the memory palace - Episode 210: Smoky and Bill

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Music

  • I Believe in the Night by Keith Kenniff

  • Improvisations sur les folies d’Espagne (extraits) from Marin Marais and Jordi Savall

  • Finally by Lambert

  • Voltige by Marin Lizotte

  • Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick

  • Fratres fur violin und klavier by Avro Part as played by Ursula Schloch and Marcel Worms

  • Dungen by Henrik Lindstom

Notes

  • There are plenty of places to go to read about Smoky and Bill but why would want to go anywhere else than his book, Yorkie Doodle Dandy?

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Big Technology Podcast - ChatGPT Gets Lazy, Elon Musk Blasts Advertisers and Releases The Cybertruck, Jack Ma Returns

Louise Matsakis is a reporter at Semafor covering AI. She joins us for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) ChatGPT getting lazy 2) The commoditization of AI companies 3) Anthropic’s unique board governance 4) Anthropic’s EA connections and the state of EA 5) Amazon’s Q chatbot 6) Elon Musk tells advertisers to F themselves 7) The drawbacks of brand safety puritanism 8) The Cybertruck is here. 9) Jack Ma appears in public for the first time in years.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Would Lower Oil Prices Be Good or Bad for Bitcoin?

Noelle Acheson, the mind behind the Crypto Is Macro Now newsletter, explores the crypto market rally, energy prices, how oil prices impact bitcoin and more.

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Bitcoin Rises to $38.8K for the First Time Since May 2022 

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GDPNow - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

China’s Xi Seen Delaying Key Economic Plenum, Defying Norms - Bloomberg 

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: What is Agent Orange?

Named for the orange stripe lining the 55 gallon barrels containing this herbicide and defoliant, Agent Orange was one of the most widely-used "rainbow herbicides" of the Vietnam war. But it wasn't just harmful to plants. Soon after it was deployed in Vietnam, Vietnamese citizens and US veterans alike reported crippling, life-threatening symptoms.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Israel Goes In, Blinken Goes Wobbly

Today's podcast is a hybrid. The first part, about the appalling rhetoric used by Antony Blinken about Israel and its conduct of the war that has now restarted, was recorded Friday morning, December 1. The second half, about the passing of Henry Kissinger and my trip to the massacre site in Israel, was recorded Thursday afternoon, November 30. Please be understanding as you give a listen.

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CBS News Roundup - 12/01/2023 | World News Roundup

Cease fire over as fighting resumes between Israel and Hamas.. Wounded Palestinian-American speaks out. Expulsion vote for George Santos. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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