Nov 9th 2022
This Week in Google 689
Rusticated and Rectified
Blue vs grey checkmarks, Meta layoffs, FTX Binance collapse, Google One VPN
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Glenn Fleishman
- Twitter vs Mastodon.
- Twitter begins to roll out, then kills, grey checkmarks for high-profile accounts.
- Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks.
- identi.ca
- Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees.
- Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Empire Faces US Probe Into Client Funds, Lending.
- Robinhood Collapses Following Difficulties of Savior.
- Twitter Is Our Future - by James Fallows.
- SpaceX adds data restrictions for Starlink power users.
- On Twitter, Elon Musk Details His Plans for Twitter’s Business.
- Bullshit Reporting: The Intercept’s Story About Government Policing Disinfo Is Absolute Garbage.
- Matter launch event: Hands-on with the newest Matter devices.
- Google Messages tests redesigned photo picker.
- Stadia refunds start today as Google provides more details on what to expect.
- Google One VPN coming to desktop with Mac and Windows apps.
- First Pixel 7 update rolling out with three fixes for display and system.
- Optimized YouTube Shorts player for TVs rolling out.
- Google and Renault are developing a 'software-defined vehicle' together.
- Berkeley moves toward banning all right turns on red lights.
- Amazon’s new electric vans will be making deliveries in over 100 U.S. cities this holiday season.
- TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn.
- How online mobs act like flocks of birds.
- Zoomtopia.
Picks:
- Glenn - Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics.
- Jeff - Dystopian Candy Crush Drone Fleet Unleashed Into Skies Above New York.
- Jeff - Drones complete incomplete monuments.
- Ant - LumaFusion available in Beta on Android and ChromeOS.
- Ant - Canon EOS Webcam Utility PRO Announced.
- Ant - There_I_Ruined_It on Instagram.
- Ant - Rancho Cotate Athlete of the week Jacob Pruitt.
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Links
- Twitter begins to roll out, then kills, grey checkmarks for high-profile accounts | TechCrunch
- Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees - The New York Times
- Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Empire Faces US Probe Into Client Funds, Lending - Bloomberg
- Twitter Is Our Future - by James Fallows
- Bullshit Reporting: The Intercept’s Story About Government Policing Disinfo Is Absolute Garbage | Techdirt
- Matter launch event: Hands on with the newest Matter devices - The Verge
- Google Messages tests redesigned photo picker
- Stadia refunds start today as Google provides more details on what to expect
- Google One VPN coming to desktop with Mac and Windows apps
- First Pixel 7 update rolling out with three fixes for display and system
- Optimized YouTube Shorts player for TVs rolling out
- Google and Renault are developing a 'software-defined vehicle' together
- Amazon’s new electric vans will be making deliveries in over 100 U.S. cities this holiday season
- TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn
- How online mobs act like flocks of birds
- Zoomtopia
- Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics
- Drone ads over NYC
- Drones complete incomplete monuments
- LumaFusion available in Beta on Android and ChromeOS
- Canon EOS Webcam Utility PRO Announced
- There_I_Ruined_It
- Another Local Recognition for Hardhead Jacob Pruitt