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Ed Zitron is the owner of EZPR, host of Better Offline, and author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. Zitron joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the generative-AI boom is an unsustainable bubble ready to pop. Tune in to hear him debate OpenAI’s multi-billion-dollar burn rate, Microsoft’s leverage, and the economics behind ChatGPT. We also cover Nvidia’s GPU market, SoftBank’s colossal bets, advertiser drift from Google Search, and the hype around “AI companions." Hit play for a sharp, no-fluff conversation about the economics of AI. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com…

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The Daily: A D.O.J. Whistleblower Speaks Out 34:29

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Warning: This episode contains strong language. An explosive whistle-blower report claims that the Justice Department is asking government lawyers to lie to the courts, and that this has forced career officials to chose between upholding the Constitution and pledging loyalty to the president. Rachel Abrams speaks to the whistle-blower about his career in the Justice Department and his complaint saying he was fired for telling the truth. Guest: Erez Reuveni, who filed a whistle-blower complaint against the Department of Justice. Background reading: Mr. Reuveni has warned of an assault on the law by the Trump administration . At the Justice Department, Emil Bove III suggested violating court orders, according to the complaint . For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Photo: Kent Nishimura for The New York Times Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 07-23-2025 5AM EDT 4:40

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The Ezra Klein Show: Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another 23:52

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The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down. That consensus, roughly, was this: What is good for Israel is good for the Jews; anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism; and there will someday soon be a two-state solution that reconciles Zionism and liberalism — or, at the very least, Israel is seeking such a solution. Every single component of that consensus has cracked. And as I've been talking to people from different walks of American Jewish life — politicians and rabbis and activists and analysts and journalists — what I realize is there is nothing coming in to replace it. Read the column here . Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. You can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast . Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.html This column read for “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by our executive producer, Claire Gordon, and Marie Cascione. Fact-checking by Jack McCordick and Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones. The show’s production team also includes Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith, Marina King, Jan Kobal, Kristin Lin and Aman Sahota. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.…

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The Nation Podcasts: How the Courts Blocked ICE Racial Profiling—Plus, How Organizers Succeed | Start Making Sense 42:51

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A federal court in LA has stopped ICE from detaining people for deportation because they look Latino – that’s racial discrimination, and it’s unconstitutional, the court said. Mark Rosenbaum of Public Counsel will explain what’s next as he government appeals the case to the Ninth Circuit. Also: How does a movement build support when large parts of the country are opposed to its goals? How do you connect with people who disagree with you? For some answers we’ll turn to long-time organizer Michael Ansara -- his new book is “The Hard Work of Hope.” Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 07-23-2025 4AM EDT 4:40

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Pod Save the World: Trump Accuses Obama of Treason 1:37:22

3 hours ago1:37:22

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Tommy and Ben respond to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s baseless accusation that the Obama administration masterminded a “treasonous conspiracy” against Trump and Trump’s subsequent call to arrest Barack Obama. They also talk about the President’s ongoing beef with Brazil and how it’s backfiring, the exile of a leading human rights organization from El Salvador, the deal to release prisoners from El Salvador and Venezuela, and the blatant hypocrisy behind this administration’s Latin America policy. Also discussed: the latest horrors from Gaza and the statement from 28 countries condemning the humanitarian crisis there, Benjamin Netanyahu’s bizarre foray into YouTube, the daylight between Trump and Bibi on Syria, the massive fallout from a British security leak, the rise of anti-establishment nationalist politics in Japan, the French Prime Minister’s deeply unpopular proposal to strip France of two public holidays, and some tidbits out of North Korea. Then, Ben speaks with Nerima Wako-Ojiwa , political analyst and the Executive Director of Siasa Place , about the ongoing protests in Kenya, the government’s brutal response, and the future of Kenyan politics.…

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Factually! with Adam Conover: The Secret Agent Organizer of the Starbucks Union with Jaz Brisack 1:24:57

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Companies are infamous for their union busting tactics, but that doesn’t mean union organizers don’t have their own strategies. This week, Adam speaks with Jaz Brisack, an undercover organizer, or union “salt”, who took a job as a barista in a Starbucks in Buffalo, NY with the explicit intention of organizing Starbucks employees. Thanks to the effort of Jaz and other organizers, around 550 Starbucks stores and 11,000 baristas now have a union. Adam and Jaz talk about how to drum up support for a union in a workplace, the tactics companies use to try to prevent unionization, and how cats are a surprisingly effective source of early workplace bonding. Find Jaz's book at factuallypod.com/books -- SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/adamconover SEE ADAM ON TOUR: https://www.adamconover.net/tourdates/ SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Factually! on: » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577 » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0fK8WJw4ffMc2NWydBlDyJ About Headgum: Headgum is an LA & NY-based podcast network creating premium podcasts with the funniest, most engaging voices in comedy to achieve one goal: Making our audience and ourselves laugh. Listen to our shows at https://www.headgum.com . » SUBSCRIBE to Headgum: https://www.youtube.com/c/HeadGum?sub_confirmation=1 » FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/headgum » FOLLOW us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/headgum/ » FOLLOW us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headgum » Advertise on Factually ! via Gumball.fm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 07-23-2025 3AM EDT 4:40

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Better Offline: The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 1 35:22

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In part one of this week's three-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how the US stock market rests on the back of GPU sales, and how a lack of any real business returns spells doom for the AI bubble long-term. YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4651: Obama Responds To Treason Allegations; DOJ To Meet With Maxwell

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Episode 4651: Obama Responds To Treason Allegations; DOJ To Meet With Maxwell

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 813: AI Action Plan: Government Poised to Unleash the Beast

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WarRoom Battleground EP 813: AI Action Plan: Government Poised to Unleash the Beast

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The Gist: The Bliss Gene And The Burden Of Mood 32:45

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Psychiatrist Richard A. Friedman explains how a rare genetic mutation affecting the enzyme FAAH, and a ubiquitous neurotransmitter called Anandamide may account for unusually low anxiety, reduced drug cravings, and an innate buoyancy, the type of which you might find in a daily podcast host. Plus, Louisville reverses its immigration detainer policy under federal pressure, reigniting the debate over sanctuary cities and local autonomy. And in the Spiel a burial standoff concerning the former President of Zambia. Produced by Corey Wara Production Coordinator Ashley Khan Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ad-sales@libsyn.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3543 - Trump-GOP's Department of Education Decimation and More IDF Atrocities w/ Brittany Coleman 56:10

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Don't let Sam's soft collar fool you, it is a Tuesday News Day and unfortunately there is plenty of news to cover. We start with World Food Programme Chief Cindy McCain detailing the atrocities committed by IDF soldiers on Palestinians seeking Aid. Then we are joined by AFGE local 252 Chief Steward, Brittany Coleman, to discuss Trump's dismantling of the Department of Education. The fun half starts with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson running interference on the Epstein cover up for Trump Then The Patrick Bet David Podcast gaslights their own co-host Vinny Oshanna over his anger towards the Epstein cover up. This clip really provides an insight to how a cult dominates their followers. Speaking of idiots, Canada's Nelk Boys hosted war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu on their podcast to as they put it "learn". All that and more, plus your calls. Follow us on TikTok here!: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here!: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here!: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors DELETEME: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/MAJORITY and use promo code MAJORITY at checkout. GIVE WELL: For trusted, evidence-backed insights into this evolving situation — and information about how you can help — follow along at givewell.org/USAID SUNSET LAKE: Head on over to SunsetlakeCBD.com and use code NewSticks to treat your aches and pains to some much-deserved relief. This sale ends July 20th at midnight Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza’s music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder – https://majorityreportradio.com…

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Accidental Tech Podcast: 649: Prove It With Cameras 1:56:31

14 hours ago1:56:31

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Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link) CalDigit TS5+ (product page) iperf3 Follow-up: F1 (the sport, not the movie ) Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights F1 TV Vroom John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link John’s toaster update AirPods & AppleCare+ Keratoconus Water resistance IP54 AirPods Express Replacement Service B&H Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S ) defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro mandonam Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets 99% Invisible #626: Emoji Law Gruber’s theorized redactions Gruber’s predictions Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day Press release ChangeDetection.io Stratechery (paywalled) Post-show: Marco solved sunscreen John hat that he likes John hat that is cheaper but he likes less 🇯🇵 Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel ( eBay ) 🇪🇺 La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVmune 400 Invisible Fluid, Non-Perfumed ( eBay ) Australian sunscreen video Members-only ATP Overtime: Is copying Apple hardware a good idea? Kuycon G32P 6K 32” IPS monitor Video review by Oliur / UltraLinx ASUS 32” 6K ProArt display Previously on ATP overtime D. Griffin Jones’ review of the 5K Studio Display Mark II coming in early 2026? Sponsored by: Squarespace : Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp . DeleteMe : Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!…

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The Dig: Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams 1:57:54

14 hours ago1:57:54

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Featuring Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, and Paul Williams on Abundance. A debate and discussion of: the book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions of how we make the affordable housing, green energy, and fast trains we need; and how actual capitalist social relations appear to us in mystified form as “supply” and “demand.” Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Get 50% off A People’s History of Psychoanalysis and other books in your first order from plutobooks.com with code ‘DIG50′. Register for Summer Rejuvenation by July 27th at Comrades.education…

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The Bulwark Podcast: Chris Murphy: Time to Break Norms(?) 49:49

15 hours ago49:49

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Republicans are nullifying bipartisan budget deals and planning a mid-decade redistricting to try to hold the House after the midterms. Trump is methodically working to crush dissent in the media, chill major Dem donors, and shut down the party's online fundraising portal, ActBlue. One political party is breaking all the norms, while the other is trying to stick to them. Sen. Murphy tells Tim that democracies die when the rules change and the opposition refuses to adapt. Meanwhile, Trump's detention regime is not only making prison-builders filthy rich, it will also likely draw in ICE candidates eager to abuse their power. Plus, Epstein is a bad story for the administration no matter how you slice it, and Tim shares his thoughts about Hunter. Sen. Chris Murphy joins Tim Miller. show notes Sen. Murphy's Substack piece on regulating AI For 20% off your first purchase, head to FairHarborClothing.com/BULWARK and use code BULWARK.…

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99% Invisible: The Quiet Storm 40:40

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How a radio show born at a small college station in DC and dedicated to smooth, romantic love songs transformed black radio and reshaped love lives across the country. The Quiet Storm Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus .…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4650: Putting Out An American First Foreign Policy; Trump Meets With President Of The Philippines

16 hours ago

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Episode 4650: Putting Out An American First Foreign Policy; Trump Meets With President Of The Philippines

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4649: The Coming Economic Boom; On The Brink Of 3rd World War

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Episode 4649: The Coming Economic Boom; On The Brink Of 3rd World War

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Serious Trouble: To Most People It's Extremely Tedious 48:01

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Donald Trump has sued the Wall Street Journal over its story saying he wrote a weird poem to Jeffrey Epstein and drew a caricature of a naked woman with his own signature as her pubic hair as part of a book wishing a happy 50th birthday to the New York financier. Ken and Josh discuss the suit, which looks more like an exclamation point on his claims that he never even liked that Epstein guy! than a serious effort to win damages from (or extort) the Rupert Murdoch empire. Meanwhile, Trump is seeking the release of grand jury testimony from the investigations into Epstein and his henchwoman Ghislaine Maxwell — a release that wouldn’t be likely to include any books of ribald poetry. Also this week: Trump’s lawsuit against Bob Woodward and Simon & Schuster — claiming that Woodward and S&S violated Trump’s copyright by publishing the audio of interviews Trump thought were only for use in a written book — has been dismissed ; Trump is facing difficulty with another novel application of IEEPA — this time, not tariffs, but an effort to sanction the International Criminal Court, there’s a certified class in the birthright citizenship litigation ; a federal judge in California says ICE can’t pick people up just because they look Mexican ; and some government immigration lawyers have started appearing anonymously in immigration court ; an extra-bizarre civil RICO suit against Eric Adams and the NYPD, from Adams’s own ex-interim NYPD commissioner; Douglass Mackey, a.k.a. “Ricky Vaughn,” has won an appeal of his conviction for trying to trick Hillary Clinton voters into “voting” by text. Visit serioustrouble.show for a transcript of this episode. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.serioustrouble.show/subscribe…

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Columbia Energy Exchange: A Critical Moment for Latin America’s Mineral Supply Chain 1:04:28

