Month: June 2021

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NBN Book of the Day - Claudrena N. Harold, “When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras” (U Illinois Press, 2020)

Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel, When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras (U Illinois Press, 2020), focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel's incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers. Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music's essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.

Adam McNeil is a third year Ph.D. in History student at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, “We Are the Land: A History of Native California” (U California Press, 2021)

California is often used as a synecdoche for the United States itself - America in microcosm. Yet, California was, is, and will always be, Native space. This fact is forcefully argued by Damon Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr. in We Are the Land: A History of Native California (University of California Press, 2021). Akins, an associate professor history at Guilford College, and Bauer, a professor of history at UNLV, track the long history of the Pacific Coast, from ocean to mountain, with an emphasis on Native spaces, Native power, and Native resiliency. California historically contained (and indeed, still does contain) a dizzying array of Native nations, tribes, and societies, and We Are the Land does the work of attempting to cover, in some small amount, as many as possible over several centuries worth of history. It is a crisply written survey that doesn't shy away from the horrors of the past, but also dwells on moments of power and activism - this is no simple story of decline and tragedy. California, Akins and Bauer maintain, cannot be understood apart from its Native context - indeed the land and its people are in many ways one and the same.

Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - The Biden White House: Vaccinations and a Singing Fauci

Andy's back! He’s joined by his expanded In the Bubble team, including new regular contributor Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick and his son Zach, who returns with one of his signature “Zach facts.” This episode weaves in Andy’s audio journal from his time as Senior Advisor for Coronavirus Response in the Biden White House. Listen as Andy and Dr. Lisa go inside the administration’s urgent, war-like effort to vaccinate the public. Plus, Dr. Fauci like you've never heard him before.

 

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The NewsWorthy - Biden-Putin Summit, Toxic Makeup? & Charitable Giving Record- Wednesday, June 16th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, June 16th, 2021!

We'll tell you what's on the agenda for a crucial meeting between President Biden and Russian President Putin and why the rest of the world will be watching.

Also, new plans for a Texas border wall. People from around the world are now being asked to donate.

Plus, a report about toxic chemicals in makeup, what new rules athletes will have to follow at the Olympic games, and a new record from 2020 that Americans can be proud of.

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

This episode is brought to you by Rothys.com/newsworthy and Ritual.com/newsworthy 

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Security Unlocked - A Day in the Life of a Microsoft Principal Architect

We’re formally sending out a petition to change the phrase “Jack of all trades” to “Hyrum of all trades” in honor of this episode’s guest, Hyrum Anderson. In this episode, hosts Natalia Godyla and Nic Fillingham sit down with Hyrum Anderson who, when he’s not fulfilling his duties as the Principal Architect of the Azure Trustworthy ML group, spends his time playing accordions, making cheese, and founding impressive technology conferences. He does it all!  

Rather than chatting with Hyrum about a specific capability that he’s helped to develop, or a blog post that he co-authored – because, believe us, the episode would last for hours – we decided to have a chat with him about his life, how he first got into the world of technology, and his thoughts on the current state of cyber security.  


In This Episode You Will Learn:  

  • The differences between a risk and a threat 
  • Why it’s easier to attack than defend 
  • What a Principal Architect of the Azure Trustworthy ML group does in his spare time 


Some Questions We Ask:  

  • How does Hyrum think about adversarial machine learning and protecting A.I. systems? 
  • What is it like for Hyrum to oversee both the red teaming and defensive side of operations? 
  • Why are we better at finding holes in security than we are at making sure they don’t exist in the first place? 

  

Resources:  

Hyrum Anderson’s LinkedIn

Hyrum Anderson’s Twitter

Conference on Applied Machine Learning in Information Security (CAMLIS)

Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

  

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts


Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 

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What A Day - ERCOT Off Guard In Texas

The main electric grid operator in Texas, ERCOT, is dropping the ball on providing services again, this time during extreme heat. It’s asking residents to conserve electricity until Friday to keep up with demand. Approximately 12 gigawatts of generating capacity was offline on Monday, and the electricity demand by residents came dangerously close to exceeding the grid's capacity.

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 climbed over 600,000 yesterday, according to the tracker from Johns Hopkins University. Still, there's progress in the country towards the new normal, with California and New York among the states fully reopening on Tuesday.

And in headlines: Israel's military launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip despite the ceasefire, Biden announces a plan to combat domestic terrorism, and a lawsuit resurfaces phony poison milkshake allegations from last summer.


Show Notes:

NYT: "The Amazon That Customers Don’t See" – https://nyti.ms/35nsYSH


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The Daily Signal - Meet Every Black Life Matters, an Alternative to BLM

Kevin McGary is the president of Every Black Life Matters, with emphasis on the "Every."


McGary joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the contrasts between the Black Lives Matters organization and his own group, how fatherlessness has adversely affected the black community, critical race theory, the racist origins of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood, and more.


"When we encounter people who are diehard BLMers, they usually say, 'Hey, ... black lives matter,'" McGary said.


"And I go up to them, and I get in their face, and I say, 'You know what, to me, bro, every single black life matters.' And then I asked them, 'Now, does every single black life matter to you?' And then they're stuck. They're like, 'Ooh, this brother, he's coming with something.'"


We also cover these stories:

  • The House Oversight and Reform Committee releases emails revealing that the Trump White House put pressure on then-Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen to investigate voter fraud claims.
  • Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., defends the Trump administration's Justice Department for subpoenaing the phone and email records of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell, both California Democrats. 
  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., apologizes for comparing the House speaker's requirement that members of Congress continue to wear a face mask against COVID-19 on the House floor with Jews being made to wear gold stars by the Nazis during the Holocaust. 



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Philosophers In Space - 0G149: Sorry to Bother You and the Talented Tenth

Don't need a white person voice when it's the only voice you got! Much like this movie, our episode has a lot on its mind, including our special guest William Paris (@WilliamMParis) of What's Left of Philosophy Podcast. We talk about turning people into animals and a bit of double consciousness and capitalism, really a lot. No After Dark on this one, it's all After Dark.   Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_to_Bother_You   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy   Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/   Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com   If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you!   Sibling shows:   Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/   Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/   Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/   Recent appearances: Aaron was on Decoding the Gurus talking about the conspiracy theorist Michael O'Fallon and how he's influencing the anti-woke movement through James Lindsay. https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/michael-ofallon-the-jacobins-are-back-to-reset-everything-dun-dun-daah   Content Preview: Babylon Five ep3.4 Passing Through Gethsemane and punitive reset
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Short Wave - ‘I’m Willing To Fight For It’: Learning A Second Language As An Adult

Becoming fluent in a second language is difficult. But for adults, is it impossible? Short Wave hosts Maddie Sofia and Emily Kwong dissect the "critical period hypothesis," a theory which linguists have been debating for decades — with the help of Sarah Frances Phillips, a Ph.D. student in the linguistics department at New York University.

You can watch a related video about Emily learning Mandarin here. It's part of the Where We Come From series.

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Amarica's Constitution - Princeton Palaver Present

Akhil and Andy move from The College of New Jersey - Princeton in the period of America’s Founding - to the Princeton University of today, and discuss matters of agreement and disagreement between Akhil and some of the Orange and Black’s leading faculty lights.  Topics range from the 1619 project to the Electoral College and some of Andrew Jackson’s most controversial and misunderstood statements.  Finally, everything you never knew you wanted to know about property is revealed.