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The Bookmonger - Episode 531: ‘The Wizard of Mecosta’ by Camilo Peralta
John J. Miller is joined by Camilo Peralta to discuss his book, 'The Wizard of Mecosta.'
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S10 E8: Shashwat Sehgal, P0 Security
Shashwat Sehgal has been in the tech industry broadly for 15 years. He started out as an engineer, but eventually, worked his way towards product and the business side. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time with his family. He's into sports, loves to play tennis, but admits he hasn't played pickle ball yet because the courts are always booked. He also enjoys reading, in particular historical narratives or autobiographies.
In his prior years, Shashwat noticed that developers spend a large amount of time securing business assets in the cloud. He dreamt of a world where this was just an abstraction layer on top of the cloud, making it easier for developers to complete the task.
This is the creation story of P0 Security.
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Start the Week - Female ambition and control
Does ambition have to be seen as corrupting, or like a kind of illness’? These are the questions the business writer Stefan Stern asks in his book, Fair or Foul: the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition. He argues that far from the cliché of a scheming wife, Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth demonstrates a more sophisticated understanding of human nature, that could help us navigate the pitfalls of ambition today.
The playwright Zinnie Harris made Lady Macbeth the hero of her adaptation of the classic play last year. But now she’s focused on the figure of The Duchess of Malfi, in a contemporary retelling. Played by the actor Jodie Whittaker, the Duchess defies her family’s wishes and control, and asserts her own desires, with devastating results. The Duchess is on at the Trafalgar Theatre, London until 20th December.
Mary Queen of Scots spent nearly two decades imprisoned under the orders of Elizabeth I. From her chambers she wrote countless letters, many of them in code. Now 400 years after her death a new cache of encrypted letters has been uncovered. Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary’s correspondence, brings her captivity to life in Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Producer: Katy Hickman
The Intelligence from The Economist - Timed bombs: Israel’s pre-election attack on Iran
Israel has been expected to attack Iran for weeks. Why was the assault at the weekend more limited than some expected? How Artificial Intelligence could improve customer service (9:54). And why the LIV tour, which shook up the world of golf, may merge with its competitor (17:37).
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First Things Podcast - The Case for Protestantism
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Gavin Ortlund joins in to discuss his new book, “What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church.”
Intro music by Jack Bauerlein.
The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 10.28.24
Alabama
- Gov. Ivey sends 125 more soldiers to help at US Mexico border
- GOP candidate Caroleen Dobson wants I-10 bridge to be toll-free
- Formal investigation underway in case of AL man dying during surgrey
- AL man charged with sex trafficking young girl for years in multiple states
- "Sand in My Boots" music festival for 2025 now sold out of tickets
National
- Madison Square Garden rally for Trump was packed to the gills
- Trump gets 30 million YouTube views of his visit to Joe Rogan podcast
- McDonalds in PA that hosted Trump visit getting harassed by Dems
- Federal judge tells VA to put non citizen names back on the voter rolls
- A Concert held to raise relief for Hurricane Helen victims pulls in $24M
The Daily Signal - Pollster Scott Rasmussen’s Predictions for 2024 Election
Pollster Scott Rasmussen of RMG Research breaks down the latest polling data eight days before the 2024 presidential election.
He explains why former President Donald Trump currently has an edge over Vice President Kamala Harris, analyzes crucial swing states including Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and explains the growing diploma divide in American politics.
Rasmussen also reveals surprising insights about elite voters' views, emerging campaign issues, and potential election day wildcards. A must-watch for understanding the state of the presidential race and key Senate battlegrounds.
Key topics:
- Current state of presidential and Senate races
- Analysis of must-win states
- Impact of economic concerns on voting
- The growing education divide in American politics
- Voter trust in election outcomes
- Potential October surprises
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Python Bytes - #407 Back to the future, destination 3.14
Topics covered in this episode:
- Python 3.14.0 alpha 1 is now available
- uv supports dependency groups
- dive: A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
- pytest-metadata
- Extras
- Joke
NBN Book of the Day - Toni Alimi, “Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics” (Princeton UP, 2024)
Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics (Princeton UP, 2024) provides a major reassessment of this monumental figure in the Western religious and political tradition, tracing the remarkably close connections between Augustine’s understanding of slavery and his broader thought.
Augustine is most often read through the lens of Greek philosophy and the theology of Christian writers such as Paul and Ambrose, yet his debt to Roman thought is seldom appreciated. Toni Alimi reminds us that the author of Confessions and City of God was also a Roman citizen and argues that some of the thinkers who most significantly shaped his intellectual development were Romans such as Cicero, Seneca, Lactantius, and Varro—Romans who had much to say about slavery and its relationship to civic life. Alimi shows how Augustine, a keen and influential student of these figures, related chattel slavery and slavery to God, and sheds light on Augustinianism’s complicity in Christianity’s long entanglement with slavery.
An illuminating work of scholarship, Slaves of God reveals how slavery was integral to Augustine’s views about law, rule, accountability, and citizenship, and breaks new ground on the topic of slavery in late antique and medieval political thought.
New Books in Late Antiquity is presented by Ancient Jew Review
Toni Alimi is Assistant Professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University
Michael Motia teaches in Classics and Religious Studies at UMass Boston
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