TWiG 659: Keeping Up With the Higginbothams - Web3, Elon Musk, Gilbert Gottfried, Algospeak, DALL-E

• 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

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Kevin Marks

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