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Conversations with technologists about technology. Hosted by the HackerNoon team.
HackerNoon is built for technologists to read, write, and publish. We are an open and international community of 45,000+ contributing writers publishing stories and expertise for 4,000,000+ curious and insightful monthly readers.
Founded in 2016, HackerNoon is an independent technology publishing platform run by David Smooke and Linh Dao Smooke.
Write anywhere, publish on HackerNoon.
Episodes

Friday Aug 06, 2021
There's No Place Like The Metaverse
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
David, Amy, and Richard are Zoombombing a video call near you - JK, David more or less vetoed that idea. This Week On Planet Internet, the HN gang chats about the class-action Zoom lawsuit, the dehumanizing effect of video, and the Spirit airlines fiasco.
👽 THIS WEEK ON PLANET INTERNET:
- What would you do if you got Zoombombed? 💣 (00:45)
- Are people less credible over Zoom calls? 🧐 (08:04)
- Did someone say the Gaming Metaverse? (13:57)
- Horror stories and mass cancellations vs cheap-ass flights: who will be victorious? 🛫(15:29)
- Loooool guys, we do not understand the ownership economy 😂 (22:36)
- Amy uses her economics 101 background to decipher David's economics riddle 🧩(29:15)
🗒️ SHOW NOTES:
- The Zoomboming lawsuit: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/01/zoom-reaches-85-million-settlement-over-user-privacy-and-hacker-zoombombing.html
- Pitfalls Of Court Hearings On Zoom on HackerNoon by The Markup: https://hackernoon.com/pitfalls-of-court-hearings-on-zoom-e21j35el
- What the heck is going on with Spirit Airlines? https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/spirit-airlines-flights-canceled-operational-issues-day-four/
- What We Call the “Ownership Economy” with Braintrust CEO Adam Jackson on HackerNoon: https://hackernoon.com/what-we-call-the-ownership-economy-with-braintrust-ceo-adam-jackson-z54j37up
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