Raquel Toro, the protagonist of Xochitl Gonzalez's new novel, is working on her thesis about a minimalist sculptor when she discovers his all-but-forgotten wife, artist Anita de Monte, died after falling 33 stories from their apartment more than a decade prior. Based on the story of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta, Anita de Monte Laughs Last is an odyssey into ego, power and marriage in the art world. In today's episode, Gonzalez tells NPR's Scott Simon how fiction allowed her to expand on Mendieta's legacy, and why she didn't want to discredit the husband's own career along the way.
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The Gatekeepers - 6. Arbiters of Truth
In 2018, the CEOs of our most popular social media companies are standing at a crossroad.
After political outcry over Russian interference in the 2016 election and fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, tech leaders have a decision to make.
They need to come up with ways of making their platforms safer.
One route is a radical overhaul of the entire business model. The other is the biggest digital clean-up operation ever attempted, spanning hundreds of langauges and countries.
Which path will they take?
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Archive: C-Net, April 2018; CBS News, 2020; Tucker Carlson on Fox News; BBC News 2021; EU Debates Tv, 2021
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It Could Happen Here - Predictive Programming, Part 1
From The Simpsons to The Hunger Games, is the deep state putting planned events into films and tv? Gare, Mia, and Robert discuss the origin of the conspiracy theory.
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Interest in houseplants has exploded in recent years. But what causes floral trends, and prices, to grow? Zachary Crockett sows a few seeds.
- SOURCES:
- Justin Hancock, director of research and development at Costa Farms.
- Brian Williams, co-owner of Brian's Botanicals.
- Sarah Williams, co-owner Brian's Botanicals.
- RESOURCES:
- "Bidding Wars and $1,000 Succulents: The Wild World of Rare Houseplants," by Hannah Holland (The Washington Post, 2023).
- "Houseplants Boomed During the Pandemic. Gen Z and Millennials Say the Popularity Is Here to Stay," by Lucia Starbuck (KUNR, 2022).
- "The Most Iconic Houseplant Trends Through the Decades," by Wretched Flowers (Architectural Digest, 2021).
- "Meet the Plantfluencers," by Penelope Green (The New York Times, 2018).
Lex Fridman Podcast - #417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family
Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:50) – Growing up in South Africa
(19:21) – Cooking
(42:06) – Ingredients
(49:11) – Anthony Bourdain
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Motley Fool Money - The Sky’s The Limit
Sky Harbour sees massive opportunities in the world of private aviation.
Bill Mann, Director of Small-Cap Research at The Motley Fool interviews Tal Keinan, CEO of Sky Harbour, a company that operates airplane hangars around the United States. They discuss:
- How Sky Harbour is building home bases for planes.
- The massive growth in private aviation and why it’s poised to continue.
- Turning underutilized airports into hubs.
Companies discussed: SKYH, GD, BDRBF, FDX
Host: Deidre Woollard
Guests: Tal Keinan, Bill Mann
Producer: Dylan Lewis
Engineers: Kyle Carruthers, Rick Engdahl
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Global News Podcast - Bonus: The Global Story
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Could just 100,000 people decide the US election? The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Talk Python To Me - #452: Top Quart (async Flask) Extensions
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NBN Book of the Day - Brian Merchant, “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech” (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
"Luddite" has become an insult and Brain Merchant wants to change that. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Little, Brown, 2023) tells the story of when machines starting taking human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work--and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today. Two hundred years ago in rural England, working men and women rose up en masse rather than starve at the hands of the factory owners who were using machines to erase and degrade their livelihoods. Under the banner of a mythical General Loud, they organized guerrilla raids, smashed specific machines, and threatened wealthy machine owners. Luddites won the support of Lord Byron, inspired Mary Shelley, and enraged the louche Prince Regent and his bloodthirsty government. Before it was over, much blood would be spilled--of rich and poor, of the invisible and of the powerful. This deeply misunderstood class struggle nearly brought 19th century England to its knees. Currently many fear that big tech is dominating our lives and machines replacing human labor run high. We worry that technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are ousting workers from factories, and artificial intelligence will soon remove drivers from cars. Saving the movement from what E. P. Thompson called "the enormous condescension of posterity", Merchant finds inspiration in Luddism for our current crises.
Brian Merchant is the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone (2017, Little, Brown). His work has appeared in a variety of places including Wired and The Atlantic. He is a founder of VICE’s speculative fiction outlet Terraform and was the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times.
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