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Countries around the world, including the US, are rushing to secure critical mineral supply chains. As these essential resources, which are key to building clean energy infrastructure, become a major focus in policy and trade discussions, Latin America sits at the center of the competition. It is home to vast lithium reserves in the Lithium Triangle and it holds nearly 40% of the world's copper deposits. But recent price volatility and geopolitical concerns have created new challenges. Early this month, President Trump announced a 50% tariff on copper imports, further jolting markets as copper prices jumped over 13% in a single day. So how are countries in the region navigating these new trade and market realities? Can Latin America build mineral supply chains that are more resilient to geopolitical shocks? And how are these governments responding to the environmental and economic concerns of Indigenous and local communities? This week, Jason speaks with Juan Carlos Jobet, Tom Moerenhout, and Diego Rivera Rivota about Latin America’s critical mineral supply chain. Juan Carlos is the dean of the School of Business and Economics at Adolfo Ibáñez University and Chile's former Minister of Energy and Mining and a former distinguished visiting fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy. Tom leads the Critical Materials Initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy and is a professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Diego is a senior research associate at the Center on Global Energy Policy. Credits: Hosted by Jason Bordoff and Bill Loveless. Produced by Mary Catherine O’Connor, Caroline Pitman, and Kyu Lee. Engineering by Gregory Vilfranc.…

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Resources Radio: Energy Affordability Is Personal, with Diana Hernandez 33:04

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In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Diana Hernández, an associate professor and codirector of the Energy Opportunity Lab at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, about the struggles that ordinary Americans face in accessing affordable and reliable energy. In her recently released book, Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy, Hernández documents how energy insecurity affects people across the country and analyzes policy solutions that can help address the challenge. Hernández explains the interconnections among housing, public health, and poverty through stories which highlight the highly personal nature of energy insecurity and the difficult choices many Americans must make between essential expenses. Hernández then outlines potential improvements to existing energy-assistance programs, including increased support for year-round energy expenses and program adaptations to accommodate a changing climate. References and recommendations: “Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy” by Diana Hernández and Jennifer Laird, https://www.russellsage.org/publications/powerless “Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson; https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Ezra-Klein/9781668023488 “Plundered” by Bernadette Atuahene; https://bernadetteatuahene.com/plundered/ “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” album by Bad Bunny; https://www.allmusic.com/album/deb%C3%AD-tirar-m%C3%A1s-fotos-mw0004451357…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 7/22/25: Cuomo Admits Why Zohran Won, AOC Flamed For Israel Vote, Tim Dillon Reveals JD Epstein Cope, MAHA Cane Sugar 58:23

18 hours ago58:23

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Ryan and Saagar discuss Cuomo admits why he lost to Zohran, AOC flamed for Israel vote, Tim Dillon reveals JD Vance Epstein cope, Layne Norton destroys MAHA. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 7/22/25: NELK Boys Meltdown After Bibi Interview, Trump Loses Patience With Israel, Hunter Biden Pops Off On Dems 48:45

18 hours ago48:45

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Ryan and Saagar discuss the Nelk boys melting down after interviewing Bibi, Trump loses patience with Bibi, Hunter Biden goes off on Dems. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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The Eurasian Knot: Russia's 1993 Constitutional Crisis 58:25

19 hours ago58:25

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In early October 1993, tanks pummeled the Russian Duma in central Moscow. It was a dark mirror of just two years prior when Boris Yeltsin definitely climbed atop a tank and made history. Now, tanks were again Yeltsin’s historical instrument. Only this time, they were his. The 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis was a turning point in the country’s post-Soviet transformation. The popular narrative was Russian Democrats repelling Russian nationalists and communists. The future vs. the past. And the future prevailed! It was a tight, clean story fit for the utopianism of the 1990s. In retrospect, however, it was the past that really won. Yeltsin’s constitutional power grab through the gun barrel set the first stones of Putinism. How should we understand this turning point? What was really going on? And how have these baby steps of Russian authoritarianism become a full-blown sprint? The Eurasian Knot turns to Jeff Hawn for some answers. Guest: Jeff Hawn is a graduate of American University School of International Service and is completing his PhD at London School of Economics. His dissertation addresses the history and consequences of the 1993 Constitutional Crisis and the emergence of modern Russia. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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The Nation Podcasts: The CIA’s Imperial History, Pt. 2 | American Prestige 58:09

21 hours ago58:09

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Hugh Wilford, professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, is back on the program to conclude the discussion of his book The CIA: An Imperial History . In this episode they talk about figures like Edward Lansdale and James Angleton, “regime maintenance,” counterinsurgency, the agency’s use of publicity, the effect of the War on Terror on the CIA, and more. Listen to Part 1 here⁠ ! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change): Why mediocrity seems to be the key to innovation in evolution and technology 1:04:11

