Listener Tadd Williams often sees the 16th Street Station from I-880. It's a huge, stately building in the Beaux-Arts style. It's looking a little rundown now, but it clearly was grand at one time. He wants to know about its past lives, and how was this spot important to West Oakland's Black community and the Civil Rights Movement.
In which a well-mustached electrician starts a labor movement that even Ronald Reagan can get behind, and Ken is working on a chess novel. Certificate #26170.
Weâre 4 episodes deep into WeCrashed⊠so perfect timing that WeWork just revealed their first real tech product. Last month we told ya CNN+ was coming â Itâs here now, but itâs just âplusâ, no CNN (drop the âCNN.â Itâs cleaner). And Etsy was the #2 stock of 2020, but now the craftfolk are going on strike.Â
And FYI: this is our last pod of the week (markets are closed for Good Friday, so weâll whip up your next TBOY on Monday).
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Ever since people have had secrets, people have taken measures to protect those secrets.Â
The first methods to hide secrets were simple and mechanical. Over time they became more elaborate and used machines. Today, they are mathematical and would require an enormous amount of computing power to decipher.Â
Learn more about cryptography and how communications are kept secret, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
In How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech (Duke University Press, 2022), Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of âspeechâ have transformed over the last century in response to new media technologies. Drawing on media and legal history, Petersen shows that the legal category of speech has varied considerably, evolving from a narrow category of oratory and print publication to a broad, abstract conception encompassing expressive nonverbal actions, algorithms, and data. She examines a series of pivotal US court cases in which new media technologiesâsuch as phonographs, radio, film, and computer codeâwere integral to this shift. In judicial decisions ranging from the determination that silent films were not a form of speech to the expansion of speech rights to include algorithmic outputs, courts understood speech as mediated through technology. Speech thus became disarticulated from individual speakers. By outlining how legal definitions of speech are indelibly dependent on technology, Petersen demonstrates that future innovations such as artificial intelligence will continue to restructure speech law in ways that threaten to protect corporate and institutional forms of speech over the rights and interests of citizens.
Jennifer Petersen is an Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She is the director of the graduate certificate program in Science and Technology Studies and is affiliated with the Center for Law, History, and Culture. Before arriving at USC, she worked at the University of Virginia, where she was an affiliate with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is also a former Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellow in Communication at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.
Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program.
We're talking about the arrest in the New York City subway attack: who police say tipped them off.Â
And there are huge backups on the southern border: why the governor of Texas says they're necessary, even though they could mean more trouble for grocery prices.Â
Plus, the latest update to the mask mandate on planes, what to know about a baby formula shortage, and how Google plans to add thousands of new jobs in the U.S.
New York Police arrested a suspect in relation to Tuesdayâs mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway. Frank James was apprehended in Manhattan and is accused of shooting ten people, which resulted in many more injuries as well.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill on Tuesday that makes performing an abortion in the state a felony. Jenny Ma, a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, joins us to discuss the broader implications of the ban.
And in headlines: Ukrainian officials collected the bodies of 765 civilians in Kyiv, the CDC announced that it would extend the federal mask mandate for public transit, and New York health officials have discovered two new Omicron subvariants spreading throughout the state.
Show Notes:
NY Times: âThe shooting left at least 23 people injured. Hereâs what we know about the victims so farâ â https://nyti.ms/3LZOvUI
Gothamist: âMass shooting suspect arrested in Manhattan a day after subway attackâ â https://bit.ly/3Omxear
Keep Our Clinics â https://keepourclinics.org/
Roe Fund â https://www.roefund.org/
Center for Reproductive Rights â https://reproductiverights.org/
National Network of Abortion Funds â https://abortionfunds.org/need-abortion/
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Crime is on the rise in Los Angeles, and the soft-on-criminals policies of District Attorney George Gascon are a major cause, Sheriff Alex Villanueva says.Â
When Gascon took office in December 2020 as one of the successful candidates backed by liberal financier George Soros, he issued a list of crimes that the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office no longer would prosecute.Â
Those changes are âunleashing a wave of crime by not prosecuting criminals who are victimizing poor people, people of color, people that live in the toughest neighborhoods in our communities,â Villanueva says.Â
Villanueva, a lieutenant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department when he was elected sheriff in 2018, joins âThe Daily Signal Podcastâ to explain how Gascon's policies led to criminals being released back onto the streets and how the "defund the police" movement has affected his workforce.
Also on todayâs show, we cover these stories:
The Biden administration extends the mask mandate for many travelers, especially on planes and trains, for another 15 days.
President Biden accuses Russia of committing genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott makes good on his promise to bus illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C.
Paris Marx is joined by Lauren Smiley to discuss what weâve learned about the Uber crash since in happened in March 2018, what thatâs meant for the vehicle operator whoâs been charged, and whether the justice system made the right call in blaming her instead of Uber.
Lauren Smiley is a WIRED contributor and freelance journalist based in San Francisco. Follow Laren on Twitter at @laurensmiley.
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In the French presidential election five years ago, Marine Le Pen lost badly to Emmanuel Macron. Now, Le Pen is back for a rematchâand this time, polls are pretty tight.Â
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