Month: March 2022

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - SOB: New Lessons From the Island of Stone Bitcoins

Revisiting the story of Yap and Rai stone money yields surprising new insights about bitcoin today.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Wrejects.com.

In this visit to one of the earliest pre-bitcoin examples of a very bitcoin-like technology, correspondent George Frankly learns some valuable lessons about where convenience, belief and control collide.

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Headlines From The Times - A lot of magic with “Winning Time”

“Binge Sesh” is a new L.A. Times podcast taking a deep dive into the television shows everyone is talking about. For its inaugural season, the series gets into the HBO show “Winning Time,” which talks about the Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s who dominated the NBA with its Showtime approach to basketball.

Host: Matt Brennan and Kareem Maddox

Guests: Author Jeff Pearlman

More reading:

‘Winning Time’ began as the seminal book on the Showtime Lakers; it’s Hollywood now

How a pair of unknowns made themselves into Lakers legends for HBO’s next big drama

Four years. Four coaches. Inside the off-court drama that made the Showtime Lakers


 

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Everything Everywhere Daily - From Cautionary Tales: Death on the Floor

Here’s a special preview of the new season of Cautionary Tales from Pushkin Industries. On Cautionary Tales, bestselling author Tim Harford shares stories of human error, natural disasters, and tragic catastrophes from history that teach us important lessons for today. In this preview, you’ll hear about the 1981 Hyatt Regency Hotel collapse, a shocking design failure that resulted in 114 deaths and many more injuries. Hear the full story, and more from Cautionary Tales, at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/cteverything.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.28.22

Alabama

  • State Lawmakers return to Montgomery with 7 days left in legislative session
  • A reward is offered by Warrior Met Coal for info on the explosives placed by pipeline
  • Congressman Gary Palmer's bill further funds National Computer Forensics Institute
  • A federal grant will be distributed in AL to make low income home's energy efficient
  • Dothan man dies after fishing boat capsizes on Lake Eufaula

National

  • Biden refers to Vladimir Putin in speech, other  officials critique his use of words
  • Ukraine President says country is wiling to work out neutrality deal with Russia
  • Emails on Hunter Biden's laptop connects him with  bio lab research in Ukraine
  • Colorado considers law with wording that allows for infanticide up to 28 days
  • Utah state lawmakers override a veto to push a ban on transgenders in female sports
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The Intelligence from The Economist - In the war room: our exclusive visit to Zelensky’s “fortress”

Our editors traverse layers of security to reach the situation room where Ukraine’s president is so often seen addressing the world. They ask about his decision to stay in Kyiv, which countries are proving most helpful and whether he always had all those green clothes. They find a man who speaks of determination and honesty, and whose sense of humour remains remarkably undimmed.

Find an edited transcript of the interview here. 

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Take This Pod and Shove It - 17: “Clay Pigeons” by Blaze Foley, w/ Shane Torres

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This week we discuss the short and elusive career of Michael David Fuller aka Depty Dawg aka DAWG aka The Duct Tape Messiah aka Blaze Foley aka BLAZE. Danny and Tyler are joined by comedian Shane Torres (@shanetorres, Conan, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central) to talk Blaze’s small but mighty catalog of songs (including "Clay Pigeons"), and his sharp wit and unrivaled authenticity.

Blaze has never been a household name, and is more so a gone-too-soon folk hero troubadour. Still, his influence has been heard on DIY songwriters since the 80’s, and he’s beloved by such recognizable names as John Prine, Merle Haggard, Townes Van Zandt, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Kings of Leon, and many more.

If you’re new to Blaze, Shane and the boys have some songs they’d recommend you check out:
If I Could Only Fly
Big Cheeseburgers and Good French Fries
The Way You Smile
Springtime in Uganda
Living in the Woods in a Tree
Election Day
Oval Room
WWIII
Picture Cards Can’t Picture You
Let Me Ride In Your Big Cadillac
Cold, Cold World

"He's only gone crazy once. Decided to stay."--Townes Van Zandt

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 Bonus: John Egan, Kintaba

John Egan is a computer and electrical engineer by training. Early on, he got disillusioned by the idea of building robots - it was too slow for him. While he was working at Harvard, he was watching the early days Y Combinator, and told his wife that there was a movement going on, and they should move to be a part of it. Startups weren't common then, so it was a risky move - but John found himself excited about being a part of it. Eventually they did make the move, created a file transfer company, and ended up getting acquired by Facebook. Outside of tech, he's married, with a 4 year old son. And for fun? He builds tools for himself, since he's not writing much code at his current venture. One of them is Postmortem.io, in addition to launching IR Conf for incident responders.

Post Facebook, John set out to ask the question to his prior colleagues that had left, about the tools they missed the most. The tool that kept coming up in conversation was a tool to manage incidents. So he decided to build this platform, named after an ancient Japanese philosophy.

This is the creation story of Kintaba.

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The Best One Yet - 👙 “Saturdays are for Speedos” — Victoria’s Secret’s swimwear mistake. Instacart’s apology round. America’s loooong pump.

Victoria’s Secret just realized it made a huge mistake in 2019, so it’s betting on bikinis. Instacart just pulled a move we’ve never seen before: cutting its own valuation (aka “An Apology Round). And if Russia is 1 big gas station and Europe’s its best customer, then America just announced a really long pump. $VSCO 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 ID: 2097555 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.