After a heated debate over Slack and hummus/Hamas, Jesse and Katie announce a repivoting of the podcast. Then they discuss a gas shortage that almost stranded Katie in an unmentionable hellhole and the careful, measured, polite reaction to a column by the incorrigible Liz Bruenig, who had the temerity to argue, grossly, that she loves her kids and is glad to be a mom.
Show notes/Links:
International Hamas day: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1392901563207897101?s=20
On the pipeline hack: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/
Subpar reporting on it: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1392108492773810176
Fact-checking the bag thing: https://nbc-2.com/news/2021/05/12/fact-check-viral-twitter-photo-of-plastic-bags-full-of-gas-was-taken-in-2019/
Bruenig's hate-crime of a column: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/motherhood-baby-bust-early-parenthood.html
Everyone is completely out of their goddamn minds:
https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1391816713008607235
https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1391353803174199299
https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1391354461566685186
https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391382397585928192
https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391457783506259969
https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391459272261779458
https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391540579197235201
FdB is correct: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/all-this-shit-is-high-school
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