Month: May 2024

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SCOTUScast - Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri – Post-Decision SCOTUScast

On April 17, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri. At issue was whether an employee challenging a job transfer under Title VII must show that the transfer brought about some harm with respect to an identifiable term or condition of employment, but that harm need not be significant.

Join us to hear Alison Somin break down the decision and discuss its potential ramifications.

Featuring:
Mrs. Alison Somin, Legal Fellow, Center for the Separation of Powers, Pacific Legal Foundation
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Is MI5 a Criminal Organization?

Also known as the Security Service, MI5 is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, dealing with threats inside the kingdom. However, recent revelations have shown that, in some cases, the organization may have helped to aid and abet some crimes in the course of (theoretically) preventing others. Tune in to learn more about the morally grey world of covert operations and MI5.

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Focus on Africa - Why was Eliud Kipchoge a trolling victim?

Two time Olympic champion marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge has been speaking to the BBC about the impact of social media abuse on him and his family.

Togo's ruling party wins a parliamentary majority in legislative elections, is President Faure Gnassingbé set to extend his time in power?

And can the tropical modernism architectural style help face the challenge of climate change?

Presenter:Audrey Brown Producers:Patricia Whitehorne, Rob Wilson,Bella Hassan, Victor Sylver and Paul Bakibinga Technical Producer: Jonny Hall Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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CBS News Roundup - 05/07/2024 | World News Roundup

Death and destruction as tornadoes tear through Oklahoma. Israel rejects cease fire plan. American soldier held in Russia. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup. 

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Ready To Ditch Your Smartphone For A ‘Dumb Phone’?

Nine out of ten people in the U.S. own a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center. As our society becomes built around this technology, some people are nostalgic for a different time – when cell phones didn’t dominate and distract us. Reset discusses the topic with CPS principal Seth Lavin, who got rid of his smartphone, and TJ Driver, co-founder of Brick, a device that disables apps on your smartphone temporarily. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: Is Bitcoin Mining Centralized? With Peter Todd

Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS, and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.


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We headed down to Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas last week to discuss all things Bitcoin development, and it turns out mining is a big part of that!

We sat down with Peter Todd, a Bitcoin core developer with extensive work on decentralizing Bitcoin’s tech stack. We dig into pool centralization threats, the what and if of miner extractable value on Bitcoin and what he thinks of JPEGs on Bitcoin!

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud

00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?

00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro

00:10:45 Antpool block template use

00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?

00:17:18 Ocean Pool

00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation

00:20:19 Mining Testnet

00:21:30 Resetting Testnet

00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect

00:24:16 OP_RETURN

00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?

00:28:23 MEV is dangerous

00:30:35 RBF transactions

00:31:20 MEV types

00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters

00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project

00:36:10 Suggestions for miners

00:37:36 OP_CAT

00:42:40 OP Code prediction


Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 


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Up First from NPR - The Gaza Ceasefire That Wasn’t, Putin’s Fifth Inauguration, House Speaker Vote?

After seven months of war and nearly 35,000 deaths, a pause in the fighting in Gaza seemed in sight — and then it wasn't.
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes his fifth oath of office, which if he serves the full term would give him a longer tenure than Joseph Stalin. And the House could vote on another motion to oust a Republican speaker — but this time, Democrats might save Mike Johnson.

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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Vincent Ni, Nick Spicer, Kelsey Snell, Lisa Thomson, Alice Woelfle and Ben Adler. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams and Kaity Kline. We get engineering support from Phil Edfors. And our technical director is Stacey Abbott.

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