Month: July 2024

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The Daily Signal - Former Kentucky AG Warns About Threat to Business From Woke Corporations

Conservatives must be vigilant about big corporations that seek to “cancel” those with differing political views, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron warns. Cameron, a Republican, ran for governor in 2023, but lost to Democratic incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear. He now serves as CEO of the 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit organization that “seeks to preserve freedom by partnering with allies to steer public companies back to neutral on divisive, ideological issues,” according to its website. Cameron discussed with “The Daily Signal Podcast” what he says is the biggest threat to American business: Many publicly traded companies no longer focus on return on investments to shareholders. 

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Tech Won't Save Us - Jack Dorsey’s Embrace of Crypto-Libertarianism w/ David Gerard

Paris Marx is joined by David Gerard to discuss Jack Dorsey’s decision to leave Bluesky, his obsession with Bitcoin, and his contributions (or lack thereof) to modern technology.

David Gerard is the author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and Libra Shrugged. He also makes Pivot to AI with Amy Castor.

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:

  • David wrote about Jack Dorsey abandoning Bluesky on his blog.
  • Business Insider reported on how Dorsey gave money to the far-right founder of Nostr.
  • Dorsey was interviewed by Mike Solana on Pirate Wires.
  • Dorsey has posted in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the response to it is why he deleted his Bluesky account.

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Psychedeliology (HALLUCINOGENS) Part 1 with Charles Grob

Magic mushrooms, LSD, ayahuasca ceremonies, DMT,  ketamine: take a trip into the science and research of hallucinogens.  Renowned psychiatry professor and psychedelics researcher Dr. Charles Grob of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center sits down to talk about ethnobotanical origins of psychedelics, how much LSD is too much LSD, what juices are squirting in the brain when you're tripping out, who should NOT take psychedelics, talking to dead people, antidepressants and mushrooms, the murky history of psychedelic research, and future paths of study that may help the world. Next week, wall-to-wall listener questions and some tales from your internet dad’s own  journey. 

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How to Survive This Heat

Air-conditioning can feel like the only way to get through increasingly hot summers, but it’s an expensive, power-hungry way to keep cool. 


How necessary is it? And how necessary is it to raise our thermostats up from 72 degrees?


Guest: Adam Clark Estes, senior technology correspondent at Vox.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Other Rivers,’ Peter Hessler chronicles his return to Chinese classrooms

Foreign correspondent Peter Hessler taught in China during the country's economic boom in the 1990s, which he wrote about in his book River Town. Now, in Other Rivers, Hessler breaks down what it was like to teach there again more than two decades later. In today's episode, he and NPR international correspondent Emily Feng talk about what changed — and what stayed the same — with a new generation of students in China and how covering the country remains a challenge for so many writers and journalists.

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It Could Happen Here - War and Petrodollars: The Story of the Saudi Esports World Cup

Mia and James take a deep dive into how Saudi Arabia's attempts to get returns on their investments led them to carry out a genocide in Yemen and an Esports tournament in Riyadh.

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You're Wrong About - Balloonfest ‘86! with Harmony Colangelo

The city of Cleveland will not be made to apologize for its balloons. Harmony Colangelo defends the mistake on the lake.

You can find Harmony on This Ends at Prom. 

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Pod Save America - Is the Biden Dam Breaking?

The effort to remove President Biden from the ticket picks up momentum as more Democratic members of Congress speak out. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi reveals more about her position—and says "time is running short" to make the right decision. MSNBC's Jen Psaki joins Lovett to break down the latest, and to talk about openly about what Biden needs to do to hang on.

 

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