22 hours ago1:04:11

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Episode Summary Large language models, the computer programs often referred to as artificial intelligence are everywhere these days. There's a lot of hype, a lot of doomerism, and a lot of nay-saying. But despite what all the commentators are saying, the current AI technology is neither a magical god-being nor a tremendous scam. It’s just a really useful technology that is going to be here in the long term, regardless of any of our individual opinions of it. That makes it worth thinking about in more practical terms for what it means to us—you and me. How do LLMs actually work and how do we live with them? Joining me to talk about this is someone who has been asking those kinds of questions long before ChatGPT entered the international conversation. Venkatesh Rao is a writer, independent researcher, and consultant best known for his influential former blog Ribbonfarm and his incisive takes on technology, culture, and organizational behavior. Currently, he writes on his own website now called Contraptions . In the episode, we talk about Venkat’s distinct approach to AI, seeing it as an emergent, messy, and deeply human technology shaped by what he calls mediocrity. That might sound like a knock, but it's actually something much more—a compliment both to humans and the human-created technologies that we are exploring here today. I hope you'll enjoy. The video of this episode is available, the transcript is below. Because of its length, some podcast apps and email programs may truncate it. Access the episode page to get the full text. Related Content Grok’s ‘Mecha Hitler’ meltdown and MAGA’s rage about the Epstein files show the consequences of broken epistemologies The strange nexus of Christian fundamentalism and techno-salvationism Why social media moderation debates are more about epistemology than technology The political history of Bitcoin How faulty facial recognition software led to a man’s false arrest Why Elon Musk and other technology investors have become so politically extreme Audio Chapters 00:00 — Introduction 09:29 — Arthur C. Clarke's magic and current technology 15:00 — AI's practical applications 18:05 — The concept of mediocrity 23:06 — Evolution and mediocrity 27:44 — Supply chains and resilience 31:01 — The importance of reserves and openness 35:25 — Copyright and historical context 43:15 — Technological evolution and commodification 52:24 — The philosophical implications of AI as mirror 57:09 — Embodiment and somatic reasoning in AI Audio Transcript The following is a machine-generated transcript of the audio that has not been proofed. It is provided for convenience purposes only. MATTHEW SHEFFIELD: I'm really looking forward to this discussion because I think that you are one of the far too few people who is taking a more measured approach to AI. There's, it's it's almost, it's 99% of people it seems like, that are commenting about it, tend to be relentlessly hyping it or saying that it's just a bunch of nonsense. And that neither one of those approaches seem to be correct, I think. And you've, written as much, quite a bit. VENKATESH RAO: Yeah, it's as with any big technology, I think if you start fundamentally with a stance of curiosity and trying to figure out what exactly you're even looking at, and that's your first order of business, you'll fundamentally go down interesting routes, whether you end up being critical or, positive about it or you're like paying more attention to the upside or downside. If you don't start with curiosity, usually you end up in one sort of derp or the other. Either it's very predictable, optimistic derp, or very predictable, critical derp. So I think is the key. And I think, the discourse we are hearing in public, you don't see much curiosity and evidence because all the actually curious people who I think are in fact the majority, [00:04:00] they're too busy actually having fun playing with the technology to like in the meta commentary around it. And of course the, and scientists working directly on the production side of the technology. typically far too busy to join in the public discourse, except occasionally, and when they do, often they're like incomprehensible to regular people. So the net effect ends up being what you're talking about, right? Like you have a lot of unimaginative incurious discourse on both the positive and negative sides. SHEFFIELD: You do. and I actually see a strong parallel in this discourse with, with regard to vaccines. I think, especially mRNA, that that here, was this technology that had been around actually for a long time. And that's also true with language models or what was, you got the ELIZA coming out in the sixties. So as a technology, these are not, new things per se, but obviously they're much different, it goes without saying. And the same thing is true with mRNA. So it was proven in the lab in some sense already for quite a long time. But because the people who had developed them were just so far removed from the public discourse that a lot of people had this natural suspicion of it, for, something that's unfamiliar. So I, I can't necessarily fault that it's, it is a failure of, discourse on, on all sides in many ways. RAO: Yeah, I would agree with that. And I think it's the degree of the reaction rather than the direction of it that I think I use primarily to sort my responses like, any new technology, whether it's extremely minor or very profound, like in this case, I do believe it's a very profound new technology. Ultimately it's still made of like atoms based on laws of [00:06:00] physics. It has its properties. Some of them are unexpected, some of them are expected. Some you can model and, anticipate other things. You just have to like, fuck around and find out what it does. And sometimes you will, I know blow yourself up. Other times you will miraculous effects. And you brought up vaccines and, yeah, I know you've spoken with Rene, who's been at the, Rene Rista, who's been at the forefront of the vaccine debates for a while. And vaccines are interesting case. like Rene was the one who told me about the original vaccines way back in the day, the exact same discourse, repeated itself. And, I, think the key to recognize is that there's never going to be anything like a holy grail technology that only has positive effects and no negative effects, and. never going to be actually be a technology that only has negative effects and no positive effects as well. And on the, second category, I like to think of bombs, right? Like nuclear power is generally understood as a dangerous, but generally positive technology. But if you ask people, do you think nuclear bombs are a good thing? Most would say uniformly bad. But if you look at, certain ideas for terraforming, other planets, they're based on exploding nuclear bombs and like causing positive climate change and making them habitable for humans. So even, or you want to blow apart an asteroid that's coming at earth, maybe a nuclear bomb is the right tool you need. So everything has both sides and I think where it throws people who are not used to working directly with technology and like getting a sense of it's hands-on behavior as a real thing, is they tend to. Inflated to mythical proportions of either light or dark varieties, and insist on taking it in. As a mythical thing. It's [00:08:00] either a monster or an angel. It cannot be anything in between. just hey, we do this with other human beings as well. Like your friends and people around you that you know well, you tend to like, give them a lot of benefit of the doubt. And they inhabit a narrow range of human fallibility. It's there's good people, bad people, no outright cartoon villains and no outright, absolute saints, right? But, when you encounter like a very distant culture, often you will do that kind of extreme. So I think part of that is what's, going on. and in general I'm like, yeah, critics need their room to have their reactions. think, one of the thing one of the ways in which I differ from a lot of other people in this discourse is actually happy to ignore the extremists on both side. I don't think they matter in the long run at all. they'll be forgotten in a generation and even if they're extremely noisy now. actually safe to ignore them. You don't have to counter them. You can for the noise to settle. You don't have to treat this as a debate that you must win because this is the extremes. They can have a powerful effects, right? if they get control of say, regulatory app paras like how AI is regulated at the government level or international level, then you should start paying attention because they can have serious impact. But if all they're doing is shit posting and whining on social media and writing like, inflamed editorials, they're safe to ignore. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Arthur C. Clarke's magic and current technology SHEFFIELD: and, there's a, there's another interesting parallel in that, Arthur C. Clark is famous for, saying that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable for magic and people often apply that I. To these fanciful, sci-fi things that, wouldn't exist for thousands of years, if ever. But it actually applies to technologies that exist in the current day. and and you really do see that not just with vaccines, but like with television, with, [00:10:00] as you said, nuclear power. just a variety of things. the internet was supposedly going to turn everybody into a satanist, and so was rock music. Rock music was going to turn everybody into a, satanist and turn everyone gay. Like these were all things that, were very confidently proclaimed by various people who were not, didn't, know how these technologies worked or really what they could be, or the limitations that they had. RAO: Yeah. And that's partly because, that's partly why I feel comfortable completely ignoring them. But I do enjoy analyzing the responses of people who are consequential. yes, I, know you, you a lot of interest in unpacking the critical discourse. I think for me, a lot more. Value is to be found in analyzing the That's neither critical nor super positive, but just puzzle that responds to the mystery of the thing, right? Because there are things that are courtesy Clark type mysteries, but only to lay people like you ask the experts who build the technology, they understand what's going on, even if the lay people don't. And a generation or two later, even the lay people catch on. AI is interesting in that even the people who know the most about the technology and are working at the, in the depths of it, they struggle to understand what's going on, how to make up, mental models of it. And I've been thinking about this aspect in terms of a wonderful book I read a couple of years ago by Benjamin LaBute. It's called When We Cease to Understand The World. won a couple of major prizes. He's a Chilean author, but he, it's semi-fictional, semi factual. Collection of like biographical stories of famous physicists who were the first to encounter really profoundly new ideas and thoughts that were like, crazy enough to drive people insane. So the idea of a black hole, things like that, right? the book is [00:12:00] fascinating and a recurring theme that happens is these pioneers who are the first to encounter these mysterious realities, they often don't know how to even wrap their minds around it. And many of them literally go insane or have like other psychotic, reactions to it. so this was a labate theory, but then I came up with a three phase response theory for this kind of, profound new technology. I, think of it as the first phase is the Laban, when the first wave of people encounters this technology and has like an unprocessed first order response to it. Then you have what I call a Lovecraftian phase after, HP Lovecraft, the science fiction author, you're starting to wrap your mind around what it is, what its shape is, how it behaves, but it's still fundamentally horrifying to you. And at that point you come up with basically love. Craft and mental models of what it is. And we've already like speed run to that phase of AI. Like literally we are using Lovecraftian models. We are calling AI OTs soho Gods for, those who are not familiar is it's a species of ancient alien that Lovecraft imagines this part of the world. But it's it's an interesting kind of ancient alien. It's basically protoplasm matter that's just f. Just below the threshold of being sentient or conscious. And it was created by another alien race that created it as like a slave, organic technology. But then it gets just smart enough to, get into a war with the other regular aliens. And it's not surprising at all that the sh got turned out to be a very interesting mental model for the Lovecraftian phase of AI. And then the third phrase that I think of is, I call it ardian after JG Ballard. Another, luminary of science fiction and the ardian phases. It's not that you fundamentally sorted out the mystery or solved Arthur c Clark's, sort conundrum of, it looks like magic and you can't unpack it. At some level you've [00:14:00] normalized your relationships with it, right? so we get in planes all the time and fly at 40,000 feet in this amazing technology. We don't understand it. I'm an aerospace engineer by trade a long time. Haven't worked in aerospace for a long time. But yeah, one of the interesting things is we still don't understand fluid dynamics well enough to like have a clear non mysterious explanation for how lift works in wings. Like we have, like the mathematics and we get it. But at some level we don't understand how flight works. it's still mysterious magical technology, it's not. A horror, right? Every time you get into a plane, you don't think about kullu and OTs and other things eating you up. You don't have the paranoid psychotic reactions that the early physicists had to like fundamental physics discoveries. So flying in airplanes, despite remaining kind of magical, has reached its ardian kind of normalized phase. And I think they're starting to see that with AI too. AI's practical applications RAO: Like I'm fascinated by the number of Astoundingly banal, but still very powerful things, people are using, AI for. Like a couple of examples from my own life, I found, one of my hobbies is like tinkering with electronics. I'm not very good at it, but you can buy these cheap bags of assorted parts from Chinese stores and it'll come with chips and parts and stuff. with like sometimes, a little chart showing the part numbers or something. You can just take a photograph of that, upload it to chat GPT and say, what is this? Explain these components to me, and then suggest some experimental toy circuits I can build with this to learn how these components work. So that's like a kind of banal. Use I'm doing with it. That's not profound. That doesn't have a spiritual or epistemological dimension, but it's normalized. The magic has been normalized. And another one from my home life is my wife has discovered that it's a really great, mentor for, helping [00:16:00] her make her own skincare products. So she likes making face creams and things like that. And she's using it as a consultant, chemist and formulary. And again, it's a lot of really banal conversations of which ingredient will make the face cream more oily or less oily. But you're seeing this all over. yes, the critics are still having their, don't know, pull clutching reactions. The crazy theological, boosters are still like talking about acceleration or doom or whatever, the everyday people are doing surprisingly banal and normal things to it. Now it's important though, not to this just because you can, 99% of the things people are doing with AI are banal. Doesn't mean that, Lovecraft in horrors can't come out of it as two, right? swarms of drones being programmed to attack military installations. We are already seeing that in wars around the world. So yeah, AI does have like profoundly powerful dark side technologies as well as upside, users. the number of proteins that had like plausible structures went from like around 3% to nearly a hundred percent when DeepMind did its, big protein model, right? So yeah, both these profoundly I don't know, powerful things happen as well as banal things, but I think the overall shape of how. AI is entering society. The person who's written, I think most cogently about this is a professor at Princeton named Arvin Nan. He wrote this, wonderful paper called AI as Normal Technology. And it presents a worldview that argues that is not a fundamentally different kind of technology. You don't have to invent new religions and talk about like weird multiple universe thought experiments to think about it. You can think about this the same way we talk, about nuclear technology, vaccines, many other big technologies. It is a normal technology and I think, yes, that's the frame with which to engage with AI. SHEFFIELD: Yeah, to be aware [00:18:00] of the possibilities, but also the limitations. And really that's what it's about. The concept of mediocrity SHEFFIELD: And I guess related to that is the concept that you have of mediocrity and that people tend to—mediocrity has a bad rap. But at the same time, everybody loves it for the things that they do, the things that they don't want to have to worry about. I think that's probably, you're talking about the banal applications of AI. What I mean, this, is mediocrity, available for everyone in as many things as you can imagine it. And, but under, as long as you understand the limitations and, so it's not good at current events, it's not going to help you with that. It's not going to help you with, understanding the nature of reality contrary to some of these people that, get wrapped up in, in, Jeff GPT God stuff. RAO: it may not be good at that now, but it's SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: in a way where it can help you with all those questions. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: much better at current events. Even in the two years I've been using it, the lookup and web browsing capabilities have really gotten good. thing with first time I tried to have a metaphysical discussion on the, ontology of consciousness or whatever, two, three years ago, it was like crappy. It was not even as good as like bad sophomore, smoking pot. Now it can hold up its end of the conversation really well and challenge is my relatively sophisticated view on that topic. it can't do, I think it's important to qualify with yet, like a lot of SHEFFIELD: yeah. RAO: rushing to judgment on. It fundamentally cannot do X because they've come up with their own pet theory. You have one, I have one a dozen. Other people I know have these kind of like metaphysical treatments of what AI is that leads them to of as. SHEFFIELD: or what it isn't. I would say. RAO: like [00:20:00] pseudo theorems of fundamentally AI cannot do X because I have this, abstract model of it that says it cannot. So this is like all those people who said, heavier than air flight is impossible. your model was wrong. It turned out not that SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: air, air flight was not possible. So I would SHEFFIELD: Yeah, RAO: anything you think AI cannot do, qualify with yet the SHEFFIELD: correct. RAO: right? And SHEFFIELD: Sure. RAO: do, it'll probably do better. But it may not get to like super intelligent or super capable version. This is why. I'm a huge skeptic of like generalized claims of super intelligence or even general intelligence. if you talk about computers being better than us in some narrow way, that's been true for 70 years. They were already better than us at Arithmetics 70 years ago. And other things like, image recognition, translation 15 years ago, they were better than us in some ways. but other things, yeah, they may reach like maybe of mediocrity that's below us. Sometimes they'll be slightly better. And this is because intelligence is fundamentally not a quote unquote thing that has generality to it. Like we've fooled ourselves into thinking about intelligence as a generality thing because we hallucinated this idea of a G factor and these statistical results of IQ testing and it's like a whole house of cards that allows us to think in terms of intelligence as a generality thing. But to connect your point about mediocrity, the AI aspect of it is at the very origins of, of course, you look back to Turing's original formulation of the Turing test, he made like half cynical, version of the formulation, which is, hey, I'm not aiming to create like a really superior intelligence. I just want to create a mediocre intelligence. Something like the of at and t. And this was basically him snaring at the, this was, this happened in the at t Bell Labs cafeteria, and he was saying it loudly because the president was just walking in and he wanted to troll the guy. but there's something important there, like [00:22:00] is. I think profoundly high potential and powerful technology it's mediocre. It does things in like these fumbling human, human-like ways that suggest was broader potential. Whereas if it did one thing really, well, right? airplanes fly hundreds of times faster than humans can run. So they do one thing well compared to humans. But it's because of that, that we scared of airplanes, we just think of them as it's a specialized technology. We know exactly how it works and we aren't afraid that suddenly airplanes will start doing better philosophy than us because airplanes are like so good at being faster than us. That is evidence that they're not the kind of