Month: January 2025

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Minting Unicorns – Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI

Today, we are releasing another episode in our series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. 

Dubai is the new global center of gravity, connecting the world in a way few places can. As a hub for trade, tourism, innovation, and finance, Dubai offers the ideal environment for startups and scale-ups to thrive. Entrepreneurs find a home here, whether in health-tech, fintech, AI, or renewable energy, supported by SME-focused programs that empower high-potential companies to scale globally. From flexible regulations to tax incentives, world-class infrastructure to access to global investors managing $1 trillion, Dubai understands what businesses need to scale fast. 

Today, we are speaking with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI for the Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism. Dr. Marwan. He is going to help walk us through how Dubai is creating a foundational hub for AI, Blockchain, and the intersection of both. 

  • Questions: 
  1. Tell me and my audience a little bit about you.
  2. You are CEO of AI for the DET. What does that entail? What are you driving in this position, leading your department? 
  3. It feels like blockchain is still trying to find its place in the mainstream, i.e., utility, security or currency, while AI is settling in some - where are both of these areas going?
  4. While AI is a major focus, Dubai has also exceedingly been adopting blockchain. How do you see these two technologies interacting in various sectors, especially since you're also the CEO of Dubai Blockchain Centre. 
  5. How is Dubai addressing ethical challenges in AI adoption, especially in areas like data privacy and transparency?
  6. AI is rapidly evolving globally, but how do you see Dubai positioning itself as a leader in the AI space?What’s your outlook for the city’s AI ecosystem in the next 5-10 years, and how are you working towards it today?
  7. What is Dubai doing to attract promising and leading AI and blockchain companies to Dubai? What does the city offer companies in this space from a competitive advantage standpoint?

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Amarica's Constitution - Birthright and Birthwrong

The Trump Administration takes office, and the Constitution is immediately in the crosshairs. An executive order targeting birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment is issued on the first day, with an even more extreme version of its renouncement than had previously been contemplated.  The pushback begins in a Washington courtroom, and a Federal District Judge shoots it down with a nationwide injunction. But surely the legal battle continues; we are here to arm you with Professor Amar’s arguments, articulated over many years and well in advance of this crisis.  Text, history, structure, precedent, and more are placed in the service of the Constitution and one of its most fundamental and consequential sentences.  You should be in a position to argue this case before the Supreme Court after listening to this episode.  CLE credit is available for lawyers and judges from podcast.njsba.com

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Money Girl - Who’s Eligible for a Spousal IRA?

Laura reviews the rules for using a spousal IRA, including who’s eligible to have one and the money-saving tax benefits you receive.

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Money Girl - Who’s Eligible for a Spousal IRA?

Laura reviews the rules for using a spousal IRA, including who’s eligible to have one and the money-saving tax benefits you receive.

Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.29.25

Alabama

  • Mother of death row inmate seeks to stop his scheduled execution
  • AG Marshall appeals to Costco to stop DEI policies & their legal exposure
  • Retired DHS agent says left wing media causing panic over ICE raids
  • Police Standoff in Shelby County ends with father & son found dead
  • Sen. Tuberville to chair Armed Services subcommittee on Personnel
  • Democrat Terri Sewell insists on blaming Trump over false story about Tuskegee airmen videos being removed by Air Force

National

  • Trump makes payout offers to federal workers not wanting to return to office
  • WH Press Secretary holds 1st meeting, shakes up who will be seated in room
  • DefSec Hegseth plans to pull security detail for retired general Mark Milley
  • ICE raids to expand to other cities, including Venezuelan gangs in Aurora,CO
  • Kristi Norm of DHS to reinstate Coast Guard members who refused vaccine
  • Part 2 of Interview with filmmaker Vanessa Dylan and her documentary, "Covid Collateral"
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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Nominees’ Confirmation Battles

Do those who opposed Pete Hegseth’s nomination really believe he will be worse than former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin?

On this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson discusses the contentious Senate confirmation process for Trump administration nominees. He highlights past and upcoming nominations, such as Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and RFK Jr., and the crucial role swing-state senators play in these votes:

“There's a general rule, though, that we can make sense that, I think, will apply—has applied, to Pete Hegseth. It will apply to Kash Patel, especially, RFK Jr. and others. And that is three things: The more important the Cabinet position is, the more controversial the vote; the more likely a Republican nominee is going to try to make fundamental and needed changes, the more controversial the vote; and, the more that senators in swing states worry about being reelected, the more controversial vote.”

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Soft Drinks

One of the most popular categories of beverage in the world today is soft drinks.

Soft drinks can be found almost everywhere in every country, from corner stores to restaurants to vending machines. 

Unlike other popular beverages, soft drinks are a rather recent invention, despite there being early antecedents to soft drinks that go back to antiquity. 

Learn more about soft drinks, their origins and how they became so popular on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Peter Brian Barry, “George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality” (Oxford UP, 2023)

George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell's written works are of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. 

In George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality (Oxford UP, 2023), philosopher Peter Brian Barry avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of Orwell's corpus, including his fiction, journalism, essays, book reviews, diaries, and correspondence, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions.

While Orwell is often read as a humanist, egalitarian, and socialist, too little attention has been paid to the nuanced versions of those doctrines that he endorsed and the philosophical sympathies that led him to embrace them. Barry illuminates Orwell's philosophical sympathies and contributions that have either gone unnoticed or been underappreciated. Philosophers interested in Orwell now have a text that explores many of the philosophical themes in his work and Orwell's readers now have a text that makes the case for regarding him as a worthy philosopher as well as one of the greatest Anglophone writers of the 20th century.

Peter Brian Barry is Professor of Philosophy and the Finkbeiner Endowed Professor in Ethics at Saginaw Valley State University. He is the author of Evil and Moral Psychology and The Fiction of Evil as well as several papers in ethics, applied ethics, and social and political philosophy. He has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell, and George Orwell Studies.

Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter.

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