Robert and James cover Ukraine's defeat of the Russian Black Sea Fleet using irregular warfare, and James looks over how Myanmar's rebels have stymied the junta Navy.
Lovett sits down with Hasan Piker, the massively popular progressive streamer, to talk through (and argue about) the hard questions about where the Democratic Party needs to go from here, the liberal media landscape, what the Harris campaign told us about why they lost, and yes, a jobs program for incels. Then, Jon talks to Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton about the fight for the House, why blue states like his swung right, and the controversy he kicked up with his comments about trans athletes.
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It's a busy getaway day as Thanksgiving travelers take to the roads and the skies. Stormy weather is in the holiday forecast for parts of the East Coast. The FBI says that several members of Donald Trump's incoming administration have received threats. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.
We get into the New York Times's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, which challenges the use of copyrighted material as training data for AI models. The NYT’s case is built on notions of “romantic authorship” — or the irreducible / ineffable quality of creativity and individuality in human works — and discuss the analytical weakness of building critiques and strategies on such immaterial, shifty grounding, and the serious limits such a framing puts on potential solutions. We also chat about OpenAI’s further push into education and its effects on teaching.
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••• New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-times-openai-erased-potential-lawsuit-evidence/
••• NYT v. OpenAI: The Times’s About-Face https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2024/04/nyt-v-openai-the-timess-about-face/
••• AI Companies Are Trying to Get MIT Press Books https://www.404media.co/mit-press-ai-training-on-books/
••• There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/opensubtitles-ai-data-set/680650
••• OpenAI releases a teacher’s guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/openai-releases-a-teachers-guide-to-chatgpt-but-some-educators-are-skeptical/
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Happy Thanksgiving, Honestly listeners! If you’re anything like the rest of America, you’ll be spending the day with family, cooking turkey, eating sweet potatoes, and. . . watching football.
Whether or not you’re from Texas, the game on most American TVs on Thanksgiving Day will be the Dallas Cowboys. But just behind the players are the real stars of the show: blue and white pom-poms accenting sparkly white cowboy boots dancing to the sound of “Thunderstruck” for 41.8 million viewers at home.
We’re talking, of course, about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders—who you may have seen in the viral Netflix documentary, America’s Sweethearts—which is what today’s episode is all about.
Why, you might ask, would we talk about cheerleading on Honestly? Because as we watched the documentary, we realized that the show is about a lot more than cheerleading, football, faith, patriotism, and quintessential American culture. Yes, it’s about those things—and yes, it’s a reality show about making a very competitive dance team—but really, it’s a master class in leadership and excellence.
So today, we’re talking with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ director, Kelli Finglass. We ask her how she became the master operator she is today, leading an organization just as well as—or perhaps better than—a Fortune 500 company, how she created a culture of dedication and precision, and most importantly, what it takes today to build a phenomenal team.
It’s a different kind of episode than you’re used to these days—no talk about Matt Gaetz or Elon Musk—but it’s an all-American conversation for an all-American day. And it couldn’t be more fitting and fun. We hope you enjoy it.
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From prince to pauper, from empress to enemy, literally everybody poops. And even now, in 2024, civilization is learning more about the fascinating, disturbing implications of gut flora -- the world hidden within you, as you listen to tonight's episode. Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they explore the strange science of fecal transplants, the idea that you can put one person's poop in someone else and, just maybe, save their life.
Abraham Lincoln certainly loved the nation he led, he loved Democracy, he loved his wife, and he loved some men, too. That’s according to a new film, Lover Of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln. Shaun Peterson and Tom Balcerski are back to continue our conversation about our 16th President’s loves. Also on the show, Democrats try out a new strategy to battle Trump, and Rudy is tapped out.
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We’re rejoined by Jaime Leverton, former CEO at Hut 8, to discuss her exit and new role at mining broker Synteq!
Former Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton joins The Mining Pod! We go through her time at Hut 8 building an industry leading HODL, her transition out the door though the merger with US Bitcoin Corp, to her new ventures in fintech and DeFi. We lastly touch on her interests in Bitcoin stocks and equities with some advice for other CEOs in the mining space.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:28 Jaime’s bio
05:37 HUT 8"s Bitcoin treasury
08:10 Jaime’s Bitcoin moment
08:53 HUT 8 & US Bitcoin merger
12:48 Exahash headlines
14:27 Merger & debt
16:35 Transitioning out of CEO role
18:37 Jaime’s the bag holder
21:57 Infrastructure
24:05 HPC & AI demand
27:57 HPC's future form factor
31:55 Chair of the board
32:58 Hashprice & predictions
33:59 What's looking good?
37:46 Thoughts on being a public company CEO
38:57 ULYS startup
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Thanksgiving is all about the blessings of home, but thousands of Chicagoans don’t have shelter this holiday. As temperatures drop, we’ll hear what services exist to help the unhoused find relief with Christine Haley, chief homelessness officer for the state of Illinois and Doug Fraser, executive director of The Chicago Help Initiative.
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Warren Buffett sends us into the season to be thankful with his philanthropic acts and his poignant words, and gives us all a place to start the conversation with family about money.
(00:14) Asit Sharma and Dylan Lewis discuss:
- NBC’s negotiations to extend their rights to broadcast rights to the Macy’s Day Parade, and why holiday live events are turning into an arms race.
- The expectations for Black Friday through Cyber Monday, and two predictions on the direction of consumer spend and who will be driving it in future years.
- Warren Buffett’s plans for passing his wealth on to his family and philanthropic efforts, and the words of wisdom we should all have in mind as we get together with loved ones this week.
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