thing that can be that can compete with us SHEFFIELD: a threat. RAO: But it's the mediocrity and the reason, this is like a profound philosophical theme that I push on. So partly I do it to troll people because we live in an age of excellence and hustling and things like that. And it's fun to, be the. Bad guy pushing like a meme everybody hates. But also I do have like foundational beliefs on why mediocrity is like a fundamental property of the universe. Evolution and mediocrity RAO: for example, Darwinian evolution. A lot of people who haven't actually studied the nitty gritty of mechanics of evolution have this weirdly dumb idea that evolution is an optimizing process, that it somehow gets better and better at quote unquote fitness. And then it creates like the optimized version of everything. No, it doesn't. It's actually really, good at not getting trapped in like local Optima. It gets bumped out. And what evolution is really good at is actually maintaining enough reserves of e evolutionary potential so that it can adapt to completely new circumstances. And there's a whole book about this view of evolution. It's, I think it's called good enough. So it's by a evolutionary biologist that. explores various, examples of how how evolution does not in fact optimize and everything [00:24:00] to the 99% performance range. Like a simple example I like to use is, the reason we can hear, the reason we have ears is of course, the three little bones in our ear, those tiny ear bones that are part of our oral canal and allow us to become hearing agents. They actually were the result of evolution working on the surplus material in our jaw bones. So our jaw bones were not optimized. They were like. In a sense fat, they were not lean, they were fat. There was too much bone for the job. We had our jaw were too strong for the kind of food we had to eat. this is not true. Not just of us, but all mammals and therefore some of that surplus material. When the environment of, evolution was right, it evolved into ear bones. And then we got this extra ability to hear out of the surplus material of unoptimized ears. And this is how all evolutionary processes work. There is slop, there is fat, there is noise in the system that bumps it out of local Optima and the global processes. There is no global optimum to search for because it's a constantly changing adaptive fitness landscape. So evolution is constantly probing and trying to like. Chase a moving target. It never quite lands. It's always chasing the moving target of how is the world changing and how can I keep up in a good enough way? So that's mediocrity in evolution. And you see this in like human cultural evolution too. So my favorite example of that is there's this wonderful paper, by, I think the author is Shameless. It's called the Mundanity of Excellence. So he studied competitive swimmers in swim meets, the league, stack of leagues of swim meets, and he discovered something very interesting, the finest swimmers who get all the way up to Olympic grade. They typically don't actually max out their potential at any given lower level of competition. What they do is once they get good enough to like consistently start winning at say, city or state or high school or whatever level, don't try to world records at that level at that point. So maybe at the 70% [00:26:00] level, they start actually making changes to their technique. They experimenting, they start experimenting with new ways of swimming. They find new coaches that break them out of their rut and they level up. So they go from say the 80% tier of, one level to say the 50% median level of the next tier. And then they start improving that, there. So then never go to the end of the S-curve on any one level. They jump to the next S-curve, right? So this is what chainless means by mundanity of excellence. It looks like excellence. When you look at the end product and you're looking at an Olympic grade swimmer, like looking like a completely out of the world alien, but they didn't get there by chasing excellence at each level. They got there by understanding how to stay in the zone of mediocrity at each level, but then simply leavening up so that what was. Trending towards excellence at one level simply becomes mediocre at the next level. And you can't continue to improve by doing the same things you used to do. So this is like my natural history of mediocrity across AI, biological evolution, and human cultural evolution. And this is why I find a AI so exciting. It's not one thing that you can do Lean Six Sigma on and Toyota Lean manufacturing approaches on and polish to a absolute state of perfection. There are technologies that do that, and they're great. They go into a local minimum and they serve us well there, they become completely perfected and recede into the background where we can forget about them. They just serve us in the background. But there are technologies that are open-ended in this mediocre evolution way, and they can be our core evolutionary technologies for the rest of our existence. So those are powerful technologies. Indeed. That's why I'm so, excited about AI. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Supply chains and resilience SHEFFIELD: and it is a fundamentally different approach to technological development, as you're saying, because and we saw during the pandemic that these perfected technologies of of supply chains, they had extracted all possible [00:28:00] value and all possible, minimized all possible waste. But what that did is that made them fragile and it made it so that they broke when they had, to deal with any sort of, variation. and, that's, and that's the, and that's another parallel with evolution, so that, the fact that appendixes exist. it shows that, evolution does not maximize for all, waste, to, minimize all waste and maximize efficiency. But that's why also why it works is because there is, there, there waste in some sense is good. and what you call, what people call waste is actually, capacity that is necessary to handle future disruption. RAO: Yeah, it's, I, think the mistake made by. and optimizers of any sort is the belief that any reserve capacity or surplus you have must be used towards goals you already have. So if you want to run faster, every ounce of like reserves of any sort you have must be used up in going faster and faster. But maybe going faster is not actually the adaptive thing to do next week. Maybe what you want to do is lift the heaviest object, which means you have to start doing something else with your reserves. and the supply chain example is interesting actually because, I think, more recent research on what happened during COVID I is adding like a twist to the tail. So it turned out that the supply chains weren't actually fragile in the way people thought they were actually capable of meeting the demand and keeping up what actually broke them was extremely poor regulatory responses. so one version, like a crude version of the story is. Governments around the world gave too much by way of cash stimuli to citizens to them over the, period. And because there was also inflation starting to get underway and cash is worth less during an inflation, were hurrying to buy far more than they [00:30:00] actually needed. So it wasn't that the supply chains were not fat enough to do the job of meeting like demand to weather the pandemic, but they didn't have enough fat to also deal with, like above and beyond, stimulus mechanisms and poorly conceived economic management, regimes. And even within this, there are like, tweaks. i, used to do a bunch of consulting work for Amazon at one point, and Amazon actually survived The Pandemic Sur Survive, surprisingly well because it's, it basically built up its own shipping logistics fleet with its own ships, its own agreements with different ports, and therefore when basically the global trade system based on national treaties and like movements of goods and, services, it started to break down because governments were like mismanaging what was happening. Amazon's own system actually was much more, robust, so they actually managed to continue serving their customers a lot better. The importance of reserves and openness RAO: So it's not a single story, but I think the overall lesson to take away from COVID is no matter how well you plan, there will be contingencies that are not in the thinking that went into the design of a system that are not within living memories. So maybe you have to dig back a hundred or a thousand years to find appropriate things to learn from. And the only way you can actually deal with them well is to have unallocated fat in the system. And there's, a lot of good research that supports this basic conclusion that the only way to survive long term. So this is, there's a book called, the Living Company that came out of, research from, BP in the eighties. But the headline conclusion there was the companies that last the longest simply have two properties. One is they have enough reserves and surpluses to like weather a lot of uncertainty. And the second is. They are open to ideas, so they're not closed off, they're not hide bound in their thinking. So that's really [00:32:00] it. You have to have reserves and you have to be open to like external inputs that can like, give you new ways to behave. If you close yourself off or you get your reserves down too far, you will die. That's basically it. SHEFFIELD: yeah, it is. And and there are, there are so many companies that are examples of that. just, mobile phone technology, how many times that the, top players, just completely ceased to function in the market. the. Happened so many times now. Just as one example. But the other thing though about just, in the, AI context is that I think that, people who, people are still trying to figure out, how can I use this thing? Because, like that's, and it's not going to be the same answer for everybody. And, some answers that people have, or that they want to have in a given moment might not, be functional for what they need at that moment. but it might be extremely useful for somebody else, So and I think a, great example is, art. Like the capabilities for art generation just were horrible, for such a long time. And, people would mock it, things like that. But, if you try it now, it's very good. Like a lot of, it's very good. And and there are legitimate concerns. Because visual representations are in some ways more, there's not as many of them as linguistic permutations. and so, artists have some very valid concerns in this regard, but compared to linguistic recombination, because we have so many words that, the number of, possible permutations to make a sentence, we're talking in the quadrillions here, right? so nobody can really say per se that, that AI is going to rip off [00:34:00] their, writing, although, obviously we have instances of that. But art is a different thing. But nonetheless, the capabilities got there or, and are just only continuing to improve, like with video and things like that. it's, that. But then other people are getting, their brains, messed up by using AI improperly and not understanding that, it's not a, this is not a spiritual advisor, you should not take, religious advice from a chatbot. But, and, the media is trying to hype that now, I think in, a lot of ways. But, as, as, you had, we had talked, before this, you had said that AI is more of a, is it, is the product you get from AI is related to what you put in and it's what you expect. it's almost like the, the Yoda, scenario with Luke in, the Empire strike, back strikes back. It's, AI is only what you take with you in a lot of sense. RAO: Yeah, so I, I think I'm probably, I'll probably come across as an extremist on this particular topic with respect to attitudes that are prevalent today in living generations. But in historical time, I will probably come across as a moderate. So with that qualifier, let me explain the position I'm, outlining here. Copyright and historical context RAO: I'm an extremist on thinking copyright is bullshit. So do I mean by that? in language, it's easy to see, if you go back far enough in history and you look at, say, the Preprinting press, literature or folk traditions and stuff, there was no notion of one person laying claim to the Arthurian, legends, for example, to take a random example I'm reading at the moment. So the Arthurian Legends is a good example to take they. Evolved as a folk tradition across France and England over several centuries. They were at some point, like [00:36:00] compiled in France and various clusters. There was Jeffrey of Monmouth who had a history of kings of England and so forth. And at some point in around 1480s or so Thomas Mallory came up with the Death of Arthur, which is the definitive edition. But the reason it got locked down as a definitive edition, and he became known as quote unquote, the author of, the King Arthur Tales is printing press was invented and the printing press when it was invented, it introduced a certain kind of like freezing or, what's there's this book by Elizabeth Eisenstein called, the, printing Revolution and its impact on Europe, where she talks about this notion called fixity. It took a lot of fluid. traditions that had huge numbers of people chaotically contributing to it and introducing a fixedness to it. And at the same time, it created this archetype of an author as a figure in the public imagination that had a certain relationship with a fixed work. And that relationship is what eventually got legal, teeth as what we now understand is copyright. Same thing with visual arts, right? Like you go look at very traditional painting techniques before the Italian Renaissance in Europe and much later in other parts of the world, will find that authorship is a very loose and fluid concept. you look at ancient temples in Asia, you'll have like lots of like carvings and paintings. Nobody knows who the hell did them. They were like parts of traditions where everybody collectively. Owned a commons of creative production knowledge. And they were used to like, decorate public works and copyright was not necessary to mediate human relationships with their collective output. So I think one of the things we are seeing right now is the printing press in some sense created a few centuries of a very anomalous relationship between human creative labor and the products of that labor that was very individually circumscribed by a particular [00:38:00] legal, regime. Right? and it didn't exist before about 1450, and I suspect it'll not exist again after about 2100 because we are now getting back to a mode where our relationship to Our artistic production is at some level, a fractal, collective mutualist thing. Yes, there's individual threats to it, but there's also group threats to it. There's like national thread to it. Let's take an example, the big over, studio Ghibli. Now Miyaki is a very well-known and deservedly so he's done legendary movies and they're like, for what they are, they're exceptionally good movies, but. would be a bad mistake to pretend that Studio Ghibli, which is the studio he runs, is solely the author of the works of Studio Ghibli. if you go beyond Miyazaki and say, let's count the hundred or so artists who have worked on Studio Ghibli movies for the last 30 years, even that's not a big enough circle. he had a lot of inspiration from Disney and American animators earlier in the century. He had a lot of inspiration from earlier traditions in Japanese visual arts. So you start counting up and rolling up all these collective legacy and inheritances of human creative labor, and you find that there is something I'm a deeply. Self-absorbed and narcissistic and individualistically, small-minded about a relationship to the artistic tradition that I have a big problem with. So I think we're going to go back to the pre-print era of like more collective collective ownership of commons of artistic production. So that's one half of what I want to say, but I don't want this to be mistaken as the ethical responsibilities of AI companies, right? So I disagree with the, his hypocrisy of individual artists and also that kind of like performative gestures, putting little signif notifications on their articles or artwork saying, Hey, no AI was used in this. You use the equivalent of like [00:40:00] thousands of years of human creative production as an artistic heritage, which is the equivalent of A LLM in pre-computer eras. So you did use an LLM. The LLM just happened to be human history itself. So that's one way to think of it. So yes, I don't let artists of the hook for being bad faith and disingenuous about the arguments they make. But this is not the same thing as excusing, open AI or atropic or any of them. They have an ethical responsibility too, but they need to work it out for themselves, who that is to, and how to actually deliver on that responsibility, right? if they think they're drawing on a lot of common tradition from the internet or the long history of humanity, give back to that tradition, right? They should release open source weights. They should like, they should leave the commons of human artistic heritage richer than they found it. They should not leave it extracted and devastated. So anything that's going into the LLMs, yes, they have as much right to it as any individual artist, but what comes out of LLMs, I think it should create a new commons. And it's starting to happen. This, the private companies are not exactly doing great work here but the people pushing hardest on open weights, LLMs, for example. And it's ironic that China is the leader on this with deep seek and others that they're like going really hard at this. But beyond that, we need even better, there's a couple of efforts to do basically public commons AI. so Kevin Kelly has this notion of, public intelligence and I just came across this, let's see if I can find, this thing there's another effort to build a truly fully open source stack around AI. Yeah, I'll, share it later if I can. But yeah, there's a bunch of efforts that's happening like this that are about like building AI in a distributed, open access public way, that leaves the commons much richer, than they found it. And I think, yeah, to some extent there's a humane there's a humanitarian concern here, as traditional artisans and crafts people who do [00:42:00] who sit around in villages around the world practicing like centuries old crafts, they deserve to be somehow taken care of. And technology messes with what they're doing. modern artists deserve the same like humane considerations, but, we should not take their, ethical posturing at face value any more than we should take the ethical posturing of the AI companies at face value. We basically need to renegotiate our collective relationship with our knowledge and art heritage in a completely new way. Like what has worked for the last 500 years won't continue to work. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And I would say the same thing also applies to software patents as well. And because, and I when you look at the way and the technologies that go into, pretty much every model, they're based on open source technologies and many ways. And and I, suspect that if somebody were somehow to do an audit, of these technologies, there would be a lot more that is under the hood that is not being, disclosed, perhaps. That is my suspicion. RAO: and there's even an. A pragmatic, selfish reason to promote this commons and, open source and public view of things. Technological evolution and commoditization RAO: So whenever we think of the evolution of technologies, often people note that the end stage of any technology is quote, unquote commoditization. At which point it either becomes like there's no, alpha left in it, or it even becomes a nationalized utility run by the government or something. There's something not quite true about it, right? trains became nationalized and became like a commons commodity like a hundred years ago. But then new technologies came up for maglev, new kinds of like train technology, and the frontier opens up again. Now the question is. What do you do with technologies that go through a cycle from like frontier pioneering innovation to a temporary commoditized stage when the frontier shuts down. So maybe for 50, 60 years, nothing new happens in that [00:44:00] sector, but there is still like subterranean forces that can erupt at any moment and restart that sector, right? So you have to be open to that potential reopening. And I think the best way to steward that latent potential that might, reopen 50, a hundred years down the line is in fact as a public commons, not as a nationalized by that nationalized government entity or as completely extracted private sector. You have to have a commons, to stewarding late stage technologies because that's how you nurture their long-term potentialities. And I think we are just starting to The societal disciplines needed to do that? open source software is one of the first cases where we've learned how to do that well. we are not saying that, hey, this kind of software is really take word processes. There have been word processes for 50 years, but what we are not doing is saying, Hey. This is old enough. Let's give it to IBM to maintain as a legacy technology and IBM's Department of Word processing can do it. We're not saying that, nor are we saying, Hey, this is basically a utility technology. Let's give it to the government to run in the Department of Word processing technology. Both would be absolutely terrible ideas. Just because word processing as a class of application has doesn't mean it's going to stay the same 50 years from now. like AI is actually opening up that frontier again. Like what it means to work in an environment like Google Docs or Microsoft Word is being radically rethought now with AI being plugged in, right? So obviously there's going to be new kinds of word processing in the next five, six years. So that means we need to learn how to steward these things really well. And, commons, open source. These are all going to be societal disciplines for us now. