In which a remote part of Idaho solves its beaver dam problem with some surplus parachutes and an even more remote part of Idaho, and Ken applies the transitive property to mules and culverts. Certificate #31297.
The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.8.24
Alabama
- More details about the CHOOSE Act presented this week by Governor Ivey
- AL Supreme Court listened to oral arguments re: United Methodist Church
- AG Marshall supplies legal response to APLS over library board compliance
- Governor Ivey has appointed two women to positions on APLS board
- Part 3 of API president discussing the gambling bill push in state legislature
National
- SCOTUS hears oral arguments over removal of Trump from primary ballot
- Senate Republicans vote to not advance the Border security package
- House Oversight to investigate DoD for unaccounted weapons in Ukraine
- DefSec to testify to Armed Services Committee on 2/29 over his absence
- Judge in docs case against Trump rules that SC Smith must disclose his docs
- Actor Jussie Smollet doubles down on his lies, appeals to Illinois Supreme court
- America First Legal sues Arizona election officials for violating their state laws
- Is rebellion brewing amongst Senate GOP vs. Mitch McConnell? One can hope
- Tucker Carlson to release his interview with Russian President tonight
Unexpected Elements - Deep in thought
Brain implants have been sparking conversation about the future of humanity after Elon Musk's company Neuralink announced it has embedded a microchip in a human skull. It has fired up people's imaginations and led some to wonder whether these devices that connect to our brain could be a stepping stone towards the ideas more often found in sci-fi, and maybe even create a tool to read people's thoughts. Marnie Chesterton and the panel discuss whether our privacy is at risk or whether we are already an open book. They try to understand the concept of backing up our brains, and they meet Dr Michael Winding from the Francis Crick Institute in the UK to hear about a pioneering study to map the pathways of a brain, and you might be surprised how small that brain was.
Plus, Katie Tomsett looks at how tattoos could be used to indicate the health of our bodies. In Under the Radar we learn how batteries could one day charge through sound, we hear the story of an alleged spy pigeon caught in India, and we highlight the wonderful tale of a beluga whale.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton, with Chhavi Sachdev and Kai Kupferschmidt Producer: Tom Bonnett, with Alex Mansfield, Dan Welsh, Katie Tomsett and Jack Lee
NBN Book of the Day - John Horgan, “Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right” ( Columbia UP, 2023)
What makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism change someone? And how can people become deradicalized?
John Horgan―one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of terrorism―takes readers on a globe-spanning journey into the terrorist mindset. Drawing on groundbreaking personal interviews as well as decades of research from psychologists and others, he traces the pathways that lead people into violent extremism and explores what happens to them as their involvement deepens. Horgan provides an up-to-date, evidence-based understanding of the patterns, motives, and mentalities of violent extremists from the Islamic State and al-Shabaab to white supremacists and incels. He argues that there is not a straightforward psychological profile of a terrorist, in part because of the great variety of today’s extremists, who are able to attract a more diverse pool of recruits than ever before. But even though there is no one-size-fits-all profile, psychological study can provide crucial insight into why and how people become terrorists.
Accessible and nuanced, Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right (Columbia UP, 2023) is an essential book for readers interested in what psychology can explain about extremist behavior.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Whiskey Rebellion
In the late 18th century, the newly independent United States of America faced its first major domestic crisis.
Settlers in its westernmost regions rose up in open armed rebellion against the government. The cause of the rebellion had to do with the unique circumstances of the period as well as some laws that were not very well thought out.
The rebellion and its subsequent response were seen as a threat to the very existence of the new country.
Learn more about the Whiskey Rebellion, its causes, and its ramifications on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The NewsWorthy - Is ‘Trump 2024’ Legal?, Bipartisan Bill Fails & Disney Joins Fortnite- Thursday, February 8, 2024
The news to know for Thursday, February 8, 2024!
We'll tell you about one of the most highly-anticipated cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Starting today, justices are hearing arguments into whether former President Trump should be disqualified from the 2024 presidential race.
Also, what's next now that a bipartisan border bill has failed in the Senate?
Plus, we'll cover the arguments for and against a new rule cracking down on soot, the long-term impact of Dry January, and Disney's new ventures into football, Fortnite, and Taylor Swift.
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What A Day - The Case for Amendment 4
The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments about Amendment 4 — a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion up until the point of fetal viability in the state's constitution. Justices must approve the language of the amendment proposed by abortion advocates before it can be put on the ballot in November. We’re joined by Anna Hochkammer, Councilmember for PineCrest Florida and Executive Director of Florida Women’s Freedom Coalition, to learn more about Amendment 4 and how it would protect women and pregnant people in the state if passed.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the latest Hamas counterproposal for a ceasefire. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Egypt and Qatar working on mediation between Hamas and Israel. He also met with Netanyahu and other Israeli officials in Jerusalem.
And in headlines: the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether or not Trump is eligible to be president again, Senate Republicans killed the new border deal and foreign aid package, and the Environmental Protection Agency tightened standards for fine particle pollution.
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The Daily Signal - Transgender Series Part 2: Why Parents Can’t Trust Mental Health Professionals
Unfortunately, parents can't trust mental health professionals on the issue of a transgender identity, a veteran social worker warns.
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a social worker with decades of experience dealing with mental health professionals and vulnerable people, warns that the over-psychologizing of childhood is contributing to the rise of rapid-onset gender dysphoria and the trauma of kids mutilating their own bodies to pursue a transgender identity, rather than dealing with underlying psychological issues.
Garfield-Jaeger, who lost her job because she refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine, now runs a practice called “The Truthful Therapist,” where she helps parents navigate the potentially fraught field of mental health. Many parents struggle to navigate mental health and find themselves demonized by the very professionals who they trust to help their kids.
“I talk to parents who either are still in the thick of it, where their children are still identifying as trans, or where their child has desisted, where the time that their children felt the most distress is when they believed that their parents no longer love them or care about them or accept them because that's what the trans community and the therapists and the doctors” say, Garfield-Jaeger tells “The Daily Signal Podcast.”
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Talk Python To Me - #448: Full-Time Open Source Devs Panel
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Tech Won't Save Us - France’s Start-Up Nation Is a Neoliberal Hell w/ Nastasia Hadjadji
Paris Marx is joined by Nastasia Hadjadji to discuss Emmanuel Macron’s plan to run France like a start-up, how that justified a further dismantling of France's welfare state, and how his desire to create national tech champions is having domestic consequences.
Nastasia Hadjadji is a French journalist looking at tech from the lens of political economy and the author of “No Crypto. Comment Bitcoin a envoûté la planète.”
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 made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris will be speaking in Auckland on February 18 in an event hosted by Tohatoha.
- Emmanuel Macron aided Uber’s lobbying efforts as Economy Minister under the former Socialist government.
- France worked hard to attract the crypto industry. Macron even took a selfie with Binance’s Changpeng Zhao, who’s now pled guilty to felony charges.
- The group Technopolice documents police surveillance in France.
- La Quadrature du Net campaigns against algorithmic video surveillance.
- Louis Pouzin is considered to have almost created the internet.