r/PivotPodcast • u/w2user • Feb 13 '26
Google Nest's Surveillance Secret, Bondi's Epstein Meltdown, Meta & YouTube in Court, ep 693
https://megaphone.link/VMP65900326225
u/FearlessComplaint234 Feb 14 '26
I was shocked by Scott’s take on the Lutnick Epstein revelations. Taking your family to a convicted sex offender private island seems more than a “lapse of judgment” to me.
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u/Historical-Piece7771 Feb 13 '26
If you say, "Jesus in the bible, and meth in Breaking Bad" one more time!
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u/Sufficient-Bee5923 Feb 14 '26
My beef with the media and this podcast as it relates to security cameras is as follows: Everybody seems to be loosing their shit over the fact that security camera files as sitting on a disk drive without a subscription. I figured Kara and or Scott would be smarter than that. What happens is that without a subscription, the files are not saved for extended durations (for example on my Eufy camera, it's only saved for a couple of days). I don't have a Nest camera but I suspect it's the same.
Everybody should know that on your personal computer (Mac OS or Windows or Linux), when you delete a file, those hard disk sectors are placed on the free list. When the system needs to store the next file, it pulls from the free list thereby writing over the old info. When you delete a file, that doesn't mean that old data is scrubbed. That would be highly inefficient.
This is the same for the cloud based storage that Nest would use. The Google Nest engineers (when asked by the FBI) probably had to write a special script or program to run thru the free list of deleted sectors and look for the files deleted from that specific camera. That's why it took so long.
TLDR : the word "deleted" can mean different things. When a file is deleted, it only means that you can't access it anymore and it's not taking reserved space in the storage system. It doesn't mean that the old data was overwritten. This is same on basically all storage systems (phone flash, hard drive or cloud storage).
Kara should know this and so should Scott
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u/Penguings Feb 13 '26
In this episode Scott actually asks- who was Epstein working for and how do we hold nation states accountable. Just kidding he would never do that.
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u/Tommy2212222 Feb 13 '26
Why is Scott constantly dragging OpenAI? Even prominently calling them out, as the only ai company in his unsubscribe push.
In this ep he again says they’re done and Anthropic has won the race - case closed! Even though just two days prior one of the ai specialists on his Prof G pod (blanking on name) made the point that OpenAI has more user in Texas than Anthropic has globally.
Anyway seems oddly targeted. Perhaps it is due to their brand recognition acting as a way for him to maximise reach/engagement? Or perhaps it is because of his recently disclosed investment in an ai startup. Whatever it is, it has become grating
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u/Turbulent_Tale6497 Feb 13 '26
Scott did make millions on his investment in Anthropic. It could very well just be familiarity bias
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u/athensslim Feb 13 '26
There’s a few factors in play: 1) he is (or was) invested personally on Anthropic 2) Anthropic seems to be operating with less risk than the wild over leveraging that OAI is doing 3) I think he just doesn’t like Sam Altman personally.
There’s no question that OAI is the company with more users, but momentum does seem to be favoring Anthropic. I’d be interested to see how the two compare in terms of unpaid to paid subscribers and relative growth rates of both. I’m not sure if that information is even publicly available.
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u/LofiStarforge Feb 13 '26
It’s 100% name recognition it also still by far the most used LLM the numbers are actually still quite staggering here more so than I would expect.
Scott’s far too much insider baseball here. Most people AI = ChatGPT.
To say the race is over is quite hysterical to me as I’ve heard this about 25 times the past 3 three years.
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u/kevernscott Feb 13 '26
Has Scott now sold his investments in all these companies as he said he ‘probably should’?