Grumpy Old Geeks
We 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 Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 716
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
594: Underfinancialization
SVB & tech's transformation from innovation to financialization; Elon being Elon; SEC sues celebs for endorsing crypto; TikTok bans are complicated; it's all about the privacy rights, stupid; not eve…
01:16:03 |
Sat 25 Mar 2023
593: This Is the Way
Back in the USA; a golden age of misinformation; podcast bros; the sky is blue & FIFA is corrupt; it's tough to be an AI ethicist; more Meta layoffs, pivoting away from the meta verse; NFTs taking th…
01:16:14 |
Sat 18 Mar 2023
592: Ok, Doomer!
AI, Climate Doomerism & SolarPunks, oh my; GPT-4 is coming; don't plan your abortion on social media; Sam Bankman-Fried gets a flip-phone; Elon Musk, worst human of 2023; Tesla wheels coming off; res…
01:06:11 |
Sat 11 Mar 2023
591: Universal Basic Ignorance
Prompt engineers; the hopes of generative AI; Universal Basic AI, at least for the privileged; FTX consequences coming in; AI images not copyrightable in the US; deepfake & AI hacks; more Twitter lay…
00:47:46 |
Sat 04 Mar 2023
590: A Zucker Born Every Minute
CoinEx ex-USA; ChatGPT sendsyi Microsoft off the rails; AI beer; Section 230 & the Supreme Court; Tencent bails on the met averse; Temu; Amazon's hybrid work plan, One Medical rollout; Apple working …
01:25:57 |
Sat 25 Feb 2023
589: Goebbels in the Machine
Elon's rampaging ego is ruining Twitter; AI isn't ready for prime time, gets rolled out anyway, with predictable results; what's bouncing around in Microsoft's neural networks that keeps making racis…
01:01:25 |
Sat 18 Feb 2023
588: KnightGPT
ChatGPT+ & AI Powered Bing; more pink slips at Dell, Zoom, Disney & Yahoo; WB to keep Discovery+ stand-alone option; Amazon only hiring students & recent grads for entry-level positions; Twitter flou…
01:01:34 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
587: Our Inevitable Doom
100% Efficiency; PayPal layoffs; Microsoft & ChatGPT Plus; Spotify increases premium subscribers, loses more money; Tesla bitcoin loss; pushback against self-driving cars; Amazon shutting down grocer…
00:59:38 |
Sat 04 Feb 2023
586: GOGPT
ChatGPT is everywhere: destroyer of worlds, or modern convenient pocket calculator; Section 230 ruling coming; gravity batteries & Tesla factories; Spotify, Vox Media layoffs; TikTok, Twitter gaming …
01:09:55 |
Sat 28 Jan 2023
585: Certified Human
Student creates app to spot AI essays; Alphabet cuts 6% of workforce; Twitter ends 3rd-party developer access; Musk faces big bill; Tesla engineer testifies video was faked; Amazon hates charity, CNE…
01:09:40 |
Sun 22 Jan 2023
584: AI-Powered Unemployment
Adobe Podcasts taking jobs; The end of grunt work; Prompt writers and fact checkers; Mansplaining as a Service; Masters of Melancholy; The death of film; ChatGPT for malware and phishing; Cheap cops …
00:51:46 |
Sun 15 Jan 2023
583: Neurodivergent Fool
2023, here we go; more talk, less social media - except for sharing reels; Twitter scrolling but no interactions; Elon Musk turns squatter; fines for Meta, Coinbase, Apple & Grubhub; Tesla violating …
01:09:40 |
Sun 08 Jan 2023
582: Kind Of
We briefly focus on some hopeful technology breakthrough news, before returning to our bread & butter; we have achieved fusion, kind of; wind from another planet; AI revolution, Kurzweil & baby steps…
01:14:50 |
Sat 17 Dec 2022
581: Kany.A.I.
We're back, but less social; no death robots; Twitter's downward spiral; sure, this kills primates but let's trial Neuralink on people; NFTs decline, go to museums; collateral FTX damage; Meta fined …
01:24:51 |
Sat 10 Dec 2022
580: #DystopiYAY!
Claritin to the rescue; Jack wasn't all that great; Trump is back, no he's not; celebrities leaving Twitter, questioning social media; Scrooge McMusk not paying contractors, charities; Sam-Bankman-Fr…
01:01:34 |
Sat 26 Nov 2022
579: Something Elon This Way Comes
Breaking news on Twitter, Twitter is breaking; it's World Cup time; Black Friday spam; Coachella VIP NFT's go poof; outdated Twitter news - move fast, break things; FTX & celebs being sued; Amazon la…
01:08:18 |
Sat 19 Nov 2022
578: The Psychosis of Billionaires
Moving to Mastodon; doom scrolling & would you really miss social media; Boot Up shanghai'd; lingering COVID societal effects; Twitter's insane week continues - a masterclass is what not to do; Tesla…
01:08:13 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
577: Self Driving Twitter
A two-factor pain; Jason hops on Brian's soapbox; the self-driving Twitter crash; Meta ditches human-curated newsfeed; verification has always been a joke, but this is really hilarious; Amazon pauses…
01:19:27 |
Sat 05 Nov 2022
576: It’s a Meat Problem
Elon is in the Birdhouse; is social media on the way out; we were right about Kanye & self-driving cars; smiles are the new eggs; Ford pivots to data mining; Shutterstock embraces AI-generated art; A…
01:36:22 |
Sat 29 Oct 2022
575: Regretted Attrition
Automated-tech vehicle deaths; Twitter tumbles as Musk deals reviewed; Amazon's bad news week - unions, attrition costs & lawsuits; Bird migrating out of markets; in Uber ads are coming; Microsoft la…
00:48:14 |
Sat 22 Oct 2022
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