On today’s home team episode, Ben and Ryan discuss the implications of a lapse in section 174 of the tax code. Here’s a great explainer on how it’s affecting startups and software firms, threatening jobs and potentially bankrupting some struggling companies.
Video game employees are exploring a union and Microsoft recently announced it will stay neutral in the process.
What’s the difference between a bad game, a low effort developer, and shovelware? Our game development Stack Exchange has some thoughts.
After a dubious win in 2018, Felix Tshisekedi is running for office again in the Democratic Republic of Congo – and an incumbency bias could work in his favour. Is there any hope for a fair election? 2023 has brought a flurry of news on the developments of artificial intelligence, so let’s take stock (13:45). And, why New York is introducing a congestion charge (21:50).
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When author Caitlin Shetterly saw an influx of license plates from Massachusetts and New York arrive in her home state of Maine during the pandemic, inspiration struck for her debut novel. Pete and Alice in Maine follows a couple that moves the family out of New York City during the initial COVID-19 scare — but finds the baggage from Pete's affair and Alice's questions about her purpose follow them. In today's episode, Shetterly speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the very complicated idea of forgiveness, and how it eludes both of her characters.
Ayal Regev lives in Tel Aviv, and continues working hard on his startup, despite the hostage conflict in the country at the time of this recording. Prior to his current venture, he was in tech for 10 years, doing consulting in cybersecurity, healthcare, and gaming. Being a gamer for a long time, he enjoyed the technical challenges in brining a game to market. Outside of tech, he likes to write raps - and forecasts that he will perform them one day. He also likes to do rock climbing and play board games with friends.
Ayal and his co-founders noticed the trends of automation in continuous integration and development processes (or CI/CD). They also noticed that over time, this has created a lot of clutter and bloat in the ecosystem. They wanted to filter out bad practices, and build a platform to reduce feedback time and redefine CI/CD.
Last week we lost comedian and friend, Kenny DeForest. We wanted to say some words about our amazing friend, though we could never say enough to do him justice. If you're a comedy fan, we encourage you to check out his comedy, which is available all over the internet. We'll post some links below as well. He'll be dearly missed.
We're taking the rest of 2023 off, and will see you in 2024. Happy holidays, take care and see ya soon. -Tyler & Danny
Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) - as the only permanent international court that addresses crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes - has important potential to end impunity and find justice for victims of atrocities, it is dependent on others for almost all aspects of its functioning. The Court has frequently relied on the peacekeeping operations that the UN deploys in the field and, over the past two decades, UN peacekeepers have provided logistical assistance and security to Court investigators, shared large amounts of information, and have even been involved in the arrest of Court suspects. But their track record has been inconsistent: they have sometimes refused to take action against people accused of war crimes and have found it difficult to balance their impartiality with court prosecutions. Despite the empirical importance of this phenomenon, we know preciously little about the circumstances under which it occurs.
In Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo(Oxford University Press, 2023), Dr. Tom Buitelaar reveals the conditions under which UN peacekeepers address impunity in their mission areas. He presents an original single-country case study of assistance provided by the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a plausibility probe of other peace operations in ICC situation countries. Relying on new empirical material, including over 130 interviews of key decision-makers, and comprehensive archival research, this scholarly volume explores how the UN navigates the terrain of conflict mediation and punitive accountability and demonstrates the collaborative but contingent relationship between the UN and the ICC.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
When Europeans began sailing the high seas on extended voyages, the most deadly thing they encountered wasn’t enemy navies, starvation, or even shipwrecks.
It was a painful disease where your body would literally start falling apart, and it killed more than 2,000,000 sailors between the voyage of Columbus to the middle of the 19th century.
Learn more about scurvy and how it was eventually conquered on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
We'll tell you about a deadly storm that's been pummeling parts of the U.S. and is still lingering this morning.
Also, a controversial new law in Texas would give local officials more power over immigration arrests, even hundreds of miles from the border.
Plus, we're talking about the most definitive step yet to make the Catholic church more welcoming to the LGBTQ community, the record-breaking fine Southwest Airlines will now have to pay, and the big Marvel movie star who was fired.
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In this episode, Rivers and Carter are hunkered down in Disgraceland Studios and they've just thrown another yule log on the fire to make things nice and cozy for another HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR episode. Joining them on this magic sleigh ride are three AMAZING guests: comedians Matt Brousseau and Keith Carey and artist and all-around hilarious person, Jordan Williams! We kick this one off by chugging a Ghostbusters-themed energy drink from Oxyshred. Then we talk about the insanely debauched life and untimely death of the most famous Christmas artist, Thomas Kinkade. We also talk about the worst gifts ever shared by folks on Reddit. Wham!'s "Last Christmas" is our JAM OF THE WEEK. Give us a listen. Ho! Ho! Ho! Music at the end is a cover of John Prine's "Christmas in Prison" performed by Deer Tick. Follow Matt Brousseau on Instagram @CapitalCityInc. Follow Keith on Instagram @KeithTellsJokes. Follow Jordan on Instagram @TheGooneyBird and buy some art @GooneyBirdCrafts on Instagram and Etsy. Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
