The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Daily Business & Tech News Aug 12, 2019

Episode Date: August 12, 2019

Daily Business & Tech News Aug 12, 2019

Hi folks, Chris Foss here from thechrisfossshow.com. Welcome to the podcast. We certainly appreciate you today. It is August 12th, Monday of 2019. Holy crap, Monday? I don't know why I woke up this morning. I was thinking it was Tuesday. This is going to be a great Monday.

Oh my God. It's never a good sign when you're trying to just skip Monday. You're just like, I'm skipping it. I'm not even going to count it. I'm just going to pretend like it never happened. I'm just going to move on and just do something else other than Monday. Like today, I was like, it must be Tuesday. I'm pretty sure it's Tuesday.

I'm just going to behave like it's Tuesday. I don't know why I think that. I don't know why I woke up that way but i don't know feels pretty good to me so far uh i guess i'll find out when i answer all the calls and emails and stuff um anyway uh let's get into news and events and tech stuff that's happening in our world i would say your world but i'm sharing it with you if you you don't mind, you don't mind. We share. Can we share your world a little bit? Let's all hug. All that shit.

Uh, anyway, let's share our world. Let's get together. Let's just have a group hug right now. Everyone, wherever you're at. Now, if you're in your car, don't take your hands off the steering wheel. Just hug the steering wheel. If you will. That that's probably safe.

Uh, let me check with the attorneys to see if it's okay to say that. Anyway, let's talk about what's going on in the news today. Some interesting stuff that's really popped up in the news, and I'm kind of interested in where this goes. This sparks a lot of my imagination. WordPress.com owner Automatic, if you're familiar with the company Automatic, they take and own control, built up WordPress.com and WordPress as we know it. I forget the gentleman's name who's over there, but I believe it's Mike something or something or other. Matt, I think it's Matt Gutenberg. Let me see if I can find the name.

Mr. Mullenwig. Oops. I was close, wasn't I? Gutenberg. Yeah, if I can find the name mr. Mullenweg whoops I was close wasn't I Gutenberg yeah I think I was a Zuckerberg you know I'm mixing Mullenweg with Zuckerberg what can I say man give me a break I'm getting old mine starts going right there anyway he is they are buying tumblr tumblr yes. Yes. Remember Tumblr? Now, if you remember MySpace, you should remember Tumblr. Uh, they're buying Tumblr for an undisclosed amount. It's going to be kind of interesting what the amount's going to be considering what's her face bought it for a billion, a Yahoo or 2 billion. Uh, I don't remember. It seems like Yahoo bought it for $2 billion, and then Verizon bought it for a billion,

and now they're offloading it. So anyway, they are buying it for an undisclosed sum from Verizon, who bought it from Yahoo. And it looks like they're going to take on 200 staffers that work at the company. So that's good. Those people aren't getting laid off. We like that. And it's going to be interesting to see what they do with it I'm kind of

curious it from their initial positions of saying you know we're buying it they're saying they're not gonna touch it they're just gonna leave alone that's still any fun so now the porn ban which is good because holy crap I got on there after a few years after Yahoo bought it. And it was like straight porn. And it was not like the good kind of porn. And it wasn't the type of porn that you want to have your kids getting on. And I was just like, wow, Tumblr is really big with the kids.

This is scary. There was kind of a point where Tumblr was getting really popular with the kids as the anti-Facebook sort of trend. And then I think Snapchat came along and ate their lunch because Yahoo dropped the ball on carrying it. Which, I mean, that's just what Yahoo does, drop the ball. And it looks like Pinterest and Instagram have been growing. Facebook has been losing a percentage of U.S. social media users with an account. So it's going to be kind of interesting. Like I've been trying to imagine what they would do with it.

Like what do you think they would do with it? Message me on Twitter or Facebook or something and let me know what you think or LinkedIn, what you think they might be doing with it. Like maybe they could have some WordPress sort of integration, or maybe they could make it so that my Tumblr can be integrated in my WordPress somehow, and then it could have like ultra share possibilities. I mean, I can share through Tumblr now using different apps like Hootsuite. Or not, is it Hootsuite that I can share? Oh is it hood sweet that I can share well it's YouTube that I share through tumblr on it has it has a thing where you can share your video when you upload it to tumblr I think that's about the

only thing I use it for when it comes to tumblr is uploading that thing that or if I've got promotions for clients or you know some hash tagging that I want to take in, trend and stuff like that, I'll use Tumblr as just an added place to just flood the system, if you will, of eyeballs for my clients. But this is going to be interesting. They've got a strong mobile interface,

it says here in dashboard, where users follow their blogs. Maybe they'll make it so that you can kind of have your blog on tumblr and then you know maybe more people read your blog because it's on tumblr as opposed to the other you know maybe I'll make it so that it's best of both worlds you know you don't have to put your blog on tumblr but you know you can use tumblr as a distribution point and make it more made WordPress more tumblr friendly so this will be kind of interesting I'm excited to see what it thinks go ahead and write me on

