603 - Gone Ape feat. Mike Isaac (2/17/21)
🕑 Added 2022-02-18 03:22:11 +0000 UTCTech journalist Mike Isaac joins us for a run-down of the latest in increasingly-dystopian tech news including: Celeb NFT shills, the Meta boom, influencer crypto heists, bricked ocular implants, and chimp neuro-torture. Fun stuff!
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Comments
Cumshitter
I want some of their coke.
Jö
Valve called up Yanis Varoufakis to study the secondary markets that were popping up in their game communities (yes like hat trading in Team Fortress 2) and to figure out how to get their cut. He talks about it in this interview which is really good https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/yanis-varoufakis-on-techno-feudalism/
chris dray
i like isaac's contribution in this ep, but i was a little sad that it probably meant we're not gonna get olsen on the show
I really enjoy Felix’s take on the path from Ulster Protestantism (imo it’s predicated by Calvinism) into contemporary American capitalism. Funnily enough it’s also a big reactionary idea, but of course those guys unironically worship Elon Musk, so it’s kind of a moot point.
Ian Woods
Others have mentioned it but ‘Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs’ is mandatory viewing. Dan Olsen has always been interesting, but the last few years the quality of his work has skyrocketed. Brilliant doc/essay - should be shown in schools
Drew Elliott
Great show
Ascetic Blur
Look when I sent that dick pic it wasn't being weirdly sexual it was an NFT of my junk.
Donald
Song at the end is fire
Dan Anderson
❤🔥
justDave
That Phillip K novel is great, but the 80's movie is fn dope- a young Raul Julia (He's so Handsome!)
Mike Wallace
So sad but have two tickets for Charlotte show turns out I can’t use - email soundsdrag@gmail.com
colin muller
I can just feel Matt seething when everyone is taking about gaming
etienne
I'd like to see one artist just go like "Yeah I'm minting a NFT because you motherfuckers aren't paying me enough. Crypto sucks but I want to buy a house. "