Month: September 2020

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Tech Won't Save Us - Thinking about Tech in the Present Tense w/ Ben Tarnoff

Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss why we should look to the Luddites for inspiration, how history could inform a better future of technology, and what tech organizing might look like under a Joe Biden administration.

Ben Tarnoff is a co-founder of Logic Magazine and co-authored “Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do–and How They Do It” with Moira Weigel. The book will be released in October and can be preordered now. Follow Ben on Twitter as @bentarnoff.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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The Best One Yet - “Bumble stock makes the 1st move” — A Bumble IPO plan. Jack Daniel’s K-shaped recovery. Amazon innovation in Brooklyn.

Word from PFWTM is that dating app Bumble wants to IPO ASAP. Liquor legend Brown Forman saw shares jump 11% because its bourbon sales reflect our current unique economic reality. And Amazon just launched the most innovative thing in online grocery delivery yet: A ghost grocer grows in Brooklyn. $BF $AMZN Want a shoutout on the pod? We got the form for Snackers to fill out right here: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 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 - Trump’s Legal Troubles Are Just Getting Started

President Donald Trump’s business dealings have been shrouded in secrecy, but new legal scrutiny on the Trump Organization might turn up some answers about how the president makes and keeps his money.

Guest: David Fahrenthold, Washington Post reporter covering the Trump family and its business interests. 

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Short Wave - SPACE WEEK: Is Space Junk Cluttering Up The Final Frontier?

Since the dawn of Sputnik in 1957, space-faring nations have been filling Earth's orbit with satellites. Think GPS, weather forecasting, telecommunications satellites. And as those have increased, so, too, has space junk. On today's show, we talk about the first mission to clean up space junk and the problem debris poses to sustainability in space. (Encore episode.)

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What A Day - Vaxxers Without Borders

Joe Biden will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin later today, where he’ll meet with the family of Jacob Blake. We check in on the continued protests happening there, plus the protests that are continuing in Lafayette, Louisiana, where Trayford Pellerin was killed by police just two days before Blake’s shooting.

The Trump administration said it’s not going to take part in a global effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine because the World Health Organization is leading it. The CDC recently told public health officials in 50 states and five major cities to prepare to distribute a vaccine as early as late October.

And in headlines: protests in Belarus, survivors of the Tulsa Massacre seek reparations, and John Boyega reflects on Star Wars.

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The NewsWorthy - Fall Vaccine Possible, Detecting Deepfakes & College Football Returns- Thursday, September 3rd, 2020

The news to know for Thursday, September 3rd, 2020!

We're talking about:

  • a possible sped-up timeline for COVID-19 vaccines
  • the newly-recommended four-phase approach for who gets a vaccine first
  • presidential nominees taking turns visiting a key swing state
  • what happens if we still don't know who won the general election by Inauguration Day
  • college football's debut
  • a new way to lend movies to friends
  • who's going from 'Tiger King' to 'Dancing with the Stars'

All that and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes to read more about our guest or any of the stories mentioned.

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Sources:

Vaccine May be Ready by November: Politico, AP, Reuters, Yahoo Finance

COVID-19 Vaccine Priorities: Stat, NBC News, Bloomberg, National Academies

Coronavirus Cases “Unacceptably High”: Johns Hopkins, CNBC, The Hill

Steroids Cut COVID Death Rates: WaPo, Reuters, Stat

Budget Deficit Set to Hit Record: NY Times, WaPo, AP, CBO, WSJ

Biden to Visit Kenosha Today: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Axios, AP, Politico

Wisconsin Battleground State: US News & World Report, WaPo, WPR

Hottest Summer on Record: ABC News, Chicago Tribune, FOX News, AccuWeather

College Football Season Begins: CBS Sports, ESPN, USA Today

Microsoft Unveils Deepfake-Detecting Tech: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Microsoft

Movies Anywhere Screen Pass Launches: TechCrunch, Engadget, Screen Pass

Harry and Meghan Sign Netflix Deal: CNN, USA Today, Variety, Mashable

Dancing with the Stars Line-Up: USA Today, Variety, ABC 

Thing to Know Thursday: Election Timeline: WSJ, CNBC, The Hill

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The Goods from the Woods - “The Corona Diaries #77” with Daniel Magden

Three L.A. comedians are quarantined in a podcast studio during a global pandemic. There is literally nothing to be done EXCEPT make content. These are "The Corona Diaries" and this is Episode #77.  Sitting in with us again today is our hilarious next door neighbor, Daniel Magden! Follow him on Twitter @MagdenDaniel and check out his podcast "Reefer Sadness".  Music at the end is "Don't Worry About the Government" by Talking Heads.

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The Daily Signal - Cancel Culture Comes for America’s National Monuments

The nation's monuments are under fire from the progressive left. A new report commissioned by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recommends that the federal government "remove, relocate, or contextualize" the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and six other statues and monuments.


Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal and author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past," joins the podcast to discuss the report from the DCFACES Working Group and explain the intrinsic threat that cancel culture poses to American history.


To read the working group's report to the mayor, click here. And for more analysis of the report, read the commentary for The Daily Signal by Joseph Loconte, director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation, headlined "The Mayor, the Monuments, and the Mayhem."


We also cover these stories:

  • Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposes new restrictions on Chinese diplomats. 
  • United Airlines announces plans to put 16,000 employees on involuntary furlough or cut their jobs entirely, beginning in October.
  • Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to move because of the number of protests outside his condo building.


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The Gist - Villain Not Vigilante

On the Gist, believing catchy rhyming couplets or policies.

In the interview, writer, lawyer and author, Jill Filipovic joins Mike to talk about her latest book, OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind. Filipovic explains that the millennial generation has it worse than most, the relationship between millennials and their boomer parents, and how those boomers were afforded more social programs, leaving millennials with disastrous consequences.

In the spiel, the charges against Rittenhouse.

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