{"podcast":{"title":"Grumpy Old Geeks","slug":"grumpy-old-geeks-168050","podcast_index_feed_id":168050,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/grumpy-old-geeks-podcast","website_url":"https://gog.show/","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/bf/2a/76/62/bf2a7662-a9d2-49e0-8076-7a0401837a3d/5d83b63135090896adf3458bce3b5c113b6c59fb43aa7ca584e31c0ffc29bbb648102fea56468b037e13666746193fb6244c511cc9777c3c731ec4268f1bcf5b.jpeg","author":"Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner","episode_count":754,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T08:19:04.887938+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grumpy-old-geeks-168050"},"episode":{"title":"727: Merry Slopmas","slug":"727-merry-slopmas","published_at":"2025-12-20T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grumpy-old-geeks-168050/727-merry-slopmas","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grumpy-old-geeks-168050","url":"https://gog.show/727","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/802/rss.art19.com/episodes/ca789a19-e692-4541-a6c3-840033bbd6e1.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Welcome back to another hour of digital cynicism. We kick things off with a FOLLOW UP on Amazon’s Fallout recaps, which were apparently so hallucination-heavy they made the actual wasteland look organized; naturally, they’ve been nuked along with the \"Video Recaps\" feature. In a massive dose of IN THE NEWS, Tesla is finally getting a legal side-eye in California for its deceptive \"Autopilot\" branding, while TikTok is performing a corporate shell game by selling a 45% stake to Oracle and friends to keep the feds happy. Reddit is fighting Australia’s under-16 ban like it’s a constitutional crisis, Louisiana’s age-verification law just got benched by a judge, and Merriam-Webster officially crowned \"slop\" as the Word of the Year—which is fitting, given that OpenAI is selectively hiding chat logs from murder-suicides while their Chief Scientist warns that recursive AI self-improvement might end the human experiment by 2030. If the \"intelligence explosion\" doesn’t get us, the CRASH Clock says we’ve got roughly 2.8 days before Elon’s satellite swarm turns low-earth orbit into a permanent scrapyard. In our MEDIA CANDY segment, we mourn the transition year of Star Trek, which was mostly a series of unmitigated disasters and corporate retreats, though the Oscars moving to YouTube in 2029 means we can finally ignore them in 4K. Meta is testing a \"pay-to-share-links\" feature because they clearly haven't alienated creators enough, and a new study suggests Amazon’s \"dynamic pricing\" is basically just a high-tech way to gouge public school districts for pencils. Moving to APPS & DOODADS, iOS 26.2 is here with a \"Liquid Glass\" slider—groundbreaking stuff, really—while Microsoft’s Copilot+ push is effectively killing the laptop market by making 16GB of RAM a luxury item only a data…","meta_description":"Welcome back to another hour of digital cynicism. We kick things off with a FOLLOW UP on Amazon’s Fallout recaps, which were apparently so hallucination-h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4877,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grumpy-old-geeks-168050/episodes/727-merry-slopmas/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grumpy-old-geeks-168050/727-merry-slopmas.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}