Grumpy Old Geeks

Epizode

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  762: ‘Tis But a Misalignment 10.09.2026 1h 21min

  AI agents go rogue while companies call it “misalignment”; autonomous cars discover federal regulators; surveillance gets a much-needed reality check; AI medicine offers a glimmer of hope; Twitter becomes Tweet.app; Star Trek turns 60; and the Geeks discover that apparently the future is just one long software beta test.
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  761: Whatever... 03.09.2026 1h 19min

  AI gets sued, the Pentagon gets sued, Tesla keeps finding new ways to make driving terrifying, and Sony would like to remind you that you never actually owned that game; meanwhile, the new Twitter rises from the grave and Siri apparently takes the scenic route.
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  760: Level 5 Podcasting Accident 27.08.2026 1h 6min

  AI agents commit crimes, corporations get billion-dollar reality checks, data centers threaten to become everyone's problem, Tesla makes doors complicated, LinkedIn fights AI slop, plus books, movies, cybersecurity, retro gaming, and enough tech absurdity to remind us why we keep showing up.
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  759: Seeking Mrs. Claude 20.08.2026 1h 27min

  Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning; OpenAI reportedly downsizes its preparedness operation while Congress lets AI write legislation; Amazon scans books, Comcast scans your house, and tech keeps finding ingenious new ways to make Gen X yell "I told you so.”
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  758: Perverts at Large! 13.08.2026 1h 13min

  Zuck says the future of AI depends on trusting humans, while his yacht ignores a distress call, AI agents hack gym reservations, Meta's smart glasses become surveillance goggles for creeps & OpenAI goes ethicist-free. Tech: making everything worse, faster.
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  757: This Time With Chicks 30.07.2026 1h 26min

  The AI industry spent the week arguing with itself. Nvidia says "don't regulate us." AI researchers say "please regulate us." Uber, Patreon & BuzzFeed cut jobs, China rents faces to AI, eBay pays $56M for a pig mask harassment campaign & Elon is selling more tunnels. New Grumpy Old Geeks is out now.
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  756: Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass 23.07.2026 1h 23min

  The AI clown car is back: pirated books, escaped models, chatbot girlfriends, mood-tracking patents, getting banned from the dugouts and a school buying a classroom robot from the company behind RealDolls. New Grumpy Old Geeks is out now.
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  755: Less Chatty Mode 16.07.2026 1h 12min

  AI companies keep proving that trust is optional but hype is mandatory; Big Tech spends another week suing, spying, and stumbling over its own ambitions; meanwhile the real world quietly reminds us that humans, books, movies, and functioning infrastructure are still worth appreciating.
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  The Darkside with Dave's Not Very Christmas Special Special 13.07.2026 26min

  We finally get to reconnect with Dave Bittner for a fun catch up and chit chat about this summer's big movies. Brian's kid discovers all of the Star Wars all at once.
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  754: Frankly Asinine Questions 09.07.2026 1h 2min

  AI keeps getting weirder, Meta keeps getting creepier, Waymos keep getting stuck, and somehow Gen X turned out to be America's critical infrastructure. It's another week in tech dystopia, and the Grumpy Old Geeks have thoughts... and questions.
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  753: No-Talent AI Clowns 02.07.2026 1h 7min

  The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. AI-powered hackers, Ford rehiring the engineers it tried to replace, Tesla settling another FSD lawsuit, robot strikes, satellite overload, Oracle waves red flags & the AI bubble springing leaks everywhere. COMPUTE!
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  752: Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla 25.06.2026 1h 5min

  AI companies are learning that rented platforms, runaway costs, and public backlash have consequences; Meta keeps proving surveillance is a product strategy; self-driving vehicles remain aggressively self-driving; billionaires continue chasing public money, and the goats from Age of Empires II may be making the strongest argument against AI hype.
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  751: Brewster’s Trillions 18.06.2026 1h 8min

  AI keeps embarrassing its biggest boosters; CEOs are learning to hide their automation fantasies; platform dependency remains a terrible business strategy; governments and corporations continue finding new ways to concentrate power; and somehow the most optimistic technology story this week is a flip phone that refuses to let you use social media.
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  750: Douchebag Ping Pong 11.06.2026 57min

  OpenAI wants Wall Street money; Anthropic wants everyone to slow down; Elon wants AI servers in space; crypto grifters want pardons; Meta wants your face; Apple accidentally made a good app; and somehow the lawyers were the dumbest AI users of the week.
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  749: Surge Bananas 05.06.2026 1h 16min

  AI companies get sued, tracked, hacked, funded, and IPO'd; governments keep trying to ban kids from screens; Tesla rewrites history while BYD bets money on the future; and somehow the safest place this week is watching soccer and listening to old music.
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  748: Space Bone 29.05.2026 58min

  Self-driving cars drown themselves; AI keeps getting dumber while executives keep firing humans anyway; surveillance capitalism mutates into full sci-fi horror; Jony Ive redesigns Ferrari into an Apple Store accessory; and somehow the Pope ends up sounding like the only sane person left.
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  747: Why We Sigh 22.05.2026 1h 22min

  Social media panic; AI backlash; Musk chaos; robotaxi disasters; crypto collapse; fake-content infestations; Star Wars exhaustion; surveillance capitalism and Gen-Xers desperately trying to back up their hard drives before civilization blue-screens.
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  746: Reality is Frequently Inaccurate 15.05.2026 1h 19min

  Merch plugs; billionaire AI stupidity; methane-powered robot futures; scammy crypto ghosts; flood-seeking robotaxis; AI morality fanfic; poop surveillance capitalism; Wordle becoming network television; Spotify tracking your entire adult life; and Douglas Adams still being missed more than most modern tech CEOs will ever be.
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  745: Unwanted Senior Discount 08.05.2026 1h 8min

  Amnesty warns people about visiting America for the World Cup; AI continues speedrunning societal collapse through podcasts, surveillance, fake therapists, layoffs, and murder-planning chatbots; GameStop tries to buy eBay; smart glasses become extortion tools; Ask Jeeves dies; Pornhub comes back; and Dave contemplates robotic C-3PO heads, mechanical keyboards, and furries.
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  744: Goblin Mode 01.05.2026 1h 23min

  The child social media ban industrial complex expands to Canada while Utah breaks the internet trying to enforce it; a US soldier got arrested for Polymarket insider trading on the Maduro capture; Google sold out to the Pentagon; Sam Altman apologized for a mass shooting, lied about Bruno Mars, and his AI got caught talking about goblins; the Dead Internet is 17% real; Strange New Worlds and Ted Lasso are both coming back; Jack Dorsey beat Elon to the Vine reboot; and Disney, Star Wars, Super Dave, Martin Short and baseball with Dave.