Month: March 2024

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Lex Fridman Podcast - #420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/annie-jacobsen-transcript

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:37) – Nuclear war
(12:21) – Launch procedure
(18:00) – Deterrence
(21:34) – Tactical nukes
(30:59) – Nuclear submarines
(33:59) – Nuclear missiles
(41:10) – Nuclear football
(50:17) – Missile interceptor system
(54:34) – North Korea
(1:01:10) – Nuclear war scenarios
(1:10:02) – Warmongers
(1:14:31) – President’s cognitive ability
(1:20:43) – Refusing orders
(1:28:41) – Russia and Putin
(1:33:48) – Cyberattack
(1:35:09) – Ground zero of nuclear war
(1:39:48) – Surviving nuclear war
(1:44:06) – Nuclear winter
(1:54:29) – Alien civilizations
(2:00:04) – Extrasensory perception
(2:13:50) – Area 51
(2:17:48) – UFOs and aliens
(2:28:15) – Roswell incident
(2:34:55) – CIA assassinations
(2:53:47) – Navalny
(2:56:12) – KGB
(3:02:48) – Hitler and the atomic bomb
(3:06:52) – War and human nature
(3:10:17) – Hope

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The Daily Signal - House Passes $1.2 Trillion Spending Package, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Files Motion to Vacate Speaker Seat | March 22


  • By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning avoiding a partial government shutdown. 
  • Will House Speaker Mike Johnson be ousted from his position?
  • Former President Donald Trump may soon be a whole lot richer – roughly $3 billion richer. 
  • Axios reports that Russia and China “vetoed a U.S. draft UN Security Council resolution that called for an ‘immediate and sustained ceasefire’ in Gaza along with ‘the release of all remaining hostages’ held by Hamas.”


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Big Technology Podcast - OpenAI’s GPT-5 Looms, Apple’s Antitrust Problem, Sports Betting’s Big Scandal

The Information's Jessica Lessin and CNBC's Steve Kovach join us for a star studded Friday episode breaking down the week's news. Lessin is the CEO and founder of The Information and co-host of the More or Less podcast. Kovach is a technology correspondant at CNBC. We cover (with Lessin): 1) Rumors of GPT-5 being shown to founders, and what it might look like 2) Whether OpenAI is vulnerable now that model quality is converging 3) Satya Nadella's claims that Microsoft effectively controls all the value of OpenAI 4) Inflection leadership heads to Microsoft 5) Inflection investors are pissed 6) Why Inflection failed 7) Google and Apple's potential AI agreement 8) Would The Information use Google's new tool for newsrooms. And with Kovach: 9) Outline of the DOJ's case against Apple 10) How Apple is feeling about the case 11) Merits of the case 12) Shohei Ohtani's betting problems.

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Federalist Radio Hour - The Great Reset Is A Global Battle Against Faith

Jason Jones, founder and president of the Vulnerable People Project and host of "The Jason Jones Show," joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to break down "The Great Reset" and explain how it affects crises at home and abroad.

You can find Jones' new book, The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset, here. 

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: How BlackRock’s New Fund on Ethereum Got a Very Crypto Welcome

Carlos Domingo, founder and CEO of Securitize, gives the scoop on why Blackrock’s new fund had to launch early and has a suggestion for how to handle dustings of Tornado Cash ETH. 


Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.

On Wednesday, BlackRock, the world's leading asset management firm, announced the launch of a tokenized investment fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund, developed in collaboration with Securitize. 

Carlos Domingo, founder and CEO of Securitize, discusses the launch of the fund, which is native to the public Ethereum blockchain and aims to bring an institutional-grade cash management product to crypto institutions, offering faster token issuance, redemption, and transferability. 

Learn more: What Is Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization? A Beginner's Guide

He also talks about how Blackrock has embraced crypto, how the launch of the fund was “front run” by crypto Twitter, and how Blackrock will deal with issues such as the fund being dusted with ETH tainted by sanctioned Tornado Cash ETH. 

Show highlights:

  • What the BUIDL fund is, its essence and objectives
  • How the fund rewards its users, with a system similar to crypto airdrops
  • Whether they were worried about the regulatory aspects of bringing this product on-chain.
  • Securitize's role in the partnership with BlackRock
  • How much money flowed into the fund on the first day and who the target investor is
  • Why BlackRock decided to build this product on Ethereum 
  • What BlackRock's attitude towards crypto is, according to Carlos
  • How the launch of the fund was front-run by crypto insiders 
  • How a wallet associated with the fund received unintended funds from North Korean tied wallets and whether Ethereum should implement a mechanism for addresses to approve funds that are sent to it
  • Whether the contract is secure and what steps Securitize is taking to increase the safety of the users
  • The roadmap for the partnership between BlackRock and Securitize


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Guest

Carlos Domingo, Founder and CEO of Securitize

Previous appearance on Unchained: Could Securitize Democratize Access to Different Asset Classes?

Links

Previous coverage on Unchained of real-world assets:

The Catalysts for This Crypto Bull Market: AI, DeFi, Real World Assets?

The Chopping Block: Will Tokenizing RWAs Finally Click This Time?

MakerDAO Has Brought in Real World Assets. Is It Worth the Risk?

BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund

The Block: BlackRock to launch tokenized investment fund with Securitize

Unchained:

Wallet Associated With BlackRock’s Tokenized Fund Spammed With Unsolicited ETH From Tornado Cash

Wallet Associated With BlackRock’s New Fund Receives Memecoins and NFTs

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Bad Blood, Part Two: China’s Plasma Economy

For many farmers in rural 1990s China, it seemed like a godsend: new businesses promised to pay a full month's wage for just a few hours donating plasma. The Plasma Economy campaign swept the nation, making blood brokers and biotech companies tons of cash... and then the reports started arriving: multiple small communitites suddenly had HIV and hepatitis. What went wrong? Tune in to learn more.

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