I've got an NFT bridge to sell you; Substack raises millions; Anti-Vax Mondays at Krispy Kreme, Zoom-Free Fridays at Citi; Jack Dorsey multi-tasks; nowhere on Earth without satellite light pollution; Moderna vaccine posted on GitHub; Moroccan bit-bros; OpenAI spewing words; BitClout; Virgin lost Spaceship II, goes straight to III; 6 Minutes to Midnight; concerts are coming back, but are the roadies; the Alchemist; the Immortality Code; Obi-Wan Kenobi; hackers backdoor PHP source code; your life on your phone; don't post on YouTube if you're a fugitive; best 80's albums; Utah's porn filter; the funniest joke in the world.
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FOLLOW UP
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IN THE NEWS
Jack Dorsey Could Not Contain His Annoyance at Being Grilled by Congress
Study finds nowhere on Earth is safe from satellite light pollution
Citi Creates ‘Zoom-Free Fridays’ to Combat Pandemic Fatigue
Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on Github
Morocco is seeing a huge surge in cryptocurrency use
OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day
What Is BitClout? The Social Media Experiment Sparking Controversy on Twitter
Virgin Galactic unveils new SpaceShip III
MEDIA CANDY
COVID-19: 5,000 music fans attend Barcelona gig after passing same-day coronavirus screening
As Concerts Prepare to Return From Pandemic Lockdown, Roadies Have Moved On
Ep18: Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff) on how Covid-19 stopped him from quitting the music business
Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor
AT THE LIBRARY
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and narrated by Jeremy Irons
The Immortality Code by Douglas E. Richards
SECURITY HAH!
Hackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git server
Mafia fugitive caught after posting cooking show on YouTube
MORON OF THE WEEK
Utah GOP Gov. Spencer Cox Signs Controversial Porn Filter Measure
BRIC-A-BRAC
Huge Scientific Study Reveals Funniest Joke In The World
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Jessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew up
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