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episode 551: Boomer Remover
Today's Stories:
- Jeff Jarvis' list of who to follow on Twitter for expert advice on coronavirus
- Zeynep Tufekci on masks - they are not perfect, but they help.
- Google under coronavirus: pausing chrome updates, security issues
- Musk defiant: Tesla factory stays open despite shelter-in-place orders
- Charter makes workers come in
- Coronavirus patent trolls vs open-source medical supplies
- NBCUniversal offers streaming first-run movies - from movies to diapers to toilet paper, direct-to-consumer industries are thriving
- Amazon hiring 100,000 workers, increasing pay, as all other industries collapse
- Facebook, Reddit, Google, Twitter, YouTube fight coronavirus misinformation
- The EARN-IT Act will kill encryption and Section 230
- Jeff Jarvis fixes Facebook's coronavirus spam filter
- Reporters Without Borders create the Uncensored Library in Minecraft
- Pixar founders win $1 million Turing prize
Picks of the Week:
- Jeff's Number: Virtual Choir x 3
- Stacey's Thing 1: Teach your kid science
- Stacey's Thing 2: Sourdough: A Novel at https://amzn.to/2UgWVOm
- Karsten's Quarantine Tip: Stuck at home? Take Harvard's FREE Intro to Computer Science course!
- Leo's Tool: Around Next-gen video calling
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham
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