Month: November 2021

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Memes and War, Recurring Dreams and Blue-blocking Cosmetics

Anne asks for more information about the weird world of memetic warfare. Voodoo shares a strange story about a recurring dream that just might have predicted some events in the waking world. Bronze Ranked Boomer wonders about the efficacy of blue-blocking cosmetics. All this and more in this week's Listener Mail.

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Lost Debate - Manhattan’s Next District Attorney on the Trump Investigation, Policing, Reform, Race, Rikers, and Eric Adams

We speak to Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s incoming District Attorney about the Trump investigation he’s inheriting, major reforms he’s proposed to policing and prosecution, the role of race in the criminal justice system, efforts to fix Rikers Island, and his relationship with the NYPD and the incoming mayor, Eric Adams. 


Resisting Arrest:

New Manhattan DA: Fewer Resisting Arrest Charges.

We speak to Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s incoming District Attorney about his plan to deemphasize resisting arrest charges. 


Trump: 

New Manhattan DA on Why He Won’t Recuse Himself from the Trump Investigation.

We speak to Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s incoming District Attorney about the Trump investigation he’s inheriting and whether she should recuse himself. 

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 11/11

Judge considers a possible mistrial in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. January 6th document fight intensifies. Arlington's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier turns 100. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Headlines From The Times - Why we forget U.S. violence toward Chinatowns

This fall, a commemoration in downtown Los Angeles marked the 150th anniversary of when a mob lynched 18 Chinese men and boys — one of the biggest such killings in American history. The recent memorial comes in a year when many similar remembrances have bloomed across the United States. Anti-Asian hate crimes have soared during the pandemic, but that has also spurred an interest in learning the long, and long-hidden, history of such bigotry.

 

 

More reading: 

History forgot the 1871 Los Angeles Chinese massacre, but we’ve all been shaped by its violence

L.A.'s memorial for 1871 Chinese Massacre will mark a shift in how we honor history

The racist massacre that killed 10% of L.A.’s Chinese population and brought shame to the city

White residents burned this California Chinatown to the ground. An apology came 145 years later

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The Phil Ferguson Show - 399 Emily Stewart, ESG, MLM, VIX and A Super Shitty Fund follow up

Interview with writter Emily Stewart.

From her VOX bio

"Emily writes about the intersection of business, politics, and the economy. She is specifically interested in how people experience the forces of capitalism and money. Prior to joining Vox, Emily covered politics at The Street, including the rise of Donald Trump and the stock market’s reaction to politics and policy. She graduated from Columbia University and resides in Brooklyn, New York."

Investing Skeptically: The VIX and a Super Shitty fund follow up.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Putin’s defiers: repression in Russia

As the economy has deteriorated and the internet has bypassed television, persecution of opponents has become the president’s main tool of political control. Even the pandemic has been harnessed to silence dissent. An Economist film reports on the young women standing up to Vladimir Putin. And in China, there’s a more subdued background to the Singles’ Day online shopping splurge. 

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S5 Bonus: Guillermo Rauch, Vercel & Next.js

Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina. He has always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling. After a while, he feel in love with the web and the front end web system, working in the early days of AJAX, JS Animation and jQuery competition. When I asked him what he does for fun, he laughed - because he really enjoys what is does professionally on the web .

On a personal level though, he has three kiddos so he stays pretty busu. He is into fitness, and does calisthenics and gymnastics. Beyond that, he is into coffee - though I don't know many tech people who aren't into coffee.

Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API's. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast - specifically, to develop, preview, and ship.

This is the creation story of Next.js and Vercel.

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