Month: October 2021

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NBN Book of the Day - Caitlin Ring Carlson, “Hate Speech” (MIT Press, 2021)

Hate speech can happen anywhere - in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to target the Muslim Rohingya; in Cape Town, South Africa, where a pastor called on ISIS to rid South Africa of the "homosexual curse." In person or online, people wield language to attack others for their race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or other aspects of identity. Caitlin Ring Carlson's Hate Speech (MIT Press, 2021) examines hate speech: what it is, and is not; its history; and efforts to address it.

Marci Mazzarotto is an Assistant Professor of Digital Communication at Georgian Court University in New Jersey. Her research interests center on the interdisciplinary intersection of academic theory and artistic practice with a focus on film and television studies.

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The NewsWorthy - Historic Flooding Possible, Cuomo Charged & Facebook’s New Name – Friday, October 29th, 2021

The news to know for Friday, October 29th, 2021!

We'll tell you about a flood threat bearing down on the nation's capital. Millions of Americans are again in the path of severe weather. 

Also, criminal charges were filed against New York's former governor.

And America's largest city could end up going without thousands of essential workers starting next week. 

Plus, get used to hearing the name, Meta. Facebook is rebranding. New words were added to the dictionary, and it's almost time for trick-or-treating. We'll share this year's most popular costumes and health officials' advice for a safe holiday. 

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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Opening Arguments - OA538: The Rittenhouse Trial Instructions, Explained

Yet another packed episode! Our main story is what's really going on with the Rittenhouse Trial Instructions. You might have seen the coverage stating that the victims can't be called victims but can be called rioters and looters. Is reality as bad as the coverage? Andrew explains! Then in what is our co-main segment, Andrew gives us his initial thoughts on the hot off the presses Build Back Better Plan and what Sinema and Manchin have cost us.

Links: HCSM letter, Wisconsin Legislature: 940.02, Kyle Rittenhouse back in court today, https://ballotpedia.org/Bruce_Schroeder, Kyle Ritttenhouse trial: Judge Bruce Schroeder to preside, Rittenhouse judge in spotlight after disallowing word 'victims' in courtroom, BBB deal Page 1 Page 2 Page 3, Whitehouse.gov BBB, HR5376 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Build Back Better Act

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What A Day - Let’s Make A Democratic Spending Deal

After weeks of negotiations, President Biden announced his revamped Build Back Better plan, which includes approximately $1.85 trillion of investments to fight climate change, expand health care, create jobs and more. This plan was originally much much bigger but two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are the reasons Dems had to abandon some of the bigger provisions.


And in headlines: big oil CEOs testified before Congress, the DOJ will pay $88 million to the victims’ families of the 2015 massacre at a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and a new criminal complaint alleges former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo of forcibly touching a female staff member.


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NY Times: “The World ‘Has Found a Way to Do This’: The U.S. Lags on Paid Leave” – https://nyti.ms/3mmRzA5


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The Daily Signal - How Racial Preferences Pigeonhole Minority Lawyers

How would you feel if your business forced you to do something based solely on your race? For some minority lawyers, that's a reality.

Racial preferences from clients take minority lawyers away from cases they’d prefer to work on, all to fulfill a quota.

GianCarlo Canaparo, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation (of which The Daily Signal is the news outlet), says that this can lead to mismatches in what a lawyer wants to do, and what he or she is forced to do. In some cases, that can lead to minority lawyers leaving their firms, exacerbating the problem.

"[Law firms] may pull a minority associate off cases that he or she wants to work on and put them on these matters, sometimes against their will, just so that they can fulfill these quotas," Canaparo explains.

Canaparo joins the show to talk about racial preferences and how they affect the careers of minority lawyers.

We also cover these stories:

  • President Joe Biden unveils a new, pared-down version of Democrats' social welfare spending bill.
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., expresses reservations about cuts to the spending bill.
  • The NAACP asks professional athletes to boycott Texas over the state's laws on abortion, voting rights, and COVID-19 mask mandates.

We also have a discussion about Halloween and some of the festivities that The Daily Signal team will take part in.


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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO315: Lisa Littman’s Latest Trans Study is Garbage

It's part 2 of our Littman breakdown, find out what her latest junk study says. This time it's about detransitioning and it suffers from many of the same problems as her first study we covered in part 1. Also, friend of the show Aaron Rabinowitz, host of Embrace the Void, dug up some of the questions Littman asked. Which ones were and were not included says a ton about what the answers must have been. Links: MacKinnon (2021), Littman (2021), Turban (2021)

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39 Ways to Save the Planet - Arnold Schwarzenegger’s favourite ways to save the planet

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the former governor of California and one of America's most influential green voices. He's also one of the biggest movie stars in the world and a big fan of the innovators, activists and entrepreneurs featured in the previous 39 episodes of this series. In this final programme, the Terminator star discusses his favourite ideas from the series with Tom Heap and looks forward to the crucial climate change talks in Glasgow in November.

Producer: Alasdair Cross

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Software for your second brain

Alex comes up with better ways to interact with technology and writes about it on his website. 

Is there a link between playing music and writing code? A previous article of ours covered the merger of the two in the music programming language, Sonic PI. 

If you're curious about the weird extremes of operating system development, check out TempleOS. 

Cassidy and Alex both take copious notes through Obsidian. Alex has a plugin that may help you organize notes automatically. 

 

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Short Wave - The countries left behind in climate negotiations

NPR climate correspondents Lauren Sommer and Dan Charles join the show before the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland (COP26) starts on Sunday. Diplomats, business executives, climate experts, and activists from all around the world will gather to discuss the question: Is the world on track to avoid the worst effects of climate change?

Lauren and Dan introduce us to two climate activists from countries that will be heavily impacted by climate change. Hilda Flavia Nakabuye from Uganda and María Laura Rojas from Colombia. We learn what's at stake for them if powerful countries don't move faster to halt climate change.

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