Month: April 2024

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: Why The Bitcoin Halving Matters With Alex Gladstein and Diverter

We’re re-posting one of our best Bitcoin mining shows with Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation and Diverter, a liberty maximalist, in honor of the Bitcoin mining halving.


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Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation and Diverter, a pseudonymous Bitcoiner known for his non-KYC Bitcoin guides, joins The Mining Pod to discuss why Bitcoin mining matters for individual liberty and how Bitcoiners can take mining to the next level.

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:03:13 Diverter's Bitcoin Journey

00:06:12 Alex Gladstein's Bitcoin Story

00:10:22 Why Mining Matters

00:13:07 Value of Non-KYC Mining

00:20:27 Mining & Financial Sovereignty

00:24:27 Clean Spark Ad

00:24:47 Bitcoin Mining Bifurcation

00:28:45 Vitamin Ad

00:29:26 Mining: Suits vs. Home Miners

00:37:36 Regulatory Capture of Mining

00:51:50 Bitmain Ad

00:52:37 Compromising on Privacy

00:57:53 Inevitability of Bitcoin Adoption

01:03:17 Cypherpunk Ethos & Nuance

01:04:20 What if Bitcoin Succeeds?


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Up First from NPR - Campus Protests Spread, UK Asylum Law, Starbucks at SCOTUS

Protests against the war in Gaza on college campuses now stretch from coast to coast. The United Kingdom is ready to pay a country thousands of miles away to take its unwanted refugees. And a years-long labor battle at Starbucks reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, which could set a precedent for future union building efforts.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S9 E21: Matt Hocking, WellSaid Labs

Matt Hocking has a background in design, and started off as a graphic designer in Australia. He moved into lecturing while running a design school, which led him to New York and the startup community. He is a multi founder, which led him to his current venture. Outside of tech and startups, he is a family man, and loves to spend time with his kids - which he calls his startup outside of his startup. He enjoys building and drawing with his son, and doing the best he can to support his young daughter in becoming a princess one day.

In 2018, Matt met his co-founder when joining AI2. While he was working on deep learning projects, Matt was working on a user centered, voice based experience in healthcare. When they put both things together, they figured out they could really help people and save hours of studio time by generating voiceovers with AI.

This is the creation story of WellSaid Labs.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The Intelligence: AI rest my case

The companies behind this wonder of tech are facing allegations of using copyrighted material to build their large language models (LLMs). But will the courts consider it fair use? Why ex-inmates are so likely to die just after they leave prison (10:15). And, the case for booing in sports (16:13). 


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Take This Pod and Shove It - Recast: “All Your’n” by Tyler Childers, w/ Kenny DeForest for Kenny DeForest Day

Today the mayor of Springfield Missouri is declaring April 23rd Kenny DeForest Day. It's Kenny's birthday and in his memory today kicks off the inaugural comedy festival in his honor, DeForeFest. We wanted to honor the memory of our friend by reposting our first episode with Kenny, when we talked about Tyler Childers and his song "All Your'n."

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 4.23.24

Alabama

  • Sen. Tuberville blasts Biden's latest loan forgiveness plan
  • AL House to consider bill that expands prohibition on teaching gender ideology
  • AL House has bill in process that applies obscenity laws to public libraries
  • CA governor releases ridiculousTV ad that demonizes AL for its abortion ban
  • Rightside radio expanding into audio and video podcasts
  • Former US Secret Service agent featured on 1819 News podcast

National

  • US Dept. of Ed. to expand Title IV so that sex includes gender identity
  • Matt Gaetz reveals devious plan by Uniparty should motion to vacate continue
  • Judge rules to keep bond situation with Trump as is, denying AG James
  • Protests for Hamas and Palestine continue on campus of Columbia University
  • SCOTUS dismisses case with new evidence re: Dominion voting machines

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NBN Book of the Day - Michael J. Graetz, “The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America” (Princeton UP, 2024)

The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Graetz. 

In his book The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America (Princeton UP, 2024), Graetz chronicles the movement from a fringe theory promoted by zealous outsiders using false economic claims and thinly veiled racist rhetoric to a highly organized mainstream lobbying force, funded by billionaires, that dominates and distorts politics. 

Building on vague and disproven theories about "supply side" economics, the movement has undermined long-held beliefs that taxes are a reasonable price to pay for civil society, sound infrastructure, national security, and shared prosperity. 

Leaders have attacked the IRS, protected tax loopholes, and pushed aggressively for tax cuts from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. Also known as "trickle-down" or "voodoo" economics, these theories falsely claim that tax cuts will pay for themselves, when in fact they have led to the need for increased debt, including massive foreign debt, to pay for critical national investments. 

The antitax movement has expanded to include anti-government ideas and now, as told by Graetz, threatens the nation’s social safety net, increases inequality, saps American financial strength, and undermines the status of the US dollar.

In 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall declared that the power to tax entails “the power to destroy.” In this book Graetz argues that it is the antitax movement itself that wields this destructive power. 

Suggested reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

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New Books in Native American Studies - Danielle Taschereau Mamers, “Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art” (Fordham UP, 2023)

How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused?

Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art (Fordham University Press, 2023) by Dr. Danielle Taschereau Mamers investigates how the Canadian state has used documents, lists, and databases to generate, make visible—and invisible—Indigenous identity. With an archive of legislative documents, registration forms, identity cards, and reports, Dr. Taschereau Mamers traces the political and media history of Indian status in Canada, demonstrating how paperwork has been used by the state to materialise identity categories in the service of colonial governance. Her analysis of bureaucratic artefacts is led by the interventions of Indigenous artists, including Robert Houle, Nadia Myre, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Rebecca Belmore. Bringing together media theories of documentation and the strategies of these artists, Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing develops a method for identifying how bureaucratic documents mediate power relations as well as how those relations may be disobeyed and re-imagined.

By integrating art-led inquiry with media theory and settler colonial studies approaches, Dr. Taschereau Mamers offers a political and media history of the documents that have reproduced Indian status. More importantly, she provides us with an innovative guide for using art as a method of theorising decolonial political relations. This is a crucial book for any reader interested in the intersection of state archives, settler colonial studies, and visual culture in the context of Canada’s complex and violent relationship with Indigenous peoples.

This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Concorde: The World’s Fastest Passenger Airplane

Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to transport passengers at supersonic speeds. 

However, the challenges in creating a passenger aircraft that could travel at supersonic speeds were much greater than making a fighter aircraft that could do the same. 

In 1976, a British/French consortium launched the inaugural flight of the most successful supersonic passenger aircraft in history. 

Learn more about the Concorde on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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