In this week’s TWTP podcast we talked about why we couldn’t answer our WhatsApp messages for 6 hours, the hate speech that surfaced on Reddit while we clung to it during the Facebook and Instagram outage, and the data leaks in the Twitch world. Beyond the news, we discussed the runaway success of Squid Game and the film Dune, whose name we kept hearing before it even premiered. We also made a sharp entry into the Metaverse and NFT universe: what exists in there, and what awaits us when we step inside.

00:00 Opening
00:26 What’s in our podcast?
01:22 Mark Zuckerberg’s downfall
08:45 Reddit & Twitch: hate speech and data leaks
20:38 Dune & Squid Game — what are they, what aren’t they?
29:10 Understanding the Metaverse
37:11 Small tech news
39:33 Closing