Fri. 02/11 - Rams vs. Bengals In the Wild

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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MoviePass is back and it wants to track your eyeballs. Plus, who would win in a real-world animal showdown: a ram or a Bengal tiger? NASA has released the first images of a star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. And the Comanche language version of Wordle that Facebook doesn’t want you to see. Sponsors: ExpressVPN, ExpressVPN.com/kottke for an extra 3 months FREE on a one-year package Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads (Vice) MoviePass is officially coming back (The Verge) Who Would Win in a Real-World Battle: A Bengal Tiger or a Ram? (Smithsonian Magazine) Nathan Chen Makes 'Crazy' Joe Burrow Comment And Predicts Super Bowl Winner (HuffPost) Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times (NASA) James Webb Space Telescope captures its first images of a star (Engadget) Comanche Wordle vs. Facebook (Dr. Kate Pewenofkit Briner, Twitter) Words removed from Wordle after move to New York Times (Boing Boing) Comanche NotWordle (TalkingComanche.org) Wordle players' streaks are returning after NYT switch (Polygon) Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR (BBC) Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial (KUOW) Gary Bowser is going to prison for selling Nintendo Switch hacks (The Verge) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.9	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Friday, February 11th, 2022.
0:40.7	I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:43.0	Movie Pass is back and it wants to track your eyeballs.
0:47.6	Plus, who would win in a real-world animal showdown, a ram or Bengal tiger. NASA has released the first images of a star
0:57.8	taken by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Comanche language version of Wordle that Facebook
1:05.0	doesn't want you to see. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:11.6	Do you remember the halcyon days of early 2018?
1:16.6	The term COVID-19 had yet to be invented, and for a brief period of time, you could go see as many movies as you wanted for just $9.95, less than the cost of one movie in a lot of places.
1:31.2	I never signed up for Movie Pass myself, even before the pandemic.
1:34.8	I had trouble making it out to the movie theater even just the one time a month that would
1:38.8	make the disruptive subscription service worth it.
1:41.8	But a lot of my friends did.
1:42.9	I had one friend in particular who had a
1:45.2	month off in between jobs right at the height of the movie pass craze, and with nothing better to do,
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