Month: April 2024

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The NewsWorthy - NATO Turns 75, Cross-Species Flu & Fastest-Growing School Sport – Thursday, April 4, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, April 4, 2024!

We're talking about 75 years of the world's largest defense alliance and the top item on its agenda today.

Also, a new government report is blaming a top tech company for breaches that may have put U.S. government secrets at risk.

And we'll fill you in on outbreaks of bird flu found in animal populations around the country.

Plus, a storm could end up bringing feet of snow to New England; a popular streaming service is raising prices again, and what's become the fastest-growing high school sport in the country? The answer may surprise you.

Those stories and more news to know in about 10 minutes!

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the memory palace - Episode 215: An Eighth Wonder

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

Music

  • Momento Ritmico and Papete aru by Piero Umiliani
  • Opus 13 from Sven Libaek's score to The Set
  • French Doll by Larry Ashmore and David Francis
  • The wonderful Sewentuwa by Hailu Meriga
  • Wave I by Elor Saxl
  • Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Notes

  • I originally learned about the Elephantine Colossus years ago in David McCullough's Brooklyn... and How it Got That Way, which still holds up.
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What A Day - Outrage Intensifies After World Central Kitchen Strike

José Andrés, the celebrity chef and founder of World Central Kitchen, said that Israel “targeted” his aid workers when the country killed seven of them this week. He gave an interview to Reuters on Wednesday, and he also rebuked the claims by the Israeli and U.S. governments, which both say the strikes were a tragic accident. In a statement issued late Tuesday, President Biden said he was “outraged” by the deaths, and he criticized Israel for failing to protect aid workers and civilians during the war in Gaza. But the White House still hasn’t announced any plans to change its policies in support of Israel.

Nearly 50,000 Wisconsinites voted “uninstructed” in Tuesday night’s Democratic Primary instead of voting for Biden. That’s more than double the goal set by organizers, who hoped to send a message to the president over his handling of the war in Gaza. It’s also more than double the margin by which Biden won the state in 2020. Reema Ahmad, the campaign manager for Listen to Wisconsin, explained what’s next for the movement.

And in headlines: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed legislation to lower the draft age for men, the prosecutor in the classified documents case against Trump criticized the judge for entertaining a “flawed legal premise,” and LSU’s Angel Reese declared for the WNBA draft.

Show Notes:

  • NYT: “José Andrés: Let People Eat” – https://tinyurl.com/279vyjkh
  • Buddhist Tzu Chi, the largest Taiwan-based disaster relief organization – https://tzuchi.us/
  • Taiwan Red Cross – https://www.redcross.org.tw/english/index.jsp
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The Daily Signal - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers: Time for Senate to Pass TikTok Bill

There is a rare bipartisan agreement in Washington D.C. around the social media app TikTok. The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing and is subject to Chinese law that requires companies to make their users’ data available to the Chinese Communist Party. 


In March, the House passed a bill in a 352-65 vote, with the help of 197 Republicans and 155 Democrats, that gives TikTok a choice: either break from ByteDance or cease to operate in the U.S.

Biden says he will sign the bill if it land on his desk, so that just leaves the Senate. 


“I'm hopeful that the Senate will act swiftly,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., says. “I believe that it is important that they do to address this immediate threat and get this on the president's desk. This legislation is our best chance to end the Chinese Communist Party's abuse of these apps that are targeting, surveilling, and manipulating Americans.” 


McMorris Rodgers, who also serves as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain where the bill stands and why TikTok poses a threat to national security interests. 


The congresswoman also explains why Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in China this week. 


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Tech Won't Save Us - Deepfake Abuse is a Crisis w/ Kat Tenbarge

Paris Marx is joined by Kat Tenbarge to discuss the proliferation of AI-generated, non-consensual sexual images, their impact on the victims, and the potential fallout for tech companies who helped make it all possible. Note there is some discussion of self-harm and suicide in this episode.

Kat Tenbarge is a tech and culture writer at NBC News.

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:

  • Kat has reported extensively on this issue, including stories about fake nude images of underage celebrities toping search engine results, nonconsensual deepfake porn showing up on Google and Bing too, Visa and Mastercard being used to fund the deepfake economy, and why plans for watermarking aren’t enough.
  • Another Body is a documentary that looks at the scale of the problem of non-consensual deepfake explicit images.
  • Microsoft’s Designer AI tool was used to create AI porn of Taylor Swift.
  • Middle and high schools in Seattle, Miami, and Beverley Hills are among those already facing the consequences of AI-generated and deepfake nude images.
  • In 2014, Jennifer Lawrence called the iCloud photo hack a “sex crime.”

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The Best One Yet - 🐭 “Mouse Trap” — Disney’s epic shareholder vote. Billie Eilish’s anti-AI letter. Amazon’s Just-Walk-Out shutdown.

Disney’s Shareholder Day included an epic vote to determine the future of the company — CEO Bob Iger prevailed, but the activist investor won too. 

Billie Eilish, Nikki Minaj, Pearl Jam, and 200 other artists wrote an open letter asking tech platforms to cease using AI to steal their work — But can the tech genie be put back in the bottle?

And Amazon’s most ambitious new technology was supposed to be “Just Walk Out” — But now they’re shutting that business down, because it was more trick than magic.

Plus, new work data should that Thursday is the new Friday (literally). 


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How Much Longer Can Netanyahu Hold On?

Benjamin Netanyahu has been able to count on the support from Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties. But as the IDF needs additional manpower to continue a two-front war, the military exemption that the ultra-Orthodox enjoy is coming under scrutiny, and could fracture Netanyahu’s hold on power.


Guest: Yair Rosenberg, staff writer for The Atlantic.


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Curious City - What Happened To The Crows?

A listener thought she’d noticed a change in Chicago’s crow population. And she was right. More than twenty years ago, the crow population of Illinois was at an all-time high. But just a few years later, half of the birds were dead. The crows were hit by a deadly virus. And it’s one that humans are susceptible to as well. So where was this virus coming from? Reporter Claire Caulfield finds the answer.
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Grief Is for People’ is Sloane Crosley’s memoir about losing a close friend

Editor's note: This episode contains a discussion of suicide.

Early in today's episode, writer Sloane Crosley tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe something that troubled her when paging through the self-help books she was gifted after a big loss. There was no chapter for how to grieve a close friend – partners, siblings, parents, sure. But while not everyone has those relationships, she says, friendships are universal. Her new memoir, Grief Is for People, chronicles how she's coped with losing one of the most important people in her life.


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It Could Happen Here - How Fred Newman Built a Maoist Therapy Cult Ft. Andrew

Andrew is joined by Mia to tell the story of how Fred Newman merged 60's Maoism with 70's psychotherapy to build a string of political cults.

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