Month: January 2023

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | How War in Taiwan Could Short-Circuit U.S. Tech

Roughly 95 percent of advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing happens in Taiwan, leaving the U.S. vulnerable to supply chain shocks and national security threats. Is the Biden administration’s $280 billion bill, signed in August last year, enough to boost domestic chip manufacturing?


Guest: Don Clark, freelance reporter specializing on chips and enterprise tech.


Host: Emily Peck


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This Machine Kills - Patreon Preview – 222. Weird That All These Canaries of Tech Capitalism Keep Dying

We do a postmortem on 2022, the year of Web3, talking about the goofs and grifts, speed and scale, crashes and canaries, with our major takeaway and theme being that just as FTX is not anomalous for Web3, nor is Web3 anomalous for Silicon Valley. It is, instead, a product and paragon of the structural conditions and systemic imperatives that define how the political economy of technology operates within capitalism. Stuff we reference ••• In 2022, web3 went just great https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/in-2022-web3-went-just-great ••• Web3 grift leaderboard https://web3isgoinggreat.com/charts/top ••• Imprinting the economy: The structural power of venture capital https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X221136559 ••• MicroStrategy Hit Lowest Since 2020 After Bitcoin Sale https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-29/microstrategy-mstr-hits-lowest-since-2020-after-bitcoin-sale-announcement?srnd=technology-vp Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab TMK gear: https://www.bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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Consider This from NPR - Why We Can’t Resist ‘Best Of’ Lists

'Tis the season for lists! Best films of the year, best albums, best podcasts. Lists can provoke strong emotions- from spirited debate to outrage - over who or what made the cut or ranked higher.

This week, Rolling Stone magazine faced backlash over their list of the 200 greatest singers of all time, which omitted some big names (Celine Dion, Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole to name a few)

Lists! We love to hate them. and yet they are almost irresistible. Can they function as more than just clickbait?

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Aisha Harris and Stephen Thompson, hosts of Pop Culture Happy Hour.

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The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Alec and Bob Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we are featuring two questions asked of Alec Baldwin (the movie star) by our guest host Bob Garfield (non-movie star), which had originally been left on the cutting room floor, but hey, that's what weekend shows are for, right? After Alec, we dig into The Gist archives and listen back to Mike’s 2017 interview with Bob Garfield about his one-man show, Ruggedly Jewish. Yeah, that one-man show. Guest host week is now officially over.

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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Motley Fool Money - Diagnosing Stock Drops

Just because a stock lost 98% of its value doesn’t mean it's cheap. Sometimes the market becomes efficient.

Asit Sharma joins Ricky Mulvey to look at some justifiable reasons why stocks dropped last year and which strong businesses that may have been swept up in the tide. They discuss:

- Carvana’s boom and bust, and the takeaways for investors - If Zoom has a sticky product - How Roku is addressing a tougher advertisement landscape - Meta’s valuation, and questions about its leadership - Mindset advice if you want to be a contrarian investor

Companies discussed: LULU, ZM, MSFT, CVNA, ROKU, NFLX, META

Aswath Damodaran’s blog on Meta: https://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/meta-lesson-1-corporate-governance.html

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Headlines – Top Stories of the Week 01-02-23

A roundup of the week’s most valuable crypto stories for Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. 


Missed any episodes of “The Hash” this week? Today’s recap episode will get you caught up.

“Hash Headlines” rounds up this week’s headline stories, including:

  • Sam Bankman-Fried's Upcoming Court Appearance
  • What's Next for Sam Bankman-Fried?
  • Silvergate Shares Plummet Amid $8.1B Withdrawals
  • Headline Data Shows Huobi Suffers $60M Token Outflows and Announces Major Layoffs


Links to the headlines:  

Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ to Fraud, Conspiracy Charges

Bahamas-FTX Dispute Heats Up as Bankman-Fried Prepares for Trial

Silvergate shares tumble as crypto bank reveals $8.1bn fall in deposits  

Crypto Exchange Huobi Sees $60M Token Outflows in a Day: Nansen  

Tron's Price Sinks 8%, USDD Depegs Amid Drama at Justin Sun-Related Huobi Crypto Exchange

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World Book Club - Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North

A Passage North explores the impact of the vicious Sri Lankan civil war between Tamil and Sinhalese which tore Sri Lanka apart for two and a half decades before a fragile ceasefire was finally reached in 2009. When Krishan learns that his grandmother’s former carer Rani has died he makes the long journey north to attend the funeral across a country still traumatised and scarred by its recent past.

Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and an unsettling meditation on what it means to have observed the war from afar rather than to have been personally caught up in its horrors.

(Picture: Anuk Arudpragasam. Photo credit: Ruvin De Silva.)

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What is Adaptive Clothing?

After seeing his grandmother struggle to get dressed in assisted living, the founder of Joe & Bella decided to create an adaptive fashion brand that worked for older adults and was actually fashionable. Reset talks to Ben Graham, vice president of marketing for Joe & Bella, about adaptive apparel and hears from Reyes Witt and Hugo Colin from Columbia College about a recent collaboration with fashion students.