MAGA v DOGE, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving, is an early sign of the coming infighting that could diminish Trump's power—we're definitely not seeing signs of an iron fist amid all that golfing and DJ-ing at Mar-a-Lago. Meanwhile, the world he'll be dealing with is far less stable than it was in 2017. Plus, a Carter appreciation, love for Chalamet's Dylan portrayal, and anticipation of a wild January.
Django Gold is a stand-up comedian, a former writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and a veteran of The Onion. In his stand-up special "Bag of Tricks," he explores not being cool, show-off toilet seats, and the privilege of owning multiple pairs of scissors. His comedy has been described as "cynical and bizarre" but also "surprising, insightful and properly deranged." We discuss the right amount of weird to present to the audience without seeming too weird, and the evolution of the archetype of nerd to IT guy to incel.
Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.
He was the nation's 39th president, in office from 1977 to 1981.
He will of course be remembered for his accomplishments in office. But also for all that he accomplished in the four decades after he left the White House.
Host Andrew Limbong speaks about Jimmy Carter's legacy with two NPR journalists who have covered the White House for years: national political correspondent Mara Liasson and senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith.
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Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.
He was the nation's 39th president, in office from 1977 to 1981.
He will of course be remembered for his accomplishments in office. But also for all that he accomplished in the four decades after he left the White House.
Host Andrew Limbong speaks about Jimmy Carter's legacy with two NPR journalists who have covered the White House for years: national political correspondent Mara Liasson and senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith.
For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.
He was the nation's 39th president, in office from 1977 to 1981.
He will of course be remembered for his accomplishments in office. But also for all that he accomplished in the four decades after he left the White House.
Host Andrew Limbong speaks about Jimmy Carter's legacy with two NPR journalists who have covered the White House for years: national political correspondent Mara Liasson and senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith.
For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Today's holiday podcast questions concern how we Commentaryites define ourselves in terms of the generations we come from, and what indelible encounters we've had in our lives with meaningful people. Give a listen.
More than 80 people have been abducted over recent weeks in Kenya, sparking a rise in public anger and more protests on the streets. But why are the kidnappings happening and who is being targeted? We talk to our reporter in Nairobi who has been following events.
Also in this episode, we hear about the journeys of African migrants from West Africa to the Canary Islands, the painful realities that push them away from home, and the dangers that come with crossing the Atlantic ocean.
And we hear from Cape Verde on how the country has managed to transform its agricultural sector after years of a severe drought left it struggling to survive. Could Cape Verde be a model for other African countries?
Presenter: Charles Gitonga
Producers: Nyasha Michelle, Victor Sylver and Bella Hassan in London. Susan Gachuhi in Nairobi
Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne
Technical Producer: Philip Bull
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
For today’s show, we speak with Max Guise about Block’s ASIC miner, and we even get a sneak peak of the new miner!
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Max Guise, a team member from Block’s Proto division, joins to talk about the company’s new ASIC chip. A veteran of Block, Guise has worked on everything from the Proto mining ASIC, to Square’s point-of-sale, and its hardware wallet Bitkey. During the discussion, Guise gives us a brief history of Proto’s origins, discusses the challenges of designing (and manufacturing and marketing!) a bitcoin mining ASIC, provides a timeline for the Proto ASIC rollout, and even graces us with a demo of the chip!
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:21 Max bio
03:56 Working at Square & CashApp
04:58 Building the point of sale product
06:20 Building hardware
09:48 Genesis of Proto
12:33 Open development
13:37 The team
14:59 What is Proto
16:59 Selling chips
19:56 Closed sourced firmware
21:38 Lifecycle examination
23:32 Market strategy
24:33 Financing
25:05 Hashrate as payment
26:16 Deployment
28:29 When new rig?
28:59 Ecosystem of products
30:13 Other components
30:58 Working with competing miners
Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie’s life on the Navajo Nation is the inspiration for many of her imaginative stories in the collection, The Missing Morningstar And Other Stories. published this year. Ojibwe writer Marcie Rendon’s illustrated children’s book, Stitches of Tradition (Gashkigwaaso Tradition), measures time and culture through the ribbon skirts a grandmother makes through the years. And Danica Nava's romance novel, The Truth According to Ember, has readers rooting for its Chickasaw protagonist to get the guy. Those are among the books that our expert readers will review in our look back on notable works by Indigenous authors.
