Month: October 2020

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The Best One Yet - “Facebook thinks it’s a telephone line” — Nio’s 1,000% jump. Sleep Number’s anti-Casper pivot. Twitter/Facebook’s Section 230 moment.

Shares of Nio (the Tesla of China) have subtly surged 1,000% since March because it’s made a lifestyle brand out of a glorified battery. Twitter and Facebook just faced their biggest ever test about whether they’re platforms or publishers. And Sleep Number stock popped because it’s doing everything with mattresses that Casper isn’t. $NIO $SNBR $TWTR $FB Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @TBOYJack @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: http://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 - TBD | Facebook Flips on Holocaust Denial

Two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg held up Holocaust denial as an example of the type of speech that would be protected on Facebook. The company wouldn’t take down content simply because it was incorrect. This week, Facebook reversed that stance. Is this decision the first step toward a new way of policing speech on the social network?


Guest: Evelyn Douek, Lecturer at Harvard Law School and affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society


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Lizzie O’Leary

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The NewsWorthy - Town Halls Recap, First Ebola Treatment & Tony Nominations- Friday, October 16th, 2020

The news to know for Friday, October 16th, 2020!

What to know about:

  • President Trump and Joe Biden going head-to-head from 1,200 miles away: the takeaways from their competing town halls. 
  • why Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, has canceled weekend travel
  • the first Ebola treatment approved
  • new diversity goals at Starbucks
  • Tony nominations celebrating the best of Broadway, even as theaters stay shut down

Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!

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Trump/Biden Town Halls Recap: AP, WSJ, Reuters, CNN, CDC

Kamala Harris Suspends Travel: AP, WaPo, SF Chronicle

New COVID-19 Cases Surge: WSJ, Reuters, Johns HopkinsNY Post on Controversial Email:  NY Post, Politico, WaPo, WSJ, PolitiFact 

CA Power Outages: AP, FOX News, SF Chronicle

FDA Approves First Ebola Treatment: AP, The Hill, Fox News, FDA

Women’s March This Saturday: WaPo, The Hill, Forbes, Women’s March

YouTube QAnon Crackdown: NY Times, AP, YouTube, The Verge

Starbucks Ties Executive Pay to Diversity: WSJ, USA Today, CNN

Tony Nominations Announced: WaPo, NY Times, Variety, Deadline

Feel Good Friday- Books Donated for Hurricane Laura Victims: KSTP

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Short Wave - The Tricky Business Of Coronavirus Testing On College Campuses

We hit the road with NPR Education Reporter Elissa Nadworny. She's been on a weekslong road trip to get an up-close view of how colleges across the U.S. are handling the pandemic. On today's show, she tells us how one university has been using mass testing to fight the spread of the coronavirus on its campus. It's a strategy that's run into some challenges, namely, student behavior.

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Python Bytes - #203 Scripting a masterpiece for Python web automation

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New Books in Native American Studies - Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., “Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in 18th-Century South America” (UNC Press, 2020)

In his new book, Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America (UNC Press, 2020), Dr. Jeffrey Erbig charts the interplay between imperial and indigenous spatial imaginaries and shows the critical role that indigenous actors played in imperial border-making between the Spanish and the Portuguese in the Río de la Plata region during the mid-to-late eighteenth century. Dr. Erbig demonstrates how this process does not fit neatly into concepts of resistance or accommodation, as Hispano-Portuguese border-drawing from 1750 to the end of the century was in-part necessitated by indigenous actions, shaped by indigenous actors, and even reinforced the authority and autonomy of certain native polities. Far from peripheral players on an inevitable path to destruction as they are mostly remembered today, native peoples were essential to determining the early-modern history of the Río de la Plata. Centering the actions of indigenous agents and incorporating archival material from seven countries along with digital mapping techniques, Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met will prove to be an enduring contribution to the historiography of indigenous studies, the Río de la Plata region, cartography, and borderlands topics.

Dr. Jeffrey Erbig is an Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Grant Kleiser is a Ph.D. candidate in the Columbia University History Department. His dissertation researches the development of the free-port system in the eighteenth-century Caribbean, investigating the rationale for such moves towards “free trade” and the impact these policies had on subsequent philosophers, policy-makers, and revolutionaries in the Atlantic world.

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What A Day - Everything Is Feinstein

A new study shows eight million people have fallen into poverty since May, when the CARES Act money started running out, but lawmakers in Washington still can’t agree on a second relief bill. We review the current state of negotiations, and how the delay is affecting Americans in need. 

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up their confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, with no big surprises except a few frustrating moments where Democratic ranking member Dianne Feinstein went out of her way to signal approval for the process and for Lindsey Graham.

And in headlines: Thailand declares a “state of extreme emergency” after protests, three people who were traveling with Biden and Harris test positive for COVID-19, and the BTS IPO. Plus Crooked's own Erin Ryan fills in for Akilah.

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"Inside the Fall of the CDC" https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc

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The Daily Signal - J. Christian Adams on Mail-In, Absentee Voting in 2020 Election

Mail-in voting has sharply increased due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Pew Research Center reported in the 2016 general election, 24.9 percent of votes were absentee or mail-in and in the 2018 general election, 27.4 percent of votes were absentee or mail-in. But during the 2020 primaries, 50.3 percent of votes cast were absentee or mail-in. 


Is election security at stake? What are some of the documented security vulnerabilities and problems associated with mail-in or absentee ballots? J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss. 


We also cover these stories:

  • Three Republican senators are calling on the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about censorship and possible election interference. 
  • The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation on Oct. 22.
  • Citing his son Barron's COVID experience, President Donald Trump said children should be back at school. 



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The Stack Overflow Podcast - The downside of going viral with your programming joke

That skit made it to the front page of Reddit, and was soon seen across the internet. It's nice to make people laugh, but following the surge of interest, Emily also had to deal with severe harassment and cyber stalking. She wrote a piece about the experience which you can find here.

In this episode, we discuss how moderation can be improved and the work that remains to be done to make the software industry feel safe and inclusive for everyone.