Month: June 2024

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Tech Won't Save Us - Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha Tiku

Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how US tech companies are flocking to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fund their expensive AI ambitions.

Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture reporter at the Washington Post.

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:

  • Read the pieces Nitasha contributed to on Silicon Valley getting funding from Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and its embrace of the US military.
  • Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018. There’s still be no accountability.
  • Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman met with many Silicon Valley CEOs months before Khashoggi’s murder.
  • The United Arab Emirates launched its own AI strategy in 2018.
  • The UAE also put Pegasus spyware on the phone of Khashoggi’s wife months before his murder.
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was photographed signing a woman’s chest on June 4.
  • Many Arab Americans in Silicon Valley have reported being scared to speak out in support of Palestinians for fear of retaliation.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - She Met the Alitos—and Got Them on Tape

Furtively recorded conversations with Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Alito’s wife Martha-Ann provided a window into what these powerful figures are saying behind closed doors. But do the means of getting these recordings undermine their ultimate goal? 


Guest: Lauren Windsor, journalist and executive producer for “The Undercurrent” and documentary filmmaker of “Gonzo for Democracy.”


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NPR's Book of the Day - Chelsea Devantez’s memoir finds the humor in dark situations

Comedian, TV writer and podcast host Chelsea Devantez moved around a lot as a kid. She jokes in today's episode that her mom "loved to get divorced" — but that also led to what she describes as a pretty great co-parenting situation between her mom and godmother for a while. It's one of the many stories in Devantez's new memoir, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This (But I'm Going to Anyway). She spoke to NPR's Elizabeth Blair about the book, her journey as a domestic violence survivor and the experience of being the product, in part, of a sperm donor

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It Could Happen Here - The Latest Peace Deal, Part 1

Shereen explains the most recent US proposed peace deal for Hamas and Israel and the events leading up to its announcement.

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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Lifetime Terms, Lifetime Bans, and the Return of Roaring Kitty

This week on Risky Business, Nate and Maria discuss whether Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor should retire, the perils of sports betting among professional athletes, and what the return of Roaring Kitty means for traditional market analysis. 

Further Reading:

“Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now” from The Atlantic

“Should Sonia Sotomayor Retire?” from Slate

“MLB bans Padres’ Tucupita Marcano permanently for betting on baseball” from the NYT

“Lifetime bans and careers in tatters – recent sports betting scandals show how fringe players are vulnerable” from CBC

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CBS News Roundup - 06/12/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Catastrophic flash flooding hits and is expected to continue in South Florida. Republican-led House votes to hold Attorney General in contempt. Southern Baptists reject ban on churches with female pastors, but pass nonbinding statement cautioning the use of IVF. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: ALL ABOUT BITCOIN | Live from Consensus 2024

OG’s McCormack and Ali weigh in on Bitcoin’s functionality and market dominance. 

Sponsored by BitGo. 

Today's "All About Bitcoin" segment was broadcast live from Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas. It featured Bitcoin OGs Peter McCormack and Muneeb Ali discussing Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions and the growth of the Bitcoin ETF market.

Chapters

00:00 Bitcoin Layer 2 Solutions

07:22 Bitcoin's Dominance and Core Principles

23:08 Differentiating ETFs

28:02 Bitcoin ETFs and Investor Interest


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Planet Money - Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight

Graphite is sort of the one-hit wonder of minerals. And that hit? Pencils. Everyone loves to talk about pencils when it comes to graphite. If graphite were to perform a concert, they'd close out the show with "pencils," and everyone would clap and cheer. But true fans of graphite would be shouting out "batteries!" Because graphite is a key ingredient in another important thing that we all use in our everyday lives: lithium ion batteries.

Almost all of the battery-ready graphite in the world comes from one place: China. That's actually true of lots of the materials that go into batteries, like processed lithium and processed cobalt. Which is why it was such a big deal when, earlier this year, President Biden announced a tariff package that will make a bunch of Chinese imports more expensive. Included in this package are some tariffs on Chinese graphite. He wants to create a new battery future—one that doesn't rely so much on China.

In this episode, we get down on the ground to look at this big supply chain story through the lens of one critical mineral. And we visit a small town that realizes that it might be the perfect place to create an American graphite industry. And we find that declaring a new battery future is one thing, but making it happen is another thing entirely.

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Pod Save America - The GOP Meltdown Over Hunter’s Conviction

Dan and The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell break down the chaotic Republican response to the Hunter Biden news and what the conviction might mean for the Biden campaign, which of Donald Trump’s rumored VP picks scare them the most, and the latest from Tuesday’s primaries.

 

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