Chris Voss on Twitter that's Chris Voss one word or Chris Voss on LinkedIn or Chris Voss on Facebook you can find me on another six tell me what you think I'm kind of curious I'm really interested to see what they might do with this it's pretty pretty pretty's pretty, uh, pretty interesting. I'm kind of curious. I'm interested to see maybe there's a new social media, uh, uh, platform that can rise up and take on Facebook or something. I don't know. Um, WordPress has certainly done a good job of building their community over the last a billion years. I love WordPress. I use it all on my sites. So there you go. Uh, next up in the news, this is kind of interesting. Uh, this is from New York times, how YouTube radicalized Brazil,

diverting users to conspiracy and far right channels, elevating bowl scenarios party, which I believe is their leader and possibly creating public health crisis. Um, you know, wow. I mean, I came onto Twitter. Uh, I was one of the early users of Twitter, um, back in 2008. Uh, at one point there was a whole group of us that were kind of playing customer service because Twitter's system was so jacked up and, you know, it was just randomly suspending people for anything and sometimes just spending for nothing um their systems were just a muck mess and back then they had like 40 employees and no matter how fast the system was scaling and growing they were just so intent at keeping it 40 employees it was really one of the first fails of the clown car that

twitter is um and their management um the the fact that they're all billionaires over there is just a joke because I mean, it is a clown car that crashed into a success, uh, no matter how much they tried to fail that thing, um, and destroy it, especially with their infighting over management. But, um, YouTube radicalized Brazil. So anyway, getting back to the Twitter story, cause I know you're like, well, this is YouTube they're talking about Chris. So anyway, getting back to the Twitter story, because I know you're like, well, this is YouTube they're talking about, Chris. So anyway, in the early days of Twitter and social media, it was a wild west and no one knew where I was going, but everyone had these high hopes, these imaginary sort of dreams that like, this will make the world one and everyone will come

together. And, and yeah, it's achieved a lot of those dreams. It's made people a lot more, um, one around the world, if you will, it's helped a lot of those dreams. It's made people a lot more one around the world, if you will. It's helped overthrow regime governments by exposing them and everything else. But 10 years in, or a little more over 10 years in, we're really starting to see the dark side of it. And of course, we started seeing that in 2015, 2016. 2016 with the maybe before that you can say because certainly Trump started the birth or lie and the conspiracy bullshit before then so it might be before then you can say but we really saw let's just say we really saw it started seeing it's the dark sides results if you will of them being able to put whatever sort of crazy shit they want on uh

social media and the the um the uh what's the word i'm looking for the amount of payback that we have to pay for what how out of hand it got you know recently this year we saw the results of all the anti-vaxxer conspiracies making measles uh become a new outbreak and exposing so many people to it, exposing people to measles that wouldn't have been exposed to it. And if you're filled with measles, it can create a lifetime of disease and issues once it does its first damage in your body. So pretty crazy there. And it'll be interesting to see how we react to that.

But certainly YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, all these social media places help radicalize a lot of things. The crazy conspiracy theorists, you know, you saw Alex Jones who, you know, everything and their dog is a fucking conspiracy. That guy wakes up, takes a breath in the morning, and thinks the Illuminati caused him to breathe. Probably blames his heart pumping on, I don't know, gay frog pills or whatever that bullshit is he puts out. I don't know. It's just stupid. You know, there's a point where, as a user, you have to go, is this really entertainment value or is this kind of destructive when it comes down to it? You probably don't want to apply that to any of my facebook posts

oopsie uh chris hypocrite no i'm not uh anyway so it's kind of interesting how youtube radicalized brazil diverting users to conspiracy far-right channels um you know we're seeing it used to be back in the day that newspapers could be used to whip up voters and and to you know, we're, we're seeing, it used to be back in the day that newspapers could be used to whip up voters and, and to, you know, have things happen. There were, there were sadly people that were lynched, you know, over, over newspapers in the South that would post, uh, you know, scurrilous stuff and, you know, and they would ramp up the mob and, and all sorts of good stuff. Now we're seeing the digital version of that the only problem is we're seeing because it's because it's so democratized now where there's not just you know five

papers in a town there's now 50 billion users pumping out whatever sort of bullshit they want the onus really has to come down more on the watcher and the person listening and and the education uh the value the ability to evaluate uh of the end user more than anything else you know we get a lot of talk about how social media needs to get regulated i think some of the crazy shit needs to get regulated um but but certainly um for the most part it's really up to the end user that to self-actualize and and look at things objectively um i always found it really interesting now i'm not bashing politics here but just just think about what this means during the 2016 uh presidential election there were these websites that had figured out how to make like $20,000, $30,000 a month by putting up scurrilous link bait, crazy conspiracy stuff, stuff that people would get a lot of emotion on.

