In which the gross gunk from the back end of a rodent is discovered to be an invaluable perfume ingredient and even flavor enhancer, and Ken's Sunday school teacher does not want a high-five. Certificate #36682.
The Best One Yet - “Just rub some Cheetos on it” — SpaceX’s space wifi. Applebee’s influencer kitchen. Texas’ emergency stocks.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly worth $74B, but it’s not about rockets… it’s about Starlink internet wifi. Applebee’s is launching a virtual brand that we think sets the future for Influencer Kitchens (spoiler: Cheetos chicken wings). And the brutal freeze in Texas reveals a sector that doesn’t get any attention — emergency preparedness. By the way, Lone Star Snackers, we’re sending you warmth and love.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - What Rush Limbaugh Left Behind
Rush Limbaugh’s radio show provided a roadmap that the Republican Party has been following, more or less faithfully, for decades.
Guest: Nicole Hemmer, author of Messengers of the Right and co-host of This Day in Esoteric Political History.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Who Was the Richest Person in History? (Encore)
Jeff Bezos, the founder, and CEO of Amazon was recently named the richest person in the world. This is primarily a function of the stock he owns in the company and the company’s valuation in the stock market.
How would Jeff Bezos stack up against other wealthy figures from history? Are business titans of today in the same league as the famously wealthy from antiquity?
Learn more about who the richest person in history was on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Nicole Perlroth, “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
For years, cybersecurity experts have debated whether cyber-weapons represent a destabilizing new military technology or merely the newest tool in the spies’ arsenal. In This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Bloomsbury, 2021), Nicole Perlroth makes a compelling case that cyber-conflict is quickly spiraling out of control. Worse, the United States set us down the precarious path we’re now on.
A cybersecurity reporter at the The New York Times, Nicole makes her case by taking us on a journey from the shadowy underworld of the cyber-arms market, to Silicon Valley, the White House, and the NSA’s elite offensive hacking unit, Tailored Access Operations. On this episode, I talk to Nicole about the nature of the cyber-arms underground, why the NSA has traditionally favored offense over defense, and why no one—not Congress and not the public—seems to understand the gravity of the cyber-threat.
We wrap up with a story likely to be of interest to the NBN community: someone—were not sure who yet—is hacking authors’ email accounts and stealing their manuscripts.
John Sakellariadis is a 2020-2021 Fulbright US Student Research Grantee. He holds a Master’s degree in public policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia and a Bachelor’s degree in History & Literature from Harvard University.
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Short Wave - Why Tech Companies Are Limiting Police Use of Facial Recognition
In June 2020, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM announced that they were limiting some uses of their facial recognition technology. In this encore episode, Maddie and Emily talk to AI policy analyst Mutale Nkonde about algorithmic bias — how facial recognition software can discriminate and reflect the biases of society and the current debate about policing has brought up the issue about how law enforcement should use this technology.
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The NewsWorthy - Rare Power Crisis, Rush Limbaugh Dies & Risky Mars Landing- Thursday, February 18th, 2021
The news to know for Thursday, February 18th, 2021!
We're talking about:
- the power crisis mostly impacting Texas: it continues to be dire for millions of people
- a third of the country dealing with extreme winter weather
- why the UK is planning to infect dozens of people with COVID-19 on purpose
- the legacy of a right-wing radio superstar who passed away
- who will face tough questions about last month's stock market frenzy
- NASA attempting its toughest landing on Mars yet that's been years in the making
All that and more in around 10 minutes...
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Sources:
Winter Storm Latest: USA Today, AP, NPR, Texas Tribune, PowerOutage.US
How to Help: Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Austin Urban League
Biden Admin Expands Testing, Sequencing: Politico, NBC News, FOX News, White House
UK Exposes Healthy Volunteers to COVID-19: ABC News, CNBC, Reuters, UK Gov
Stock Market Frenzy Congressional Hearing: NY Times, CBS News, Axios, The Hill
Perseverance to Land on Mars: WaPo, Reuters, AP, NASA
Rush Limbaugh Dies: NY Times, AP, USA Today, Rush Limbaugh Website
Naomi Osaka Beats Serena Williams: ESPN, CBS Sports, USA Today
Pay for Parking/Transit in Google Maps: CNBC, TechCrunch, The Verge, Google
Thing to Know Thursday: Winter Freeze Impacts Gas Prices: NBC News, Reuters, FOX Business, AAA
What A Day - Amazon The Wrong Side Of The Law
Over two million Texans are still without power, and there’s a new storm on the way that’s expected to prolong the icy conditions. Oregon, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia are among the other states dealing with fallout from the extreme weather.
New York’s AG Letitia James sued Amazon this week, alleging that some of its warehouses failed to keep workers safe during the pandemic. We also spoke to an Amazon employee that works in the company's Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center about the unionization effort there, and what the company is doing to suppress it.
And in headlines: Facebook blocks all news in Australia, LA’s board of education defunds school police, and millions of counterfeit N95 masks have been seized in the past few weeks.
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"How you can help Texas winter storm victims"
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"How to help and get help in Texas as the winter storm causes power outages"
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-power-outage-help-warming-shelter/
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The Daily Signal - What You Need to Know About Coming Abortion Battles
President Joe Biden already has taken action to undo some of the pro-life policies set in place by his predecessor, Donald Trump. It appears likely that Biden and the Democrat-controlled Congress will continue to press a progressive abortion agenda that endangers the unborn, mothers, and American freedoms.
Melanie Israel, a Heritage Foundation research associate in the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity, joins “Problematic Women” to explain the key pieces of abortion legislation we likely will see debated in the coming months and years.
If you, or someone you love, is struggling to overcome the pain of an abortion, check out this resource from Focus on the Family.
We also cover these stories:
- Conservative talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh dies at age 70.
- “I will not make that happen,” President Biden says of paying off $50,000 in student loan debt.
- Three North Korean military hackers have been indicted.
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Tech Won't Save Us - Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News w/ Lizzie O’Shea
Paris Marx is joined by Lizzie O’Shea to discuss how Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers entrenches a data-extractive business model and aligns the interests of tech giants and media companies against those of the public.
Lizzie O’Shea is a human rights lawyer and the founder of Digital Rights Watch. She’s also the author of “Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology.” Follow Lizzie on Twitter as @Lizzie_OShea.
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, and support the show on Patreon.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Lizzie wrote about the problems with this plan for Overland Journal and Nikkei Asia.
- Paris wrote about why we shouldn’t link big tech and news giants for Tribune Magazine.
- Facebook restricted news sharing in Australia, while Google has signed deals with News Corp, Nine Entertainment, Seven West Media, and more for its News Showcase.
- Australia has among the most concentrated media ownership in the world. Former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull called for a royal commission on Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
- Australia’s competition regulator released a digital platforms report with recommendations that included the bargaining code in 2019.
- Canada and the European Union may copy Australia’s model. French publishers are already getting paid by Google.