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And and, the other thing about this perspective is, getting technologists themselves to not be paranoid about a matured [00:46:00] technology. So like we see, Peter Thiel, I think is. Us in this regard for claiming that, oh, we don't have any innovation anymore. innovation's dead and it's all, the communist fault or whatever. And it's no, because, as you said, word processing spreadsheets, these are things that, largely we figured, that they're, they're mature technologies anymore than, we don't need to have a new Astro lab technology. And we're not lamenting that we don't have any new AstroLabs, they're fine with what we have. and, the real innovation is in, either, completely extending existing mature technologies or inventing new things that do the same function. and that's, the, I think that there is of late, especially, as, some as some investors and, have, and, tech liberation types. they, they, haven't understood this point that, a maturation is not a bad thing. It's a good thing. RAO: I, would characterize their views slightly differently, but this is fine for our conversation here. Yeah. I think Peter Thiel is an overrated idiot on these topics, honestly. his famous line about Twitter versus, I wanted flying cars. I got for one 40 characters. It's sofa morrick like, he was one that described to me as his thinking chopped with a lot of the rings in Iron Rand. And, he has apparently read some re Gerard and, I think his he's overrated. He, plays a couple of good bets as an investor and he's really smart as an idiot savant kind of, way in certain, kinds of behaviors. But I wouldn't take his views on this sort of thing seriously. but, what's a sophisticated view of maturation and I would say rea awakening of technologies. It's that nothing is ever done, even AstroLabs are not done. It [00:48:00] could be that the next interesting technology that we invent suddenly does something very weird to AstroLabs. fact, they have not been done, like people have been updating AstroLabs with lasers and other smaller refinements. to take a similar era of technology sales, for example, technology reached a peak of. Perfection with, I would say the 1850s tee clippers just before steam ships in, America. phenomenal sailing ships. They wouldn't hold a candle to the sailing ships we see in the America's Cup type races, today, right? Because these new sailing ships, they use fiberglass. They use like complicated like computing CFD software to optimize the sales. If you've ever seen one of these, yacht races, it is amazing. These things fly like far faster than any sailing ship. 200 years could. So it's not true that we've lost or that it's stagnant or only incremental things are happening. And it's not even just like it, it's not that it's a marginal sideshow because of, change and, energy concerns. People are actually now starting to build cargo ships that use wind power and powerful new waste. So there's a few new designs for there's literal sails that are like carbon fiber based that are used on container ships. And then there's other things like, there's a form of wind propulsion that uses rotating cylinders. That was a type of wind power that was never used at all in the earlier sailing era. So yeah, you can't write off anything. So SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: finished story until, our species is dead and earth is burned to a cinder. It's isn't over until it's over. uh, it, SHEFFIELD: and I'm sorry, just on your point on sailing, like the other thing, the, technology is continuing to be extended even further because like with, spacecraft and using the solar wind, RAO: exactly. SHEFFIELD: that's the ultimate application of sailing innovation. and if people hadn't kept thinking about, how can we refine how it works with wind, we wouldn't have had that. RAO: And, Astros too, like this has [00:50:00] been standard on spacecraft since the beginning. One of the ways, do attitude positioning so they have lots of methods to do it. But one of them is literally star scopes. So they have like little tiny telescopes that orient on particular stars, and then they use that to get a sense of like their orientation and correct them because they need a multiple redundant systems to position themselves. so yeah, SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: are alive and well, SHEFFIELD: Yeah, exactly. there's, the other thing about that's circling back in a lot of ways is that that AI it's opening up the idea of what is consciousness, what is intelligence in a way that, that hasn't really been thought about for a long time. And, I don't think, he did gets enough discussion nowadays, I don't think, or, and maybe I'm reading the wrong stuff, but Marvin Minsky's society of mind. So that actually appears to be true of both humans and of LLMs. That so LLMs function, through, and the analogy is not a very good one with the idea of a neuron. but nonetheless, the idea that a, that a, token has multiple relationships across many different spaces. and so, basically an attention head algorithm is functioning in the same way that a neuron in a human or animal is that, our, consciousness, there is no fixed self. It doesn't exist. and really what that's, I think in some ways is scary to people who want to imagine that there's something magical inside of us. But when we look at, other animals like dolphins, they have language, they have abstract thinking, they have names for themselves, with their signature whistles. there, there's just, we're not nearly as special as we think we are. and I think that might be ultimately what motivates a lot of people who are, obsessed [00:52:00] about things like, Quaia or stuff like that. It's just we're and it's fine. It, like understanding that we're not that special. That's, I think that mediocrity there, like that's the ultimate mediocrity perhaps. RAO: Yeah, we have a very mediocre flavor of consciousness, not a special flavor. But yeah, I think that this is one of the, threads of discourse that are most worth watching. The philosophical implications of AI as mirror RAO: gets to the point I think we were talking about before our prep call on AI as a mirror, right? a lot of people have pointed out that every technology that's ever come along, every major technology, let's say people tend to like, see their own minds reflected in it. But I think AI is indeed special because it's the first technology that was literally inspired by, our own, not our own brain, but cat's brains. Because the first neurons that was studied that eventually became neural networks was cat neurons. So yes, are special. They're not like, if you look in, say, the era of Descartes you would find clockwork analog for how the mine works. And he had an idea that consciousness lives in the pineal gland and things like that. But clockworks are good for understanding certain aspects. So it's an okay mirror. It's not a high quality mirror. You can understand some aspects of brain functioning that way. Butis are exceptionally good mirrors. And, yes, Minsky is I think, one important thread of understanding what both ais and brains are. And I think we are getting closer and closer to that model. the latest mixture of experts model that has now become the standard architecture. It already has a multiple agent structure. It's still a little bit of a hierarchical, architecture that I think is not quite close to the way the human brain works, but it's getting there. So I would say today's AI's in the mixture of experts architectural paradigm. There's somewhere between a Cartesian theater approach where the prompts come in and then they get out to the mixture of experts and so forth. And future [00:54:00] state where we perhaps won't need that. Like when we have embodied ais and robots that have their own sensors and actuators, that loop is closed in a richer way. We'll drop even this slight fiction of a Cartesian theater that we have going on in current AI models. and it's getting there, like on the models front, a lot of people are getting inspired by, cortical columns, which are these structures within the brain that have would say Minsky, society of mind resonant, architecture. So that's one direction that's to watch. Another in interesting direction is this is a little bit of like a. Cultish line of research, but it still is interesting. It's on active inference, stuff by RIS term and people who study things like the free energy principle and so forth. So people building models of the brain as thinking and cognitive, machinery, but as thermodynamic systems described with in terms like, entropy, free energy, flows of energy and signals of information. So there's lots of really interesting work happening along those lines, and I think exciting stuff is going to happen once we start putting LLMs and LMS and multimodal models of all sorts into robot bodies adding like reinforcement learning loops and. Operationalizing some of these newer models of free energy principle and active inference. And what'll happen then, I think is we will lose this, we'll lose what's left of this Cartesian theater metaphor that's still lingering with us. And we'll get to, AI embodiments that can mirror human thought much more richly. I, think at some point they'll start SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: because silicon and, neurons are fundamentally different types of hardware. So they SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: start diverging. They've already started diverging with transformers. It's not quite the wi, same way neurons work, but they will [00:56:00] be equivalently expressive. And by that that. Even if they turn into completely alien intelligences that are nothing like us on the inside and think very differently, they will still work as the most expressive mirrors we have, where when we interact with them, we will in fact be able to ourselves in them. And yeah, to go back to your earlier point, conversations about like philosophy and spirituality if you're so inclined and have that be as good or better or more interesting than with other humans. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: to rank all these on the same scale. to a great philosopher about your religious views might have one kind of value, but talking to the best AI model 20 years from now about your views on religion might have a completely different kind of value. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: sitting around on your couch with your dog or cat and communing with another species that way is a fundamentally different spiritual experience than talking to another human with whom you resonate a lot and. I, I would say they're like equally valuable, like when I sit with my cat and we are watching TV together, it's a very different but equally valuable spiritual experience as talking to somebody who's sophisticated about those topics. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Embodiment and somatic reasoning in AI SHEFFIELD: and yeah, and ultimately, I think that the, where we're headed with all this stuff is that, within cognitive psychology, there is the broad consensus that there are two types of reasoning. there is our somatic reasoning, our bodily based preservation instincts, things like that. and then there's our abstract reasoning and AI. Because it hasn't been embodied yet. it doesn't have that somatic reasoning. And and, but that ultimately is the foundation of all meaning, as, because David ,Hume was right, when he was talking about this, hundreds of years ago. That our reason is and forever will be the slave to the passions, and that this must be the case and it should be. And so that's ultimately what meaning is, that [00:58:00] me as a physical, being in limited space time, this is where I see things and this is what matters to me. And so whatever the substrate is, whether biological or, mechanical, that doesn't matter as much as, as where as that meaning can be created. RAO: Yeah, and I think we are already getting there. Like embodiment is farther along than people realize. Like already people are sitting in, self-driving cabs and like after five minutes the novelty wears off. that's what happened with me when I sat in a Waymo. But this is a beast with a lidar and a lot of sensors and loops and it, has a certain organic embodied presence that is very different from interacting with chat GPT. It's a very different type of intelligence. And, yeah, I think the philosophical, track your, gesturing that is in fact the right one. hue I think came a little too early to, he's a useful thinker on, these matters. But if you fast forward a little bit I think Gilbert Wild is the philosopher to, think about quite a bit these days to some extent, high Decker, like I'm not a huge fan of, high Decker. There's lots of problems with his thinking, but some of his ideas about being in the world and, how you, how embodiment and, you're calling the somatic aspect of consciousness this, interplay. They're really, interesting. So there's a line of hi thought that I found interesting which comes out of his. Otherwise, like crappy philosophy of technology. But he has this notion of readiness at hand and readiness to hand of SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: integrates into your body. And, a bunch of philosophers, Simon Dunn and lately Han and others, they've carried on the Erian tradition. And they're say, starting to say very interesting things about how being an embodiment work in the modern world, their views colored by the general kind of like. Dismal nature of Hi [01:00:00] Arian thought. So if you can pull that out and SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Get past the, RAO: bit. Yeah, SHEFFIELD: yeah. RAO: way to think of. And Gilbert trial I think is under, underrated. I have to go back and read more of how he came at these problems. But yeah, a lot of philosophical work to be done and I think more and more exciting raw material will come for the philosophically minded in the next 10 years. And I, think the same thing I say to people who are like, trying too hard to optimize their AI experiences right now. I would say to philosophers as well as well. So a lot of the AI hustlers as I like to, call them, they very eagerly make up like really complicated prompts and recipes and things like that. And I'm lazy. I just use AI right outta the box. And my response to those people is, you're doing all these complicated things, it'll be obsolete in three months because the models themselves will become sophisticated to do that. initially chain of thought prompting was something you had to do manually. Now it just does it right, so you, it's, very valuable to be lazy these days, like both as a hands-on technology user, just be lazy because anything you try to overdo, chances are the technology will do it better in six months. And I think the same is true of philosophy. very energetically trying to form about consciousness or quality or something, I would recommend just. a lot more lazy because six months from now you'll probably see three or four very intriguing new things happening in AI that'll actually lead you to better conclusion. So I, I think my current stance is around and find out and experiment in a playful manner with the actual technology, but really as much as possible, leave open without an urgent need to answer them. It's important, it's more important right now to collect the good questions than to find the good answers because so much interesting data is coming our way that we'll keep finding better and better answers as the years go by. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. RAO: Yeah. SHEFFIELD: Yeah. [01:02:00] Ultimately what matters is what you can do with it, not what slot you can put it in. I think that's what it comes down to. Yeah. All right. we, we could probably keep going for a lot longer, but, I don't want to do that to everybody. But, so for, people who want to keep up with your writings and such, what's your recommendation for them? RAO: I write a Substack newsletter called Contraptions and I also run a program called the Summer of Protocols for the Ethereum Foundation. So a lot of my work is in those two, places. So if you Google, if you look for contraptions on Substack or the summer of protocols, just search it on Google. You'll find a lot of, what I'm up to these days. But beyond that, yeah, basic information about me is kote.com. So the basic 4 1 1 stuff is there. SHEFFIELD: Okay, cool. All right. Thanks for being here. RAO: Thanks for having me. SHEFFIELD: All right, so that is the program for today. I appreciate everybody joining us for the conversation, and you can always get more if you go to Theory of Change show. We have the video, audio, and transcript of all the episodes. And my thanks to everybody who is a paid subscribing member. Thanks very much for your support. We have options on both Patreon and Substack. If you are interested in becoming a paid subscriber, that is very helpful. Thank you very much. And if you can't afford to do that right now, I understand these are tough times for a lot of people. but you can help out the show if you share it with your friends and your family. That would be much appreciated as well. 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On this episode of Trending in Education , Mike Palmer is joined by Elliot Felix, a returning guest, to discuss his new book, The Connected College: Leadership Strategies for Student Success . The book, releasing July 22nd, focuses on how higher education can become more agile, connected, and break down silos. Elliot Felix shares his mission of student success, drawing on his experience consulting with over 120 colleges and universities to improve student experiences through transformations in physical spaces, support services, and technology systems. He explains that his new book aims to provide an evidence-based playbook for higher education professionals to collaborate better for student success. Key Takeaways: Addressing Disconnections in Higher Ed: Felix identifies five key disconnections the book addresses, including a lack of belonging among students (only 65% feel they belong), the disconnect between courses and careers, and the prevalence of siloed structures within institutions. He illustrates this with an example of a university having both a "writing lab" and a "writing center" performing similar functions due to historical and structural reasons. The Connected College Vision: Felix envisions a future where colleges and universities are better connected, leading to students feeling a stronger connection to their institution, their coursework linking to careers, and increased collaboration both internally and with external partners like corporations and community groups. Defining Student Success: The conversation delves into the multifaceted definition of student success, acknowledging that it can be viewed through metrics like retention and graduation rates, student engagement and belonging, or the individual student's perspective of success. Felix suggests common ground for student success includes students finding their community, their academic and career path, their place, and a sense of purpose. Silo Busting Strategies: Felix highlights that silos are common in organizations, particularly in higher education, which is designed for durability. He attributes this to a lack of clear strategy beyond broad, anodyne statements, and legacy structures that simply have new functions "bolted on" rather than integrated. Tactics for breaking down silos include sharing data to create a common understanding of students. Forward-Thinking Universities: Examples of innovative approaches include university-industry partnerships driving economic and workforce development, such as Carnegie Mellon's robotics innovation center and Rowan University's expansion into health and wellness and advanced manufacturing. Other examples include Imperial College London's enterprise lab, the University of South Florida's focus on entrepreneurship, and Arizona State's "Work Plus Learn" program. Don't miss Elliot's new book, The Connected College: Leadership Strategies for Student Success , available July 22nd wherever you get your books. Subscribe to Trending in Ed so you never miss a conversation about leading the future of education in these transformative times. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome 01:07 Elliot Felix's Background and Mission 02:26 The Connected College: Themes and Issues 06:28 Book Structure and Innovator Profiles 07:54 Defining Student Success 13:23 Silo Busting in Higher Education 17:14 AI and Future Trends in Higher Ed 20:36 The Importance of Combining Skills in Higher Education 21:06 Collaborative Spirit in Developing AI Policies 22:26 Navigating Political and Technological Disruptions 31:15 The Role of Higher Education in Economic Development 31:43 Innovative University-Industry Partnerships 33:08 Spotlighting Success Stories in Higher Education 35:49 Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: 978. Megan Abbott 1:11:15

