Month: December 2021

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.15.21

Alabama

  • Lt General Mike Flynn endorses AL candidate for District 5
  • One year  report for Alabama Department of Corrections shows loss of 77 employees
  • Tragedy in Phenix City as body of missing 5 year old girl is found in vacant home
  • A man charged with kidnapping is accidentally released from jail in Jefferson County
  • Veterans group in Mobile takes next step in creating a detox and drug treatment facility

National

  • Parents of 15 yr old Michigan shooting suspect are charged with manslaughter
  • US district judge in DC orders the jail  transfer of a January 6th defendant with cancer
  • Two  Dem led states issue  mask mandates in all public settings right before Christmas
  • Acclaimed cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough says the covid crisis was collusion
  • FL Governor puts 8 million dollars into state budget for relocating illegal immigrants
  • Ohio Legislature sends bill to governor that protects babies that survive an abortion
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First Things Podcast - Mark Bauerlein on the Legacy of Lincoln—The Editor’s Desk

​​M​ark Bauerlein​ joins editor R. R. Reno to discuss his article “A Less Perfect Union​,” from the January print edition. They discuss the mixed legacy of Lincoln’s actions and rhetoric, the heroism of the Southern military, and the necessity for more realistic embodiments of America, like Davy Crockett and Jack Kerouac.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Compiler – What is the recipe for burnout?

Original episode: https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-write-technical-documentation

Hey guys, we are narrowing in on the Christmas holiday's in the states. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New year! For today, I'm sharing yet another fantastic episode of the Compiler podcast, from Red Hat. As a reminder Compiler is a show hosted by tech veterans, discussing tech topics - big, strange and small.

On this particular episode - which is episode 10 - the topic of burnout is chatted on. This was a great discussion, full of really good tidbits. What I really liked was how Angela, Brent and Johan break down the ingredients for burnout. In order, these are:

  1. An unending amount of work
  2. Not having healthy boundaries on your work
  3. Guilt, obligation, and never doing enough
  4. Criticism amplifying 1-3

The hosts primarily interviewed folks, and come up with this recipe from the standpoint of open source maintainers. Interestingly enough, I find that these apply to software engineers as well. I think criticism can be interchanged with pressure as well, which probably has some criticism implicit in it.

However, I also find that lack of team or company direction can lead to burnout as well as an absence of mentorship. When people don't feel like they are growing, work can become stale. Perhaps its a little bit of burnout mixed with boredom, but at any rate, it leads them to not want to work there anymore.

At any rate, I really enjoyed this episode, and think you will too. Enjoy!



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The Intelligence from The Economist - In full swing: Ethiopia’s shifting civil war

More than a year after a rebellion Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised to put down in weeks, the balance of power keeps swinging—and neighbouring states may soon be drawn in. To the chagrin of libertarian crypto types, regulators are weighing in on an industry now worth trillions. And the fed-up North Korean wives earning more than their husbands.

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The Best One Yet - 🦕 “Tri-Pegasaurus Rex” — Apple’s $3T winds. Casinos are #1 in 2021. Kellogg’s strikes back.

Apple is an emoji away from a $3 trillion valuation, so we’re looking at how it gets to $4 trillion: A car and a headset. Physical casino had their best year in the US ever — how? And with the the resigning and strikes from workers, Kellogg is hiring cereal replacements… it’s the Empire Strikes Back $K $AAPL $MGM 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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Everything Everywhere Daily - Moon Rocks

From 1969 through 1972 six Apollo missions landed on the moon and returned a total of 840 pounds of moon rocks to the Earth. Geologists were able to study them and learned an enormous amount about the composition and formation of the moon. However, those same rocks have been the center of several controversies and mysteries ever since they came back to Earth. Learn more about moon rocks and where they are now on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Getting Hammered - The Ideas Man

Would a can of Vienna Sausages outlast mask mandates? CDC director Rochelle Walensky thinks so. Elon Musk joins the ranks of Mary Katharine's husband as an Ideas Man, a comedian and an MSNBC host butt heads, and California experiences a bacon shortage.


Times

  • 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
  • 11:15 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 11:22 - Covid updates: California reinstates indoor mask mandate, Philadelphia requires vaccines for indoor dining, first Omicron-variant death in the UK
  • 13:12 - CDC director Rochelle Walensky says masks are for now, not forever
  • 16:13 - Dr. Angelique Coetzee, one of the doctors who discovered Omicron,
  • 22:55 - Time magazine names Elon Musk Person of the Year
  • 29:24 - Sarah Silverman butts heads with MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid
  • 33:01 - Bacon shortage in California
  • 38:35 - Tornadoes rock Kentucky



Links for charities helping tornado victims

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Relevant Church's Tornado Relief Fund

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NBN Book of the Day - Eike Exner, “Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History” (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality, the history of manga is deeply intertwined with Japan’s avid importation of Western technology and popular culture in the early twentieth century.

Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History (Rutgers UP, 2021) reveals how popular U.S. comics characters like Jiggs and Maggie, the Katzenjammer Kids, Felix the Cat, and Popeye achieved immense fame in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Modern comics had earlier developed in the United States in response to new technologies like motion pictures and sound recording, which revolutionized visual storytelling by prompting the invention of devices like speed lines and speech balloons. As audiovisual entertainment like movies and record players spread through Japan, comics followed suit. Their immediate popularity quickly encouraged Japanese editors and cartoonists to enthusiastically embrace the foreign medium and make it their own, paving the way for manga as we know it today.

By challenging the conventional wisdom that manga evolved from centuries of prior Japanese art and explaining why manga and other comics around the world share the same origin story, Comics and the Origins of Manga offers a new understanding of this increasingly influential artform.

Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing.

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - How Inflation Plays Out in the Next Year (with Jason Furman)

What do gasoline, eggs, used cars, and meat have in common? Inflation has caused the prices on all these items to increase by double digits in the last year. Andy dives into what's happening with inflation with Jason Furman, Harvard economist and former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama. They discuss why it's happening, what can be done to tackle these high prices, and where he thinks the economy will be in a year. Plus, how all of this ties into why so many of your Christmas gifts are backordered.

 

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What A Day - The Human Cost Of Military Pollution In Hawai’i with Kai Kahele

Tens of thousands of military families in O’ahu have been living without clean water for weeks after their water well was contaminated with petroleum. Many people got severely ill and some were even hospitalized for skin rashes, chemical burns, and vomiting. Hawai’i Congressman Kai Kahele joins us to discuss the gravity of the situation and how we got here. 


And in headlines: the Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling, six women sued Tesla for sexual harassment in the workplace, and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was ordered to forfeit the earnings from his book.


Show Notes:

PBS: “Navy’s water contamination flub in Hawaii follows 8 years of warning signs” – https://to.pbs.org/3EYiXLU

Hawai’i Sierra Club’s Red Hill Quick Resources and Actions – https://sierraclubhawaii.org/redhill


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