Month: March 2024

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NBN Book of the Day - Ignacio Cofone, “The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy” (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Our privacy is besieged by tech companies.

Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and courts into wrong assumptions about privacy, resulting in ineffective legal remedies to one of the most pressing concerns of our generation.

Drawing on behavioral science, sociology, and economics, Ignacio Cofone challenges existing laws and reform proposals and dispels enduring misconceptions about data-driven interactions. This exploration offers readers a holistic view of why current laws and regulations fail to protect us against corporate digital harms, particularly those created by AI. Cofone then proposes a better response: meaningful accountability for the consequences of corporate data practices, which ultimately entails creating a new type of liability that recognizes the value of privacy.

Jake Chanenson is a computer science Ph.D. student and law student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake’s work has been published in top venues such as ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Cult of Pythagoras (Encore)

He was one of the greatest thinkers of the ancient world. He was a philosopher, a mathematician, and had some unique views on diet and religion. 

You probably know him best for the theorem which bears his name. 

However, if you asked anyone 2,600 years ago, they might have known him for something else entirely.

Learn more about Pythagoras, his ideas, and the cult that he led on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Search in Baltimore, First Congestion Tolls & MLB Opening Day- Thursday, March 28, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, March 28, 2024!

We're talking about the investigation into the Baltimore bridge collapse: what officials are now saying about how the bridge was constructed. 

Also, we're remembering a longtime senator who often teamed up with his colleagues across the aisle, and there's a public health emergency in Puerto Rico.

Plus, it's about to get more expensive to drive around New York City, we'll tell you which cities have been ranked the worst for allergies in the United States and what to expect from the first full day of Major League Baseball. 

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What A Day - Baltimore Mourns Victims of the Bridge Collapse

Democrats scored a surprise landslide win on Tuesday when Marilyn Lands prevailed in a special election for an Alabama State House seat previously held by a Republican. Lands made abortion rights and access to IVF central to her campaign. Democrats hope Lands’ win is more evidence that abortion access and reproductive rights remain potent issues for voters heading into the November election.

Divers on Wednesday recovered the remains of two victims from the wreckage of the Baltimore bridge that collapsed earlier this week. The Francis Scott Key Bridge crumbled after it was struck by a shipping container that had lost power. At least six people — all immigrants — are presumed dead. They were filling potholes on the bridge at the time of the collapse.

And in headlines: Former senator and vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman died on Tuesday at the age of 82, a federal appeals court continued its hold on a draconian Texas immigration law, and the three white Georgia men who killed Ahmaud Arbery asked a federal appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions.

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The Daily Signal - What Happens at Southern Border Every Day

On today’s edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Virginia Allen and Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, discuss their recent trip to the southern border in San Diego County and what they learned from their ride-along with retired Border Patrol agent Mike Syzdek. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)


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Tech Won't Save Us - What Elon Musk Won’t Tell You About Settling Mars w/ Zach Weinersmith

Paris Marx is joined by Zach Weinersmith to discuss why building space colonies will be much more difficult than the space billionaires want us to believe.

Zach Weinersmith co-wrote A City On Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? with Kelly Weinersmith. He also makes the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic.

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.

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  • An excerpt of A City on Mars was published by Space.com.

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The Best One Yet - 🚀 “Finally launching Again” — Robinhood’s new credit card. Flamin’ Hot’s $3B flavor. Paid childcare’s ROI.

Yetis, this our last  pod of the week because markets are closed for Good Friday.

Robinhood stock has doubled in the past year, now it’s got a (golden) credit credit — Here’s the business model: While the rest of finance double dips, Robinhood single dips.

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos are the most controversial food in America, so owner Pepsi is giving it a promotion — Pepsi’s letting its winner ride, by spinning off Flamin’ Hot into its own brand.

Boston Consulting Group just calculated a top investment a company can make: Paid Childcare — Childcare isn’t a cost center, it’s a productivity puppy.


And this Easter, Peeps could finally pass the Reese's Peanut Butter Egg as the most popular candy #CocoaCatastrophe


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Nickelodeon’s Legacy of Abuse

A new documentary, “Quiet On Set,” looks back at Nickelodeon’s heyday, and the culture of abuse that many of its child stars were subjected to.


Guest: Kate Taylor, reporter for Business Insider and producer of “Quiet on Set.” 


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Hard by a Great Forest’ is a novel about returning home decades after fleeing war

The story of Saba, the protagonist of Leo Vardiashvili's novel Hard by a Great Forest, is much like the author's own. A young boy flees the Soviet Republic of Georgia with his father and brother as the country is ravaged by a war. Decades later, when his father goes back to their homeland and promptly disappears, Saba must face his family's past – and immense loss – in an effort to find him. In today's episode, Vardiashvili tells NPR's Scott Simon about being separated from his own family, and the feeling of time-travel he felt when he finally made his way back to Georgia.

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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO438: That’s Absurd Please Elaborate

I'm joined by Trace and Julian from the podcast, That's Absurd Please Elaborate! It's an incredibly fun and cool science show where they take questions that might seem weird or crazy but answer them using science! They're here to talk science communication, and what some of their favorite questions they've answered have been. Could vampires evolve through natural processes? Could x-rays cook soup? Could we teach aliens left and right?

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