Operation «Lion Upgrade»
I’ve got quite a few streams planned this week. The plan is to stream every day from Tuesday until Saturday. I’ve got two art streams on the docket, plus PUBG and The Witcher. And I’m going to record an episode of The Private Citizen on Wednesday, of course.
More details on the stream schedule page. See you on Twitch!
Okay. Now on to the first of the two podcast episodes I released this week.
On Wednesday, my usual release day, I recorded and published an episode of The Private Citizen that covers the recent GameStop kerfuffle. If you haven’t heard about it, or don’t really understand what it was about, listen to that podcast episode. It will be worth your while, because it’s a hilarious story.
→ The Private Citizen 54: Hodl the Stonks
How a number of couch investors ruined some Wall Street guys using a mobile app. And why the Wall Street guys really don’t care. And what it means for the future.
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Oh dear. I am quite behind with telling you about podcasts I’ve recorded. 
I was just going to tell you about the episode I’d released this Wednesday and noticed that I didn’t even tell you about the one from last week. So let’s do that first:
On 27 January, I released an episode of The Private Citizen that I had planned to do for many, many months. It is about the potential of spyware in pretty much every single modern car on the market in Europe.
→ The Private Citizen 53: Clippy in Your Car
It looks like you’ve had an accident! Every new car sold in the EU has a black box in it that will activate the car’s microphone and call emergency services in the event of a crash, supplying them with the car’s location. A system that’s ripe for explotation as spyware.
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Bloody hell. I shit you not, this whole lockdown hair situation is becoming untenable. We need a solution here.
You Give People a Tool and Then You’re Shocked When They Use It?
Today, I spent about two hours on stream drawing some emotes and sub badges for my Twitch channel. The first emote is live right now. I call it “the foxpalm”. Because it’s a fox doing a facepalm.
If you want to see how I made it, the stream is archived on YouTube:
Next Up: The Witcher
Cyberpunk Completed
I’ve just released this week’s episode of The Private Citizen. I’m a day late because Mike and me recorded that episode late into the night yesterday. In fact, it was already Thursday when we were done. I did my best to get it out as fast as possible today, but I unexpectedly had a lot on my plate. But here it is, our discussion of Trump’s last days, Biden’s inauguration and what the future holds for the US and the rest of the world.
→ The Private Citizen 52: A President for All Americans
Donald Trump has left the White House and Joe Biden is now President. What does that mean for the future of the US and beyond? I look back at what happened with Trump and forward at the future with my guest Michael Mullan-Jensen.
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Incompetent Journalists Are the Biggest Source of Misinformation
A Sign of Things to Come
Yesterday, I published the first Private Citizen episode of the year on the newly redesigned website. Unsurprisingly, the episode deals with the insurrection at the US Capitol and the reactions of social media companies, who banned Trump and then just kept the bans going.
→ The Private Citizen 51: The Twitter Coup
After an angry mob stormed the US Capitol last week, Twitter and other social media companies embarked on an unprecedented power grab for control of the public’s opinion.
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“Südpark”
Rainy winter night in Düsseldorf’s Südpark
Nikon D7100, AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D (ISO 6400 • 1/320 s • f/2)
As promised last year, I’ve redesigned the website for The Private Citizen. The podcast has also gotten an album art refresh to go along with it. As you can see, I’ve now labelled it more clearly as a politics podcast, to reflect the changes in direction the show has experienced during its first year of operation. As before, the design is supposed to convey what the show is about in one glance and then get out of your way to quickly enable you to access the podcast and the substantial amount of show notes for each episode. Pleas let me know if there are any issues.
I will record and release the first episode of the year today. I was planning on streaming the recording starting at 18:00 CET, but looking at the current time, I might actually be a few hours late with that as I still have a lot of prep work to do. I will post in the Discord when I’m getting ready to go live. See you then, I hope!
Alea iacta est
