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    #259: Catastrophe

    December 26th, 2019 · 62 minutes

    This week on Rocket, Simone is deathly ill, so Bri and Christina talk about the latest Boeing CEO news, the New York Times’s scary new privacy investigation, the worst gadgets/companies of the decade, and the debacle/hellscape that is “Cats.”

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    Links and Show Notes

    Boeing Fires C.E.O. Dennis Muilenburg - The New York Times
    Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy - The New York Times
    Opinion | Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked - The New York Times
    Opinion | Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For - The New York Times
    Opinion | How Your Phone Betrays Democracy - The New York Times
    It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. - The New York Times
    The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech - The Verge
    Universal Notifies Theaters 'Cats' Is Being Updated With "Improved Visual Effects" | Hollywood Reporter
    "Cats" Reviews: Critics Savage Bizarre New Movie Musical Adaptation