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Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Your payments for dog walking and, er, “love hotels” via Venmo are now no longer subject to global scrutiny, neutron stars have wee tiny mountains, smaller than predicted, pool parties by the hour via Swimply, and former Colombian guerrillas tour you through the beauty of the jungle they still inhabit. Links: Venmo drops the global social feed that could make your payments visible to strangers (The Verge) The Venmo App You Know and Love Now Has a New Look and Feel (PayPal Newsroom) Venmo payment records reveal a vast network of young women received money from Rep. Matt Gaetz’s associate, the accused sex trafficker Joel Greenberg (The Daily Beast) Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg scheduled to be sentenced in August (CNN) We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone. (Buzzfeed) Venmo Will Now Let You Hide Your Friend List Because We Found Biden’s Account (Buzzfeed) Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are (New York Times) Modelling neutron star mountains paper (F. Gittins, N. Andersson, and D. I. Jones) Gravitational waves from star-eating black holes detected on Earth (The Guardian) An ‘Airbnb for Pools’ Is Making a Splash This Summer (Wall Street Journal) Swimply Oklahoma City homeowners cashing in on the ‘Airbnb for your pool’ (The Oklahoman) Is There a Urine Detector for Swimming Pools? (ThoughtCo) Tourists In Colombia Can Now Take Jungle Hikes With Ex-FARC Guerrilla Guides (NPR) FARC Wants You to Come Stay in the Jungle—Voluntarily (The Daily Beast) Glenn on Twitter (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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0:33.0	Welcome to the Kotke Ride Home for July 22nd, 2021. I'm Glenn Fleshman in for Jackson Bird, who is on vacation. Your payments for dog walking and love hotel via Venmo are now no longer subject to global scrutiny. Neutron stars have wee tiny mountains smaller than
0:56.4	predicted, pool parties by the hour via Swimply, and former Colombian guerrillas tore you through
1:02.6	the beauty of the jungle they still inhabit. Here are some of the cool things from the news
1:07.3	today. Strangers around the world will no longer be able to see who you're paying for dog walking
1:14.5	or college fees.
1:17.1	Yeah, that's it.
1:17.8	Venmo has discontinued its global feed.
1:20.2	When the person-to-person mobile payment system started, it predicated itself on social flow.
1:26.2	The founders wanted everyone by default to see everyone else's payments to generate a sense of buzz
1:31.6	and to give them ideas about what they could use it for.
1:34.9	This quickly became unwieldy and awkward.
1:38.1	The Venmo apps marked all payments as public by default for a while,
1:41.7	so people wound up broadcasting secret love affairs, adultery,
1:45.2	and drug deals among all the anodyne and quotidian activities they engaged in.
1:49.8	The company wrote in its blog, quote,
1:51.9	Venmo has always been social at its core, designed to be a place where friends can split and share
1:56.5	payments and experiences as part of our ongoing efforts to continually evolve.
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