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Megan Abbott is the author of the novel El Dorado Drive , available from G. P. Putnam's Sons. Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of eleven crime novels, including You Will Know Me , Give Me Your Hand and the New York Times bestseller The Turnout , the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University and her writing has appeared in the New York Times , the Guardian , the Paris Review and the Wall Street Journal . Dare Me, the series she adapted from her own novel, now streaming on Netflix. Her latest novel, Beware the Woman , is now in paperback. *** ⁠ Otherppl with Brad Listi ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is an ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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5-4: Mahmoud v. Taylor 1:02:27

1 day ago1:02:27

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Because the conservatives on the Supreme Court are lowkey homophobic, they have made it easier for parents of kids in public schools to opt out of topics that make them uncomfortable. LGBTQ books, no thank you— evolution, not for my kids. If you're not a 5-4 Premium member, you're not hearing every episode! To hear this and other Premium-only episodes, access to our Slack community, and more, join at fivefourpod.com/support . 5-4 is presented by Prologue Projects. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto. Leon Neyfakh provides editorial support. Our website was designed by Peter Murphy. Our artwork is by Teddy Blanks at Chips NY, and our theme song is by Spatial Relations. Transcriptions of each episode are available at fivefourpod.com Follow the show at @fivefourpod on most platforms. On BlueSky, find Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social, Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social, and Rhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands…

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Bell Curve: Empire Cross-Post: DC Crypto Week Takeaways With Rebecca Rettig & Alexander Grieve 1:05:33

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Gm! This week, Rebecca Rettig and Alexander Grieve join Jason to unpack the successful crypto week and the 3 pieces of legislation that have passed and will now impact the way stablecoins and crypto move forward in the US landscape. -- Katana is a DeFi-first chain built for deep liquidity and real yield, by redirecting chain revenue back to active DeFi users. The 1 billion KAT campaign is live. Bridge and deposit directly into vaults in one simple click and start earning immediately on your ETH, BTC, USDC, and more. Go to app.katana.network to check it out. -- EigenLayer just launched EigenCloud - the infrastructure powering crypto's "cloud era." Like AWS transformed the internet, EigenCloud gives any developer cloud-grade programmability with crypto-grade verifiability. EIGEN stakers earn from the entire verifiable economy flywheel. Follow @eigenlayer on X to learn more. This is not financial advice. Investing in blockchain-based assets like the EIGEN token involves significant risk, including the potential loss of your entire investment. By participating, you are agreeing to EigenCloud’s terms and conditions apply . -- Citrea is the first zero-knowledge rollup to enhance the capabilities of Bitcoin blockspace and enable Bitcoin applications (₿apps). Citrea is optimistically verified by Bitcoin, offering the most Bitcoin-secured and native way to extend BTC’s utility to DeFi. Learn more about Citrea: https://citrea.xyz/?utm_source=bellcurve&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=website_promo Follow Citrea on X/Twitter for the latest on its journey to mainnet: https://x.com/citrea_xyz -- Start your day with crypto news, analysis and data from Katherine Ross. Subscribe to the Empire newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/empire?utm_source=podcasts -- Follow Alex: https://x.com/AlexanderGrieve Follow Rebecca: https://x.com/RebeccaRettig1 Follow Jason: https://x.com/JasonYanowitz Follow Empire: https://twitter.com/theempirepod -- Join the Empire Telegram: https://t.me/+CaCYvTOB4Eg1OWJh -- Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction (1:38) Crypto Week Breakdown (6:01) GENIUS Act (26:03) Ads (Katana & Eigen) (26:57) CLARITY Act (37:36) CLARITY Act + ICOs (41:46) Ads (Katana & Eigen) (43:20) CLARITY Act + DeFi (54:01) Citrea Ad (54:37) ANTI-CBDC Act (58:11) Impacts Of These Bills (1:01:19) Biggest Debates On Bills -- Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.…

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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast: The Resistance vs. Trump 2.0 with Omar Wasow 52:57

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We’ve seen a good number of protests during Trump 2.0. What role does our ability to organize and protest play in this moment as we see the erosion of democracy right in front of us? Omar Wasow, associate professor of political science at UC Berkley, joins to discuss how he’s making sense of American politics at this moment, protests in this era and more.…

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Organized Money: Costco's Private Equity Headache 38:31

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Costco is a great place to buy bulk toilet paper, cheap hot dogs, or even a mortgage—but for some customers, their recent Coscto experience has felt a little off, especially when dealing with their vendors. In this episode Matt and David talk with Steve Hunt, a Costco customer service worker and former Oklahoma City mayoral candidate, about how private equity takeovers of vendors selling everything from water delivery and window blinds, to discounted event tickets through Costco are quietly eroding product quality and customer service. What looks like the ultimate consumer haven is, in fact, a view into how private equity’s cost cutting tactics are degrading everyday services, exploiting Costco’s reputation for trust, and leaving customers and employees stuck in the middle. Check out Steve's substack and his article: New York City: The Extraction Engine, the Extreme Center, and the Hollowing of Oklahoma City or Dasha Nekrasova vs. Woody Guthrie. Like Organized Money? Support us! Go to organizedmoney.fm/donate and help us keep the lights on.…

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China Global: Forecasting ROK President Lee Jae Myung’s China Policy 39:23

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South Korea and China have a complex relationship characterized by economic interdependence, strategic competition, and regional security concerns. Navigating this delicate balance has been a defining challenge for every South Korean president. Newly elected President Lee Jae Myung has assumed power at a time of increasing US-China strategic competition as well as uncertain global supply chains and growing threat from North Korea. Could this new administration mark a shift in Seoul’s approach to Beijing? Or will President Lee maintain strategies similar to that of President Yoon? To discuss ROK-China relations, and President Lee’s approach to this intricate issue, we are joined on the podcast today by Dr. Ramon Pacheco-Pardo. He is a professor of international relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Center for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy in the Brussels School of Governance. He is also an adjunct fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the author of several books on the domestic affairs and foreign policy of South and North Korea. Timestamps [00:00] Start [01:44] “[P]ragmatic diplomacy centered on national interests” [05:06] State of Play for Sino-South Korean Relations [09:56] Balancing Between the United States and China [14:47] China Taking Advantage of US-ROK Frictions [19:03] Economic Interdependence as a Leverage [25:39] Xi Jinping Attending APEC South Korea 2025 [31:11] American Pressure on Allies to Protect Taiwan…

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Roger Rosenblatt: Rules for Aging 38:48

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Alan joins his old friend to compare notes on staying happy when old; and Roger shares tips from a forthcoming book, including some that may seem counterintuitive – like don’t use common sense, believe everyone, and don’t pay attention to people in your way.

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web3 with a16z crypto: GENIUS Becomes Law: What It Took to Pass the First Rules for Stablecoins in the U.S. 23:58

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with @rhhackett @milesjennings @BenNapier & Michael Reed Today we're talking about the passage of the GENIUS Act — that's the "Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act" — which provides clear rules of the road for stablecoins in the U.S. We cover the law's implications, the recent high-stakes vote in the House of Representatives, and the bipartisan efforts to pass this groundbreaking bill. We also touch on the CLARITY Act — a major new “market structure” bill that would establish a clear regulatory framework for digital asset markets — which the House also passed with bipartisan support and which is now headed to the Senate. Here to separate the signal from the noise are members of the a16z crypto team who had a front-row seat to the action. We've got Miles Jennings, a16z crypto's General Counsel and Head of Policy, plus a16z Government Affairs Partners Ben Napier and Michael Reed, who are responsible for liaising with House Republicans and House Democrats, respectively. They share the inside scoop. Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction (1:01) Understanding the GENIUS Act (3:56) News Summary: What Happened in the House (5:45) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Contention (7:01) House Vote Drama: Republicans (9:31) House Vote Drama: Democrats (14:28) Winners and Losers (16:01) Decentralized Stablecoins and SEC Involvement (17:49) CLARITY Act and Future Legislation (21:47) Looking Ahead Resources: The GENIUS Act [full text] Clear rules for stablecoins and the road ahead by Chris Dixon (a16z crypto, July 2025) The CLARITY Act — Why it matters, what to know, and what to do by Miles Jennings and Aiden Slavin (a16z crypto, July 2025) *** As a reminder, none of the content should be taken as investment, business, legal, or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information, including a link to a list of our investments.…

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The Bitchuation Room: How Republicans FAILED The Texas Flood Victims 25:56

