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episode 786: The Chickenization of America - Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation
Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation
- Remembering Chadwick Boseman
- Elon Musk demonstrates Neurallink: trepanning a Pig
- What is Palantir doing?
- Apple vs Epic: how anti-competitive is Apple, and what should the government do about this?
- TikTok This Week: Walmart Enters the Fray; why TikTok is Dangerous
- Amazon announces Halo, a subscription fitness wearable and platform that can tell when you are angry
- Cory Doctorow on Shoshanna Zuboff: how to destroy Surveillance Capitalism and the Chickenization of America
- The effects of monopolism: why your glasses cost $700 and wages have dropped over the past 50 years.
- How legislation defends monopolies, and how lobbyists have destroyed democracy
- How to fix Facebook: more choices in Social Media
- Cyberwar with China: the TikTok era
- How conspiracy theories work
- The difficulties of teaching and learning via Zoom
- Chatterbox: one of the best ways to learn in the COVID Age
- Life in the COVID age: it could be a lot worse
- OhDoctah on Black Lives Matter, and his personal experiences with racist Police
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Cory Doctorow, and Mike Elgan
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