Month: July 2023

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The Best One Yet - 🐦🐦 “Instagram zucks Twitter” — Meta’s Twitter copycat. Insect-based food. Costco’s moocher crackdown.

We just witnessed a “Stage 5 Zucking” — Instagram has officially copied Twitter with a new app that launches today called “Threads”.

Crickets are now human food *and* dog food, because insect-based food found product-market-fit.

And Costco is cracking down membership card moochers — Because when companies can’t raise prices, they get strict.

$META $COST $WOOF $NSRGY

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Mother of All Demos (Encore)

Almost every single person listening to this podcast right now is doing so on some sort of personal computing device. 

Many of the things that we consider part of a modern personal computer, windows, hyperlinks, a mouse, and a text editor, all were released upon the world in a single 90-minute demo in 1968. 

The ideas were so advanced it would take over two decades before most of them found themselves in everyone’s homes. 

Learn more about the Mother of All Demos and the birth of personal computing, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO367: Science Says Slurs Are Bad, No Matter the Context

Maybe this sounds like a "no duh" but it's not neceessarily so straightforward. There are plenty of people who believe that not saying certain words gives them more power and we ought not to be afraid of them. Specifically, when the context is informational and not at all meant to be offensive. Dr. Alan Smerbeck is here to present the science of slurs and bad words and the effects they can have on us. Plus, there's plenty of interesting stuff along the way!

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NBN Book of the Day - James Crossland, “The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism” (Manchester UP, 2023)

In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in which breakthroughs in communications and weapons were made, political reforms were implemented and immigration waves bolstered the populations of ever-expanding cities. This era also simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists, anarchists and republicans to dynamite cities and discharge pistols into the bodies of presidents, police chiefs and emperors. This wave of terrorism was seized upon by an outrage-hungry press that peddled hysteria, conspiracy theories and, sometimes, fake news in response, convincing many a reader that they were living through the end of days.

Against the backdrop of this world of fear and disorder, The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism (Manchester UP, 2023) chronicles the journeys of the men and women who evoked this panic and created modern terrorism - revolutionary philosophers, cult leaders, criminals and charlatans, as well as the paranoid police chiefs and unscrupulous spies who tried to thwart them. In doing so, this book explains how radicals once thought just in their causes became, as Pope Pius IX denounced them, little more than 'devils risen up from Hell'.

Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel.

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The NewsWorthy - Largest Economies Meet, Looming UPS Strike & Launching ‘Twitter Killer’ – Thursday, July 6, 2023

The news to know for Thursday, July 6, 2023!

We're telling you about the latest high-profile trip to China and what to know about cocaine found in the west wing of the White House.

Plus, what the maker of ChatGPT plans to do now to protect society from its own product, why Instagram's new app is being called a "Twitter killer," and when do humans reach their mental and physical peaks? New research breaks it down.

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What A Day - SCOTUS Strikes Down POTUS

The Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and limited protections for LGBTQ+ people in the United States on Friday. The two decisions were 6-3 down ideological lines.

A Boston non-profit filed a civil rights complaint against Harvard, alleging that the university’s legacy admission practice violates the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against students of color. This comes a week after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in a case that involved the university last week.

And in headlines: A federal judge blocked Biden officials from communicating with social media companies about protected speech, thousands of hotel workers in Southern California are on strike demanding higher pay and better benefits, and this week marked the hottest day ever recorded in global history.

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | How Clarence Thomas Went From Childhood Sleeping on Dirt Floor to Becoming ‘The People’s Justice’

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas grew up with little. He and his younger brother slept on a dirt floor, and their mother struggled to make enough money to feed them. When he was a boy, Thomas’ mother sent him and his brother to live with his grandparents in hopes of a better life. 



Thomas’ “grandfather raised them with an iron fist,” federal appeals court Judge Amul Thapar says, “and this becomes important as you go through his jurisprudence, because there were a couple of things his grandfather did that impacted a young Clarence Thomas.” 



Thomas’ grandfather taught him that complaining accomplished nothing, that education was invaluable, and to think for himself, Thapar says. Those principles, he says, have influenced Thomas, now 75, as a Supreme Court justice. 



But despite Thomas’ commitment to the Constitution, he has faced criticism from the Left over the years, something Thapar contends is a result of the justice’s loyalty to judicial originalism. 

“Critics need a caricature because they don't like originalism,” Thapar says. “Why? What is originalism at its heart? It returns the power to the American people.” 



In his new book “The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him,” Thapar details how Thomas has sought through his time on the bench since 1991 to return power to the American people. 



Thapar, elevated to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by then-President Donald Trump in 2017, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share stories of Thomas’ life and his legacy as a Supreme Court justice.


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Tech Won't Save Us - Google and Meta Are Fighting with Canada w/ David Moscrop

Paris Marx is joined by David Moscrop to discuss Canada’s plan to make Google and Meta pay news publishers, and what might happened now that they’re threatening to pull Canadian news from their platforms.
 
David Moscrop is a freelance writer and the author of Too Dumb for Democracy?: Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones. Follow David on Twitter at @David_Moscrop.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • David Moscrop wrote about the larger context of the Online News Bill in his Substack newsletter.
  • Paris also wrote about Google and Meta threatening to pull news in Canada and why Canada should take a hard line with them.
  • Sandy Garossino wrote about how much money Google and Meta extract from Canada.
  • Media conglomerates Postmedia and Nordstar are in talks to merge.
  • California is also looking at a similar process to force Google and Meta to pay media in that state.
  • On Wednesday, the Canadian government pulled advertising from Facebook and Instagram, but said Google was still talking to find a way forward. The government said it won’t back down, and two opposition parties — the New Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois — voiced their support.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Is Biden To Blame for the Student Debt Mess?

The Biden administration’s plan to forgive federal student loan debt has been stalled, perhaps indefinitely, by the Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Nebraska. 


Was their plan to help borrowers always doomed, or was there another way? And after the Roberts court delivered such a broad-sweeping decision, what options does Biden have left?


Guest: Jed Shugerman, professor at Boston University School of Law.


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