Like Hillary Clinton said Jesus was an asshole, something like that. I'm just making stuff up but they found the first they targeted Democrats and they found the Democrats wouldn't buy it Democrats would do their due diligence they would check out with Snopes

they would check out with two or three different places and that kind of turned them off so they went to the GOP posts and they found that the GOP post just bought it hook line and sinker and they just ate it up now I've always been trying to figure out why and I wish somebody do some research on why there's that span of difference why the GOP people were buying up those websites and those guys were making like 20 or 30 grand a month off those sites, uh, hooking, hooking and firing up GOP people with bullshit, um,

and link bait. And a lot of it was just false stuff. It was just like, you know, like Hillary Clinton had a baby today and everyone's like, ah, she had a baby. She killed Jesus Christ. Yeah. Um, you know, whatever, whatever man and they'd buy it um some of it may come down to education i know that there's a difference between college educated democrats and a large part of them and then there's a lot of uneducated non-college goers and in the gop uh voting base. I don't know. I'm just,

I'm just really curious why there's that difference of state of mind and being objective about the data that you're being fed. I don't know why. I mean, I have some theories, but it kind of delves into politics and religion. I know that if you can believe in, you know, fairies and angels and space monsters and crap um i know that if you can believe in you know fairies and angels and

space monsters and crap and puppet masters that control your life once you can start believing in those sort of invisible creatures um then it becomes easier to believe in just about any other bullshit someone wants to sell you um i don't know man i don't know why i don't know why but i'd really be interested in the thing so it's interesting how instead of like governments falling now uh from social media exposure we're finding that uh governments can be overrun with wackos and certainly i think putin's sitting in a corner right now just having a laugh and a beer right now because he's like I don't care if you you know America if you grew up like I did you read books about how McCarthy and and uh different uh presidents and leaders have have

all tried to spread democracy around the world what's been kind of interesting is the social media aspect of these conspiracy and crazy right-wing channels etc etc have actually made it so that democracy is starting to fall and we're seeing more and more people go to socialism government socialist governments right-wing governments that are oppressive, and believing that will help them or save them. But, yeah, it's kind of interesting. And I don't know how to fix it because how do you fix it? I mean, social media people can't, like, do everything for you. If you have the paper and you read the paper,

you've got to decide whether the paper is real or not. And if we're living in an idiocracy, if you've ever to decide whether the paper is real or not and if we're living in an idiocracy you've ever seen the movie where people just so fucking dumb they can't make their own fucking decisions and evaluations well nothing can really fix that other than ourselves so anyway kind of interesting let's move on sources say Facebook halted acquisition talks with House party late last year due to antitrust concerns and began internal changes to make itself harder to break up that's kind of interesting I imagine they're feeling some pressure from the Justice Department everything else I know Trump's leaning on them Trump doesn't like social media in fact I think there's an

article today that they're that they're suggesting that um the the trump administration the government actually creates a oversight of the moderators uh like a government oversight like an ftc over the moderators for facebook how scary is fucking that how 1984 is that shit um i i wouldn't mind if there was like a uh a non-political sort of appointee kind of like the I don't know the Federal Reserve where they can't be fired they can't be toyed with by the president but I'm really concerned if some whackjob really wants to take control of that so there's that Samsung has unveiled the ISO cell bright HMX a 108 megapixel

smartphone camera sensor developed in collaboration with as I'll be I believe I'm pronouncing that correct one of the largest ever at one point one through one of 1.33 inches Wow 108 megapixel camera sensor for your smartphone Wow man holy shit check this out it will record 60 cave or 6k video 60k that'll happen somewhere I don't know 50 million years 6k video at 30 frames per second Wow holy crap Emily sign me up for that baby at that point I'll have ridiculously small pixels it will gather the light from four pixels transforming into 27 pixel sensor you'll still be able to snap one hundred eight megapixel photos if you want

but I like to require brightly lit shooting situations Wow that's crazy man that's crazy sign me up for that I want more pixels I love more pixels in a camera let's see what else do we have bada bing bada boom I see you Wow where's that y'all come from that didn't happen just ignore them the FBI is seeking an early learning tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to you is which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies this might be another thing was what we talked about earlier maybe we need to have an FBI monitoring and alerting tool. The question is, is really would it do anything?

