Month: June 2024

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Up First from NPR - The Sunday Story: Lost Mental Hospitals, Lost Patients

A few hours north of Seattle, Washington, there's a kind of ghost town dotted with decaying barns and milking sheds, an old cemetery, and once-stately buildings that housed thousands. It was never an actual town, it was a psychiatric facility, Northern State Hospital—a place that contained deep contradictions. The gardens and farm fields were designed to provide residents work and fulfillment in a bucolic setting. But the medical treatments were often harsh.

Northern State closed in 1973. It was a time when states across the nation were shutting down their own mental institutions in favor of a new model of community care.

Today on The Sunday Story, a look at the move towards deinstitutionalization—what it's meant for people with mental illness and for the entire society.

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The Daily Signal - BONUS: Sen. James Lankford Says Conservatives Shouldn’t Shy Away From Life Issue

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaks with Mary Margaret Olohan on this a bonus episode of The Daily Signal Podcast.


Each year, the Faith & Freedom Coalition hosts the Road to Majority Policy Conference with political leaders and other newsmakers. Lankford delivered a speech Friday and spoke with The Daily Signal about the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. He also discussed his RESTORE Act related to in vitro fertilization (IVF).


Stay tuned for more interviews from our Daily Signal team, which is on location at the Washington Hilton. And be sure to visit DailySignal.com for additional news from the conference.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Is Your Phone Tracking Your Driving?

As cars get smarter, automakers - with the help of third-party apps - are leveraging the new data they’re able to collect on people's driving habits to influence drivers’ insurance prices. The problem? Most people aren’t aware their driving is being monitored.


Guest: Kashmir Hill, tech reporter for the New York Times.


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It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: “Party Discipline” by Cory Doctorow, Part Three

Margaret continues to read Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.

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The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Father And Son Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Mike and his first-born son Milo appeared on the Smoke Em If You Got Em podcast this past week. The two Pescas discussed toxic masculinity with the show’s hosts Nancy Rommelmann and Sarah Hepola, and they graciously allowed us to play the interview in its near entirety on this weekend’s Best Of show. Enjoy. 

 

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The Daily Signal - BONUS: Tulsi Gabbard Slams ‘Propaganda’ Media for Parroting White House ‘Cheap Fakes’ Rhetoric

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused corporate media outlets of parroting “propaganda” talking points from the White House regarding controversial videos of President Joe Biden.


Gabbard, who ran as a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, addressed the Biden White House's dismissing videos highlighting Biden’s declining mental acuity as “cheap fakes.”


Each year, the Faith & Freedom Coalition hosts the Road to Majority Policy Conference with political leaders and other newsmakers. Gabbard delivered a speech Friday and spoke with The Daily Signal.


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Motley Fool Money - AI’s ROI

In 2023, the AI industry spent an estimated $50 billion on Nvidia chips, with the purpose of training AI models. The payoff for all that spend, according to Sequoia Capital, is $3 billion in revenue. Is that a return worth bragging about?


RIcky Mulvey talks with Fool analyst Asit Sharma about how investors might think about companies’ AI spend. They also discuss:

- The rate of improvement for AI models

- How non-Mag 7 companies are using AI

- And one company that’s spending smartly on the new technology. 


Take a look at the Gartner Hype Cycle. 


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Asit Sharma

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Tim Sparks


Companies discussed: GOOG, MSFT, NVDA, ARM, AMD, ORCL

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