June 17, 2021
They Can’t Stop All Of Us!!
Do Aliens exist? 👽 Limarc Ambalina, David Smooke, and Amy Tom talk about storming area 51 and the Pentagon's upcoming UFO report, El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin, and the return to the office. 🤪
This Week On Planet Internet 🎧
How will the return to the...
Do Aliens exist? 👽 Limarc Ambalina, David Smooke, and Amy Tom talk about storming area 51 and the Pentagon's upcoming UFO report, El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin, and the return to the office. 🤪
This Week On Planet Internet 🎧
- How will the return to the office affect workplace culture? 😭 (01:56)
- Maybe this will lead to a rise in coworking spaces 🤔 (06:20)
- The President of El Salvador declared they will soon accept Bitcoin as legal tender. What does this mean for Bitcoin? 📈 (08:03)
- Amy tries to wrap her head around governmental backing of cryptocurrency 🤯 (10:58)
- Limarc, Junior UFO Hunter, discusses the Pentagon's upcoming scheduled release of a report on UFOs 🛸 (15:44)
- LET'S STORM AREA 51 🏃♂️ (18:39)
- Tech of the Week: Amy just discovered some new exciting settings on her Android (23:55), David's been considering buying his daughter her first computer (25:59), and Limarc is playing a new VR game that sounds pretty cool 🖥 (27:59)
🗒️ SHOW NOTES:
- The Back to the Office Maximum by Anne Helen Petersen on Substack: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-back-to-the-office-maximum
- Babysitter Managers Are in Trouble and They Know It by Anthony Watson on Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/babysitter-managers-are-in-trouble-and-they-know-it-5p12932sq
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Latin American Politicians Embracing Cryptocurrency by Claudio Cossio on Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-latin-american-politicians-embracing-cryptocurrency-b38a32bo
- The Pentagon Could Finally Tell the Whole Truth About UFOs by Matthew Gault: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxgvj/the-pentagon-could-finally-tell-the-whole-truth-about-ufos
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