Month: April 2023

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Philosophers In Space - The Things and Varieties of Uplifting

Since we couldn’t get enough bug love we’ve awakened the master from his hypersleep so that we can go straight to the source! We’ve got Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Children of Time series and other amazing scifi on to discuss The Things by Peter Watts, a piece that relates strongly to Children of Memory while giving us a nice chance to distinguish between assimilationist and non-assimilationist approaches to uplifting.

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Slate Books - A Word: The Battle for Eatonville

Folklorist and Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston made her hometown of Eatonville, Florida famous in her writing, including her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. But her fame hasn’t saved the town from the pressures that many African American communities have endured: a population fighting poverty, government indifference, and developers that want to scoop up the land to build housing that current residents can’t afford. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by Aallyah Wright, a reporter with Black news non-profit Capital B, who has written about the town’s recent success in resisting developers, and its hopes for the future.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Wait, TikTok Has a Sister App?

While TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, is fighting to keep its flagship app from being banned in the United States, it’s also pushing a new app into the marketplace—Lemon8. One part Pinterest, one part Instagram and a dash of its sister app, Lemon8 is most likely saddled with the same security concerns that led lawmakers to consider banning TikTok.


Guest: Sapna Maheshwari, business reporter for the New York Times.

Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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Short Wave - News Round Up: Mammoth Meatballs, Stressed Plants And Apologetic Robots

In this Friday round up of science news we can't let go, not everything is as it seems. Meatballs are not made of fresh meat from the cattle range. Robots are keeping something from you. And plants have secrets they keep out of your earshot. It's deceptive science, Short Wave-style.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Two books trace enslaved people’s journey to freedom in the 19th century

Today's episode features two books examining the sacrifices made by enslaved people in the U.S. First, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Ilyan Woo about Master, Slave, Husband, Wife. It's a true story about a young couple that poses as an elderly white man and his slave in order to escape the South. Then, author Kai Thomas tells NPR's Ari Shapiro about how his novel, In the Upper Country, takes a closer look at the relationship between Black and indigenous people – and how free Black communities in Canada became a safe haven during the American Civil War.
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It Could Happen Here - The Myth of the “Noble Savage” ft. Andrew

Andrew talks with Gare and Mia about how the myth of the "noble savage" has been used to delegitimize and oppress Indigenous societies.

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This Machine Kills - 245. Shook Ones (Tech Style)

It’s a fan cam episode for our favorite tech columnist, Brian Merchant, who had two pieces come out recently that are back-to-back bangers. First is about why all the people making and selling AI keep talking about being afraid of their own creations. It’s Frankenstein meets sorcerer's apprentice but as a marketing strategy for their own power (and their unique ability to control that power). Second is about what all these people should actually be afraid of. As history shows us, there is more than one way to crash a computer. Article we discuss ••• Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be | Brian Merchant https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-31/column-afraid-of-ai-the-startups-selling-it-want-you-to-be ••• Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they should be | Brian Merchant: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-24/column-how-afraid-should-silicon-valley-be 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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CBS News Roundup - 04/06/2023 | World News Round Up Late Edition

Tennessee lawmakers face expulsion. Review of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan released. Supreme Court refuses to reinstate West Virginia’s transgender athlete ban. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper has tonight's World News Roundup.

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The Gist - ESPN’s Mike Greenberg Got Their Number

A fun round of sports trivia and sports narratives ensue when ESPN's Mike Greenberg comes by to discuss the new book Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own. Plus, an expulsion vote of three Tennessee lawmakers. And Zelensky is still holding it together.


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