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Time To Say Goodbye - Ukraine with Sophie Pinkham
Hello from our doomscroll…
Today we talk about—what else?—the events in Ukraine this past week :-(
We chat with Sophie Pinkham, an essayist, reporter, and expert on the region. In 2016, she published Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine (read an excerpt in Dissent). She has written about politics after the Maidan protests (The New Yorker), the election of President Volodymyr Zelensky (The New York Review of Books), and, just yesterday, Zelensky and the war (New York).
We discuss our initial reactions to the news of invasion, why so many people didn’t expect it to happen, U.S. jingoism, the impact of social media and propaganda, criticisms of “the left,” speculations about the future, and the comparability of China–Taiwan.
Some stuff we’ve been reading:
* “Ukraine: What Russia wants, what the West can do,” Anatol Lieven, Responsible Statecraft
* “A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” Taras Bilous, Open Democracy
* “News from Natoland,” Tariq Ali, New Left Review
* Background on history and political economy in Adam Tooze’s newsletter
* Friends of the show Michelle Kuo and Albert Wu on reactions to Ukraine from Taiwan.
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Omnibus - Lisztomania (Entry 726.MT0908)
In which a Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist becomes Europe's first rock star, and John is looking for a German countess with the right braids. Certificate #39341.
The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.1.22
Alabama
- A series of military bills passed by AL legislature now heads to governor's desk
- World Games directors approve ban against Russia or Belarus athletes participating
- UAB demolishes 2 building to make way for a new 75 million dollar genomics project
- ALEA and Houston county authorities arrest man for child pornography
- Colleges and universities in AL are waiving application fees this week
National
- Russia and Ukraine leaders meet for talks to end fighting , only agree to have more talks
- United Nation Security Council to hold emergency meeting re: East European conflict
- Joe Biden returns to White House from Delaware one day ahead of SOTU address
- White House released name of Supreme Court nominee- Kentanji Brown Jackson
- Devon Archer, business partner to Hunter Biden, is sentenced to prison for fraud
- FL Democrat House member not to run for re-election, total is now at 31
- FL governor Ron DeSantis will not comply with national guard request from WH
The Intelligence from The Economist - Square in their sights: Kharkiv under siege
The levelling of Freedom Square in Ukraine’s second city is powerfully symbolic. One resident has been speaking to us daily since the invasion began. In the American West, minerals crucial to a clean-energy transition abound. We examine the opposition to a looming new mining boom. And a revealing meal with our food columnist: we have big news about “The Intelligence”.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 E7: Brian Vallelunga, Doppler
Brian Vallelunga loves to build things - products, companies, or silly things on the side. In Elementary school, he was asked by one of his friends, "why can't you put a movie on your phone?". This got Brian's mind racing, and he went home, ripped a movie into the specific format for his flip phone, and shared it immediately with his friend. Post that, he competed in science fairs, even at the state level. One of the projects, he built a craft that was lighter than a fingernail, and flew without wings or engines.
Brian led a portion of the engineering team at Uber, after inserting himself as an intern into the right meetings, which awarded him interesting projects. At the same time, he was building a crypto marketplace on the side, but struggling to get it launched. After taking a trip to reset, his mind kept coming back to a problem he faced while attempting to launch the marketplace - and it was surrounding managing environment variables and secrets. And his community of developers confirmed the need.
This is the creation story of Doppler.
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Ghost Train - Waiting On A Train
After the lessons of rail, the Denver region might just be ready to move into a bus-centric transit future that better addresses climate change, air quality, and inequity. But there's one unfulfilled promise standing in the way: the Boulder train. Is it time for locals to let that go, or is there hope on the horizon? Part 4 of 4.
Hosted and reported by Nathaniel Minor
Editors: Erin Jones, Joe Wertz
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Additional production: Luis Antonio Perez
Theme song by Daniel Mescher. Additional music via Universal Production Music.
Artwork: Mia Rincón
Executive producers: Kevin Dale, Brad Turner
Additional editorial support: Jo Erickson, Alison Borden, Rachel Estabrook, Ana Campbell, Sherkiya Wedgeworth-Hollowell, Andrew Villegas, Dave Burdick
Archival tape thanks: Heather Dalton and Dominic Dezzutti at CPT-12; Tim Wieland and Steve Vriesman at CBS4 Denver; Kevin Krug at KMGH Denver7.
Thanks also to Kim Nguyen, Jodi Gersh, Clara Shelton, Hart Van Denburg.
Ghost Train is a production of CPR News and Colorado Public Radio's Audio Innovations Studio.
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The Best One Yet - 💨 “Gone in 60 rubles” — Russia’s piggy bank. TikTok’s TikTooooooooook. Jersey Shore’s $4B wind.
It was a panic attack — Russia’s economy suffered the fastest plummet we’ve seen, because Putin’s piggy bank had a crack. TikTok’s is expanding to 10 minute videos because it’s chosen the hardest path. And a record $4B was just dropped on water real estate for an offshore wind farm capturing the Snooki Gusts.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Carnival and Mardi Gras
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Every year, before the start of Lent, in hundreds of cities around the world, there is a massive celebration. While the celebrations differ, sometimes dramatically, there are certain elements they all share.
Modern celebrations can often get quite racy, and if you didn’t know it, you’d probably never guess that the origins of the celebration actually have a religious origin.
Learn more about Carnival and Mardi Gras, and how the modern celebrations came to be, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Mark Edele, “Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two.
Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more all-encompassing than is sometimes appreciated. Here, acclaimed scholar Mark Edele explores the complex experiences of both ordinary and extraordinary citizens – Russians and Koreans, Ukrainians and Jews, Lithuanians and Georgians, men and women, loyal Stalinists and critics of his regime – to reveal how the Soviet Union and leadership of a ruthless dictator propelled Allied victory over Germany and Japan.
In doing so, Edele weaves together material on the society and culture of the wartime years with high-level politics and unites the military, economic and political history of the Soviet Union with broader popular histories from below. The result is an engaging, intelligent and authoritative account of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1949.
Amber Nickell is Associate Professor of History at Fort Hays State University, Editor at H-Ukraine, and Host at NBN Jewish Studies and Eastern Europe.
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