Month: May 2024

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Tech Won't Save Us - GoFundMe Profits from People’s Pain w/ Nora Kenworthy

Paris Marx is joined by Nora Kenworthy to discuss how people rely on GoFundMe to access healthcare and the further inequities that adds to an already deeply unequal healthcare system. 

Nora Kenworthy is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell.

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:

  • Nora is doing an online event with the Debt Collective on June 13.
  • GoFundMe bought many of its competitors through the 2010s.
  • In 2020, GoFundMe posted in a campaign it set up in response to Covid: “We’re in a growth industry: pain.”

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The Best One Yet - 🔔 “The Wedding Szn Stock” — Abercrombie’s honeymoon surge. Hampton Inn’s DIY waffles. BuzzFeed => BuzzFox.

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Abercrombie’s stock surged 24% yesterday after its best quarter ever — Because Abercrombie’s all-in on weddings… since wedding “days” are now wedding “weeks.”

How did Hampton Inn become the biggest hotel chain in America? Free waffles — Executives thought DIY waffle machines would never work, but free waffles proved them wrong.

And BuzzFeed is facing a surprise activist investor: former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — Because he wants to turn BuzzFeed into BuzzFox.

Plus, the house from Home Alone is listed for sale… for $5.2 million. Booby traps not included.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - An “Apprentice” Producer’s Mea Culpa

  • How one producer—now freed from his 20-year non-disclosure agreement—regrets his role shaping Donald Trump’s image on The Apprentice. 


Guest: Bill Pruitt, producer for seasons 1 and 2 of The Apprentice.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Claire Messud’s new novel is a sweeping tale of history, family and social change

Across seven decades, Claire Messud's novel This Strange Eventful History follows generations of a family from a colonized Algeria to far stretches of the world after the country's independence, always grappling with the idea of identity and belonging and political upheaval. In today's episode, Messud speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about how she took inspiration from her own grandparents' story, and how looking back at their past sparked a desire in her to chronicle the world she grew up in for her own kids.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S9 E26: Sanjay Nagaraj, Traceable AI

Sanjay Nagaraj started his journey in India, where he was born and raised. He earliest influences started at home, as his father taught him honesty and integrity and his mother heavily influenced his growth as an individual. Though he spends most of his time in tech, anytime outside of work is dedicated to time with family, where he gets to see the world through his wife and kids - along with fueling his passion for singing and following his favorite sports team.

For Sanjay, one thing that was clear to him was that application builders exposing APIs, you are responsible for making sure those API's are secure. Prior to his current venture, he and his co-founder built AppDynamics, and they saw the growth of API's first hand. As such, businesses were looking for products to help understand API's and protect them - in real time.

This is the creation story of Traceable.

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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - WSOP Kickoff, Crypto ETFs, and Airfare Refunds

Nate and Maria are in Vegas for the first week of the World Series of Poker. On today’s show, they share their top tips for acing the World Series, explain the politics behind last week’s approval of a new kind of crypto ETF, and unpack new rules for airline delays.

Further Reading:

“SEC Unexpectedly Expedites ETH ETF w/ Eric Balchunas” from Galaxy Brains

“Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule Requiring Automatic Refunds of Airline Tickets and Ancillary Service Fees” from USDOT

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It Could Happen Here - The Co-op Trying to Change the Music Industry

Mia talks with Simon and Alex, two co-founders and worker owners of the music co-op platform Mirlo, about how streaming changed the music industry and how to fix it.

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CBS News Roundup - 05/29/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Jury in former President Trump's so-called "hush money" criminal trial had its first day of deliberations with no verdict. Justice Alito rejects calls to recuse himself from Trump-related decisions following flags flap. Charges dropped against pro golfer. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Anagnosology (READING) with Adrian Johns

Clay tablets! Printing presses! Old timey audio books! Speed reading strategies! Attention spans! Dyslexia history! Literacy campaigns! Dr. Adrian Johns is an historian, professor, and author of the book “The Science of Reading” and we have a nice mellow chat about when humans started to “read,” what that means, being Hooked on Phonics, Dick, Jane, character languages, audiobooks, e-readers, school segregation, literacy rates, and how long we can focus at a time. He literally wrote the book on it. 

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