Month: September 2022

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The Best One Yet - 🐸 “Stop scanning my mangoes” — Self-Checkout’s leapfrogging. New York Times’ mealkit. Adobe’s $20B acqui-baby.

It’s not just you… The number of self-checkout machines have doubled in grocery stores, but they’re also facing “The Leapfrog Effect.” The New York Times’ newest product isn’t a newspaper, it’s a meal kit. And Adobe just dropped $20B to acquire website design startup Figma, because it’s a digital thing making digital things (for digital things). $NYT $ADBE $WMT Follow The Best One Yet 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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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 9.16.22

Alabama

  • AG Steve Marshall talks about important AL case headed to SCOTUS 
  • ADOC says they are not ready with nitrogen hypoxia method for execution
  • Attorneys for Casey White seek to remove death penalty option in his case
  • ALEA says drag racers in Bullock County kill a pedestrian
  • Buc-ees to open its 3rd store in Athens, and hold a hiring blitz in October

National

  • Federal contract for tracking illegal migrants prohibits any use of GPS
  • FL governor flies 2 planes with illegals on board  to Matha's Vineyard 
  • 2 busses of illegals from TX land near DC home of VP Kamala Harris
  • DE state court rules mail in ballot voting as unconstitutional
  • Facebook apparently spied on right wing accounts and sent info to FBI
  • US senate to delay vote on Same sex marriage until after midterm elections


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Babbage Analytical Engine (Encore)

Computers have obviously transformed our world. You wouldn’t be listing to my voice right now if it wasn’t for computers. 

However, the first computers, a device that could perform arbitrary calculations, actually came well before electronics. It was made of gears, cogs, and levers, and it was able to perform mathematical calculations as well as run simple programs. 

Learn more about Charles Babbage and his analytical engine, the world’s first mechanical computer, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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New Books in Native American Studies - Mohamed Adhikari, “Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples” (Hackett, 2022)

Today I talked to Dr. Mohamed Adhikari about his book Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples (Hackett, 2022).

"This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over the long durée. It does so systematically and compellingly, as it investigates how settler colonial expansion at times created conditions for genocidal violence, and the ways in which genocide was at times perpetrated on settler colonial frontiers. This volume will prove invaluable to teachers and students of imperialism, colonialism, and human rights." — Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, and author of The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea

"A succinct, insightful, and highly readable text discussing an issue that deserves to be integral to any world history course. Using four finely crafted, yet widely dispersed, case studies Adhikari strikingly shows how vulnerability and resistance occur as the waves of global capitalism hit indigenous societies." — Robert Gordon, University of Vermont

“Illuminating and compelling. This is a volume about genocide, a recurrent phenomenon in world history that, disturbingly, has created our modernity. Mohamed Adhikari equips the reader with a sound conceptual introduction, then provides four detailed yet clear accounts of genocide in the Canary Islands, Queensland, California, and German Southwest Africa. He has expertly provided the big picture as well as the specifics true to each history. Primary sources from each episode invite the reader’s participation in analysis. A book with which to think and to teach others.” — Lora Wildenthal, Rice University

This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

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The NewsWorthy - Rail Crisis Averted, Crypto ‘Merge’ & Tennis Legend Retires – Friday, September 16th, 2022

The news to know for Friday, September 16th, 2022!

We’ll tell you how a potentially costly nationwide strike was avoided for now (but why it’s still not over), and there’s an update from Jackson, Mississippi after weeks of a water crisis there.

Also: a battle between states continues to escalate as people who cross the southern border are sent to new cities. Is it a fair option calling attention to a problem or an inhumane political stunt? 

Plus: we’ll explain what the so called “merge” means in the crypto world, how TikTok seems to be copying a new social media rival, and another tennis legend announces his retirement…

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Weather Whiplash: What to Do About Worsening Droughts and Floods

From droughts to fires to floods, a year of extreme weather is taking a toll on communities from Jackson, Mississippi to Pakistan. Climate change is here and impacting our homes and drinking water. Andy speaks with climate scientist Daniel Swain and former EPA Southeast Coordinator Heather McTeer Toney about why global warming is increasing the intensity of natural disasters, who’s most at risk, and how communities should spend Inflation Reduction Act funds to boost their resiliency.

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What A Day - Red-State Governors Use People As Props

The White House announced a tentative agreement with freight rail companies and the unions representing 100,000 workers on Thursday, averting a strike that would have had huge economic consequences.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he paid to fly about 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard – escalating a tactic used by other Republican governors to protest the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

A recent study found that Muslim characters on TV face an “epidemic of invisibility.” Al-Baab Khan, the study’s lead author, tells us how portrayals based on stereotypes fuel Islamophobia.

And in headlines: Vladimir Putin met with Chinese president Xi Jinping for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mississippi officials lifted the boil water advisory for Jackson residents, and Cardi B pleaded guilty to assault charges stemming from a fight at a strip club in 2018.

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | Sumantra Maitra on Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II

The death of Queen Elizabeth II marked the passing of an era in British and world history. 

Elizabeth II, who first became queen when Winston Churchill was prime minister in 1952, carried the British monarchy through the turbulent twentieth and early twenty-first centuries until her death on Sept. 8. 

Not only that, Elizabeth II provided a critical link to the past with dignity and grace that was respected and admired, even by many outside the U.K. She provided the best example of what an “elite” can be. 

“A lot of elite in other societies, they are elites, when they dictate the polity of a country, but they don't really actively take part,” said Sumantra Maitra, a national security fellow at the Center for the National Interest and associate fellow at the Royal Historical Society in the U.K. “But the royals have to serve. The queen served in the Second World War. All her sons, our current king, essentially, he served as well in the Navy. William and Harry, they served.” 

It is notable that while so many pay their respects to Elizabeth II, there is a general trend in the West to reject its own history, its own traditions in the name of purifying the past. False narratives based on faulty history are now used to diminish what many in America, the U.K., and the West once paid tribute to in their history. Ultimately, Maitra said, this “breaks the love for the future generations to come and feel anything traditional or anything that's connected to their own past.” 

Maitra joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the war on history, and more. 


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