This Week On Planet Internet: Elon Musk’s disproportionate influence on doge; all the best Netflix and podcast recommendations; PLUS a chat with the maker of Hacker Noon's latest Chrome Extension—The Free Internet Plugin!

🎧 TUNE IN WITH AMY TOM, NATASHA NEL, AND GUY TORBET:

• “Creating Content is More Important than Being a Millionaire” — says dogecoin millionaire (01:38 )



• Elon Mask: doge daddy, master marketeer, future murderer (03:52 )



• Lol remember that time David Smooke interviewed John McAfee? (05:01 )



• What does the literal dog of doge meme fame look like today? (06:04 )



• The tea on the the colonial pipeline ransomware attack (07:33



• ASK US WHAT TO STREAM NEXT (10:28 )



• Will you give Facebook's second favourite daughter the finger and jump ship to Signal with Amy? Apparently WhatsApp is for old people anyway (14:29 )



• Watch out, we got some personal productivity badasses over here (22:18 )

P.S. Hacker Noon just launched a Free Internet Plugin for Chrome users who want to block paywalled sites from their search results (26:07 ). You can install it the plug in here — https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-free-internet-plugin/lodclhfimkjdjmmjgeioendfjpgoghoo?hl=en-US

🗒️ SHOW NOTES:

1. Why You Should Be Careful Investing in Dogecoin by Andrey Sergeenkov for Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/why-you-should-be-careful-investing-in-dogecoin-vb1c34d3



2. Elon Musk’s tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392030108274159619



3. Reddit on SpaceX on Doge: https://www.reddit.com/r/technews/comments/n8l5vv/spacex_accepts_dogecoin_as_payment_to_launch/



4. Morning's Brew's story about the doge millionaire and content king: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/05/05/dude-became-dogecoin-millionaire



5. THE DOGE DOG, then and now:  https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/n53rq7/this_is_kabosu_shes_15_years_old_and_was_the/



6. Ransomware attack leads to shutdown of major U.S. pipeline system: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/08/cyber-attack-colonial-pipeline/



7. The battle of privacy continues with WhatsApp privacy policy and changes to Google’s Play Store: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424769/whatsapp-privacy-policy-deadline-controversy-functionality



8. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/technews/comments/n7pi5r/google_will_make_android_apps_tell_users_about/



9. How I Hacked My Brain To Trigger My Most Productive Coding Stint Ever by Guy Torbet for Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/how-i-hacked-my-brain-to-trigger-my-most-productive-coding-stint-ever-3ph348y



10. John McAfee and David Smooke on the #1 Danger of the Internet (and other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjbuLa2wt7k&t=17s

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