China shuts down podcasts; deepfakes & deepnudes; free TV; we don’t own anything; Huawei; outsourcing the important things; Black Mirror; Picard; id Software; Sandman; Pessimists & Cops; Children of Time & the Traveler; Arby’s Megetables; NASA tapes; check your beer; feedback.
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Show Notes
FOLLOW UP
STEVE WOZNIAK – GET OFF FACEBOOK!!! – Privacy Concerns Scare Me
AMERICA NEEDS TO SEE AMAZON’S TAX RETURNS
IN THE NEWS
China silences podcast and music apps as online crackdown widens
It Is Your Duty to Learn How to Spot Deepfake Videos
We’ve Gone Too Far: Mike Tyson Deepfaked As Every Character In The Opening Of ‘Family Matters’
Mike Tyson in Family Matters Intro [Deepfake]
Streaming Service Challenges Broadcasters with Free TV Feeds
Major or Minor? Lawmakers Keep Close Eye on Huawei Concession
Boeing’s 737 MAX software outsourced to $12.80-an-hour engineers
MEDIA CANDY
Bill & Ted Face The Music Just Added Its Princesses and Some Other Familiar Faces
Michael Chabon Will Showrun Star Trek: Picard
id Software’s origin story set to become USA Network TV series
‘Sandman’ TV Series Coming to Netflix from Neil Gaiman and David Goyer
Pessimists Archive Podcast Episode 18: Kids These Days
Running from COPS – Headlong Season 3
AT THE LIBRARY
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Dark River: Book Two of the Fourth Realm Trilogy by John Twelve Hawks
MORON OF THE WEEK
Arby’s Is Making Vegetables Out of Meat Now Because It Has Lost Its Mind
NASA accidentally sold original Moon landing tapes to an intern, and now they’re up for auction
Guy Checks A Single Can Of Beer After Airline Told Him He Couldn’t Board With It
FEEDBACK LOOP
This Horrifying App Undresses a Photo of Any Woman With a Single Click
WHEN IN DOUBT… BLAME IT ON NEUTRINOS
Megafood Tumeric Strength for Whole Body
Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?