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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S9 E29: Umaimah Khan , Opal Security
Umaimah Khan grew up in San Diego, but now lives in the Bay Area. A fun fact about her - she was home schooled until college, and growing up, loved puzzles and math. She planned to be a math professor until she eventually got into startups and tech. She is a curious person, with many hobbies and interests. In fact, she loves to cook and was a chef at two different Michelin star restaurants. She also likes to garden, growing food and also interesting plants.
In the past, UK found herself drawn towards real world problems in real time.
What she found herself noticing was that access management was incredibly messy - and that people weren't willing to look behind the curtain to fix the problem. After she noticed that this problem kept surfacing , and decided to solve it.
This is the creation story of Opal Security.
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On Our Watch - BONUS: Right to Know | S2: New Folsom
On Our Watch was made possible by the passage of a groundbreaking law enforcement sunshine bill in 2018. Today we talk to California State Senator Nancy Skinner, who co-authored the state’s “Right to Know Act," about the legacy of her landmark bill, ongoing obstacles to transparency, and the need for accountability in California prisons.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Heir tight: why boomers are so stingy
The post-war generation reaped the benefits of peace and prosperity. Yet rather than spend that bounty, retired boomers are hoarding their riches–and upending economists’ expectations. The science of menstruation is baffling, partly because most animals don’t do it. Now clever innovations may help improve women’s health (9:13). And how old-fashioned wind-power is blowing new life into the shipping industry–and cutting its emissions (16:13).
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Take This Pod and Shove It - Rolling Stone’s 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time (Part 3 of 3)
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 6.18.24
Alabama
- Hearings on "judge shopping" for VCAP lawsuit to happen at end of June
- AL media outlet gets ad $ from state that coincides with favorable articles
- State lawmaker says gambling bill ate up time and thwarted other good bills
- Move Over Act re: tow truck drivers working alongside road starts Oct. 1
- Judge agrees to push out date for Mac Marquette trial in Decatur
- Fundraiser for victim of shark attack has sold out of its tribute T-shirts
National
- SCOTUS undoes ban on bump stocks, now Schumer wants to pass ban in Senate
- Sen. Cotton says many J6 defendants have been overly charged and imprisoned
- Federal judge issues injunction on Biden admin's change to Title IX gender rules
- Biden plans to sell more of Strategic Petroleum Reserves ahead of election
- House Oversight seeks more info on retaliation of IRS whistleblowers
- US Surgeon General wants warning labels for teens put on social media platforms
- Editor of TN Star not jailed for contempt in publishing school shooter writings
- Kansas AG sues Pfizer for misleading public on multiple levels re: Covid vaccine
Honestly with Bari Weiss - Steven Pinker: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
Steven Pinker is a world-renowned cognitive psychologist, and is widely regarded as one of the most important public intellectuals of our time. His work delves into the complexities of cognition, language, and social behavior, and his research offers a window into the fundamental workings of the human mind.
Pinker, who is the author of nine books including Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress and Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, approaches his work with a kind of data-driven optimism about the world that has set him apart from the chorus of doomer voices we hear so much from in our public discourse.
Today, we talk to Pinker about why smart people believe stupid things, the psychology of conspiracy theories, free speech and academic freedom, why democracy and enlightenment values are contrary to human nature, the moral panic around AI, and much more.
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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO450: From Trump Voter in 2016 to Progressive Making a Real Difference in 2024
I was speaking with an OA listener the other day, and she mentioned a few things that made me reallllly want to interview her on this show. First off, she said she is a progressive working in a prosecutor's office in an extremely conservative area. That's already interesting enough, but then she said thing 2 which is: she voted for Trump in 2016! So, I just had to get her on to find out how she made that journey, and how she makes a difference in people's lives as a progressive prosecutor.
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Python Bytes - #388 Don’t delete all the repos
Topics covered in this episode:
- PSF Elections coming up
- Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos
- Python: Import by string with pkgutil.resolve_name()
- DuckDB goes 1.0
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- Joke
NBN Book of the Day - Alex V. Barnard, “Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness” (Columbia UP, 2023)
Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years, politicians and advocates have sought to expand the use of conservatorships, a legal tool used to force someone deemed “gravely disabled,” or unable to meet their needs for food, clothing, or shelter as a result of mental illness, to take medication and be placed in a locked facility. At the same time, civil liberties and disability rights groups have seized on cases like that of Britney Spears to argue that conservatorships are inherently abusive.
Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness (Columbia UP, 2023) is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees, Alex V. Barnard takes readers to the streets where police encounter homeless people in crisis, the locked wards where people receiving treatment are confined, and the courtrooms where judges decide on conservatorship petitions. As he shows, California’s state government has abdicated authority over this system, leaving the question of who receives compassionate care and who faces coercion dependent on the financial incentives of for-profit facilities, the constraints of underresourced clinicians, and the desperate struggles of families to obtain treatment for their loved ones.
This book offers a timely warning: reforms to expand conservatorship will lead to more coercion but little transformative care until government assumes accountability for ensuring the health and dignity of its most vulnerable citizens.
Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is a Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington Books, 2022). His general area of study is in the areas of social construction of experience, identity, and place. He is currently conducting research for his next project that looks at nightlife and the emotional labor that is performed by employees of bars and nightclubs. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu.
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