406: The Internet of Starch

I've got an NFT bridge to sell you; Substack raises millions; Anti-Vax Mondays at Krispy Kreme, Zoom-Free Fridays at Citi; Jack Dorsey multi-tasks; nowhere on Earth without satellite light pollution; Moderna vaccine posted on GitHub; Moroccan bit-bros; OpenAI spewing words; BitClout; Virgin lost Spaceship II, goes straight to III; 6 Minutes to Midnight; concerts are coming back, but are the roadies; the Alchemist; the Immortality Code; Obi-Wan Kenobi; hackers backdoor PHP source code; your life on your phone; don't post on YouTube if you're a fugitive; best 80's albums; Utah's porn filter; the funniest joke in the world.This episode is brought to you by Hover. For 10% off your first order head over to hover.com/gog and get your domain on!This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox. Go to ButcherBox.com/gog OR enter promo code gog at checkout.Show notes at https://gog.show/501FOLLOW UPKrispy Kreme’s Free Doughnut Promotion Has a Strange Provision for Anti-Vaxxers“On the Cockchain”Monty Python’s John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFTScoop: Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boomIN THE NEWSJack Dorsey Could Not Contain His Annoyance at Being Grilled by CongressStudy finds nowhere on Earth is safe from satellite light pollutionCiti Creates ‘Zoom-Free Fridays’ to Combat Pandemic FatigueStanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on GithubMorocco is seeing a huge surge in cryptocurrency useOpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a dayWhat Is BitClout? The Social Media Experiment Sparking Controversy on TwitterVirgin Galactic unveils new SpaceShip IIIMEDIA CANDYSix Minutes to MidnightCOVID-19: 5,000 music fans attend Barcelona gig after passing same-day coronavirus screeningAs Concerts Prepare to Return From Pandemic Lockdown, Roadies Have Moved OnSiouxsie And The Banshees: the story of the band who band who saved punk from parody and invented gothEp18: Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff) on how Covid-19 stopped him from quitting the music businessSpotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitorAT THE LIBRARYThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and narrated by Jeremy IronsThe Immortality Code by Douglas E. RichardsSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatRecorded Future‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series Cast Revealed, Including Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Kumail Nanjiani & MoreHackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git serverA Man Says He Doesn’t Know Why He Stabbed His Grandma 50 Times—FBI Agents Hope His iPhone Will Tell ThemMafia fugitive caught after posting cooking show on YouTubeMORON OF THE WEEKUtah GOP Gov. Spencer Cox Signs Controversial Porn Filter MeasureBRIC-A-BRACHuge Scientific Study Reveals Funniest Joke In The WorldCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSJessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew upPodcast Magazine Free Lifetime SubscriptionSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

31 Mar 20211h 7min

500 episodes & 8 years of grump; crushing Dreams because copyright; still no self-driving cars; buy your Tesla with Bitcoin; Dispo gonna disappear; men behaving badly; India says no Bitcoin; your NFT is gonna disappear; Facebook's AI kicks off punk rockers; paying creators to pump up platforms; uBiome charged with fraud; Jeff Goldblum's world; Sting; Tower Records; the Last Blockbuster; smart bird feeders from Slovenia; Tinder lets you get a Lyft; Neil Gaiman; Amoralman; everyone has a podcast; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/500See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

25 Mar 20211h 5min

Facebook censorship & playbooks; Kalanick, again; Twitter Spaces; Clubhouse upgrades; Bitcoin's problems; Uber, Lyft sharing banned driver data; Amazon gamification expands; NiFTy News; crypto-grifters; the Grammys weren't bad; Pivot; Netflix cracking down on password sharing; iPhone 12 upgrade; HomePod discontinued; FAA drone rules; Cyberweapons Arms Race; deepfakes in suburbia; hacking as a service; anonymized data is bullshit; Zoom Escaper; who wants to be the Technoking?Show notes at https://gog.show/499See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

17 Mar 20211h 11min

NFT bubble grows; music & art blockchain applications; Banksy Morons; NFTs are the new eggs; ChiaCoin; Google eats their cookies; gig worker shortage; UBI seems to work; Facebook SEER AI; McAfee crypto fraud; Square aquires Tidal; Patrice O'Neal; Condor; Jungle Books; Coming to America 2; teleprompter gear; ripping audio; deep fakes are the new eggs; Solarwinds throws an intern under the bus; TALON; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/498See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

10 Mar 20211h 27min

Baseball cards on the blockchain, NFT's go mainstream; Grimes 133tsp33k; Coinbase admits Bitcoin could crumble; pandemic stats; Twitter announces Super Follows; Star Trek news; Frasier's listening; the Lady and the Dale; Boss Obama not-a-podcast; Gell-Mann Amnesia; bye, bye Fry's; gadget ages; Radio Garden; Citizen notifications; Dispo; Where For; Sigh, Gone; subtitles; Facebook privacy lawsuit; Tom Cruise deep fakes; Microsoft's decentralized IDs; German pandemic words; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/497See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

3 Mar 20211h 26min

It's time to get things started; regulations; still hacking tractors; Google has an ethical AI ethicist problem; UK slaps Uber with the law; Facebook stops news in Australia, restarts it as Australians abandon it; Facebook caught lying about metrics, again; WhatsApp details privacy change policy; Influencers for health; Hot Ones; Twitch & Metallica; Spotify HiFi; Reply All host hiatus; Amazon's Kickstarter; Think Again; CyberWar & the Lost Colony; Clubhouse concerns; Mac M1 malware; Nvidia anti-cryptomining drivers; Elon Musk & Bitcoin; Gwyneth's COVID long game; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/496See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

24 Feb 20211h 14min

Bitcoin goes up, must come down; Facebook privacy payouts; Zuck wants to inflict pain on Apple; Oculus problems; Spotify unrolls Work From Anywhere program; AI can manipulate human behavior; Russia dealing with TikTok politics; Chappelle gets paid; Whedon cancelled twice; the Stand falls on landing; Discovery Plus shows; web sleuths at the Cecil Hotel; Kim's Convenience; iPad Life; Clubhouse facts & privacy; signs of intelligent life with Avi Loeb; supply-chain attacks; Bloomberg doubles down; Axel F; Intel mocks Apple; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/495See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

17 Feb 20211h 20min

Flash, a-ah, saviour of the universe; WeWork might be just fine; Tesla buys bitcoin; Robinhood still very popular; Twitter confirms experiments with new models, subscriptions; AI COVID predictions; Amazon's new CEO; WFH causes chip shortages; Toyota's self-drifting car; In & Of Itself; the Expanse season finale; Fake Famous; Samsung's ridiculously large monitor; seven screen laptops; supplements on the blockchain; Heaven's River; tracked at the Capitol; hacker breaks into water supply; Pornhub biometrics; deep fakes as a service; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/494See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

10 Feb 20211h 19min