740: To the Moon!
From Grumpy Old Geeks by Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
April 3, 2026 · 1h 17m · Episode 740
About this episode
The episode discusses the impatience epidemic in human interactions, the enshittification of social media, corporate issues in tech, and celebrates NASA's Artemis II launch.
Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, where we're starting to notice a patience epidemic! As people get used to barking orders at their AI, they're starting to talk to other humans with the same terse impatience. We discuss the enshittification of social media like Threads, which are now completely overrun with AI-generated slop. This week, we dive into the corporate shenanigans of the tech world. OpenAI was caught secretly funding an advocacy group to push for age verification laws that just so happen to benefit Sam Altman's other company. We also cover Elon Musk's troubles, including all of xAI's co-founders quitting, a SpaceX satellite exploding, and Tesla's "fully autonomous" robotaxis being revealed to have remote human drivers. Plus, we celebrate NASA's successful Artemis II launch, review a fantastic Premiere Pro plugin for multicam editing, and give our thoughts on shows like "The Pit" and "Downton Abbey." Sponsors: SquareSpace - go to squarespace.com/GRUMPY for a free trial. And when you’re ready to launch, use code GRUMPY to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can…
People in this episode
Hosts: Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister, Dave Bittner
Topics covered
- AI interaction
- social media
- tech corporate shenanigans
- Elon Musk
- NASA
- software tools
- TV shows
Keywords
- AI
- social media
- OpenAI
- Elon Musk
- NASA
- Artemis II
- software plugins
- TV shows
Sponsors
SquareSpace, Private Internet Access, SetApp, 1Password
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenAI, xAI, Tesla, NASA
Books & works: The Pit, Downton Abbey
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