Month: April 2021

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Tesla’s Bitcoin Selling Shows How BTC Is More Than Digital Gold

According to Elon himself, it was all about demonstrating bitcoin’s liquidity. 

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org.

Yesterday Bitcoin Twitter reacted in horror upon discovering that Tesla had sold 10% of its bitcoin. Elon has paper hands! Institutions will abandon us! The horror and scorn ran far and wide. 

On today’s episode, NLW argues that:

  • The sales proved to Tesla that bitcoin has deep liquidity
  • That the combination of store of value plus upside plus liquidity makes bitcoin uniquely valuable as a treasury asset


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Time To Say Goodbye - Vaccine apartheid part 2 + Asian accent game

Hello from the AAPI Oscars!

This week, we begin with a guessing game from George Mason University’s “Speech Accent Archive” (thanks, listener Jai Kang!). Join us and guess along as we make horribly essentialist assumptions about Asian accents (h/t danyo and sansmouton!). 

In our main segment, we dig into the murderous policy of global vaccine apartheid. We first discussed this topic back in November, and things have only gotten worse, with India being the most visible site of a world-historical crisis.

To guide our conversation, we rely primarily on a recent piece by Alexander Zaitchik at The New Republic that explains how Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation, Big Pharma, and global intellectual-property rules have brought us to this point. How should we understand this moment in the context of the last 30 years? Can ordinary people defeat supra-state oligarchs?

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* Contrary to what Gates has said, there are, in fact, many capable vaccine factories around the world waiting to be mobilized (thanks, listener Stephen Buranyi).

* The WTO is debating a temporary waiver to the IP regime known as TRIPS. Will the Biden administration listen to the will of the people?

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On Monday, May 3, at 7pm ET, we’ll be doing a free event with our friends at Jewish Currents magazine (we subscribe!).

Please register here and join us in exploring the possibility of diasporic internationalism against the backdrop of US imperial decline!

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Who’s Doing the Culture Warring Here?

The podcast discusses a heartening display of defiance in France to protest the unjust verdict rendered in the anti-Semitic murder of Sarah Halimi, which further reinforces the case for Zionism. Also, the racial condescension on display among progressives who heap scorn on white vaccine holdouts but handle skeptical minorities with kid gloves. And finally, countering the narrative that Joe Biden is no culture warrior.

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Read Me a Poem - “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by E. E. Cummings

Amanda Holmes reads E. E. Cummings’s poem “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in].” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 04/27

CDC expected to release new outdoor mask guidance. Vaccinated teachers targeted at FL school. Calls to release video in NC police shooting. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Speech Richard Nixon Never Gave (Encore)

The Apollo 11 mission to land humans on the moon was one of the most complex things ever undertaken by humanity. They had to prepare for any and every eventuality, including the failure of the mission. To cover that eventually, President Nixon’s speechwriter wrote a speech to cover that eventuality. Learn more about the speech which Richard Nixon never had to give, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - SPAClash: the buzz and the bust

Special-purpose acquisition companies offer a novel way for companies to list on stockmarkets. We look behind the buzz, and something of a recent bust, to discover why they are a useful innovation both for investors and markets. President Jair Bolsonaro wants every Brazilian citizen to have a gun—especially his supporters. And a visit to the world’s largest magazine archive.

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The Best One Yet - 🐶 “The 1st ever dog-walk stock” — Rover is SPACing. Willow’s $82M breast pump. Exxon Mobil’s Blockbuster Video alarm.

The Uber for dog-walking is going public, but Rover has pulled off something no other platform app ever has. Willow just snagged $82M for a breast pump because it’s the AirPods of MomTech. And Exxon Mobil was the biggest public company in the US, but now it’s #26 — and we just heard someone ring “The Blockbuster Alarm.” $NEBC $XOM Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform 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.