Intelligent Machines (Audio)

TWiG 659: Keeping Up With the Higginbothams - Web3, Elon Musk, Gilbert Gottfried, Algospeak, DALL-E

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  • Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06.
  • Twitter reverts change that left blank spaces in place of deleted embedded tweets.
  • How does Kevin Marks code his website?
  • Elon Musk Sued Over Delay in Disclosing Twitter (TWTR) Stake.
  • Elon Musk cancels town hall with Twitter employees after declining Twitter board seat.
  • In major reversal, Elon Musk won't join Twitter board.
  • Ukrainian power grid 'lucky' to withstand Russian cyber-attack.
  • TikTok's Russia strategy: Censorship, loopholes and propaganda.
  • Internet 'algospeak' is changing our language in real time, from 'nip nops' to 'le dollar bean'.
  • The mystery of ⍼, a Unicode character of unknown purpose.
  • How to Protect Children From Big Tech Companies.
  • Gilbert Gottfried Was the Voice of Clippy.
  • Big Tech Is Pouring $925 Million Into Carbon Removal.
  • Intel sets 2040 net zero goal for carbon emissions.
  • Amazon's IMDb TV changes its name to Freevee.
  • CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users.
  • Mark Zuckerberg Security Costs $26.8 Million for Meta.
  • Google quietly launches its awaited 'Switch to Android' app on iOS.
  • Google Fi drops prices for its unlimited plans and adds more data.
  • Google now lets you search for things you can't describe — by starting with a picture.
  • Google joins Samsung in working with iFixit on a self-repair program.
  • Latest Android 12 QPR3 Beta includes fix for Dirty Pipe exploit on Pixel 6.
  • DALL·E 2 can create original, realistic images and art from a text description.
  • New York's NFT vending machine.
  • Newmark puts $50 million into "cyber civil defense".
  • Roomba sucks up dogs tail.
  • 10 Audiobooks Narrators You Need To Follow on TikTok.
  • How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur.
  • Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal.
  • The Sandman: Book of Dreams by Stefano Massini.
  • The Lehman Trilogy.
  • Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart.
  • The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.

    • Picks:

    • Stacey - Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
    • Jeff - Shein $100b valuation
    • Kevin - ElectricityMap.org: Carbon intensity energy map
    • Kevin - indieblog.page: Random indieweb page
    • Kevin - Web3 is going just great

      • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

      Guest: Kevin Marks

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