI then faceplants. Don't like it, sue me.

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Ep 741: Moon Joy

Apple scrambles your workouts. AI giants, after stealing your IP, are angry China stole theirs. Mercedes wheels fall off. Amazon kills your Kindle. FBI reads deleted texts. But Artemis astronauts took great Moon pics on their iPhones, so... silver lining? 🎙️

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740: To the Moon! Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, where we're starting to notice a patience epidemic! As people get used to barking orders at their AI, they're starting to talk to other…

Ep 740: To the Moon!

Chatbots are making humans worse at being human, social feeds are AI sludge, “self-driving” cars still need humans (just remotely), Anthropic leaked its own code, Wikipedia banned AI content & robotaxis are trapping passengers. Sure, let’s add AI to everything.

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739: The Thin Black Line Meta fined $375M for child safety failures. Musk lost 3 lawsuits in a week. Sam Altman compared to a Nazi. Netflix raised prices again. The Pentagon can't quit Clau…

Ep 739: The Thin Black Line

Meta fined $375M for child safety failures. Musk lost 3 lawsuits in a week. Sam Altman compared to a Nazi. Netflix raised prices again. The Pentagon can't quit Claude. Reddit wants your face scan. But the thin black line holds! 🎙️

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738: A Sprinkling of Random 13 years of podcasting has taught us nothing; companies are lying about AI layoffs while Meta destroys itself from the inside; Andreessen has zero introspection and…

Ep 738: A Sprinkling of Random

AI-washed layoffs, Meta's slow-motion collapse, Adobe's $75M slap, fake Tom Cruise battles, Dune 3, animated Firefly, AI run amok, psychopathic tech CEOs & we get angry at... well, everything. 13 years of this. You're welcome. 🎙️

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737: Monetizable Content In this week's show we start with FOLLOW UP: The world keeps trying to protect kids online — Indonesia just joined Australia, Spain, and Malaysia in banning social …

Ep 737: Monetizable Content

DOGE stole SSA data on 500M Americans. Pokemon Go secretly built a robot surveillance map. AI is homogenizing human thought. Anthropic sues the Pentagon. The Pentagon is still running Anthropic's AI. That AI may have bombed a school. Everything is beige 🎙️

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Grumpy Old Geeks A few professional Gen X geeks dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Coba…

Ep 736: People Aren't People

This week: Microsoft's Streisand Effect, Meta targeting 5 year olds, nuclear betting markets, AI driving people to suicide & the Moon landing delayed. Again. 4,700 years to go - just another day that ends in Y. 🎙️

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735: We’re Walking on Sunshine Starting off in FOLLOW UP, we’ve got a tax economist who actually made money betting against the "efficiency" of Elon’s budget-slashing fever dreams, while Tesla is…

Ep 735: We're Walking on Sunshine

Tesla dodging verdicts, execs admitting AI boosts nothing & cities smashing surveillance cameras. Reddit fines, Hollywood consolidation, Jack Dorsey cuts staff for more AI, Google’s alerts spit out slurs - we break down the tech mess you need to know

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Grumpy Old Geeks A few professional Gen X geeks dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Coba…

Ep 734: A Bald Woody

AI goes feral, privacy takes a long walk off a short pier, robotaxis crash like it’s their hobby, governments sue everyone, and prediction markets discover a moral line & ignores it. But hey—Muppets, horror shorts, and great synth music. Balance!

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733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground We kick things off in FOLLOW UP with the ongoing "nuclear war" between Automattic and WP Engine, where discovery has revealed Matt Mullenweg’s alleged hit list of c…

Ep 733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground

Feuds, AI burnout, to the Moon Elon, scandals, data leaks, AI weirdness, mass surveillance vibes for puppies, media chaos from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to Severance & Mandalorian toys - our latest episode packs all the tech stupid in.

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732: We’re Not In the Files! In this week’s FOLLOW UP, Bitcoin is down 15%, miners are unplugging rigs because paying eighty-seven grand to mine a sixty-grand coin finally failed the vibes chec…

Ep 732: We're Not In the Files!

Bitcoin tanks, X offices get raided, Spain bans kids from social, Amazon finds CSAM in its training data, and Waymo raises $16B. Plus: drones fooled by road signs, Neil Gaiman news, and Dave vibes with The Muppet Show. New episode out now!

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Grumpy Old Geeks A few professional Gen X geeks dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Coba…

Ep 731: I Want My 13 Trillion Dollars!

EU vs. Grok, Tesla kills the S/X, mass tech layoffs, Waymo in trouble, South Korea’s AI mess, and record labels suing for $13T. Then: Super Bowl 60, Ted Lasso, Highlander, AirTag 2, new Muppets but no Animal Crackers. Buckle up. 🚀🎙️

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I think about all the sad, depressing, angry, boot stomping, screaming into the void music that was created & I absolutely loved in the 80's/90's while trying to process the last few years & wonder what the fuck we were all so pissed off about back then. Walk in the park, really.