1 day ago25:56

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There’s nothing political about tragedy...that is, unless every politician at every level of government did absolutely nothing to prevent it. What happened in Texas on July 4th wasn’t an act of God, it was an act of recklessness from lying politicians and yes, the voters who still believe them. Over 135 people are dead because at the county level, the state level and the federal level, Republicans have failed to take climate preparedness seriously. Whenever there was a decision to fund it, they decided to cut taxes instead. Whenever there was a discussion to take climate change seriously, they’ve called it a hoax. Francesca takes you through EVERY level of this colossal failure: from Camp Mystic’s director waiting an hour to evacuate campers, to Kerr County’s refusal to pay for a mere $1 million flood warning system, to Texas state legislators shooting down climate infrastructure projects while simultaneously passing massive tax breaks, to a wildly unqualified FEMA director who didn’t know hurricane seasons was a thing, to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defunding the agency to the point where distress calls were ignored and rescue crews were missing in action. It’s also a failure on voters, who in 2021 rejected $10 million from the federal government for climate projects because the money came from…. BIDEN!!!!! When it’s all said and done, what is killing people is a right-wing ideology that doesn’t believe in climate change despite it playing out before our eyes, and that is hell-bent on rugged individualism and low taxes no matter what the costs. So when do we stop playing the blame game and start holding people accountable by booting them from power? In other words, when will we actually take our children’s futures seriously. *** Support The Bitchuation Room on Patreon so Francesca can do more of these long-form videos. Also get early viewing access, discounts on merch, and 25% off our sponsor by signing up: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom *** Friday August 1st - Francesca and Matt will be at Laughs Comedy Club in Seattle. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/4kFt1xE Saturday August 2nd - The Bitchuation Room LIVE in Seattle. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/4khBhnK HOUSTON AUGUST 28 - Francesca and Matt will be at The Punchline in Houston. Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3A0062C3F8154B3F PASADENA - August 30th - New World Disorder. Tickets here: https://www.showclix.com/event/new-world-disorder-08-30-25-7-pm BROOKLYN - October 13th Francesca and Matt will co-headline The Bell House. Tickets here: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300062E2C3694548 Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: https://www.sunsetlakecbd.com *************************** Independent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkztf6gttP8D3vrusCrrp4g/join Become a Patron of The Bitchuation Room: https://www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom Tip the show: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *************************** Thanks to Paige Oamek, Andy Vasoyan & Brent Godin *************************** Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod Check Out The Bitchuation Room Podcast iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesbitchuation Google Music: http://bit.ly/GoogleBitchuation Stitcher: http://bit.ly/stitcherbitchuation Spotify: http://bit.ly/spotifybitchuation Find Francesca On: Twitter: https://twitter.com/franifio YouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Franifio Insta: https://www.instagram.com/franifio/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bitchuationroom.bsky.social Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 812: Brennan And Co. The Complete Coverup

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WarRoom Battleground EP 812: Brennan And Co. The Complete Coverup

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4648: Stopping Corruption In Texas; DOJ Goes After Jack Smith

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Episode 4648: Stopping Corruption In Texas; DOJ Goes After Jack Smith

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The Gist: RFK Jr.: Sophist, Saboteur, Snake Oil Secretary 32:23

1 day ago32:23

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Historian Daniel Immerwahr eviscerates RFK Jr. as a master of glib misinformation—“profoundly informed,” yet wielding that knowledge in bad faith to undermine truth and public trust. Kennedy is the conductor of an orchestra of error. Also discussed: how science became political dogma during COVID, how Fauci’s certainty helped fuel backlash, and why a provocateur like Kennedy thrives in epistemological gray zones. Also on the show: Trump’s obscure-commission chess moves, as he "Truths" his way through any Epstein flak. Produced by Corey Wara Production Coordinator Ashley Khan Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ad-sales@libsyn.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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The Reason Roundtable: What Should Libertarians Make of the Epstein Files? 1:10:28

1 day ago1:10:28

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This week, editors Peter Suderman , Katherine Mangu-Ward , Nick Gillespie , and Matt Welch examine what, if anything, the Jeffrey Epstein saga reveals about the MAGA movement and its ties to conspiracy culture. They debate whether the scandal could derail President Donald Trump's agenda or simply reinforce the need for more government transparency. The editors also weigh in on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's explosive allegations that former President Barack Obama and his administration engaged in a "treasonous conspiracy" to discredit Trump's 2016 victory. Then they turn to the GOP's $9 billion Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rescission bill and its impact on public broadcasting. Plus, a listener question prompts reflections on how the Roundtable crew really gets along behind the scenes. 00:26—Epstein conspiracies come full circle 06:13—The Epstein files and government transparency 16:52—Trump's made-for-TV administration showing cracks 21:42—Gabbard and the treasonous conspiracy accusations 38:03—Listener question on panelist relationships 45:27—DOGE rescissions and public broadcasting cuts 56:08—The declining influence of institutional media 1:00:28—Weekly cultural recommendations Mentioned in This Podcast " The Case Against Ross Ulbricht Was About Government Power ," by Katherine Mangu-Ward " Free Ross Day One ," by Nick Gillespie " Trump, Who Wants To 'Straighten Out the Press,' Sues The Wall Street Journal Over 'Fake' Epstein Letter ," by Jacob Sullum " Enigmas Never Age ," by Liz Wolfe " MAGA's Epstein Files Fight Shows the Long Tail of QAnon ," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown " The CEO of NPR Made the Best Case for Defunding It ," by Billy Binion " The Senate Was Right To Defund NPR and PBS ," by Robby Soave " How To Keep Your Radio Station Going When the Government's Checks Don't Come ," by Jesse Walker Mothers Against Cruel Sentencing Today's Sponsors: Therapy can feel like a big investment, but the state of your mind is just as important as your physical health. Let's talk numbers. Traditional in-person therapy can cost anywhere from $100 to $250 per session, which adds up fast, but with BetterHelp online therapy, you can save, on average, up to 50% per session. With BetterHelp, you pay a flat fee for weekly sessions, saving you big on cost and time. Therapy should feel accessible, not like a luxury. With online therapy, you get quality care at a price that makes sense and can help you with anything from anxiety to everyday stress. Your mental health is worth it—and now, it's within reach. With over 30,000 therapists, BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform, having served over 5 million people globally. It's convenient, too. You can join a session with the click of a button, helping you fit therapy into your busy life. As the largest online therapy provider in the world, BetterHelp connects you with mental health professionals with a diverse variety of expertise - so you can find the right fit. Plus, switch therapists at any time. Your well-being is worth it. Visit betterhelp.com/roundtable today to get 10% off your first month. Producer: Paul Alexander Video Editor: Ian Keyser The post What Should Libertarians Make of the Epstein Files? appeared first on Reason.com .…

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3542 - Accountability for Gaza, Putin's End Game w/ Matt Duss and Candace Rondeaux 1:20:54

1 day ago1:20:54

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It’s Monday, and allegedly a fun day. First, Tulsi Gabbard tries to worm her way back into Trump’s good graces with a fresh Obama conspiracy theory, while Trump shares an AI-generated video of Obama being “arrested” by FBI agents. In an especially desperate attempt to shift attention away from Epstein headlines, Trump threatens to block a deal for the Washington Commanders’ new stadium—unless they bring back the team’s old name. Then we’re joined by journalist Matt Duss to discuss his new piece in Foreign Policy , “The Biden Administration Lied About Gaza. It's Time to Hold Them Accountable.” Later, Candace Rondeaux, author of Putin’s Sledgehammer , joins us to break down Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Wagner Group’s role in meddling in U.S. elections. In the Fun Half we watch Mehdi Hasan debate 20 far-right panelists in Jubilee’s Surrounded series. Andrew Cuomo left his home in Westchester Country to visit Long Island to raise money for his New York City mayoral race and someone was kind enough to secretly record his speech. Turns out it was voter turnout that caused his defeat by 12 points. Fox News does some "embedded journalism" by sending a reporter to Central Florida for a puff piece that covers "consensual interactions" like finger printing workers for a national immigrant data base. All that and more plus your IMs. Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Follow us on TikTok here!: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here!: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here!: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors COZY EARTH: Go to cozyearth.com/MAJORITYREPORT for up to 40% off best-selling temperature-regulating sheets, apparel, and more. RIUTAL: Get 25% off during your first month. Visit ritual.com/MAJORITY to start Ritual or add Essential For Men to your subscription today. SUNSET LAKE: Head on over to SunsetlakeCBD.com and use code NewSticks to treat your aches and pains to some much-deserved relief. This sale ends July 20th at midnight Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza’s music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder – https://majorityreportradio.com/…

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Happy Path Programming: #113 Graph & RAG with Jennifer Reif 1:05:27

1 day ago1:05:27

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We chat with Jennifer Reif about integrating LLMs with data using RAG, vectorized data, and Graph databases. Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF⁠⁠

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Changelog: Humanity has prevailed (for now!) 6:47

1 day ago6:47

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Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it’s rude to show AI output to people. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: CodeRabbit – AI-native code reviews, built for the modern dev stack. — CodeRabbit is your always-on code reviewer—flagging hallucinations, surfacing smells, and enforcing standards, all without leaving your IDE or GitHub PRs. Trusted by top teams to ship better code, faster. Start free at CodeRabbit.ai Featuring: Jerod Santo – GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X…

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The Bulwark Podcast: Bill Kristol: It's the Crimes and the Cover-Up 52:34

1 day ago52:34

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Our government disappeared hundreds of Venezuelans to a hellish Salvadoran prison for 125 days. When Trump's and Stephen Miller's whole CECOT plan even became too much for the dictator who runs El Salvador, Marco Rubio helped orchestrate a political win for Venezuela's strongman, Nicolas Maduro—who gets to look like a white knight in the hostage exchange. Meanwhile, the administration still has not recovered from its rake-step claim that there was no Epstein list. Did Bondi release her memo because the 1,000 FBI personnel who were made to review the Epstein documents kept finding Trump's name? Cover-ups are hard. Plus, now the Dems have new reasons to not cooperate with Republicans. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller. show notes Tim and Sam's livestream after Andry and the other Venezuelans were released from CECOT Bill and Sarah discuss the Epstein timeline for 'Bulwark on Sunday' Rep. Boyle on not cooperating with Republicans on the budget Lauren on Democratic messaging for the midterms…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4647: The Deciding Moment For America; "We Will Rebuild Japan"

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Episode 4647: The Deciding Moment For America; "We Will Rebuild Japan"

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Making Sense with Sam Harris: #425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic? 27:14

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Sam Harris speaks with Marc Lipsitch about pandemic preparedness. They discuss what we learned from Covid, loss of trust in institutions, how to effectively communicate scientific information in the current media landscape, vaccine hesitancy, the safety of mRNA vaccines, the origins of Covid, gain-of-function research, virus hunting, the Trump administration’s assault on scientific research and universities, future pandemic threats, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe . Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.…

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Hillsdale College Podcast Network: Education Reform in the “Big Beautiful Bill”

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Once per week, Hillsdale College president Larry P. Arnn joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss Great Books, Great Men, and Great Ideas. Education reforms in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” Winston Churchill’s tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the ever-shifting politics of Europe and the Middle East. Dr. Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues. Release date: 18 July 2025 The post Education Reform in the “Big Beautiful Bill” appeared first on Hillsdale College Podcast Network .…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4646: Obama's Coup And Treasonous Conspiracy Against Donald Trump

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Episode 4646: Obama's Coup And Treasonous Conspiracy Against Donald Trump

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Letters from an American: July 20, 2025 11:37

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Neon Liberalism: Tell Me a Story 1:01:49

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Join Samantha and author Robert Jackson Bennett as they discuss the power of fiction to shape politics, from 20th-century detective fiction to modern-day QAnon. Along the way they discuss the fiscal-military state, the meaning of liberal society, and why it matters that conservatives have fun engaging with conservative narratives.…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 7/21/25: Trump Admits He's In Epstein Files, Trump Sues WSJ, El Salvador Prison Swap, Israel Starves Gaza, Mehdi On Surrounded 1:57:42

1 day ago1:57:42

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Krystal and Emily break down the latest on the Trump Epstein drama, Alex Jones and Steve Bannon blame the Deep State, Trump sues WSJ for 10 Billion, a Prison Swap between Venezuela and El Salvador, Israel's starvation of Gaza, Mehdi Hasan debates far right conservatives on Surrounded, and we break down a report on Israel's ongoing siege of Lebanon. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.locals.com/support Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Bad Faith: Episode 493 Promo - "A Rational Hope" (w/ Norman Finkelstein) 7:33

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Nearly two hours with America's favorite podcast guest, Norman Finkelstein, on Epstein, Tucker Carlson & the conservative conflation of anti-Zionism w/ actual antisemitism, whether the left is too sanguine about Zohran Mamdani, how not to repeat Bernie's failures, and a debate on the effect of the political assassinations of the 60s on the lefts' progress. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod) . Produced by Armand Aviram . Theme by Nick Thorburn (@ nickfromislands ).…

