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Show Notes
IN THE NEWS
Airbnb is suing New York City so it won’t have to share user data about its hosts
Woman Sues Border Agents to Make Them Return Data They Seized From Her Phone
Elon Musk Says He Won’t Try to Take Tesla Private After Investors Told Him, “Please Don’t Do This”
Tesla’s Semi truck is traveling cross-country ‘alone’
YouTuber boxing match rakes in over $8m this weekend… and it’s not over
Is Google’s Next Move to Help You Lose Weight and Eat Better?
Mozilla publishes its Firefox user data
MEDIA CANDY
‘The Big Bang Theory’: Behind The Sudden Decision To End Series After 12 Seasons
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Is Finally Being Made, Thanks to Apple
Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party
John Goodman Says Roseanne Barr’s Character Is Gonna Die
Nirvana January 24th, 1988, RadioShack, Aberdeen, WA
A Look Back At Nirvana’s Legendary Gig At The Metro, 25 Years Later
Nirvana Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL 10/12/91 [Full Audio]
AT THE LIBRARY
The Divine Comedy – Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso – By: Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wyatt
You’ll Never Nanny in This Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny by Suzanne Hansen
MORON OF THE WEEK
A small city worth of people are watching absolutely nothing on Twitch
Fox News forced to disable comments following torrent of negative reactions to John McCain’s death
FEEDBACK LOOP
BBC News – The virtual land selling for millions
You can see that Bird users are not very safety minded in San Antonio
Toyota invests $500 million in Uber, expands self-driving car partnership
Is this how they use the scooters out by you?
Motorized Scooters: Todd Gloria co-authors bill eliminating helm
San Francisco’s ‘Poop Patrollers’ cleaning up — on the streets and at the bank
You can see that Bird users are not very safety minded in San Antonio
Facebook Me Gently With A Chainsaw
Demetri Martin: The Overthinker
Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS