534: Fat Finger Financial Foibles

Christmas is cancelled; Bezos gets his wings; subscription models; AWS outage; centralized exchanges; Buzzfeed headlines; Twitter Spaces lack moderation; Vegans and NFT'ers; some smart NFT moves; fat finger errors; Facebook exec blames people; click to subscribe, call to cancel; A&M Records; the Expanse; Star Trek: Discovery; FC Bayern; Dan Carlin; thumper spikes; DiePods; drunk purchases; Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser; comprised Twitter accounts; Log4j and software dependencies.Show notes at https://gog.show/534This Holiday, ButcherBox is giving new members one pack of bacon for FREE in EVERY box, plus $20 off each box for the first five months of your membership. That's free bacon for life and up to $100 off! Sign up at butcherbox.com/GOGFOLLOW UPThe FAA will give Bezos and Branson its last astronaut wingsMercedes-Benz gets world’s first approval for automated driving systemToyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fobIN THE NEWSAmazon explains outage that took out a large chunk of the internetAmazon’s Server Outage Took Down a ‘Decentralized’ Crypto ExchangeHow Former BuzzFeed Employees Missed Their Big PaydayTwitter asks judge to throw out Trump's lawsuit over banTwitter reportedly knew Spaces could be misused due to a lack of moderationBored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000NIKE buys RTFKT, a virtual brand that makes metaverse-ready sneakersStrengthening digital provenance with OpenSea and AdobeFacebook exec blames society for COVID misinformationSenate bill would facilitate social platforms sharing data with outside researchersHer Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC saysMEDIA CANDYMr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M RecordsThe Expanse Season 6The WitcherFC Bayern - Behind the LegendDan Carlin’s Hardcore History AddendumEverything Everywhere All At Once | Official Trailer HD | A24APPS & DOODADSVictor M9012 Sonic 2 Spike, YellowControversial ‘suicide pod’ that ‘kills peacefully’ gets go-ahead in SwitzerlandArduino UNO Mini Limited EditionAT THE LIBRARYFan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True EventsEscape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles StrossThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatRecorded FutureFirst Look | "Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser" | With Walt Disney Imagineering | Walt Disney WorldStar Wars Galactic Starcruiser Welcome video - Very Star Tours like.Someone 'briefly compromised' the Indian Prime Minister's Twitter accountLogging library for millions of apps has a serious vulnerabilityxkcd: DependencyGoogle disrupted a massive botnet that hackers used to steal information and mine cryptocurrencyCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSMasayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78Michael Nesmith — considerably more than a Monkee — dies at 78Monkees’ Manager on Michael Nesmith’s Final Months: ‘He Died Knowing They Were Beloved — He Finally Got It’Anne Rice, ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Writer, Dies at 80See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.