The Intelligence from The Economist - Palace intrigue: the Kremlin after the mutiny

It has been a month since the head of the Wagner group led a march on Moscow. Although it failed, Putin appears considerably weaker. What does this mean for outcomes on the battlefield? India is facing record-breaking rainfall as monsoon seasons continue to worsen. The government’s response has fallen short (12:29). And, the highly-anticipated Barbie and Oppenheimer films hit cinemas (18:04).


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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Beyond Bots – Bryce Crawford, Meow

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.

Guest: Bryce Crawford, CTO & Co-founder at Meow

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  • Remind the audience what Meow does.
  • How long have you been a customer of Ntropy? When did this come into play?
  • Last we talked about passing on revenue to customers in banking. It’s hard given the tight margins. How is Meow thinking about that today?
  • Is the “software layer” on top of finance going to make this better? How?
  • Generative AI and LLMs are the talk of the town, are you seeing any use cases? Or, are you working on an in-house solutions?
  • There are many new decisions you have to make as a CTO. How does you prioritize around what will make a difference in the market?
  • What matters to your customers.... are people expecting finance to be magical or simply reliable?
  • What is the real impact of AI on finance going to be in your eyes?

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President

Last week I found myself in Sun Valley, Idaho, at a conference with a lot of big wigs. Among them was Larry Summers—an economist, the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and a former president of Harvard University. The timing was fortuitous.

Last month, Harvard went before the Supreme Court to defend its race-based admission policies—and lost the case, thus overturning the legality of affirmative action. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that those admissions programs quote, “cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.  

This ruling has led to a debate in American life about the future of higher education, and it’s caused many to question another admissions policy that numerous American universities have long taken for granted: legacy admissions, the policy of giving preference to college applicants whose family has already attended the school. In light of the Supreme Court ruling, legacy admissions have been scrapped at top schools including Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, and just this week at Wesleyan University.

So I wanted to sit down with Larry Summers to talk about the future of American higher education, whether eliminating legacy admissions actually goes far enough, what he thinks admission departments will do in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, and what he might have done differently as president of Harvard if he could go back in time. And lastly, what makes American higher education worth saving in the first place.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 7.21.23

Alabama

  • Congressman Carl lauds actions by GOP in US House since majority control
  • Sen. Tuberville says his NIL bill to be offered in the Senate next week
  • Civil rights attorneys file legal notice in Mobile re: death of Jawan Dallas
  • Orange Beach mayor supports Jason Aldean song getting flak from liberals
  • Widow of George Jones presents check for $80G to Huntsville PD

National

  • RFK Jr. and Democrats clash during US House hearing on censorship
  • Iowa senator releases more docs confirming Joe Biden's payout from Ukraine
  • City of Moscow Iowa agrees to settle with 3 people arrested during Covid
  • Mexican authorities find 200 migrants trapped and drugged in tractor trailer
  • Donald Trump screens "Sound of Freedom" at NJ golf club w/Jim Caviezel

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Elevator (Encore)

Some of the things we use every day were invented in the distant past. Other things were invented quite recently. 

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Getting Hammered - The Person Who Had a Sandwich

Today we are discussing 2024, the IRS whistleblowers, Carlee Russell, Harry and Meghan's political ambitions and a unique story of never ending gnocchi.


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NBN Book of the Day - Scott A. Mitchell, “The Making of American Buddhism” (Oxford UP, 2023)

Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He teaches and writes about Buddhism in the West, Pure Land Buddhism, and Buddhist modernism.

As of 2010, there were approximately 3-4 million Buddhists in the United States, and that figure is expected to grow significantly. Beyond the numbers, the influence of Buddhism can be felt throughout the culture, with many more people practicing meditation, for example, than claiming Buddhist identity. A century ago, this would have been unthinkable. So how did Buddhism come to claim such a significant place in the American cultural landscape?

The Making of American Buddhism (Oxford UP, 2023) offers an answer, showing how in the years on either side of World War II second-generation Japanese American Buddhists laid claim to an American identity inclusive of their religious identity. In the process they-and their allies-created a place for Buddhism in America. These sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants-known as “Nisei,” Japanese for “second-generation”-clustered around the Berkeley Bussei, a magazine published from 1939 to 1960. In the pages of the Bussei and elsewhere, these Nisei Buddhists argued that Buddhism was both what made them good Americans and what they had to contribute to America-a rational and scientific religion of peace.

The Making of American Buddhism also details the behind-the-scenes labor that made Buddhist modernism possible. The Bussei was one among many projects that were embedded within Japanese American Buddhist communities and connected to national and transnational networks that shaped and allowed for the spread of modernist Buddhist ideas. In creating communities, publishing magazines, and hosting scholarly conventions and translation projects, Nisei Buddhists built the religious infrastructure that allowed the later Buddhist modernists, Beat poets, and white converts who are often credited with popularizing Buddhism to flourish. Nisei activists didn't invent American Buddhism, but they made it possible.

Dr. Victoria Montrose is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Furman University.

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Opening Arguments - OA780: SCOTUS Blocked Biden From Cancelling Student Loans Because F— You Is Why

Liz and Andrew provide a brief update as we continue to wait with bated breath on Trump indictments in DC (for the January 6th insurrection) and possibly in Fulton County, Georgia (for trying to falsify Georgia's election results).

In the main segment, Liz and Andrew break down the Supreme Court's recent decision in Biden v. Nebraska on the so-called "major questions" doctrine as to why we can't have nice things like student loan forgiveness.

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Dep’t of Education v. Brown https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-535_i3kn.pdf

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The NewsWorthy - Violent Crime Down, Record NFL Fine & ‘Barbenheimer’ Bonanza – Friday, July 21, 2023

The news to know for Friday, July 21, 2023!

We're telling you about a so-called sanctuary city now telling migrants not to come and why thousands of highly-skilled workers in the U.S. are trying to get to Canada.

Also, a historic heatwave is now starting to put a strain on America's healthcare system.

Plus, a possible breakthrough in the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, an NFL team sold for a record price, and a "Barbenheimer" bonanza. We'll explain what's behind the bizarre movie mashup.

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