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Grumpy Old Geeks

738: A Sprinkling of Random

Grumpy Old Geeks · Mar 20, 2026 · 1:24:05

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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 it shows; Dune 3 looks incredible; Firefly lives again; one idiot executive staked Buffy; Adobe paid $75M for being evil; your AI passwords are garbage; Dave Bittner is here to make you feel worse about all of it.


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Show notes at https://gog.show/738


Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pykGjOmMs5c


FOLLOW UP

GOG Ep 1: How to Make Money on the Internet - March 25th, 2013

The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing

Race on to establish globally recognised 'AI-free' logo

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story


IN THE NEWS

Atlassian to cut roughly 10% jobs in pivot to AI

Meta is reportedly planning to cut up to 20 percent of its staff in upcoming layoffs

Meta Is Building an Encrypted Chatbot After AI Agents Went Rogue and Exposed Sensitive Data

Meta Says It Is Removing End-to-End Encryption From Instagram Direct Messages

Meta is testing clickable links in Instagram captions for verified subscribers

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement

Senators tell ByteDance to shut down Seedance 2.0 AI video app 'immediately'

Things Are Suddenly Looking Incredibly Bad for Trump’s Social Media Company

Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal

The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Now Setting Readers’ Subscription Prices With Uber-Style AI


APPS & DOODADS

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