Month: April 2023

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Strange Case of Benjaman Kyle

Virtually everyone's experienced a slip in memory -- in most cases, the slips are thankfully short-lived. But what happens when your own brain conspires against you... what happens when you permanently forget nearly every detail of your own identity? This was the case of a man who took the name Benjaman Kyle, who for years was one of the mysterious individuals known as the "living unidentified."

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Federalist Radio Hour - How The SPLC Helped The Left Marginalize Conservatives

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Tyler O'Neil, managing editor of The Daily Signal and author, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the corrupt tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center to smear and delegitimize Christian and conservative groups.

You can find O'Neil's book "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center" here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/making-hate-pay-tyler-oneil/1136152246
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Headlines From The Times - How trans surfers find community

Trans surfers are beginning to find community among themselves in a sport that too often isolates and even shuns them. 

Today, we hang out with some at the beach, to hear their joy and pain. Read the full transcript here.

Host: L.A. Times senior producer Denise Guerra

More reading:
Biden sports plan angers transgender advocates and opponents

Black surfers find moments of reflection, rejuvenation at ‘A Great Day in the Stoke’

For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans

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CBS News Roundup - 04/28/2023 | World News Round Up

Mike Pence testifies before the January 6th grand jury. Keeping an alleged leaker locked up. Kick off for the NFL draft. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Have We Been Teaching Reading All Wrong?

Only one in four third graders in Illinois can read at grade level, a gap that has only widened since the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this disparity in literacy, the Illinois State Board of Education is seeking to overhaul the way reading is taught by the state, and lawmakers want to give them a deadline to do it. Reset hears the latest on the proposed changes from Cassie Walker Burke, WBEZ editor.
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This Machine Kills - 251. The Triforce of Corporate Power in AI (ft. Sarah Myers West)

We are very pleased to be joined by Sarah Myers West— managing director of AI Now Institute and former Senior Advisor on AI to the FTC—to discuss their excellent new report, 2023 Landscape: Confronting Tech Power. We lay out how the dominance of Big Tech is built on a triforce of advantages: data, compute, geopolitical. These advantages serve as both core pillars and core chokepoints for corporate control over AI. And if we hope to overturn their power, then we must undermine these advantages. The report lays out a number of key interventions for policy, regulation, and organizing. ••• 2023 Landscape report: https://ainowinstitute.org/general/2023-landscape-executive-summary ••• Sarah’s twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahbmyers Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills 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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The Intelligence from The Economist - Without reserves: Bolivia faces an economic crisis

AS A GAS // As a gas producer, the state was able to build up enormous reserves. But failing to pivot when global prices fell has created debt, a dollar shortage and rampant panic. The exposure of Western companies to China suggests both poles are closer than politics suggests. And, the Italian team upsetting the status quo of European football.


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The Best One Yet - ♟️ “Hardcore Pawn” — Chess.com’s growth hack. Meta’s favorite word. Fanatics’ sports bet.

The number of Americans playing chess has shockingly doubled in just 6 months — and it’s all because of one website’s wild strategy. Meta surged 14% after its earnings because tech has a new favorite “word du jour.” And sports apparel giant Fanatics has 90M users, but it’s making a major pivot before its IPO: From t-shirts to sports bets. $META $GOOG $MSFT Take our weekly pop-biz pop-quiz at go.tboypod.com  Want merch, a shoutout, or got TheBestFactYet? Go to: www.tboypod.com Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube 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.