Month: January 2024

Posted on

Slate Books - A Word: A Multiverse of Problems

Comic book films have dominated the box office for a generation, and gave many diverse actors and artists an opportunity to shine. But the genre struggled during 2023, and fans are worried that the golden age has ended for those movies and the culture that inspired them. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by journalist David Betancourt, who covered comic book movies and culture for The Washington Post for more than a decade. They talk about why superhero films may be going through a rough patch, and whether they can rebound.


Guest: Journalist David Betancourt, author of The Avengers Assembled: The Origin Story of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes 


Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola


You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for $15 for your first three months.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

The Best One Yet - ⌨️ “QWERTY Makeover” – AI’s keyboard moment. Peloton’s TikTok collab. Walgreens’ Amazonian savior.

For the first time in 30 years, your keyboard is getting a new key — Microsoft is adding an AI key (but it’s really an AI ad).

Peloton stock jumped 15% on its new partnership with TikTok — Prepare for Crissy Tiegen to lead your next yoga class… from Peloton… on TikTok.

And Walgreens is cutting its sacred dividend, which sank the stock to a 26-year low — Which is why we think Amazon could acquire Walgreens.


$PTON $MSFT $WBA

Subscribe to our newsletter: tboypod.com/newsletter

Want merch, a shoutout, or got TheBestFactYet? Go to: www.tboypod.com

Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod

And now watch us on Youtube

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Posted on

What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Why the New York Times Sued OpenAI

If A.I. and chatbots are the next wave of innovation, then the New York Times and other media organizations are determined to get paid this time.  


Guest: Megan Morrone, a tech editor at Axios


If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

NPR's Book of the Day - Novels by Barbara Kingsolver and Daniel Mason excavate history for new meanings

Today's episode is all about two books that find parallels across long stretches of time. First, an interview with Barbara Kingsolver and former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about Kingsolver's novel Unsheltered, which finds striking similarities between an 18th century "utopian" community and 2016 America. Then, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Daniel Mason about his novel North Woods, which follows the inhabitants of a plot of land across hundreds of years.

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy
Posted on

Opening Arguments - OA852: Trump Asks SCOTUS To Put Him Back on the Colorado Ballot Despite 14th Amendment

Liz and Andrew break down an entirely new argument being advanced by Trump's allies to get him back on the Colorado ballot. Will it work? Listen and find out!

Then, the duo break down the latest barrage of nonsense filings in DC.

Notes

Colorado state court ruling

https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/02nd_Judicial_District/Denver_District_Court/11_17_2023%20Final%20Order.pdf

Colorado Supreme Court ruling https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/Supreme_Court/Opinions/2023/23SA300.pdf

Lawfare Tracker on Trump DQ https://www.lawfaremedia.org/current-projects/the-trump-trials/section-3-litigation-tracker

OA 836 https://openargs.com/oa836-yes-a-court-found-that-trump-incited-an-insurrection-now-what-feat-seth-barrett-tillman/

OA 848 https://openargs.com/oa848-trump-is-off-the-ballot-in-colorado/

Socialist Workers Party of Ill. v. Ogilvie, 357 F. Supp. 109, 113 (N.D. Ill. 1972)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13881601664092355452

Voting and Vice, 2012 Yale Law Review (Re and Re)

https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5515&context=ylj

Trump report on stolen election

https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/e0/e04e630c-63ff-4bdb-9652-e0be3598b5d4/summary20of20election20fraud20in20the20swing20states.pdf

Trump lawyers’ doozy of a filing on voter fraud - Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/03/trump-lawyers-doozy-filing-voter-fraud/ 

Rolling Stone on Trump turning trial into a MAGA freak show

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-plot-to-turn-jan-6-trial-into-maga-freak-show-1234938951/

Trump motion for order to show cause DC

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.192.0.pdf

-Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/law

-Follow us on Twitter:  @Openargs

-Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/openargs/

-For show-related questions, check out the Opening Arguments Wiki, which now has its own Twitter feed!  @oawiki

-And finally, remember that you can email us at openarguments@gmail.com

 

Posted on

The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - 130: The One with the RegScale CEO

Travis Howerton, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RegScale joins the show and allows us to jump into the head of a founder CEO to understand some of the challenges he faces and what he does to stay sharp. We also discuss his thoughts on the future of work, how his experience in government inspired creating RegScale, and what trends he is seeing in government that will impact 2024.

Posted on

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How long till we run out of fresh data to train the AI?

Will AI fundamentally change software development or just add some efficiencies around the edges?  Surveys from Stack Overflow and Github find north of 70% have probably already tried using it and many incorporate it into their daily work through a helper in the IDE. 

It's also worth reflecting a bit on the technology sectors that didn't have as great a 2023: crypto, VR, and quantum computing still seem far from mainstream adoption. 

We dive a little into the half-life of skills, which seem to be shrinking, especially in IT. Got any resolutions to learn something new this year?

And what about the data we use for training? We highlight a comment from Kian Katanforoosh, a lecturer who helped create Stanford's Deep Learning course with Andrew Ng, who says we'll run out of high quality data as soon as 2030.

A big thanks and congrats to Stack Overflow user  Corn3lius for helping to answer a question and being awarded a life boat badge: How can I create spoiler text?

Posted on

It Could Happen Here - Rise in Antisemitism

Gare and Mia discuss the troubling rise of antisemitic incidents across the globe.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/image.jpg?t=1749835422&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }
Posted on

This Machine Kills - 307. TMK Q&A (part 1)

We kick off the new year by answering your questions from the TMK Discord! We talk about the video game industry, our writing / composing processes, advice for trying to break into critical tech journalism, plus more. And much more to come in part 2 over in the Patreon feed, where we keep going with the Q&A. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
Posted on

PHPUgly - 366: Pinky Out Development

Links from the show:

This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by:

Honeybadger.io

Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's why we built the monitoring tool we always wanted: a tool that's there when you need it, and gets out of your. Everything you need to keep production happy so that you can keep shipping. Deploy with confidence and be your team's DevOps hero.

JetBrains PhpStorm

The Lightning-Smart PHP IDE. Join over 600,000 happy PhpStorm users worldwide!

php[architect]

php[architect] magazine is the only technical journal dedicated exclusively to the world of PHP. We are committed to spreading knowledge of best practices in PHP. With that purpose, the brand has expanded into producing a full line of books, hosting online and in-person web training, as well as organizing multiple conferences per year.

Twitter Account https://twitter.com/phpugly
Mastodon Account https://phparch.social/@phpugly

Host:

Streams:

Powered by Restream

Patreon Page

PHPUgly Anthem by Harry Mack / Harry Mack Youtube Channel

Thanks to all of our Patreon Sponsors:

***
** PATREON SUPPORTS SPONSOR LEVEL **

Honeybadger (https://honeybader.io)

** Patreon Supports **

ButteryCrumpet
Frank W
David Q
Boštjan O
Marcus
Shelby C
S F
Rodrigo C
Billy
Darryl H
Knut B
Dmitri G
Elgimbo
MikePageDev
Kenrick B
Kalen J
R. C. S.
Peter A
Honeybadger
Holly S
Clayton S
Ronny N
Ben R
Alex B
Kevin Y
Wayne
Jeroen F
ahinkle
Chris C
Steve M
Robert S
Thorsten
Emily J
Andrew W
ulrik
John C
James H
Eric M
Ed G
Ririe
lilHermit
Champ
Jeffrey D
Chris B
Tore B
Bek J
Donald G
Paul K
Dustin U
Mel S