Grumpy Old Geeks23 Jun 2021

511: Amazon Baby Farms

Road tripping a very re-opened California; crypto & NFT drops; Facebook launches Live Audio Rooms, Clubhouse adds DMs, they all start to morph together; Google seeks to stop slander; Google AI/ML/AI/ML; Amazon worries about running out of workers to exploit; introducing Amazon Sub-Prime; Onlyfans pivots; Penn's poor Op-Sec; Reality Winner released; caught by smartwatch; Bo Burnham Inside; pandemic-inspired music; Lupin; Legendary; moving to Podpages; Facebook VR ads; tweaking Twitter; Neeva might be great, someday; Ted Chiang; the world's greatest con.

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FOLLOW UP

It’s Official: El Salvador’s Legislature Votes to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT

MoviePass was even shadier than we thought

IN THE NEWS

Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US

Clubhouse is building a DM text chat feature

Google Seeks to Break Vicious Cycle of Online Slander

Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can

Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they’ll run out of people to employ, according to a new report

Amazon Workers

Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out 6% of office workers

One Amazon warehouse destroys 130,000 items per week, including MacBooks, COVID-19 masks, and TVs, some of them new and unused, a report says

Amazon is reportedly buying 1,000 autonomous truck-driving systems, which could pave the way for one day ditching drivers

Do not allow Jeff Bezos to return to Earth

OnlyFans is reportedly in talks to raise new funding at a valuation above $1 billion, as it plots a move away from adult content to become more mainstream

Tesla backs vision-only approach to autonomy using powerful supercomputer

MEDIA CANDY

Bo Burnham – Inside

K.Flay – Inside Voices EP

Lorde – Solar Power

Marina – Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land

Garbage – No Gods No Masters

69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez

APPS & DOODADS

The one developer that publicly agreed to try Facebook’s VR ads is already backing away

Day one has been acquired by Automattic

Mastonaut

Tweak New Twitter for Chrome/Brave

Leviton T5633-W 15-Amp Type-C USB Charger/Tamper Resistant Receptacle, 1-Pack, White

Neeva

Webcam Settings (Mac App Store)

AT THE LIBRARY

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The World Greatest Con

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

SECURITY HAH!

Reality Winner, the Contractor Who Leaked Classified Russian Election Meddling Info, Released From Prison

Smartphone and smartwatch data led husband to confess to murdering his wife

Vigilante malware rats out software pirates while blocking ThePirateBay

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

4 tech podcasts you should be listening to

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