Month: April 2024

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Motley Fool Money - Intangible Greatness

James Rhee is the former CEO of Ashley Stewart, a professor, entrepreneur, and the author of “red helicopter―a parable for our times: lead change with kindness (plus a little math).” Mary Long caught up with Rhee for a conversation about:


- An unlikely turnaround at a retailer serving plus sized, moderate income black women.

- Being kind versus being nice.

- When liabilities can become assets and vice versa.

- Real world goodwill versus the accounting version. 


Companies mentioned: NVDA


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Guest: James Rhee

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Valebol, The New Super Duo Changing The Sound Of Pop

The self-described “breeze-pop” duo is out with their debut album. VV Lightbody and Daniel Villareal have paired up to explore a genre that is out of their comfort zone. The self-titled album is wall-to-wall dancy, dreamy, and inspired. VV and Daniel join Reset to talk about the new release and a show at Thalia Hall in June. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - The Weekend Intelligence: The man who would lead Palestine

Twenty-two years ago, Palestinian politician-turned-revolutionary Marwan Barghouti was convicted of acts of terrorism and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in an Israeli prison. Now, there’s a chance he could be released. Barghouti is at the top of Hamas’s list of prisoners they want exchanged for the hostages they took on October 7th. And Palestinians overwhelmingly want him to lead them. The Economist's Nicolas Pelham asks who is Marwan Barghouti and could he be the man who will lead Palestine?


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CoinDesk Podcast Network - FIRST MOVER: How Buenos Aires Is Bringing Its Citizens On-Chain

Diego Fernández, Secretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation of Buenos Aires, breaks down the QuarkID project and the significance of digital identity.

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Buenos Aires' Secretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation Diego Fernández joins "First Mover" to discuss how QuarkID simplifies the process of accessing and verifying personal documents for citizens. Plus, insights on the role zero-knowledge technology plays in the development of digital identity.

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NBN Book of the Day - Joseph M. Thompson, “Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism” (UNC Press, 2024)

Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to service members. Beginning in the 1950s, the military flooded armed forces airwaves with the music, hosted tour dates at bases around the world, and drew on artists from Johnny Cash to Lee Greenwood to support recruitment programs. 

Over the last half of the twentieth century, the close connections between the Defense Department and Music Row gave an economic boost to the white-dominated sounds of country while marginalizing Black artists and fueling divisions over the meaning of patriotism. This story is filled with familiar stars like Roy Acuff, Elvis Presley, and George Strait, as well as lesser-known figures: industry executives who worked the halls of Congress, country artists who dissented from the stereotypically patriotic trappings of the genre, and more. 

In Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism (UNC Press, 2024), Joseph M. Thompson argues convincingly that the relationship between Music Row and the Pentagon helped shape not only the evolution of popular music but also race relations, partisanship, and images of the United States abroad.

Joseph M. Thompson is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.

Katie Coldiron is the Outreach Program Manager for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and PhD student in History at Florida International University.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Solar Eclipses

Every few years, somewhere on Earth, is witness to one of the planet's greatest sights: a total eclipse.

A total solar eclipse is rare, but it can be calculated centuries in advance. 

However, that wasn’t always the case. For thousands of years, solar eclipses were rare events that were considered to be bad omens. 

Learn more about solar eclipses, how they work, and how people have dealt with them throughout history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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This Machine Kills - 332. Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)

We are joined by Ariel Bogle — an investigative reporter with The Guardian Australia — to discuss her new, big piece uncovering the Security Risk Rating Tool created by the private contractor Serco and used to control the lives of people in Australia’s immigration detention centres. We get into the broader context of these tools and then dig into the specifics of how they work, how they impact detainees, the way the transform subjective discretion into objective judgment, the vicious cycles designed into the tools such that everybody is always “high risk,” and the troubles with investigating systems that are so opaque, secretive, and redacted to hell. ••• Revealed: the secret algorithm that controls the lives of Serco’s immigration detainees https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2024/mar/13/serco-australia-immigration-detention-network-srat-tool-risk-rating-ntwnfb- ••• Ariel on Twitter https://twitter.com/arielbogle Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)