Month: May 2021

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Time To Say Goodbye - “Magic Actions” and “When the Party’s Over”: the past year in politics

Hello! 

A long but focused discussion this week—on two new essays that attempt to write recent history.

First, Tobi Haslett’s “Magic Actions” (n+1), recovering the explosive potential of last year’s George Floyd uprising, institutional attempts to domesticate it, and ongoing struggles for abolition and Black liberation. 

Second, Brendan O’Connor’s “When the Party’s Over” (The Baffler), a look at social-democratic politics after the thrill and demise of the Bernie campaign, the drudgery of party work, politician fandom, and finding a (new) base for socialism in 2021. 

ICYMI: Our conversation with the good folks at Jewish Currents, archived on YouTube:

Thanks to everyone who came to our picnic in Brooklyn on May 2! And thanks also to our listeners who gathered for a hike, book chat, and carbs in Los Angeles this past weekend!

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Rockets over Jerusalem: Israeli-Palestinian violence

Tension in the holy city of Jerusalem has been rising for weeks, amid the attempted eviction of Palestinians and a march by Jewish nationalists. Yesterday it erupted into the worst violence in years, as Hamas rockets fired at Israel from Gaza prompted retaliatory air strikes. A cyber-attack that shut down one of America’s largest fuel pipelines reflects the growing problem of ransomware. And in China, authorities are clamping down on a spurt of grave robbing. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S4 E19: Daniel Gallancy, Atakama

Daniel Gallancy is a husband and father to an 18 month old son. He studied electrical engineering and physics in school, but ended up working in finance, doing diligence on tech companies for an investment fund. In 2011, he discovered bitcoin and became enamored with the concept. At that time, he bought 1 whole bitcoin for $4 dollars. Looking back, he obviously wishes he would have bought more. We got into an interesting conversation about ICO's - initial coin offerings - and tokens in general, around how companies drive up the value of said tokens through usage, rather than business profit. In his words, he saw the ICO world as a regulatory arbitrage, which didn't make for a good investment, but did make an interesting story.

In 2013, he decided to leave the hedge fund world - IE his nice cushy job - and pursue something in the crypto world. Ultimately, he realized that some of the more interesting concepts being used in crypto - specifically, distributed key management - could be used in solutions outside of the block chain world. In a discussion with his co-founder, they figured out that solutions like this didn't exist, and that they wanted to build it.

This is the creation story of Atakama.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The South Atlantic Anomaly

For years people believed that there was a part of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and planes would disappear called the Bermuda Triangle. It turned out that ships and planes didn’t disappear there at any higher rate than they did elsewhere, and it just wasn’t a thing. However, researchers did find a place where the vessels which traveled into it had a far higher rate of catastrophe. This area was in outer space. Learn more about the South Atlantic Anomaly

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The Best One Yet - 🎸 “Mom, you take the James Taylor ticket” — Live Nation’s slingshot. Darkside’s hacking Inc. Blind’s gossip app.

Concert legend Live Nation has become a slingshot stock with a new calling: Make concerts make money like sports. Darkside is the cyberhacking ransomware crew that may have just jacked up your gas prices. And Blind raised $37M for an office gossip app that your HR team hates so much… they just might pay for it. $LYV $NET $PANW $UL 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.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Arizona’s Bonkers Recount

A complete recount of ballots from the 2020 election is underway in Maricopa County, where Arizona Senate Republicans still question the results of the general election. There’s no timeline or budget for the manual audit, and election experts say this effort is highly prone to errors.


Guest: Andrew Oxford, reporter for the Arizona Republic. 


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The NewsWorthy - Vax for Teens, Middle East Tension & Golden Globes Canceled? – Tuesday, May 11th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, May 11th, 2021!

We have updates about:

  • when more teens can get a COVID-19 vaccine: what U.S. health regulators are saying about the latest data
  • more tension in the middle east: what's behind recent clashes and what the U.S. is saying about it
  • how the pipeline attack could start to impact gas prices
  • what officials in most states are asking Instagram to stop doing
  • why next year's Golden Globes appear to be canceled

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

FDA Authorizes Pfizer Vax for Adolescents: WSJ, NY Times, AP, Reuters

Transgender Healthcare Protections: NY Times, Axios, WSJ, CNN, Fox News

Israel/Palestinian Violence: Al Jazeera, AP, CBS News, Fox News

Pipeline Cyber Attack Follow/Gas Prices: Axios, NY Times, CBS News, Reuters, FBI

CA Emergency Drought Declaration Expanded: Sacramento Bee, AP, Gov. Newsom

AG Group: No Instagram for Kids: NAAG, CNBC, Bloomberg, WSJ

Playstation 5 Will Stay in Short Supply Through 2022: Bloomberg, Penn Live, Engadget

NBC Cuts Ties with Golden Globes: USA Today, AP, Variety, HFPA, LA Times

Tiger on the Loose in Houston: Houston Chronicle, KHOU, USA Today, Houston PD

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Short Wave - Pediatricians Work To Persuade Parents And Teens To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

Some colleges and universities have announced that COVID vaccination will be mandatory (with some exemptions) and the FDA has authorized the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 12 to 15. While coronavirus infections are declining in the United States, vaccination rates also appear to be slowing down, so pediatricians and public health officials say they're trying to spread the word to overcome hesitancy, and get the vaccine out to people where they go to school and shop. Emily talks with NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey about this and other topics in the pandemic news.

If you'd like to assistant on finding a vaccination site, you can dial 1-800-232-0233 or go to vaccines.gov (English) or vacunas.gov (Spanish) for more information.

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NBN Book of the Day - Can we Disagree Online Respectfully?: A Discussion with Ian Leslie

In this episode, we are talking to a British writer Ian Leslie, a journalist and author of acclaimed books on human behavior. His latest book, Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes (Harper Business, 2021), is about how to disagree better. Ian regularly publishes in The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Economist. He co-hosted the podcast series Polarized and created a BBC radio comedy series.

The piece we talked about today is "How to have Better Arguments Online" (The Guardian, February 21, 2021).

Agata Popeda is a Polish-American journalist. Interested in everything, with a particular weakness for literature and foreign relations.

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