Month: July 2022

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The Allusionist - Tranquillusionist: Australia’s Big Things

This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, say a load of deliberately boring words to distract your interior monologue from whatever dystopian stew it is in. Today: a list of the Big Things of Australia.

The Allusionist is on tour in Australia with the new live show Your Name Here, all about eponyms. Before you get too tranquil, visit theallusionist.org/events for dates and tickets to the remaining shows in Australia and the upcoming ones in Aotearoa New Zealand. Hurry!! OK, back to tranqullity.

Find a transcript and some photos of the Big Things I've encountered at theallusionist.org/big-things. All the Allusionist episodes - other Tranquillusionists and also ones that are actually about something - are at theallusionist.org.

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The NewsWorthy - Heat ‘Apocalypse’, Blue Angels First & Toys ‘R’ Us Comeback – Tuesday, July 19th, 2022

The news to know for Tuesday, July 19th, 2022!

We'll tell you how an extreme heatwave is putting life on hold in Europe and why treason investigations have started within Ukraine's government as Russian attacks get more intense. 

Also, what to watch for in today's primary elections here in the U.S.

Plus, a history-making change for the elite Blue Angels squad, how Snapchat is setting itself up to compete with Zoom, and where you'll start seeing hundreds of Toys 'R' Us shops around the country.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes...

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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What A Day - Location Sharing With Homeland Security

Heat waves are devastating people in Europe and North America this summer. In the U.K. it’s hotter than the Sahara Desert, and in the U.S. 35 million Americans are currently living in places with excessive heat warnings this week.

The ACLU published “thousands of pages of previously unreleased records” on Monday about the government surreptitiously collecting people’s private information without a warrant. The report shows that the Department of Homeland Security — including border protection and ICE — buys access to data from hundreds of millions of phones.

And in headlines: a West Virginia judge blocked the enforcement of the state’s 150-year-old abortion ban, Uber settled a discrimination lawsuit, and Steve Bannon’s trial started.

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The Daily Signal - Rep. Lance Gooden: Big Tech Companies Practically ‘Own the Government’

Congressional Democrats and Republicans agree that Big Tech companies are too powerful, says a Texas congressman who is a leader on the issue.


“These Big Tech companies have gotten to the point that they own the government, in a sense,” Rep. Lance Gooden, co-chair and co-founder of the Freedom From Big Tech Caucus, says, adding that “people are tired of being censored, of being policed, by Big Tech.”


With many Democrats agreeing that Congress should place some limits on the power of Big Tech platforms, the Biden administration has called on these companies to stop the spread of "misinformation" or "disinformation."


During an interview with Axios on climate change, White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy said that “tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation." 


To fix this problem, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator said, "we need the tech companies to really jump in."


Gooden joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the dangers of Big Tech companies' policing information, and how his Freedom From Big Tech Caucus is working to rein in platforms such as Google and Twitter.


Also on today’s show, we cover these stories:

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical officer to the president and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says he plans to retire at the end of President Joe Biden’s term.
  • A new report details "failures" in the law enforcement response to the school shooting that left 21 dead in Uvalde, Texas.
  • According to data from Gallup polling, Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news has sunk to an all-time low. 


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Prosecutors Stuck With Abortion Bans

Abortion is now illegal in eight states, and more trigger laws banning the procedure are expected. The new state policies usher in an era of criminalized abortion. In Missouri, one liberal prosecutor is still struggling to predict how strictly these laws will be enforced.


Guest: Jean Peters Baker, elected prosecutor of Jackson County, Missouri.


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Pod Save America - “Why Republicans Can’t Get Over The Trump.”

Joe Manchin fucks over the planet while Democrats try to make progress without him. Then former Republican strategist Tim Miller joins the pod to talk about his new book that explains why so many of his friends and colleagues went full-MAGA.

 

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Code completion isn’t magic; it just feels that way

Anvil is an open-source web framework for building full-stack applications entirely in Python.

Ready to dig deeper into code completion? Check out Meredydd’s talk at PyCon 2022 (he even built a code completion engine live on stage). 

ICYMI: Listen to our previous episode with Meredydd about countering the complexity of web programming: Full-stack web programming with nothing but Python. 

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Short Wave - Venus And The 18th Century Space Race

In the 18th century the world was focused on Venus. Expeditions were launched in pursuit of exact measurements of Venus as it passed between Earth and the Sun. By viewing its journey and location on the Sun's surface, scientists hoped to make a massive leap in scientific knowledge. With a little help from math, Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber recounts how humanity came closer to understanding our cosmic address — and relative distances to other planets — in the solar system.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Pallbearers Club’ shows how dangerous nostalgia can be

Today's Book of the Day is a little bit of everything: punk rock music, high school dynamics, some horror tropes, and pointing out the dangers of nostalgia. Author Paul Tremblay discusses with Shannon Bond why that is, and explains the influence his own high school experience and Stephen King brought to his book The Pallbearers Club.
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Read Me a Poem - “Harriet in the Promised Land” by Sam Cornish

Amanda Holmes reads Sam Cornish’s poem “Harriet in the Promised Land.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

  

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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