Month: August 2025

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.8.25

Alabama

  • A brief is filed with state Supreme Court over contested sheriff's election
  • All 50 State AGs are asking DOJ to enforce laws on offshore gambling sites
  • State lawmaker Juandalyn Givan talks about the Jabari Peoples case
  • A state lawmaker has filed bill that bans electronic vaping in public
  • Governor Ivey appoints John Young as chair of Marshall County Commission

National

  • Border Czar Homan gives update on US Mexico border situation
  • President Trump calls for new US Census that does not count illegal aliens
  • Trump issues several directives on his 200th day in office
  • US attorney for DC indicts pro-Palestinian man for murder of 2 Israelis
  • TX senator enlists FBI in rounding up Dems who fled state and legislature
  • Project Veritas releases part 2 in whistleblower interview re: Bill Barr
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Unexpected Elements - Floods, mangroves and rampaging tractors

This week, floods have hit the global headlines. First up, we delve into the various reasons why floods form.

After learning about the causes of floods, we discover a nature-based solution in the form of mangrove forests. Laura Michie from the Mangrove Action Project tells us why these ecosystems are important, and how they can protect coastal zones.

We also find out that humans have moved so much water around the planet that we’ve shifted the location of the geographic North Pole.

Plus, a rare flooding event is currently taking place in the Australian Outback, awakening an ecosystem after years of dormancy.

And what could happen when hackers take control of tractors?

All that, plus many more Unexpected Elements.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton, with Andrada Fiscutean and Sandy Ong Producers: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, with Lucy Davies, Debbie Kilbride and Margaret Sessa Hawkins

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NBN Book of the Day - Nathan Wainstein, “Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne” (2025)

Grant Us Eyes is a book-length close reading of Bloodborne by literary critic Nathan Wainstein (LA Review of Books, Cartridge Lit, American Book Review). Grant Us Eyes situates the game’s oft-discussed difficulty in relation to a much longer tradition of difficult art – surrealist painting, the modernist novel, etc. Wainstein probes the difficulty of Bloodborne’s fragmented narrative, the difficulty of its graphical and aural glitches, the difficulty of the philosophical problems it poses, and the difficulty of performing close analysis itself within a medium that still doesn’t have established, agreed-upon methods of interpretation in the way literature and film do.

Rudolf Thomas Inderst (*1978) enjoys video games since 1985. He received a master’s degree in political science, American cultural studies as well as contemporary and recent history from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich and holds two PhDs in game studies (LMU & University of Passau). Currently, he's teaching as a professor for game design and game studies at the HNU University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany, has submitted his third dissertation at the University of Vechta, holds the position as lead editor at the online journal Titel kulturmagazin for the game section, hosts the German local radio show Replay Value and is editor of the weekly game research newsletter DiGRA D-A-CH Game Studies Watchlist.

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What A Day - RFK Jr. Is Putting American Lives At Risk

If you got a COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna or Pfizer, congratulations, you got a vaccine that uses mRNA to teach your cells how to fight the disease. But Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is doing his best to undermine their future use. On Tuesday, he announced the cancellation of $500 million in grants and contracts aimed at developing more mRNA vaccines. The decision has received near-universal condemnation from public health experts — even President Donald Trump’s first-term Surgeon General said it will 'cost lives.' Dr. Fiona Havers, an infectious-disease specialist at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a former senior advisor on vaccine policy for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joins us to talk about Kennedy’s dangerous decision and the risk it poses to public health.

And in headlines: President Donald Trump says he wants a new Census, The U.S. Air Force said it’s denying the option to retire early to all trans service members who have served between 15 and 18 years, and tariff day is (unfortunately) finally here.

Show Notes:

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The NewsWorthy - Israel’s Takeover Plan, New Census? & GPT-5 Arrives – Friday, August 8, 2025

The news to know for Friday, August 8, 2025!

We’ll tell you about how Israel is now getting ready for a full military takeover of Gaza.

Also, how trading partners are responding to America’s new tariffs.

And President Trump’s new plan for the U.S. census in the middle of a redistricting fight.

Plus, the CDC’s first report on ultra-processed foods, ChatGPT’s new improvements, and the trend that’s pitting crypto creators against WNBA players.

 

Those stories and even more news to know in about 10 minutes! 

 

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Python: Come for the language, stay for the community

Ryan welcomes Paul Everitt, developer advocate at JetBrains and an early adopter of Python, to discuss the history, growth, and future of Python. They cover Python’s pivotal moments and rise alongside the internet, the increased adoption from transitions like Python 2 to Python 3, and the significant role Python plays in academia and data science today. 

Episode notes: 

JetBrains is improving the developer experience through a rich suite of tools. 

Connect with Paul on LinkedIn and X.

Python is the fourth most-popular language in our 2025 Developer Survey. 

From the archives: Why is the migration to Python 3 taking so long? 

Today we’re shouting out a popular Python question, Fastest way to find the least amount of subsets that sum up to the total set in Python, asked by user Shaun Han. 

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Pod Save America - Trump Goes Bananas

Reeling from the Epstein crisis, Donald Trump turns even more erratic and destructive—launching a grand jury investigation into the make-believe crimes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, threatening to seize control of the D.C. police, and sharing some eugenicist theories about who's suited for what kind of work. Jon and Dan share how they're feeling eight months into Trump 2.0, check in on MAGA's efforts to rig the congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms, and react to DHS reinstating its infamous family separation policy. Dan talks with epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about RFK Jr.'s decision to halt federal research into mRNA vaccines—and then confronts Jon about his ill-advised Twitter fight with Megyn Kelly.

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WSJ Tech News Briefing - Behind Apple’s Decision to Make iPhones in India

Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off a plan to manufacture iPhones in India years ago. It was one of a series of savvy moves, along with a newly announced $100 billion U.S. investment, that have helped the company avoid President Trump’s recent tariff threats. WSJ South Asia bureau chief Tripti Lahiri joins us to discuss Apple’s plans. Plus, should you spy on your child’s phone? WSJ family and tech columnist Julie Jargon makes the case for snooping. Belle Lin hosts.


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