Month: August 2024

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 143

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This Machine Kills - Patreon Preview – 360. Bubbles and Black Markets

We get into the collapse of investor confidence in the AI boom, then turn to the thriving black markets for smuggling vast quantities of AI microchips into China and the geopolitics of technological progress and economic sanctions as AI becomes a site of proxy wars by other means. ••• Burst Damage https://www.wheresyoured.at/burst-damage/ ••• With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/technology/china-ai-microchips.html ••• How four U.S. presidents unleashed economic warfare across the globe https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/us-sanction-countries-work Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Mortgage applications, China’s housing and … Carrie Bradshaw?

It's ... Indicators of the Week! We cover the numbers in the news that you should know about. This week, we cover mortgage applications increasing, China's home prices decreasing, and Carrie Bradshaw ... Indices-ing?

Related Episodes:
When mortgage rates are too low to give up
Are both rents AND interest rates too dang high?
The highs and lows of US rents
The mess at the heart of China's economy

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Consider This from NPR - ‘The Sixth Sense’ and a career of plot twists

Twenty-five years ago this month, one film, and one filmmaker, became synonymous with the big plot twist.

So what was it about The Sixth Sense that made it such a cultural phenomenon at the time of its release? And how did that shape the rest of controversial director M. Night M. Night Shyamalan career?

Haley Joel Osment joins Scott Detrow in conversation to reflect on the impact it had on his work, and how he used that success to propel his career forward.

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Consider This from NPR - ‘The Sixth Sense’ and a career of plot twists

Twenty-five years ago this month, one film, and one filmmaker, became synonymous with the big plot twist.

So what was it about The Sixth Sense that made it such a cultural phenomenon at the time of its release? And how did that shape the rest of controversial director M. Night M. Night Shyamalan career?

Haley Joel Osment joins Scott Detrow in conversation to reflect on the impact it had on his work, and how he used that success to propel his career forward.

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Consider This from NPR - ‘The Sixth Sense’ and a career of plot twists

Twenty-five years ago this month, one film, and one filmmaker, became synonymous with the big plot twist.

So what was it about The Sixth Sense that made it such a cultural phenomenon at the time of its release? And how did that shape the rest of controversial director M. Night M. Night Shyamalan career?

Haley Joel Osment joins Scott Detrow in conversation to reflect on the impact it had on his work, and how he used that success to propel his career forward.

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The Gist - The Societal Profusion Of Rapid Onset Mass Delusion

When a series of high school students began to have odd tics and spasms their upset community didn’t know what to do. Was it poisoning? A mad-cow like neurological disease? Or something no less real, but much more psychological. Dan Taberski, host of the amazing new podcast Hysterical stops by to discuss. Plus, Trump's insults of Kamal Harris, Strategic? Haphazard? Or just stupid?


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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Aug. 16, 2024

What happened this week, Chicago? Well, the city is making final preparations for the Democratic National Convention, a judge dealt a blow to protest organizers, Riot Fest does an about-face, and a former school official is sentenced to prison for stealing nearly $1.5 million in chicken wings. Reset goes behind the headlines of those stories and much more in our Weekly News Recap, with Julie Bosman, Chicago bureau chief for The New York Times; Carrie Shepherd, Chicago reporter with AXIOS; and WBEZ state politics reporter Dave McKinney. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Daily Signal - Harris’ 100 Day Economic Plan, ESPN Newscaster Fired, Preliminary Trump Assassination Investigation Released | Aug. 16

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:


  • Democratic Party Nominee Kamala Harris delivers a speech laying out her economic policy agenda. 
  • Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins releases a preliminary investigative Report on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. 
  • ESPN fires a newscaster after spoke out in defense of women’s sports. 
  • Following the protests on the campus of Columbia University this spring, the college formed a committee to determine protest rules. But the Washington Free Beacon has found that two of the professors serving on that committee appear to have participated in the protests. 
  • Mediators for Hamas and Israel hold talks to try to find a peace agreement. 
  • Movie review of “The Wind Rises.”


Relevant Links:


https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2024/08/15/higgins-releases-preliminary-investigative-report/ 


https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/15/espn-fires-sam-ponder-who-against-men-womens-sports/



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