Ep 497: Not F’n Tangible - Ad Free (Patreon)

Baseball cards on the blockchain, NFT's go mainstream; Grimes 133tsp33k; Coinbase admits Bitcoin could crumble; pandemic stats; Twitter announces Super Follows; Star Trek news; Frasier's listening; the Lady and the Dale; Boss Obama not-a-podcast; Gell-Mann Amnesia; bye, bye Fry's; gadget ages; Radio Garden; Citizen notifications; Dispo; Where For; Sigh, Gone; subtitles; Facebook privacy lawsuit; Tom Cruise deep fakes; Microsoft's decentralized IDs; German pandemic words; feedback.

SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

‘Reply All’ podcast paused amid charges of toxic behavior

IN THE NEWS

Some of the Original ‘I Can Has Cheezburger?’ Lolcat Memes Are Now Available Through an NFT Art Auction

What Are NFTs and How Do They Work?

Beeple NFT Artwork Sells for $6.6 M. Ahead of Viral Christie’s Auction

The NBA Has Its Own GameStop-Style Craze

NFTs and a Thousand True Fans

Grimes made $5.8 million in under 20 minutes selling crypto-based artwork

Coinbase says the entire crypto market could be destabilized if Bitcoin’s anonymous creator is ever revealed or sells their $30 billion stake

Bitcoin whales: what are they – and how are they affecting the cryptocurrency’s price?

We’ve been cooped up with our families for almost a year. This is the result.

Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets

Gig Workers Gather Their Own Data to Check the Algorithm’s Math

MEDIA CANDY

Exclusive: Scott Bakula Returning To Star Trek As Captain Archer

Say Hello to Star Trek: Prodigy’s All-New, All Alien Kid Heroes

Don’t Count on Star Trek’s Section 31 Show Happening Any Time Soon

Frasier revival in development for Paramount Plus

The Lady and the Dale

Renegades: Born in the USA

Hosts are Tapping Pros to Polish Their Podcasts

When Podcast Hosts Speak, What Do We Hear?

Michael Crichton on the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

APPS & DOODADS

The remaining Fry’s Electronics stores are all shutting down

Amazon Echo Show 10 review: A rotating screen is a pricey novelty

Radio Garden

ChipTone

Citizen will now tell you why helicopters are flying overhead

David Dobrik’s $200m photo app Dispo, explained

Where For

DJI FPV

AT THE LIBRARY

Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran

Turn on the subtitles

Stephen Fry talks about turning on the subtitles

6 Dr. Seuss books won’t be published anymore because they portray people in ‘hurtful and wrong’ ways

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ debuts on Disney+ on May 4th

Facebook privacy lawsuit over facial recognition leads to $650M settlement

Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok

Microsoft’s Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World

Buzzsprout DDoS Technical Postmortem

New GOG World HQ

BRIC-A-BRAC

Longstanding German Circus Replaces Live Animals With Holograms

Hamsterkauf! Coronazeit! There’s a German Word for Your Pandemic Experience.

FEEDBACK LOOP

Mozilla launches ‘Total Cookie Protection’ with Firefox 86 for Mac

Data Protection Commission intervened over school’s ‘rather extreme’ facial recognition plan

MorningBrew

Clubhouse bio generator

Kims Convenience Season 5

What is a SPAC?

TRASHFUTURE: The Line is Bored feat. Matthew Zeitlin

Raising the steaks: First 3-D-printed rib-eye is unveiled