Month: May 2023

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How To Citizen with Baratunde - BONUS: Baratunde On Peril and Promise of AI

Welcome to a special bonus episode of How To Citizen. We are sharing Baratunde's appearance on the What Could Go Right? podcast, created by The Progress Network. Baratunde discusses technology, and specifically generative artificial intelligence, and how it might help or hinder human progress and how it aligns or deviates from our concept of citizen as a verb.

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How To Citizen is hosted by Baratunde Thurston. He’s also host and executive producer of the PBS series, America Outdoors as well as a founding partner and writer at Puck. You can find him all over the internet. 

 

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Slate Books - The Waves: I Don’t Care If You Like Me

On this week’s episode of The Waves, are female characters becoming less likable? Slate senior supervising producer, Daisy Rosario is joined by author and comedian Jena Friedman. Jena’s new book Not Funny explores likeability and what that means for women in comedy and the world. They talk about unlikeable female characters and anti-heroines in shows like Rosanne, Killing Eve, and more. How unlikeable female characters have evolved - and how streamers actually helped bring down some gatekeepers making more room for complex women on TV. 


In Slate Plus: When Jena asked famous male comics the questions so many female comics get asked every day.


If you liked this episode, check out: How to Survive in Hollywood.

 

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - DeSantis Makes It Official

The Florida governor has finally officially entered the Republican presidential primary. With electoral wins and culture war conflicts under his belt, does Ron DeSantis actually have a chance at beating Donald Trump?


Guest: Molly Ball, Time magazine’s national political correspondent.


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Curious City - Chicago’s Infamous Dojo Wars, Part 1: The Rise of John Keehan, Karate Sensei

In the 1960s, Chicago was becoming known as a center for Karate teaching and international tournaments, and the main person behind this movement was John Keehan. He was a revered black belt instructor who was also often an instigator in Chicago’s “Dojo Wars,” a series of brawls and incidents between competing martial arts schools. In part one, we follow Keehan’s rise as a sensei, and his efforts to bring more violence to the art, both on and off the mats.
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Unexpected Elements - Signals, seaweed and space

On the anniversary of the first telegraph being sent, the team discover how the telegraph was used as a colonial tool in Ghana, and how an eccentric Brazilian emperor helped spark a communications revolution.

They also reveal how tiny worms have helped scientists work out how our hearing works, and how bioelectricity might help focus your mind and heal your wounds.

There’s a tale of evil seaweed causing havoc for coastal communities, a scientist studying misophonia makes a pitch for The Coolest Science in the World, and there’s a listener question about how chickens fly.

And Marnie delves into a lesser known history of space flight, with the tale of a Zambian man who dreamt of being an astronaut.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Cassandra Jackson’s memoir looks back on a how tragic accident shaped her family

Before author Cassandra Jackson was even born, her father's family suffered a major loss – a car accident that resulted in the deaths of five people, including Jackson's aunt and grandmother. In her new memoir, The Wreck, Jackson attempts to understand the tragedy that shaped her upbringing and dives into the grief she's carried with her for as long as she can remember. In today's episode, she tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe how struggling with infertility triggered her search for answers about her own family's legacy, and what she discovered about segregation and media coverage in the process.
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It Could Happen Here - Hot Dogs Are Horrifying Ft. Jamie Loftus

Mia, Shereen, and Gare chat with award winning podcaster Jamie Loftus about her new book Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, hot dog labor and animal rights, and some truly accursed hot dog movies.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - CONSENSUS CONVERSATIONS: Introducing Wi-Fi Sharing and Privacy While Earning Tokens With Josh and Jesse Berger

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'Consensus Conversations' host Michele Musso speaks with Josh and Jesse Berger co-founders of PKT Pal (Packetpal) a plug-and-play device that is designed for wifi sharing and mining of PKT tokens, all while keeping security a top priority.  

Josh and Jesse also are the founding community members of PKT Cash (Packet Cash) which has no company, similar to Bitcoin.


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CBS News Roundup - 05/24/2023 | World News Round Up Late Edition

Music legend Tina Turner has passed away. Florid Governor Ron DeSantis enters race for the White House. One year since deadly shooting at Uvalde school. CBS News Correspondent Monica Rix has tonight's World News Roundup.

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