<p>A little light this week. Identity thieves targeted a credit reporting agency, a look at the podcasting market, and more.</p>
<h2 id="in-depth">In Depth</h2>
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    source=&quot;Nilay Patel&quot;
    title=&quot;What is chokepoint capitalism, with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin&quot;
    url=&quot;<a href="https://www.theverge.com/23547877/decoder-chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-spotify-ticketmaster-antitrust&quot;">https://www.theverge.com/23547877/decoder-chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-spotify-ticketmaster-antitrust&quot;</a></p>
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<pre><code>I read this *Chokepoint Capitalism* last year and even wrote [a post reviewing it](https://kpwags.com/posts/2022/12/07/chokepoint-capitalism-a-review). I think in today&#39;s current market, it&#39;s important to keep in mind how corporations are affecting the ability of people to make a living.
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    source=&quot;Dylan Roth&quot;
    title=&quot;Deep Space Nine was ahead of its time for all the reasons it was Star Trek&#39;s &#39;problem child&#39;&quot;
    url=&quot;<a href="https://www.polygon.com/23547617/deep-space-nine-star-trek-ds9-watch-analysis&quot;">https://www.polygon.com/23547617/deep-space-nine-star-trek-ds9-watch-analysis&quot;</a></p>
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<pre><code>Star Trek DS9 is my absolute favorite TV series, it&#39;s the series I very often re-watch. It was the first Star Trek series to have an overarching story across all episodes. With *The Original Series* and *The Next Generation*, you could just turn an episode on and generally be fine. DS9 broke that mold which would occasionally make it hard to fully understand what was going on in some episodes. It was also based on a space station rather than a moving starship.

It dove into some ethical gray areas and didn&#39;t have the same feel of “Utopia” that was often seen in *The Next Generation*. It didn&#39;t pull punches. It also had two of the best villains in all of Trek. While I&#39;m sure the statute of limitations is over for spoilers given that the series ended over 20 years ago, but I would highly recommend this series.
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<h2 id="link-blast">Link Blast</h2>
<h3 id="👨🏼💻-software-development--design">👨🏼‍💻 Software Development &amp; Design</h3>
<p><a href="https://johnnyreilly.com/2022/09/20/react-usesearchparamsstate">React: storing state in URL with URLSearchParams</a> <em>(John Reilly)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://endjin.com/blog/2023/01/dotnet-csharp-lazy-async-initialization">Lazy and once-only C# async initialization</a> <em>(Ian Griffiths)</em></p>
<h3 id="🖥-technology--the-internet">🖥 Technology &amp; the Internet</h3>
<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/apple-rolls-out-ai-narrated-audiobooks-and-its-probably-the-start-of-trend/">Apple rolls out AI-narrated audiobooks, and it&#39;s probably the start of a trend</a> <em>(Samuel Axon)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/identity-thieves-bypassed-experian-security-to-view-credit-reports/">Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports</a> <em>(KrebsOnSecurity)</em></p>
<h3 id="📈-business--finance">📈 Business &amp; Finance</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-coworkers-are-less-ambitious-bosses-adjust-to-the-new-order-11672441067">Your Coworkers Are Less Ambitious; Bosses Adjust to the New Order</a> <em>(Lindsay Ellis &amp; Ray A. Smith)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/the-great-podcasting-market-correction">The Great Podcasting Market Correction</a> <em>(Ashley Carman &amp; Lucas Shaw)</em></p>
<h3 id="🎧-podcasts">🎧 Podcasts</h3>
<p><a href="https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/119/">Darknet Diaries #119: Hot Wallets</a></p>
<p><a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/meet-us-by-the-fountain/">99% Invisible #495: Meet Us by the Fountain</a></p>
<p><a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/103-pieces-of-advice-that-may-or-may-not-work/">Freakonomics #507: 103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work</a></p>
<h3 id="🎒-everything-else">🎒 Everything Else</h3>
<p><a href="https://cdevroe.com/2023/01/11/blogging-is-alive">Blogging is alive and well</a> <em>(Colin Devroe)</em></p>
<h3 id="🎵-a-song-to-leave-you-with">🎵 A Song to Leave You With</h3>
<h4 id="fireworks---arrows">Fireworks - Arrows</h4>
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Reading Log - January 13 (#14)

<p>I recently re-watched Star Trek Generations and I really feel like it&#39;s an underrated Star Trek film. Beware, there are spoilers ahead, so don&#39;t say I didn&#39;t warn you.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111280/">Star Trek Generations</a> came out in 1994 and is the first of the Star Trek movies to feature the Next Generation crew. As a Star Trek fan, I&#39;ve noticed it doesn&#39;t get a lot of love. There&#39;s a lot of fans who seem to dislike the movie. Some of their reasons aren&#39;t unreasonable, but I still feel like it get&#39;s overlooked a little too much.</p>
<p>The main plot of the movie is that there&#39;s a scientist, Dr. Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell) is trying to enter <em>The Nexus</em>, another dimension that is described as “being inside joy”. Soran went so far as to destroy a star to accomplish this goal and that is what Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are trying to stop. In the process, Picard meets up with Captain Kirk from the Original Series and the two of them work to save the day.</p>
<p>There are a few reasons I&#39;ve heard that people don&#39;t like the movie.</p>
<h2 id="the-destruction-of-the-enterprise">The Destruction of the Enterprise</h2>
<p>The first is that it features the destruction, and end of the USS Enterprise D as it crashes into the planet at the end of the movie. Now part of this is apparently Rick Herman and others wanted an Enterprise that fit better on the big screen and the proportions of the Enterprise D didn&#39;t fit that mold. Whatever the reason, it didn&#39;t bother me all that much. Yes, it was a beautiful and iconic ship, but Kirk destroyed the original Enterprise back in Star Trek III, albeit in way that moved the story forward a little more. Either way, I&#39;m not bothered by it&#39;s destruction.</p>
<h2 id="kirks-death">Kirk&#39;s Death</h2>
<p>There&#39;s no easy way to put this, Kirk dies at the end of the movie. While his death doesn&#39;t feel quite as “Saves the day” as Spock&#39;s death in <em>The Wrath of Khan</em>, it wasn&#39;t a meaningless death. He died fighting to save the lives of the crew of the Enterprise as well as the millions of lives of the species who lived in the Veridian system. It might have been better if he were on a ship rather than some random planet, but dying in the line of duty feels right for him.</p>
<h2 id="when-picard-chose-to-return-to-reality">When Picard Chose to Return to Reality</h2>
<p>This is the one plot hole I don&#39;t get and can see the annoyance. In the movie, when Picard is in the Nexus, he finds out that he can return to any point in time. Why did he choose to go to Veridian III shortly before Soran&#39;s weapon was slated to shoot off and destroy the Veridian star? If I were Picard, I would&#39;ve gone back to just after they reached the Amagosa Observatory right after they rescued Soran. I&#39;d march into sickbay with a security team or two, throw him in handcuffs, drag him in the brig, throw up the forcefield and be done with it. Super easy, no muss, no fuss. Soran is imprisoned and the galaxy is saved. Obviously this wouldn&#39;t work as a plot point, but it would be so much simpler.</p>
<p>Either way, I definitely feel the movie is underrated and I always enjoy it when I watch it.</p>
<p>Besides, any Trek movie is better than Star Trek V.</p>


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