I mean, for what? Almost a decade now, Edward Snowden brought this out. The NSA, the National Security Administration, has been scraping social media and the internet for all of our stuff. They still have not come up with a way to, um, grab stuff when it's alerted. You know, most of the stuff is really quick too. I think, um, the last couple of shooters posted their, um, their screeds online like an hour before they started shooting i don't know how you're going to stop that um and i suppose the only way it would be i don't know their location thing on their phone or

something like that uh their location whereabouts on their phone where you ping them uh but even then i don't you know unless they stay you wouldn't know what target they're going after so um you don't know even if you knew their location um i suppose you could somehow triangulate with like what's an event going on around the thing but if someone's going to shoot up in a walmart uh i mean that's it's walmart like everyone's there all the time a festival yeah maybe you could like be like hey there's a festival i mean is this the way we're going to live in now where um you know we get an alert and we have to shut down all the schools, all the stores go on lockdown.

The whole fucking world goes on lockdown every time one of these whack jobs decides he wants to put a gun. How much work do we have to go into it before we just make gun licensing stronger, gun licensing harder to get, more background checks on guns and how much how many people have to fucking die and how many different hoops do we have to make ourselves jump through just to enact some simple fucking laws that you have in cars and stuff so that's how i feel about that it's just it's getting stupid i think hannity was talking about how he wanted to have schools surrounded with armed

guards and shit well he paid for that he's supposed to be worth a lot of money in real estate um it's just it's just astounding how far we will bend over backwards and break our own backs and die rather than fix this problem this is it's astounding to me so um there you go um this is kind of interesting i'm interested in checking this out wheels up a subscription-based private aviation company that wants to be the airbnb of private aviation has raised 128 million series d at a valuation of 1.1 billion dollars i'm going to check them out there's a company that i like that I was interested in using, jetsuitex.com. They only serve like the West Coast, basically California, Vegas, and San Francisco, San Jose. But they fly you on little Learjets, and you don't have to go through all the bullshit of the TSA.

They do check your bags, but they don't have to deal with all the whole TSA lines and bullshit. You can literally pull up to the gate with your car. You don't have to park five miles away. You can walk right up to your plane, get on. You know your fucking bags are with you. They're not going to end up in fucking Albuquerque or some shit. Like, I know you're traveling to Texas, but your bags right now are in fucking Australia, what the fuck, dude, it's 2019, seriously, you guys can't get this right,

oh, and by the way, our mechanic broke your guitar, so anyway, I've been liking them, I've never flown them yet, JetSuiteX, because I moved up to Utah for this book, but Wheels Up might be interesting, I would like to see the more, the democratization of flight travel, because I'm so sick of just having, what is it, like five or ten carriers that fucking monopolize the business, and just treat you like fucking cattle, I hate that shit, I just so fucking hate flight travel i hate that shit i just so fucking hate fly travel with the with the whole cattle experience so anyway this might be something kind of interesting so fun is fun anyway um what else did i see today that stuck out at me

on product hunt there's kind of some interesting apps that have been put up. Let's see. Networking email handbook. That kind of looks interesting. Arcane Docs. Blockchain-based alternative to Google Docs. All right. Does everything really have to be blockchain? Can we just have some things that aren't blockchain? Jesus Christ, I went to fucking McDonald's the other day,

and they asked me if I wanted the blockchain scrambled eggs or the non-blockchain scrambled eggs do we have to fucking blockchain everything people we don't it's like seriously i went to bed with my girlfriend last night she said do you want to do a blockchain style or do you want to do it you know the other style i'm like i don't know is that in the vietnamese swing fuck chair i don't know um she's like no it's the blockchain style i'm, I don't know, is that in the Vietnamese swing fuck chair, I don't know, um, she's like, no, it's the blockchain style, I'm like, I don't know what that means, um, so anyway, uh, do we have to blockchain everything, um, seriously, but I did blockchain a podcast, the Chris Voss, what is it called, crypto life podcast. That's blockchain. So there you go.

Have fun with that. I don't see really anything that really boners me up too hard on. There's Copper CRM. Eh, whatever. I don't really see that as very... I don't really care. I really don't see anything else on product on that's making my nipples hard so that's how I feel about that on product on today but maybe you want to check out arcane Doc's because God knows you need blockchain based alternative to

Google Docs I don't know what blockchain does. Seriously, man, stop it all the time. I'm going to blockchain my dog. What? Stop it. Knock it off. Leave this alone. Anyway, guys, so thanks for tuning in to the Chris Voss Show podcast. Sorry I've been kind of running off at the mouth,

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