Is crypto ready for mom and pop investors?
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about a potential win for privacy advocates, as facial recognition company Clearview AI reaches a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union. But we still have questions. Another new story with a lot of questions? Crypto, of course. We’re still skeptical about the stability of cryptocurrency, but that hasn’t stopped investors and others from jumping right in. We’ll discuss what has us … a little nervous.
Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:
- “Authorities find human remains in Lake Mead twice in one week” from NPR
- “Cryptocurrency TerraUSD Falls Below Fixed Value, Triggering Selloff” from The Wall St Journal
- “40% of bitcoin investors are now underwater, new data shows” from CNBC
- “Clearview AI agrees to permanent ban on selling facial recognition to private companies” from The Verge
- “Opinion — Chris Murphy’s urgent abortion warning reveals a hidden GOP threat” from The Washington Post
- Trevor Noah’s discussion of billionaires on “The Daily Show”
- Tom House Is (Still) Reinventing Pitching With Mustard App from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | But if we don't start talking then, you know, who knows? Who knows what might happen? |
| 0:04.8 | I know, what if we just don't speak? Who knows what might happen? |
| 0:10.8 | Although we're gonna get some shit to speak. |
| 0:13.0 | Because it's our job. Hey everybody, I'm Kyle and Rose doll, welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:16.9 | Making the Day Makes Sense is what we do around here. |
| 0:20.8 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us on this Monday. |
| 0:25.1 | We are going to do the news. We're going to do some Make Me Smiles. |
| 0:28.8 | And so yeah, let's get into it. Hope you had a good weekend. |
| 0:33.0 | I did. I did. Although as we were chatting beforehand, you just decided to |
| 0:37.5 | melo out, which I think is awesome. That's really cool. |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah, I hid from the world. It was great. |
| 0:42.6 | All right, what's your news? |
| 0:44.9 | I got a couple and then I got one I haven't even put on here and I'm debating whether or not I |
| 0:48.8 | should mention it because Bridget Bonder is going to climb through the slack and climb onto |
| 0:51.8 | this podcast on out. But number one, this seems, this seems, it's a story that's now |
| 0:58.7 | what it's about. Okay. So here's the. There is an item that I saw on NPR today on their website. |
| 1:08.1 | And I'll just read the first sentence. Authorities have discovered more human remains in Lake |
| 1:11.8 | Mead, the country's largest reservoir by volume, which is located east of Las Vegas. The reason |
| 1:16.1 | they are discovering more human remains, and this is the second one in like a week, they found a |
| 1:19.8 | body in a barrel about three, four days ago, is because water levels at Lake Mead and other key |
| 1:25.8 | reservoirs at West are at record low levels. And that's really, really bad because that's drinking |
| 1:32.0 | water and agricultural water and it's all kinds of stuff for the bajillion of us who live out here |
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