Month: September 2022

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Jobs Report Shows Slight Rise In Unemployment

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning released the August Jobs Report. The report shows that though employers hired over 300,000 new workers, unemployment rose slightly to 3.7% as more people look for jobs. Reset breaks down the data with Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG financial services firm.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Introducing ‘FINOM’

The art rock duo OHMME recently announced that they will be changing their name to FINOM. The band is made up of Macie Stewart and Sima Cunningham, who are veterans in Chicago's DIY music scene. They test the boundaries of their voices and their instruments to create a strange yet spellbinding sound. Reset sat down with FINOM to talk about the name change and break down some of their music.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Is the Military on Drugs?

From the old stories of Viking Berserkers to the rise of the Assassins and more, humanity has spent millennia using drugs as a way to explore spirituality, repair the body -- and, sometimes, to gain an edge in combat. But how prevalent was this practice? How does it continue in the modern day?

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The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - The One with the State of Texas CIO

Amanda Crawford, Chief Information Officer for the State of Texas joins the show to have a discussion about her state’s digital transformation journey, including where she draws inspiration for some of the projects she implements in the state and how they handled the massive influx of new residents during the pandemic. We also discuss how she ended up as a CIO after spending most of her career working in the legal field, what he has learned from other state CIO’s that she can bring into her own state, and why it is so important to leverage data to drive empathetic, digital citizen experiences.

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This Machine Kills - Patreon Preview – 189. Return of the Grift

We discuss a great new essay from Noah Kulwin that situates the modern crypto grift economy as a reincarnation of the Savings and Loans Crisis of the 80s – as a way of arguing for a longer view of the historical materialist context of these larger dynamics. New body, old engine. Some stuff we reference: ••• Tales from the Thrifts https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tales-from-the-thrifts-kulwin ••• Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/dining/buy-now-pay-later-loans-groceries.html Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)
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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 09/06

Kids go back to school today in Uvalde, TX. Manhunt for surviving stabbing suspect in Canada. Repeating a grade lost to COVID. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Deed of Truss: Britain’s new leader

As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will work for a crisis-stricken Britain. Japan’s prison population is ageing just as its wider society is—and that is at last prompting reforms to its punitive penal system. And why Ukraine’s short supply of anti-tank missiles is not as worrying as it would once have been. 

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