730: Ethical Broads Ep 730: Ethical Broads PRIVATE We kick off FOLLOW UP with California’s AG sending a cease-and-desist to xAI over Grok generating creepy deepfakes of minors, while r…

Ep 730: Ethical Broads

California tells Grok to stop making deepfake minors, Musk’s Memphis methane datacenter gets busted, the FTC keeps trying to break up Meta & every government on Earth demands your ID. Also, suicide pod CAPTCHAs, dishwashers, bad CGI wargs & cookbook noodles.

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729: Alright Alright Alright™ We kick things off with the existential dread of FOLLOW UP and the absolute joy of jury duty. While xAI’s Grok is busy getting banned in Malaysia and Indonesia for …

Ep 729: Alright Alright Alright (tm)

Grok banned for generating CSAM, Meta nukes half a million accounts, Roblox lets Kurt Cobain into the adult lounge, McConaughey trademarks his face & ICE fast-tracks mall cops. The internet draws a giant phallus. New Trek & streaming price hikes.

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728: No Face to Shoot Welcome back to the digital wasteland, fellow survivors. We kick things off in the FOLLOW UP by marking a year since the LA Fires—hello, PTSD—alongside a 4th Stroki…

Ep 728: No Face to Shoot

A year after the LA fires, we spiral into AI surveillance & protest safety to Meta ads, Disney spying, Grok’s legal black hole, robotaxis at dusk & Tim Cook’s $74M payday. MTV nostalgia, holiday gadgets & tech support nightmares - we cut through the slop.

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Grumpy Old Geeks A few professional Gen X geeks dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Coba…

Ep 727: Merry Slopmas

Hallucinating AI recaps, Tesla’s Autopilot under legal fire, TikTok’s shell game, Reddit fights age bans, iRobot sucks up Chpater 11 and “slop” crowned Word of the Year. Add orbital junk, fake books & sideeye for the holidays.

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I am so fucking sick of this waste of space.

Grumpy Old Geeks A few professional Gen X geeks dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Coba…

Ep 726: Sycophantic and Delusional

Job Hugging is here, OpenAI’s in damage control mode, the AI bubble is overheating the grid, Instagram pricing games, Waymo gives birth & Uber is selling your data. Also: Disney’s AI dreams, EU smackdowns & Jason without coffee. Fyre!

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Ep 725: The Mistake Machine

Spotify Wrapped thinks we’re 82, Palantir thinks war crimes are bad for business & Google’s AI is wiping drives. Netflix buys Batman, Fallout S2, ROMCON, scientists invent the blackest fabric ever & solar flares require a software update for your plane.

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724: Sam Altman’s Boutique After surviving Thanksgiving and the subsequent biting cold, we jumped into the FOLLOW UP with news that Malaysia is joining the trend by taking steps to ban social…

Ep 724: Sam Altman's Boutique

DOGE is dead, Apple and HP blame AI for layoffs, teens are lonely (talking to bots!), rich tech bros pour millions into fighting state AI regulations. Welcome to tech, where nothing is a scam until the money runs out. Also, an ASMR spa? We need a drink.

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Hey internet stop serving me ads for Stranger Things I gave up on that show two seasons ago k thx bye

723: Don’t Want No Samsung We open by tracking our video money and mocking the chef who quit Elon’s "epic" bacon diner, before diving into the IN THE NEWS segment where plummeting crypto and …

From Larry Summers fleeing the OpenAI board to Nvidia tanking, Bitcoin crashing, Grok praising Elon, and a Tesla robotaxi driver asleep at the wheel, yeah, tech is weird. New trailers, open-sourced Zork, broken keyboards, and Björk turning 60. It’s a packed episode!

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722: Does a Podcaster Shit in the Woods? The inevitable decline of civilization takes center stage as the show kicks off with the miserable results of the FACEBOOK SETTLEMENT, confirming Brian's $4.01 payo…

Ep 722: Does a Podcaster Sh*t in the Woods?

On the pod: sports betting ruins baseball, Facebook buys us off for four bucks, teens discover notes, Polaroids, Tesla chaos, Waymo freeway mayhem, OpenAI/Meta face-plant, billionaires designer babies & Joyce Carol Oates roasts Elon alive.

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Oh god yet another life situation in which my freakish near encyclopedic knowledge of 80s and 90s alternative music is of no use whatsoever

721: Pixel Predators This episode proves that nothing gold can stay, especially your 401k, as we kick things off with the revelation that October saw the worst tech layoffs since 2003, …

Ep 721: Pixel Predators

This week we unpack the worst tech layoffs in decades, Burry shorting AI, Elon’s golden dome and flying car delusions, Zuck’s illegal school, and Meta’s sketchy stash... then recover with The Diplomat, Lego Star Trek, and yes, sprouts.

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720: Sad Max Mode This week’s episode started with the usual existential sigh before tumbling straight into the corporate bloodbath. Amazon chopped 14,000 jobs under the noble banner…

Ep 720: Sad Max Mode

Amazon “embraces AI” by axing 14K jobs, Meta torches cash, and Elon invents new ways to break the internet. We unpack the week’s corporate chaos - existential angst and ghost in the machine included. 😮‍💨 👻

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