Are we actually passive victims to social media or do you see a future where we have some modicum of control?This week, Joey and Jess talk about the metaverse, Web3, public ledgers of information, entropy, "baroque speculative fiction," and nerds. They don’t talk about NFTs, weirdly enough.references* Neal Stephenson's Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, in print (https://bookshop.org/a/16188/9780062458728) or as an audiobook (https://www.audible.com/pd/Fall-or-Dodge-in-Hell-Audiobook/1511328401)* NYT's The Daily Podcast: Microsoft and the Metaverse (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/podcasts/the-daily/metaverse-microsoft-activision-blizzard.html)* Memetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics)* New Scientist: What is Web3 and how will it change the way we use the internet? (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301706-what-is-web3-and-how-will-it-change-the-way-we-use-the-internet/)