Month: January 2024

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New Books in Native American Studies - Scott Gac, “Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America” (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Scott Gac's Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America (Cambridge UP, 2023) investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing reasons including gun culture, the American West, Hollywood, the death penalty, economic inequality, rampant individualism, and more. This compelling examination of American violence explains a political culture of violence from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age, illustrating how physical force, often centered on racial hierarchy, sustained the central tenets of American liberal government. It offers an important story of nationhood, told through the experiences and choices of civilians, Indians, politicians, soldiers, and the enslaved, providing historical context for understanding how violence has shaped the United States from its inception.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Cahokia

You are probably familiar with several of the great pre-Columbian cities in the Americas. Places like Tikal in Guatemala, Copan in Honduras, and Tenochtitlan in Mexico are some of the great legacies of the civilizations that came before. 

However, all of these population centers were located in Mesoamerican. Most of the people who lived in what is today the United States and Canada were nomadic and never built any large cities.

However, there was one major exception. 

Learn more about Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian settlement in North America, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Another Deep Freeze, New Cancer Data & Cicada Mania- Thursday, January 18, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, January 18, 2024!

We're telling you about another deep freeze expected to impact most of the country and when you can finally expect things to warm up. 

Also, there's a new plan to bridge the learning gap caused by the pandemic.

Plus, new research from the American Cancer Society, AI-powered features coming to Samsung's new smartphones, and why 2024 could bring more cicadas than usual.

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What A Day - Gaza Gets Crucial Medicine Delivery

Israel and Hamas reached an agreement on Wednesday to get medicine delivered to hostages held in Gaza. In exchange, humanitarian aid and medication will be delivered to Palestinian civilians. And overnight on Tuesday into Wednesday, Israeli forces advanced on the area around the Al Nasser hospital complex in Khan Younis, a city in Southern Gaza.

Over in Texas, a floating barrier in the Rio Grande will stay for now because an appeals court reversed an order for the state to remove it. Governor Greg Abbott installed the 1,000 foot-long string of buoys and submerged netting in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass last July as part of his anti-immigration program.

And in headlines: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to move his presidential campaign away from New Hampshire and instead prioritize South Carolina’s primary, Democrats filed a lawsuit to demand that the Wisconsin Supreme Court throw out the state’s congressional maps, and thousands marched the streets of Honolulu on Wednesday for the annual ‘Onipa’a Peace March that commemorates the day that the U.S. illegally overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom. 

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The Daily Signal - Back From Israel: Morgan Ortagus Recounts Stories of Trauma

Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “look like shells of their former selves,” commentator Morgan Ortagus says, following meetings in Israel earlier this month. 


But Ortagus, who was State Department spokesperson under President Donald Trump, says the weariness extends to the people of Israel, many of whom remain “traumatized” from the Hamas terrorist attacks Oct. 7. 


“The very existence of the state of Israel is threatened whenever they are attacked,” she says, adding, “It's a tiny country. It's a tiny people."


"So when they are attacked, it's existential to their surviva," Ortagus says. "And we of course know that more Jews were killed on Oct. 7 than on any other day since the Holocaust. So I know that has to weigh with the leadership.” 


As host of “The Morgan Ortagus Show,” a new Sunday offering on SiriusXM Patriot, the former State Department official is using her platform, and her nearly two decades of national security experience, to communicate the history of tension in the Middle East and what America's role should be. 


Ortagus joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what she learned after meeting with Netantahu and other senior leaders in Israel and Saudi Arabia, and visiting some of the kibbutzim where Hamas terrorists tortured, raped, and slaughtered Israelis on Oct. 7. 


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Tech Won't Save Us - AI Hype Distracted Us From Real Problems w/ Timnit Gebru

Paris Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss the past year in AI hype, how AI companies have shaped regulation, and tech’s relationship to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
 
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute.

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. Support the show on Patreon.
 
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
 
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  • Paris is speaking in Montreal on January 20. Details here.
  • Billy Perrigo reported on OpenAI lobbying to water down the EU’s AI Act.
  • Nitasha Tiku wrote about the push to train students in a particular idea of AI.
  • Politico has been doing a lot of reporting on the influences on AI policy in the US and UK.
  • OpenAI made a submission in the UK to try to get permission to train on copyrighted material.
  • Arab workers in the tech industry fear the consequences of speaking out for Palestinian rights.
  • 972 Magazine reported on Israel’s use of AI to increase its targets in Gaza.
  • Jack Poulson chronicles the growing ties between military and tech.
  • Timnit mentioned No Tech for Apartheid, Antony Loewenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory, and Malcolm Harris’ Palo Alto.

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The Best One Yet - 💊 “The Dude Pill” — Plan A’s male birth control. Whatsapp’s surge in America. JP Morgan’s billions of cyberattacks.

NextLife just raised VC money to launch Plan A - a new birth control… for men — We think there’s just as much innovation in the name of the drug as the drug itself.

Whatsapp is the fastest growing messaging app in America thanks as it unites iMessage and Android — And social media is being replaced by messaging.

And JP Morgan Chase just revealed at Davos that it receives 45 Billion attempted cyberattacks a day (Yes, billion. Yes, daily) — Which means that we all pay a Cyberattack Tax.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - And God Gave Us Trump

How American white evangelical Christianity has reshaped itself in the image of Donald Trump.


Guest: Rev. Angela Denker, Lutheran pastor and author of Red State Christians: A Journey into White Christian Nationalism and the Wreckage It Leaves Behind


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Frozen River’ tells the fictionalized story of a real 18th century midwife

Martha Ballard was a real midwife in the late 1700s who delivered more than 1,000 babies without ever losing a mother. Ballard kept a diary of her life and the town secrets she learned thanks to her profession — and she's at the center of Ariel Lawhon's new novel, The Frozen River. In today's episode, Lawhon tells NPR's Scott Simon how she stumbled upon Ballard's story while pregnant with her own child, and why it was important for her to make a 54-year-old woman the hero of her book.

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It Could Happen Here - Behind The Daily Wire, Part 1

Garrison and Robert talk about the rise of the Daily Wire from conservative news site to aspiring entertainment empire.

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