Month: January 2022

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: What is the Highway of Tears?

For decades women have been abducted, murdered and forgotten along an isolated stretch of Canadian highway. Join the guys and special guest CarStuff's Scott Benjamin as they explore the terrifying history - and disturbing future - of Canada's serial killer hunting ground.

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Headlines From The Times - Issa Rae, take a bow

Issa Rae is the brilliant, hilarious mind behind the recently concluded HBO show “Insecure.” In this crossover episode with The Envelope, Rae talks about the incredible trajectory of her career, from a YouTuber turned Hollywood powerhouse, and how she repped South Los Angeles in a way that wasn’t just real but uplifting.

More reading:

 Issa Rae almost ended ‘Insecure’ differently. But she couldn’t ‘deny Issa her soulmate’ 

Issa Rae on the music business: ‘It’s an abusive industry... it needs to start over’ 

How ‘Insecure’ achieved its ‘mission’ to forge a real bond with South L.A.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.11.22

Alabama

  • Alabama loses to Georgia in last night's championship game, final score 33 to 18
  • 10 Alabama mayors finish up 2 days of meetings  with press conference
  • Judge denies bond for man and woman charged in murder of missing Fairhope woman
  • Director of USS Alabama is named Tourism Executive of the Year for 2021


National

  • CDC reveals that those dying with Covid 19 had many more underlying problems
  • House Minority Whip Steve Scalise calls for more oversight of Biden administration
  • NYC mayor and council facing lawsuit for voting to allow non citizens to vote
  • New Mexico newborn baby alive after being pulled from dumpster in garbage bag
  • March for Life returns to the streets of Washington DC this January
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Time To Say Goodbye - Blaming teachers’ unions for Covid

Hello from pandemic year 3!

There seems to be a panic over school closures—and a backlash against teachers and their unions. But how many US public schools have had to “go remote” because of Covid? Are these physical closures reasonable? Why are people blaming educators for everything from “learning loss” to the downfall of the Democratic party? What “shock doctrine” tactics do we need to look out for?

Check out:

* Jay in The New York Times, on the value of public schools and a post-Hurricane Katrina cautionary tale

* A common, cynical take in The Atlantic

* Arguments for parent-teacher solidarity in The New Yorker and Jacobin

* An explainer on the teacher shortage and our stingy approach to public K–12 education, at Vox

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Talking out his asks: Putin’s NATO demands

This week’s flurry of diplomacy aims to address what Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, says he wants. He cannot get it. Does an invasion of Ukraine hang in the balance? At an annual jamboree of economists our correspondent finds an unusual focus on the future—in particular the future of home working. And why Cuba has an enormous trade in grey-market garlic.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S5 Bonus: Adrian Tobey, Groundhogg (Replay)

Adrian Tobey lives in Canada. He got started in his tech career right out of high school, working for his father's digital marketing agency. In high school, he was interested in computer science, and developed video games and useful UI for his school. Prior to digital marketing, his father was a jazz musician, and Adrian followed in those footsteps to play the trumpet. For University, he had two options - go to school for computer science or for music... and chose the latter. During school, he was working full time for his Dad's agency, building websites, email campaigns and such. While he was doing this, he built his first product called Form Lift, which is a Wordpress form builder for Infusion Soft.

Around 3 years into school, he failed his first university course - a discrete computer science course around computer runtimes, big O notation, etc. He had invested a ton of money into the his degree already, but he started doing the math, and estimated he wouldn't complete school until 2025 because he was part time.

With that in mind, he dropped out of University school, and thought - what next? He didn't want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on Wordpress.

This is the creation story of Groundhogg.

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