2023-07-08: The Glum Show - a podcast by Samuel Minter / Iván Bou

In a rare no politics show, this week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan spend the biggest part of the show talking about the wacky world of text based social media. Twitter. BlueSky. Mastodon. And of course the big newcomer, Threads. But also a couple movie reviews, a failed fireworks show, and thoughts on Return To Office. Plus timezones, lava cake, and even a little bit on Haiti. A full show!

Show Details:

Recorded 2023-07-08

Length this week 2:08:50

• (0:01:46-0:34:27) But First
  
  
  
  • Timezones
    
  • Movie: Apocalypse Now (1979)
    
  • Movie: Never Say Never Again (1983)
    
  
  


• (0:36:10-1:35:29) Text Based Social Media
  
  
  
  • Twitter Fail
    
  • BlueSky Invites
    
  • Mastodon Onboarding
    
  • Threads Launch
    
  • Mastodon Growing Pains
    
  • Threads/Mastodon Federation
    
  • Curation vs Algorithms
    
  • Moderation and Privacy
    
  • Webcrawler Story
    
  
  


• (1:36:35-2:08:17) But Last
  
  
  
  • Molten Lava Cake
    
  • Haiti Situation
    
  • Fireworks Fail
    
  • Sam RTO update
    
  
  

The Curmudgeon’s Corner theme music is generously provided by Ray Lynch.

Our intro is “The Oh of Pleasure” (Amazon MP3 link)

Our outro is “Celestial Soda Pop” (Amazon MP3 link)

Both are from the album “Deep Breakfast” (iTunes link)

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