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So says my esteemed guest, Dr. Amy Bruckman! Is she right? I won't be coy, I tend to think she is. But what a fascinating statement! And her thesis makes for an equally fascinating book - Wikipedia: The Most Reliable Source on the Internet? So let's dig in!
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Doctors don’t have enough evidence to know the long-term effects of what happens to someone who takes puberty blockers as a child, the executive director of the American College of Pediatricians says.
"We know that if you stop puberty with these puberty blockers, you stop a whole sequence of events," Dr. Jill Simons says, adding that there also are "effects on the brain."
"There's effects on the biology that you need that for sexual organ development to become fertile in the future," she says.
But according to Simon, "There's a lot of things we don't know about stopping puberty, and you can't get that back once you stop the puberty blockers."
Given the rise in gender-identity treatments for children, the American College of Pediatricians launched a new initiative Wednesday called the Biological Integrity Initiative to provide not only medical professionals, "but also parents, teachers, policymakers, even teens themselves who are questioning some of these things" with resources and scientific data on the known effects of gender treatments on children, Simons says.
Simons joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what medical professionals do and don’t know about the effects of puberty blockers and hormone treatments on young people and what resources the Biological Integrity Initiative offers. You can learn more about the new initiative at BiologicalIntegrity.org.
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North Korea expelling American soldier who bolted across the border. Writers' strike officially ends. The government takes on Amazon. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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Danny Yang and Bill Tai, cofounders of Metagood and creators of OnChainMonkey, discuss why they will migrate their 10K NFT collection from Ethereum to Bitcoin and what might be in store for Ordinals.
Bitcoin Ordinals have exploded in popularity since their launch by developer Casey Rodarmor in January, changing the NFT game with millions of inscriptions to date. But what comes next for Bitcoin-based digital artifacts? Danny Yang and Bill Tai, cofounders of Metagood and creators of NFT collection OnChainMonkey, discuss why they will move OnChainMonkey from Ethereum to Bitcoin, Rodarmor’s proposal to change the Ordinals inscription numbering system, and why they believe more creators should consider moving to Bitcoin.
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Bill Tai, cofounder of Metagood and creator of OnChainMonkey.
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Danny Yang, cofounder of Metagood and creator of OnChainMonkey.
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MaiTai Global’s Bill Tai On Why Blockchain Is The 6th Wave Of Technology
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What Are BRC-20 Tokens? A Brief Introduction
Was Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Pro-NFTs?
Bitcoin Ordinals Inscriptions Surge Past 2.7 Million
How to Create a Bitcoin Ordinal
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A New Frontier for Bitcoin? Recursive Inscriptions Explained
‘NFTs will win on Bitcoin’ — OnChainMonkey NFT collection ditches Ethereum
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Hello from the negotiating table!
This week, it’s just us, talking more hot labor summer and a bit about poetry (Tammy recommends the work of Mai Der Vang!). [9:00] After 146 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America, which represents about 11,000 screenwriters, announced on Sunday that they’d reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP studio group. (Forgive the timing of this ep: the WGA released details of the tentative agreement on Tuesday night, after we had recorded; members will still have to vote on the deal.) [23:00] Meanwhile, as one strike (maybe) ends, another expands! Nearly 20,000 United Auto Workers members across 40 states have walked off the job to demand a fairer share of record profits from the Big 3 automakers, seeking to reverse Great Recession-era losses and prove the might of a new and improved UAW.
In this episode, we ask:
Why does so much of the public support the WGA strike, a white-collar union whose ranks include very highly paid (less sympathetic?) members?
How sturdy is the very new, seemingly democratic operation of the UAW under Shawn Fain?
Can this union wave bring back American manufacturing, or are we just buying time before another big offshoring push?
What’s with EVs and the enviro dimensions of car-making?
For more, see:
* Tammy’s dispatch on the WGA strike and animation labor for the New York Review of Books
* An In These Times podcast that touches on UAW’s unionization push within higher ed
* Previous TTSG convos we reference in this ep, about the WGA, UAW, Labor Notes unionism, deaths of despair, and more:
* Listener Qs: Barbenheimer, hot labor summer, & white-Asian relationships in film (July 2023)
* A.I. scab-bot$, with Max Read (June 2022)
* Is it finally Strikevember?! (November 2022)
* Inflaaaation, cool unions, and "We Own This City" (June 2022)
* SCOTUS trouble, working-class white people, and Taiwan's military (October 2020)
* Some background on Walter Reuther’s UAW, from 2009
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Where the defensive lines really are, the state of Russia’s reserves, battlefield tactics: Kyrylo Budanov is a candid interviewee—but he claims to know nothing about all those drones. Gambling has been illegal in Brazil for decades, but pinched government coffers point to a lifting of the prohibition (10:42). And the passion and the profitability of “BookTok”, the literary end of TikTok (16:51).
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Shirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. Post undergrad, he got his PhD at UCLA, eventually working at PayPal and Yahoo on massive architectural systems. Outside of tech, he's married with 2 kids, he's an accomplished Indian vocalist, and has a passion for swimming, which he states is his therapy.
After spending over a decade at LinkedIn, Shirshanka had led the teams supporting all things data. He created a unified approach to data discovery, governance, and observability - while he was at the company. He open sourced the product, called DataHub, and eventually created a managed version.
This is the creation story of Acryl Data.
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