Month: November 2021

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – White Supremacy on Trial in Charlottesville

It’s been over four years since white supremacists gathered in a violent and deadly demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now, nine people are suing the organizers and groups involved with the Unite the Right rally as they try to prove the protest was a conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence. This isn’t the first time white supremacists have been taken to court -- but could this trial spell real consequences?


Guest: Kathleen Belew, a historian at the University of Chicago, and the author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America and A Field Guide to White Supremacy.


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The Best One Yet - 🔥 “FyreFestCoin” — Squid Game’s crypto plunge. Under Armour’s surge. Zillow ends iBuying.

Squid Game… the cryptocurrency. It’s a new coin and a new scam that’s basically the Fyre Fest of crypto because it surged 40,000% and then fell 40,000%. Under Armour jumped 14% because it’s finally brushed off its Bargain Store Blemish. And Zillow stock plummeted because ya simply can’t scale a house. $UA $RL $Z Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - White Supremacy on Trial in Charlottesville

It’s been over four years since white supremacists gathered in a violent and deadly demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now, nine people are suing the organizers and groups involved with the Unite the Right rally as they try to prove the protest was a conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence. This isn’t the first time white supremacists have been taken to court -- but could this trial spell real consequences?


Guest: Kathleen Belew, a historian at the University of Chicago, and the author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America and A Field Guide to White Supremacy.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Giving the Finger to the Denisovans

In 2008, researchers searching for fossils in the Denisova cave in Siberia came across something interesting. It appeared to be the bone from an ancient hominid species. Subsequent DNA analysis on this bone has revolutionized everything we know about the origin of humanity. Had this bone been discovered a few decades beforehand, we might never have known about it. Learn more about the Denisovans and how they affect humanity today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Getting Hammered - A Numbers Game

Mary Katharine and Vic are back to chat numbers, from the Virginia governor's race to spending bills to plummeting poll numbers for the Biden administration to the original prices for McDonald's hamburgers.

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  • 00:13 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
  • 09:05 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 09:09 - The Virginia Governor's Race
  • 14:06 - Tiki torch antics
  • 16:47 - Updates on the Infrastructure and Reconciliation bills
  • 22:03 - New Jersey governor's race
  • 24:29 - Americans lose confidence in President Biden, Democrats, according to NBC Poll
  • 28:40 - Let's Go Brandon
  • 35:20 - Kanye West's Sunday Service featuring Justin Bieber and Marilyn Manson
  • 37:50 - The original McDonald's menu
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NBN Book of the Day - Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, “Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations” (Oxford UP, 2021)

In their open-access publication, Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations (Oxford University Press, 2021), Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever argue that philosophers of language can contribute to a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence. AIs known as “neural nets” are becoming commonplace and we increasingly rely on their outputs for action-guidance, as when an AI like Siri hears your question and says, “There’s a pizza shop on the corner.” Our use of words like “says” suggests an important question: do AIs literally say anything? Should we understand their outputs as utterances with meaningful content? And if so, what makes that content meaningful, and how is it related to the processes which result in that output? Cappelen and Dever take up these questions and propose a framework for answering them, abstracting from existing externalist approaches to develop a “de-anthropocentrized” externalism for AI. The book introduces readers not only to issues in AI surrounding its content and interpretation, but also to concepts in philosophy of language which may be relevant to these issues, serving as an invitation for further investigation by philosophers and programmers alike.

Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff).

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The NewsWorthy - GOP Stuns Dems, Pfizer for Kids Rollout & World Series Champs – Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021!

We have new updates about some closely-watched state and local elections around the country and what they could mean for Democrats and Republicans. 

Also, a young NFL star is now facing serious criminal charges and was kicked off his team. 

Plus, another big shift for Facebook, Netflix launched a new gaming lineup, and an upset at the World Series: a team that wasn't expected to make it there won the championship.

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Calling Out the Anti-Vaccine Bully (with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot)

Andy calls up Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is in the middle of a nasty battle over vaccine mandates with, most notably, the city's largest police union. Andy asks Mayor Lightfoot why she thinks the union president is really picking this fight with her, how she plans to get through to city workers who aren't complying with the mandate, and where the opposing sides go from here.

 

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What A Day - Local Elections That Impact Criminal Justice

Election day has come and gone with several important contests on the line. In New York, Eric Adams triumphed to become the city’s next mayor. And in Minneapolis, voters struck down a ballot measure that would’ve transformed the city’s police department.


We also explain that there are a number of elected positions that have an enormous impact on your local community. We focus on three of them, in particular, and how they influence the criminal justice system.


And in headlines: the CDC approved Pfizer’s vaccine for kids 5-11, world leaders made pledges on methane emissions and deforestation at the UN Climate Summit, and Congressional Democrats are inching towards finalizing their social safety net plan.


Show Notes:

Vote Save America – https://votesaveamerica.com/be-a-voter/

Ballotpedia – https://ballotpedia.org/Sample_Ballot_Lookup

Vote 411 – https://www.vote411.org/


For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday