Month: July 2024

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Up First from NPR - Biden’s NATO Speech, Ukraine Hospital Strike, Texas Execution Drugs

President Biden spoke to world leaders at the NATO summit in Washington and sought to reassure them about the strength of the alliance and of his Presidency. Ukrainians are condemning a deadly missile strike on a children's hospital in Kyiv, and an NPR investigation tracked down one source of execution drugs in Texas.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Change of heart surgeon: Iran’s reformist president

Masoud Pezeshkian rode to victory on a promise of reforms that Iran’s people seem desperately to want. Will the former heart surgeon be permitted to carry them out? Ukraine has been getting a wartime pass on servicing its debts, but its creditors will soon come knocking (10:05). And why thousands of plutocrats are moving to Dubai (17:00).


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Big Technology Podcast - Amazon’s Longterm AI Vision — With Matt Wood

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Matt Wood is the VP of AI Products at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Wood joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the current state and future potential of AI, according to Amazon. Tune in to hear insights on how customers are adopting AI, the importance of model choice and specialization, and the evolution of AI in the near-term. We also cover AWS' AI platform, Amazon's Alexa assistant, and the cultural shifts needed for organizations to successfully leverage AI. Hit play for an engaging and informative conversation on the cutting edge of AI with one of the industry's leading experts.

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Money Girl - Solopreneur Success: Tips for Running a One-Person Business

Laura interviews Abbie Hale from Found, a free all-in-one banking solution for entrepreneurs, about streamlining your business and boosting productivity.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 7.10.24

Alabama

  • The DOJ getting involved in 2014 prison inmate lawsuit out of St. Clair county
  • Sen. Tuberville calls out reckless spending in US senate by Dems & RINOS
  • Public records shows unusual ad buys by ALDOT with left leaning media
  • State Rep. Kelvin Lawrence was arrested and charged with forgery
  • Illegal alien driving intoxicated has put a 6 year old in critical condition
  • Military honors performed for Willie Mays for his service in US Army

National

  • House speaker promotes doomed SAVE Act for election integrity
  • America First Legal takes issue to states to stop illegals from voting
  • House committee report says trial against Trump was unconstitutional
  • RFK Jr. says family members embarrassed by Joe Biden's debate
  • Trump at FL rally challenges Biden to another debate AND Golf game 
  • Nikki Haley officially releases her primary delegates to vote for Trump
  • VA governor wants schools to issue cell phone ban for students
  • Jury selection underway for actor Alex Baldwin and manslaughter charges
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NBN Book of the Day - Shannon Vallor, “The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking” (Oxford UP, 2024)

There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords. 

In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford UP), Shannon Vallor argues that the actual, and very alarming, existential risk of AI that we face right now is quite different. Because some AI technologies, such as ChatGPT or other large language models, can closely mimic the outputs of an understanding mind without having actual understanding, the technology can encourage us to surrender the activities of thinking and reasoning. This poses the risk of diminishing our ability to respond to challenges and to imagine and bring about different futures. In her compelling book, Vallor, who holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Institute, critically examines AI Doomers and Long-termism, the nature of AI in relation to human intelligence, and the technology industry's hand in diverting our attention from the serious risks we face.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Origin of Words and Phrases: Common Idioms

Let me cut right to the chase. This episode is going to be a deep dive into the origin of some common idioms. I don’t want to dance around the subject or have to walk on eggshells, so I’m using this introduction to break the ice. 

Whether you’re feeling under the weather or ready to burn the midnight oil with us, you’re in for a treat.

I will spill the beans on their meanings and origins and explain how to use them, even if you only do so once in a blue moon.

Learn more about the origins and meaning of common idioms so you don’t bark up the wrong tree on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Land of the Giants - Disney is a TV Company

When you think about Disney, your first thought isn’t “cable television giant.” But Disney’s broadcast and cable television holdings, especially ESPN, helped turbocharge Disney’s growth over the last 30 years. It was a formula that worked extremely well – until now. As more and more consumers cut the cable cord, Disney must reckon with declining assets and the hit to its bottom line.

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