Month: May 2022

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.17.22

Alabama

  • Several states have primary elections today, Alabama will do the same next week
  • Congressman Aderholt seeks timeline on  Space Command coming to Huntsville
  • A shooting  in Buffalo, NY has ties to Tuscaloosa woman, she loses younger sister
  • Gas prices in Alabama and other states goes up 15 cents per gallon in one week
  • A statue honoring Heavyweight Champion Deontay Wilder to be unveiled this week

National

  • SCOTUS rules 6 to 3 on a campaign fund law involving TX senator Ted Cruz
  • More details emerge on church shooting in Laguna Woods, CA
  • 3 way dead heat in PA with GOP Senate primary candidates
  • Donald Trump promotes NC congressman Madison Cawthorn for re-election
  • Mars-Wrigley candy maker issues recall of 3 types of gummies due to metal strands
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Luna landing: Crypto chaos

Stablecoins are essential to the financial plumbing of the cryptocurrency world. They’re pegged to a real-world asset, usually the dollar. But when that peg breaks, things can turn ugly in a hurry. Much of India is suffering through a particularly blistering and costly heatwave. And Indonesians’ love of songbirds is threatening wild bird populations within and beyond Indonesia itself. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 E18: Or Weis, Permit.io

Or Weis has been a programmer or engineer since the age of 5. He started playing with DOS commands super early in his life. He made a significant leap in his professional skills when he was joined the IDF, as a reverse engineer. Post that, he worked for a startup to build containers (before they were commonplace), followed by co-founding Rookout, a company who defined the production debugging space. You might recognize that name, as I interviewed his co-founder, Liran, on a recent episode. Outside of tech, he is married to another software engineer, and dabbles in writing science fiction. He hopes to publish one day soon. Or hopes to eventually write a book that overlaps with his professional interests as well, kind of like the Phoenix Project.

While he was building his startups, Or quickly found himself annoyed with having to build and rebuild permission sets, or authorization, into every solution he made. Since he couldn't find someone doing it, he decided to create a permissions solution... for the last time.

This is the creation story of Permit.

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The Best One Yet - 🦋 “Kendrick Lamar doesn’t Venmo” — Cash App’s rap battle. Bitcoin’s anti-bro. McDonald’s de-arching.

Kendrick Lamar dropped his first album in 5 years, but to get the best tickets you need a fintech app. Shocker: One of the rockstars of crypto just actually critiqued something about crypto. And McDonald’s is “de-Arching” from Russia (new word, they made it up) — the Happy Meal is perhaps America’s most important export.  $BTC $SQ $MCD Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too 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 - How Worried Should We Be About Asteroids?

About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid collided with the Earth near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. This impact ended the era of the dinosaurs and resulted in one of the greatest species extinctions in history.


That large asteroid wasn’t the first to hit the Earth, nor will it be the last. 


Today, many people are actively trying to ensure that such an event never happens again. 


Learn more about asteroid impacts and how much we should worry about them on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Donald A. Barclay, “Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)

Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022) cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related forces–historical, psychological, economic, and culture–to create the post-truth culture, Disinformation will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond a culture in which facts are too easily dismissed, and develop a few highly practical skills for separating truth from lies.

Disinformation explains:

  • How human psychology—the very way our brains work—can leave us vulnerable to disinformation.
  • How the early visions of what a global computer network would and should be unintentionally laid the groundwork for the current post-truth culture.
  • The ways in which truth is twisted and misrepresented via propaganda and conspiracy theories.
  • How new technology not only spreads disinformation but may also be changing the way we think.
  • The ways in which the economics of information and the powerful influence of popular culture have contributed to the creation of the post-truth culture.

Unlike the far-too-numerous one-sided, politically ideological treatments of the post-truth culture, Disinformation does not seek to point the finger of blame at any individuals or groups; instead, its focus is on how a number of disparate forces have influenced human behaviors during a time when all of humanity is struggling to better understand and more effectively control (for better or worse) challenging new technologies that are straining the limits of human intellectual and emotional capacity.

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The NewsWorthy - Another Hate Crime, Formula Shortage Relief? & Uber Party Buses – Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

The news to know for Tuesday, May 17th, 2022!

We'll explain the conspiracy theory authorities say may be behind more than one recent mass shooting and more stories of heroes who risked their lives to save others from gunfire. 

Also, the latest ruling from the Supreme Court could impact how candidates raise money for their midterm election campaigns. 

Plus, a new deal is supposed to help with the baby formula shortage, you can get several free at-home Covid-19 tests again, and Uber's new options range from electric vehicles to party buses.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes...

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