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Here's What A Miami Bitcoin Convention Is Like Apr 14, 2022

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This week caps off our final installment from the Miami Bitcoin convention. We also talk about Elon Musk trying to takeover Twitter. Hilariously, we recorded this on Tuesday of this week, before the news that he wanted to do a big takeover of the company. We were worried that this would be dated but the news on Thursday, but actually we think we kind of nailed it. So that's pretty cool!

If you want to hear more about crypto from us, here are two other recent episodes to check out if you haven’t yet:

* How The Heck Does NFT Copyright Work???

* Why Are Crypto Bros Obsessed With Miami?

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Why Are Crypto Bros Obsessed With Miami? Apr 07, 2022

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Ryan just landed in Miami for Bitcoin 2022, the huge crypto conference. And Luke surprised him by telling him mid-recording this week that he has COVID. So, yeah, this episode has some weird vibes to it. We’re talking about why Miami is trying to become the Bitcoin capital of the United States and what it would mean if that actually happened.

SHOW NOTES

“The Tech Bros Take Miami”

“Miami Is Hosting The World’s Biggest Crypto Party”

“Miami Wants to Be the Hub for Bitcoin”

“Crypto tax: ‘MiamiCoin’ has made the city $7 million so far, a potential game-changer for revenue collection”

“Rio De Janeiro Is Giving People a 10% Discount to Pay Taxes in Bitcoin”

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Unfortunately, We Have To Talk About The Slap Mar 31, 2022

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What does The Oscars Slap mean for content? What does it say about personal brands in 2k22? R buzzy viral topics still relevant?? Can u b alt and also online? Has the vibe shifted and, if so, how effed is it rn?

We’re talking about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars and why it’s the end of the current era of the internet and why Grimes allegedly hacking and extorting Hipster Runoff may have been the end of the era before that!

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How The Heck Does NFT Copyright Work??? Mar 25, 2022

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We’re going long on NFTs this week. Particularly the confusing and murky world of NFT copyright. Who owns an NFT? And what can you do with it? We’re exploring the Web3 concept of a “headless brand”. Turns out it’s really confusing and also kind of dumb! But also kind of interesting!

SHOW NOTES

The “Headless Brands” white paper

The Egregore Wikipedia article

“Prolific restaurant developer Andy Nguyen plans first restaurant tied to Bored Ape Yacht Club”

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Structural Dissonance Defines The Internet Mar 17, 2022

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This week we’re going deep on a term Luke coined a few episodes ago: “structural dissonance”. It’s that feeling you get seeing images of the invasion of Ukraine in the same content feed as memes, viral animals, lifestyle influencers, or video game playthroughs. It defines the internet, but it also defines kind of our entire current existence. It’s confusing and weird and is breaking our brains and making it harder to understand actual reality. As you can tell, this week’s episode is very light.

SHOW NOTES

More about the Doodles NFTs at SXSW

Even more about the Doodles NFTs

Ryan’s previous write-up on the Something Awful 9/11 thread

The Something Awful 9/11 archive

The Pew Research piece on the Arab Spring

Emerson T. Brooking’s tweet

r/VolunteersForUkraine

Will Beating Cancer

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Inside The World Of Boomer Bingo Livestreams Mar 10, 2022

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We went deep into the weird and uncanny world of Facebook again. We promise we’re moving one after this lol. But we couldn’t ignore Facebook’s massive transparency report. We discovered some absolutely wild stuff. Most importantly, bingo livestreams are a thing and, damn, they are popular. Also, we spend a little while talking about why sanctions against Russia do not mean that Russian dark money suddenly disappeared from Facebook and make the internet magically better over night.

SHOW NOTES

virallk.com

The internet went down

The big Facebook transparency report

Do You Remember When’s Facebook page

Eric Alper’s Twitter account

“Eric Alper Is Just Asking Questions”

Be Dirty’s Facebook page

Videos Best’s Facebook page

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Why Is Facebook Full Of Katie Couric CBD Scams? Mar 03, 2022

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This week is probably our weirdest and most confusing rabbit hole ever. We looked into why Facebook is full of posts claiming that Katie Couric has met some kind of “tragic end” and why they’re all advertising CBD gummies. We think we figured out how it happened, but it was a real rats nest. We also continue to analyze the info war surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

SHOW NOTES

The Zelensky rap video

Taylor Lorenz’s Katie Couric thread

The fake Daily Mail store URL that’s hosting a fake NBC News article

The Get Huuman store

The FTC complaint against Kushly

The weird SF Weekly post

The weird Jerusalem Post post

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The Most Online War Of All Time Until The Next One Feb 24, 2022

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This week, we're talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Obviously, this is a fast-moving situation. We recorded this mid-day on Thursday, February 24, 2022. We're looking at the torrent of content around the invasion and trying to wrap our heads around whether or not, when the boots hit the ground, if memes or online content matters at all.

SHOW NOTES

https://twitter.com/rizviuzair/status/1496761944006668292?s=21

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1496876397595353094

https://twitter.com/paradoomer/status/1496855640718950410

https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1496767831182041089

https://twitter.com/scholars_stage/status/1496134760074301442?s=21

https://scholars-stage.org/about-the-author/

https://www.garbageday.email/p/zoombombing-the-italian-senate?utm_source=url

https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-attention-economy-is-a-war-zone?utm_source=url

https://twitter.com/IAMannalynnemcc/status/1496877541772062727

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV0YFqUWcjo

https://twitter.com/PatrickCoffee/status/1496846157473067016

https://twitter.com/barstoolWSD/status/1496872249600581635

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-russia-rcna17558

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Facebook Is Doomed If It Can't Track You Feb 17, 2022

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This week we are, once again, talking about another real bad week for Facebook, a company that appears to be having more bad weeks at a higher frequency than ever before. We also peer into the metaverse which is even dumber than we ever could have imagined. Is being a "metamate" the future?

SHOW NOTES

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/14/22932824/hmrc-nft-seizure-fraud-investigation

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-backrooms

https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1493092806222516224

https://uploadvr.com/foo-fighters-quest-vr-livestream-issues/

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-static-video-memes-are-all-over-instagram

https://getchapter.app/@broderick/memes

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Why Is Netflix Launching A News Site? Feb 10, 2022

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Netflix is the biggest streamer in the whole world. They are, effectively, the streaming entertainment standard. So why are they launching a news site and poaching journalists from places like Condé Nast? In 2022, why would you want to run a digital media website? We speculate wildly about why that might be!

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