Apr 13th 2022
This Week in Google 659
Keeping Up With the Higginbothams
Web3, Elon Musk, Gilbert Gottfried, Algospeak, DALL-E
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Marks
- 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
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Links
- Kevin's article: Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06
- Twitter reverts change that left blank spaces in place of deleted embedded tweets
- Elon Musk Sued Over Delay in Disclosing Twitter (TWTR) Stake - Bloomberg
- Nope, canceled
- Elon: Nevermind
- Ukrainian power grid 'lucky' to withstand Russian cyber-attack
- TikTok's Russia strategy: Censorship, loopholes and propaganda - The Washington Post
- Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’
- How to Protect Children From Big Tech Companies
- Gilbert Gottfried Was the Voice of Clippy
- Big Tech Is Pouring $925 Million Into Carbon Removal - The Atlantic
- Intel sets 2040 net zero goal for carbon emissions - Protocol
- Amazon’s IMDb TV changes its name to Freevee | TechCrunch
- Mark Zuckerberg Security Costs $26.8 Million for Meta (FB) - Bloomberg
- Google quietly launches its awaited ‘Switch to Android’ app on iOS | TechCrunch
- 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 demos
- New York's NFT vending machine
- Newmark puts $50 million into "cyber civil defense"
- Roomba sucks up dogs tail
- Audiobook narrators is a TikTok thing
- Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- Shein $100b valuation
- ElectricityMap.org: Carbon intensity energy map
- random indieweb page