Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, February 8th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, yes, we're going to talk about the Bezos thing. Is Amazon reconsidering its HQ2 in New York thing?

Sprint sues over 5G, maybe digital media is just fine after all, and the weekend long read suggestions here's what you

miss today in the world of tech.

Dear listener if you're wondering how it is that we live in a universe where the lead story will require us to talk about nude photos of Jeff Bezos, believe me, I'm right there with you in the mouth of madness.

Late last night, Jeff Bezos published a post on medium that began this way, quote,

Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually for me it wasn't just unusual it was a

first. I was made an offer I couldn't refuse or at least that's what the top

people at the National Inquirer thought. I'm glad they thought that because it emboldened

them to put it all in writing. Rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail, I've

decided to publish exactly what they sent me, despite the personal cost and embarrassment they threaten."

End quote.

Bezos then went on to publish letters he says he received from National Inquirer

owner AMI that he said detail threats to publish nude photos

belonging to him unless he stopped probing AMI's reporting surrounding the

purported intimate texts from Bezos himself.

Bezos says that AMI wanted him to cease his personal investigation into the matter which is apparently looking into whether or not the leak

of the original text was politically motivated.

Bézos obliquely hints at a political connection by specifically mentioning AMI's relationship with

President Trump. Also I saw a Washington Post reporter on the Lawrence O'Donnell show

last night saying that Bezos's investigation team thinks it's possible that a government entity

access his personal text. As Kiff Leswing tweeted, if the picks were intercepted by a government, it really underscores that the content

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