559: Black Box of Fools

Breaking News! TikTok, COVID & coked-up shrimp; ad-targeting problems; Metaverse Standards Forum; designer clothes in the Metaverse; Tesla racial abuse; TikTok US data moved to Oracle; Twitter brings back Chirp, adds blogs; hail a Lyft with cash, sort of; crypto not so decentralized; tracking layoffs; beaver outage; the Orville; Crypto Critics Corner; Cal Newport; the Old Man; Animal Kingdom; continuing HBOMax issues; Cameo; flying death mobiles; levitating with sound; DALL-E; David McRaney changing minds; Obi-Wan wrap up; crypto's PR problem; Microsoft phases out some facial recognition tech; Sanas AI voice technology.

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FOLLOW UP

Khaby Lame is now the most followed TikTok star in the world after surpassing Charli D'Amelio

Shrimp Fail Drug Test For Cocaine, Ketamine, Xanax, And Valium

Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers

IN THE NEWS

Meta settles US lawsuit over housing discrimination

Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Unity and others form Metaverse Standards Forum

Meta is launching an avatar store, and designer clothes are the first products

Former Tesla contractor rejects $15 million payout in racial abuse lawsuit

TikTok Moves All U.S. User Data to Oracle Servers

Twitter revives its developer conference after a seven-year hiatus

Twitter wants writers to publish longform content with 'Notes'

You can pay for your Lyft ride with cash now

Cryptocurrency is more centralized than many advocates claim, according to report

Layoffs.fyi Tracker

Single beaver caused mass internet, cell service outages in Northern B.C.

MEDIA CANDY

The Orville

Crypto Critics Corner

The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class by Cal Newport

Deep Questions with Cal Newport - Ep. 201: Making a Living Online

The Obamas are leaving Spotify for Audible

The Old Man

Animal Kingdom

Oblivion

APPS & DOODADS

Cameo - Maryanne Oketch

Flying Car Company Boss Completes 'First Ever' Commute in $83K Space-Age Vehicle

SCIENTISTS ARE GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AT LEVITATING OBJECTS WITH SOUND WAVES

DALL·E mini has a mysterious obsession with women in saris

AT THE LIBRARY

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

How Minds Change - The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney

Why are you removing multiple features on Goodreads?

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Microsoft will phase out facial recognition AI that could detect emotions

Sanas Demo

That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France

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