Ep 488: On a Safari - Ad Free (Patreon)

Paying to gig; ADA lawsuits; FTC wants social media firms to explain themselves, sues Facebook for monopolization; dynamic difficulty adjustments in sports games; Stripchat; Pornhub purge; the Silicon Valley Texodus; Hawaii is for tech villians; searching for You; Star Wars lore & Operation:Cinder with Furry Jr; SolarWinds hack; Star Trek data; Heaven's Gate; the Queen's Gambit; Big Sur update; Chrome is bad; trying Safari; Apple's ridiculous AirPods Max; AI translation; white supremecists take ancestry tests, hilarity ensues; Zodiac Killer cipher cracked; Solar system superhighways; feedback.

SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

I Paid $250 To Drive For Lyft Last Year

IN THE NEWS

FTC kicks off sweeping privacy probe of nine major social media firms

FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Facebook Kowtowed to Conservatives and Got Nothing in Return

A New Lawsuit Exemplifies an Existential Debate in Sports Video Games

Stripchat’s AI-powered ‘anal-ytics’ helped it reach nearly 1B new users in 2020

Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform

Oracle is headed to Texas now, too

Tech billionaire Larry Ellison has moved to Hawaii

Take a tour of Mark Zuckerberg’s gigantic $100 million property in Hawaii

Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google

Get on the You.com Waitlist

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

The Casual Star Wars Fan’s Guide to “Operation: Cinder”

U.S. Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign Linked to Russia

Kim Zetter has a nice explainer thread

MEDIA CANDY

I finished watching Star Trek TNG and decided to double down on being a nerd and analyze the scripts over the 7 seasons.

Joe Rogan Fan’s Learn How Shitty Spotify Is

Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults | HBO Max Originals

The Queen’s Gambit

APPS & DOODADS

Is Chrome Killing Your MacBook?

Chrome is Bad

WD 4TB My Passport Ultra for Mac Silver Portable External Hard Drive, USB-C – WDBPMV0040BSL-WESN

Apple announces its AirPods Max — a $550 pair of over-ear headphones

The AirPods Max case is an abomination and an insult

How to Use ProRAW on Your iPhone 12 Pro

Otter Transcription

MORON OF THE WEEK

White Supremacists Taking Ancestry Tests Aren’t Happy About The Results

BRIC-A-BRAC

Zodiac Killer cipher is cracked after eluding sleuths for 51 years

Solar System ‘superhighway’ could speed up space travel

FEEDBACK LOOP

One of the best Trump deep fake videos ever! – Cheyenne 9’s Coverage of the Official White House Address

ComplyFoam

Ontarian Leaves Package Of Poop On Porch & It Apparently Got Stolen Only 40 Mins Later

Rage Industries

Rage Industries Local News Report

The Break Room

Battle Sports Rage Room

Bad Sex in Fiction Award Is Canceled, as 2020 Was Bad Enough

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

TOMMY ‘TINY’ LISTER DEAD AT 62

Microsoft Misfit Helped Lead Company Into Game Market

John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89