Canadian complaints; the never ending election; if I only had a brain; Uber, Lyft & DoorDash lie to buy their law, make millions; EU hits Amazon with antitrust charge; AI cracks PDEs; Eric Schmidt moves to Cyprus; fast radio bursts; Silk Road’s bitcoin; Furry Season Landscaping; Carfax for cops; Ransomware Facebook ads; virtual Hall of Fame; podcast news; streaming devices; Apple’s event; Loser.com; the finances of C19 safe concerts; feedback loop; goodbye, Alex.
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Show Notes
FOLLOW UP
Legendary LA Diner Swingers Reopens Next Month Thanks to Lots of Fan Support
Man Missing Most Of His Brain Challenges Everything We Thought We Knew About Consciousness
IN THE NEWS
Uber and Lyft Got the Result They Wanted on Election Night
Proposition 22’s Victory Shows How Uber and Lyft Break Democracy
EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges. A huge fine could follow
AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world
First Fast Radio Burst Confirmed To Have Come From Inside The Milky Way
The feds just seized Silk Road’s $1 billion stash of bitcoin
SECURITY HAH!
Furries are running around the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Company
Partial License Plates, Manner of Death, and the Peter Principle – Writer’s Detective Bureau Podcast
Ransomware Group Turns to Facebook Ads
MEDIA CANDY
Hear Danny Elfman’s First Solo Pop Single in Nearly 40 Years, ‘Happy’
Watch Depeche Mode’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech
Nine Inch Nails at Rock Hall 2020: Watch Trent Reznor’s Induction Speech
How Spotify Is Strengthening Our Investment in Podcast Advertising With Acquisition of Megaphone
Apple, Sony Both Held Talks About Buying Podcaster Wondery
APPS & DOODADS
All Slingbox devices will stop working in two years
Here’s everything Apple announced at the ‘One More Thing’ event today
MORON OF THE WEEK
FEEDBACK LOOP
Your old Android device will no longer support many websites in 2021
Trump will lose his Twitter ‘public interest’ protections in January
Coronavirus Study in Germany Offers Hope for Concertgoers
TWEETS HAVE SPOKEN: TWITTER SEARCH LINKS TRUMP TO ‘LOSER’
Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites
FCC fines T-Mobile $200M over Sprint’s alleged abuse of low-income subsidies
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
