733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground

733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground

Author: Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner February 14, 2026 Duration: 1:24:14
The tech world is currently a "nuclear war" over trademarks and alien catapult rants while AI safety researchers flee their posts; Meta and Discord are locked in a cycle of predator-friendly lawsuits and government ID breaches while we outsource our thinking into a state of "cognitive debt"; the media landscape is a mix of seventy-million-dollar Severance deals and free Babylon 5 episodes; Ring and Waymo are turning the world into a surveillance-heavy gig economy where humans are paid ten bucks to close robot car doors; Dave finishes us off with Sigourney Weaver action figures and the realization that our Gen-X nostalgia has finally been commodified into rare book catalogs and telephone-handset microphones.

There’s a certain flavor of chaos that defines the technology industry each week, and Grumpy Old Geeks serves as your brutally honest guide through the wreckage. Hosted by Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister, and Dave Bittner, this isn't a polite roundtable discussion. Instead, it feels like grabbing a drink with friends who have seen it all and have absolutely no patience left for corporate spin or broken promises. They pick apart the biggest tech news stories with a seasoned, cynical eye, always asking the messy questions about what actually went wrong and who should be held accountable. Listening to this podcast is like getting the unfiltered post-mortem from veterans who remember when the internet felt different. The tone is sharp, often funny, and deliberately irreverent-picture a conversation that’s equal parts informed critique and cathartic venting about the state of digital life. You’ll hear them dissect the moves of figures like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg not as distant celebrities, but as players in a ongoing saga of power and missteps. It’s a weekly ritual for anyone who loves technology but is deeply frustrated by the direction it often takes, offering analysis that’s as informed as it is impatient. If you’re tired of sanitized tech commentary and want a take that pulls no punches, this is the place.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

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Podcast Episodes
763: Dr. Strangeclippy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30:55
This week, the future arrives with no steering wheel, no brakes, and apparently no adult supervision. AI agents are escaping, Cybercabs are steering themselves, surveillance cameras are multiplying, and Space Force wants…
762: ‘Tis But a Misalignment [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:02
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…
761: Whatever... [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:42
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 an…
760: Level 5 Podcasting Accident [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:39
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, retr…
759: Seeking Mrs. Claude [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:27:57
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 wa…
758: Perverts at Large! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13:02
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. Te…
757: This Time With Chicks [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:26:50
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 hara…
756: Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:45
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…
755: Less Chatty Mode [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:47
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, mo…