Getting hit by a Tesla at Whole Foods; Deepcake; Elon's wild Twitter week, TeslaBot Prime; Kim K pays up for crypto pump-and-dump; Bitcoin, climate change & personal impact; Coinbase allows buys, unable to cash out for 6 hours; FCC taking robocall database seriously; Love and Thunder; reassessing Sinead; Pose; Deshaun; the Real Bling Ring; Food Network; more Dune coming; Spotify downsizes podcast division; Twitter edit; too big TVs; another drone; Metaverse fashion IRL; Media, HAH; Andor, She-Hulk and short seasons & series; Spotify looking for harmful content; Uber cover-up; Orson Wells, Johnny Carson and the theater of the mind.

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FOLLOW UP

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MEDIA CANDY

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Nothing Compares

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Pose

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Bobby’s Triple Threat

OutChef’d

Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson to Star as Harkonnen Siblings in Sisterhood of Dune

Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of podcast staff

APPS & DOODADS

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SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

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Caveat

Control Loop

Mandalorian Dark Saber

The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast

Griftonomics

Spotify acquires firm that detects harmful content

Former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan Found Guilty Over Breach Cover-Up

Orson Welles and Johnny Carson discuss the merits of audio content

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