Saturday 22nd June, 2024 - Politics, Bitcoin and UFOs (Issue #169)

UK & France election politics, Bitcoins future with inscriptions and runes, St George & the history of dragons, Trump on All-in pod, science & UFOs

Jun 22, 2024

Hello and welcome to my newsletter!

Another season 2 instalment…

It’s a bit of a strange week for the newsletter because there really wasn’t that much tech podcasts that peaked my interest this week. There’s just so much politics and elections happening everywhere that that is what’s been most interesting in all the podcasts. Some still have a bit of a tech angle like the Trump interview on the All-in Podcast, which is great btw, but there’s a noticeable shift this week and that’s reflected in the selection.

The one quite tech related episode is the Casey Rodarmor interview on WBD all about some of the big changes to Bitcoin that have been happening recently, namely inscriptions and runes. Worth knowing about, they might very well change some fundamental dynamics in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

The out there piece this week is all about UFOs and science, from a Brian Keating interview. Lots of interesting science angles about these strange phenomenons.

There are several tech related podcasts that just dropped yesterday and this morning which I haven’t had time to listen to. Some will no doubt make it into next week’s issue.

I’ve written several blog posts this week but since I’m out of build minutes I can’t publish them to the website. I’ll list them here to peak your interests, but you’ll need to check back at the end of the month to actually read them. Sorry about that, not much I can do about that:

Elon’s insane pay package
My thoughts on Brexit
On being accepted in asia
The UK, the EU, podcasting and AI
I got assaulted again
Assault aftermath 1
Assault aftermath 2
Assault aftermath 3
My main worry with an ultra strong labour government

When they get published at the end of the month, there will also be a ton of links from the linkblog, and notes from the notesblog. The old stuff is of course all still there to browse:

https://markjgsmith.com/everything

As you can tell from some of the blog post titles, it’s been another rough week. I haven’t had time yet to write show descriptions this week, more than what’s in this intro. The titles are all quite self explanatory though.

Google Podcasts is due to shutdown this week. That’s still the best place in my opinion to listen to one off podcast episodes, and many of the links in the newsletter are from there, usually for podcasts that don’t have their own website. I’m still looking for a good replacement.

If some of the links stop working then try the podcast index website:

https://podcastindex.org

It looks a bit weird on mobile, but I like their mission statement and they appear to have many podcasts there.