TWiT 786: The Chickenization of America - Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation

Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation

Remembering Chadwick Boseman

Elon Musk demonstrates Neurallink: trepanning a Pig

What is Palantir doing?

Apple vs Epic: how anti-competitive is Apple, and what should the government do about this?

TikTok This Week: Walmart Enters the Fray; why TikTok is Dangerous

Amazon announces Halo, a subscription fitness wearable and platform that can tell when you are angry

Cory Doctorow on Shoshanna Zuboff: how to destroy Surveillance Capitalism and the Chickenization of America

The effects of monopolism: why your glasses cost $700 and wages have dropped over the past 50 years.

How legislation defends monopolies, and how lobbyists have destroyed democracy

How to fix Facebook: more choices in Social Media

Cyberwar with China: the TikTok era

How conspiracy theories work

The difficulties of teaching and learning via Zoom

Chatterbox: one of the best ways to learn in the COVID Age

Life in the COVID age: it could be a lot worse

OhDoctah on Black Lives Matter, and his personal experiences with racist Police

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Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Cory Doctorow, and Mike Elgan

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