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EconTalk: James Marriott on Reading 1:25:22

2 days ago1:25:22

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Is long form reading a dying pastime? Journalist and cultural critic James Marriott joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to defend the increasingly quaint act of reading a book in our scrolling-obsessed, AI-summarized age. He urges juggling a paper book and a Kindle, recounts ditching his smartphone to rescue his attention, and shares tactics for finding the "right" beach novel and biography. He and Russ also debate the value of re-reading, spar over Dostoevsky, celebrate Elena Ferrante, and swap suggestions for poetry that "puts reality back in your bones." Throughout, they argue that the shallowness of social media makes the best case for diving into the dense, intellectually difficult, yet uniquely transformative power of books.…

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Bankless: Can Worldcoin Fix The Internet's 99% Bot Problem? | Co-Founder Alex Blania 1:01:37

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The bots are winning. AI-generated spam, fake profiles, and deepfakes are turning the internet into a digital hall of mirrors. But what if there were a way to prove you're human, without sacrificing privacy? Worldcoin Co-Founder Alex Blania returns to Bankless to share a bold vision for addressing the online identity crisis. From 14 million users already “Orbed” to new integrations with dating apps and DeFi protocols, Worldcoin is evolving rapidly and facing significant questions. What happens when governments come knocking? And why does Alex think we’re heading toward internet-native citizenship? Whether you're curious about AI-proof identity or sceptical of eyeball scanning orbs, this conversation cuts deep. ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David Unpacking the Episode: https://www.bankless.com/podcast/debrief-can-worldcoin-fix-the-internets-99-bot-problem-co-founder-alex-blania ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🟠BINANCE | THE WORLDS #1 CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/binance 🦎COINGECKO API | REAL-TIME CRYPTO PRICE & MARKET DATA https://bankless.cc/coingecko ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:15 The Bot Problem 9:28 Orb Scaling Limiters 15:40 Miniapps & Orb Use Cases 23:31 World ID Integration Plans 31:02 Incentives to Get Orbed 35:55 Civil Resistance & Sybil Attacks 40:14 Privacy Concerns: Will You Get Tracked? 46:26 Global Regulation 54:56 The Future: Internet Citizenship 58:42 Closing Thoughts ------ RESOURCES Alex Blania https://x.com/alexblania World App https://worldcoin.org/world-app ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠…

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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning: Steve Hsu: China's inevitable rise and America's confused response 57:55

2 days ago57:55

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Today Razib talks to repeat guest Steve Hsu about China, a topic with so many currently relevant dimensions gIven the PRC’s clear emergence as an economic, military and political rival to the US. Hsu is a Caltech‑trained theoretical physicist who migrated from black holes to big data, co‑invented privacy tech at SafeWeb, helped found the biotech company Genomic Prediction, all while remaining a prominent public voice on genetics, intelligence and the future of human enhancement. He is also a professor of physics at Michigan State, and from 2012-2020 was vice president for research and graduate studies there. Razib and Hsu discuss whether China is innovating and how meanwhile American regulation and culture are stifling its domestic creativity. A proud Iowan, Hsu rebuts the notion that he is pro-China, seeing himself simply as a realist convinced that it is important to face the PRC head on and assess its strengths candidly. He and Razib talk about China’s demographic headwinds. Hsu points out the reality of demographic inertia. The generation already born in the 21st century is an abundant young workforce who will power the nation’s rise for the next 30-40 years; that disastrously plummeting fertility making headlines today is a concern post-dated for at least a generation down the road. They also discuss the quality of Chinese higher education, and the reality that the population today is far more educated than it was 25 years ago. Hsu also talks about possible cultural and biobehavioral differences between East Asians and Europeans, and addresses why South Asians seem to be better adapted to succeed in American corporate culture.…

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The Daily: How Trump Lost Control of the Epstein Narrative 28:35

2 days ago28:35

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For the past two weeks, President Trump has been trying and failing to get his supporters to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein. David Enrich, a deputy investigations editor for The New York Times, and Shawn McCreesh, a Times White House correspondent, explain why MAGA won’t let go of this scandal, how the president misread his own base — and what all this shows about the limits of Mr. Trump’s power. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.…

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Macro Musings with David Beckworth: George Hall on the Fiscal Consequences of the US War on COVID 52:51

2 days ago52:51

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Check out David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus for a special 500th episode post! George Hall is a professor of economics at Brandeis University and formerly worked as an economist at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. George returns to the show to discuss the current fiscal status of the US, how the Big Beautiful Bill will impact the fiscal outlook going forward, the history of running deficits in the US, and much more. Check out the transcript for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on June 24th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus Follow David Beckworth on X: @DavidBeckworth Follow George on X: @George_J_Hall Follow the show on X: @Macro_Musings Check out our Macro Musings merch! Subscribe to David's new BTS YouTube Channel Timestamps 00:00:00 - Bumper 00:00:29 - Intro 00:01:55 - Current US Fiscal Status 00:05:45 - What Is Inflation? 00:10:18 - Fiscal Consequences of the US War with COVID 00:23:21 - World War COVID 00:25:05 - Before and After War 00:34:02 - Financing with Inflation 00:38:47 - World War II Period vs. Today 00:38:47 - World War II Period vs. Today 00:44:19 - Who Bears the Fed’s Losses? 00:47:14 - How to Foot the Big, Beautiful Bill 00:52:10 - Outro…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel: Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’ 1:06:15

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This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist. I’m guest-hosting for a couple more episodes of Decoder this summer while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Gil Duran, an old friend, journalist, and author of The Nerd Reich , a newsletter and forthcoming book about the shifting politics of Silicon Valley and the rise of tech authoritarianism. Links: Is Peter Thiel the Antichrist? NYT didn’t think to ask | The Nerd Reich How tech authoritarianism becomes reality | The Nerd Reich Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America | The New Yorker The rise of techno-authoritarianism | The Atlantic JD Vance thinks monarchists have some good ideas | The Verge Startups meeting with Trump officials to push for deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’ | Wired Peter Thiel-linked startup wants to build the “next great city” in Greenland | Inside Hook Bitcoin could replace dollar If US debt grows says Coinbase CEO | CryptoSlate Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Ursa Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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The Gray Area with Sean Illing: Can college survive Trump? 1:01:42

2 days ago1:01:42

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American higher education is under attack. Project 2025 laid out the battle plan pretty clearly: Get rid of the Department of Education, shut off federal funding, take control of the accreditation system, and take down diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. And in the end, change what students are encouraged to study and what professors are allowed to teach. The questions we’re left with is why? And is it working? Today’s guest is Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University. He’s a vocal defender of higher education. But he’s also honest about where things have gone wrong and what needs to change. Michael and Sean discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to change universities and colleges, the potential societal effects of that effort, political biases on campus, the dangers of ideological conformity, and the value of a college education (what is even the point of going to college any more?). Host : Sean Illing ( @SeanIlling ) Guest : Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University and author of numerous books including Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters and The Student: A Short History . Mentioned in this episode: Host Sean Illing’s interview with reporter James Walsh about AI on campuses. We would love to hear from you. To tell us what we thought of this episode, email us at tga@voxmail.com or leave us a voicemail at 1-800-214-5749 . Your comments and questions help us make a better show. Listen to The Gray Area ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members And you can watch new episodes of The Gray Area on YouTube . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Odd Lots: The NYC Landlords Most Worried About Zohran Mamdani 34:39

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Probably the most controversial proposal from New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is his promise to freeze the rent on a substantial chunk of rent-stabilized units in the city. There are concerns that this will cause a major downshift in housing development and that landlords that are heavily exposed to rent-stabilized units will be driven deeper into distress. But then separately there are major real estate owners who may be threatened by other aspects of Mamdani's real estate vision. For example, he has promised to, in some instances, expedite approvals for new buildings, which could take away the competitive edge from major building owners that know best how to work the approval process. But there are also players in the real estate industry who are excited about new opportunities. If housing production does, in fact, slow down, that could mean higher rent on market-rate units. And if Mamdani significantly expands the supply of free childcare in the city, then that could present an opportunity for some owners of commercial real estate. On this episode of the podcast, we speak with past guest Ben Carlos Thypin, a NYC landlord himself, as well as the founder of the analytics firm Quantierra. He gives us the overall lay of the land on how various players in the real estate industry are preparing for Mamdani's possible victory. Read More: Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox — now delivered every weekday — plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Strict Scrutiny: SCOTUS Enables Government Destruction 1:30:08

2 days ago1:30:08

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Melissa and Kate run through the latest legal news, including the Court greenlighting the dismantling of the Department of Education. Then, they speak with NYU law professor Rachel Barkow about her book, Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration . Hosts’ favorite things: Kate : Legalistic Noncompliance , Leah Litman and Dan Deacon (University of Michigan); Trump’s Plans to Put Emil Bove on the Supreme Court , Jeffrey Toobin (NYT); Bonus 167: The Case for Not Writing , Steve Vladeck (One First) Melissa : Wedding People by Alison Espach; What Reading 5,000 Pages About a Single Family Taught Me About America , Carlos Lozada (NYT); The Kent Family Chronicles , John Jakes; Emily in Paris walking tour Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE – The Bad Decisions Tour 2025! 10/4 – Chicago Learn more: http://crooked.com/events Order your copy of Leah's book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes Follow us on Instagram , Threads , and Bluesky…

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Factually! with Adam Conover: Is Pride Dead? 20:23

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(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we are sharing audio versions of these monologues with our podcast audience as well. Please enjoy, and stay tuned for your regularly scheduled episode of Factually!) The right is trying to turn Pride Month into Shame Month. Visit USAFacts.org for unbiased, nonpartisan data that unpacks topics that shape American life and subscribe here https://usafacts.org/signup/?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Paid&utm_campaign=Adam+Conover&utm_content=AC1 to receive their free weekly newsletter to get the trendlines behind the headlines. Views are my own—not those of USAFacts See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .…

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The Rest Is Money: 191. Is The Government’s British Business Bank Bold Enough? 40:26

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Is the British Business Bank taking enough risk to close the funding gap that holds back UK enterprises? How do we stop the unicorns relocating to the US? Do we need a new name for and whole new approach to pension savings? Steph and Robert talk to the government-owned bank’s chair Stephen Welton about what he’ll do with all the extra billions Rachel Reeves has allocated him to support small businesses. We appreciate your feedback on The Rest Is Money to help make the podcast and our partnerships better: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://opinion-v2.askattest.com/app/41f5060f-0f52-45bc-bf86-bf3c9793618e?language=ENG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up to our newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get more stories from the world of business and finance. Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠restismoney@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheRestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheRestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://⁠⁠⁠goalhanger.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit: ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://monzo.com/therestismoney⁠⁠⁠/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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This American Life: 864: Chicago Hope 59:25

3 days ago59:25

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The story of the most commonly performed surgery, and what goes wrong with it – terribly wrong – 100,000 times a year in the United States. We’re excited to bring you the first episode of The Retrievals, Season 2, the new show from longtime This American Life producer and editor Susan Burton. It’s from Serial Productions and The New York Times. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: Ira Glass introduces the first episode of an inventive new podcast from longtime This American Life producer and editor Susan Burton. Act One: Susan Burton introduces Mindy, a labor and delivery nurse at UI Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (5 minutes) Act Two: Another labor and delivery nurse at UI Health, Clara, gets ready to deliver twins at her own hospital and receives an epidural. (19 minutes) Act Three: Clara’s anesthesia is not working. She is now in the middle of major abdominal surgery, and she can feel that surgery. (21 minutes) Act Four: Heather, the head of obstetric anesthesia at UI Health, gets up onstage and asks a ballroom full of hundreds of anesthesiologists to wrestle with the question of why patients are feeling pain during C-sections, and what they can do to solve it. (8 minutes) Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org This American Life privacy policy. Learn more about sponsor message choices.…

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Letters from an American: July 19, 2025 6:34

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Give Them An Argument: Season 7 Episode 21: How Capitalism Ends (Bastille Day Special w/Steve Paxton) 1:49:48

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Steve Paxton studied with the great Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen as a graduate student at Oxford. Since then, he's had blue-collar jobs, white collar jobs, and been unemployed, but he's never stopped writing and thinking about socialism and Marxism. For this special Bastille Day episode, Ben Burgis talks with Steve about his book "How Capitalism Ends." Oh, and it's graphic designer Andy's birthday, so we'll raise a toast to our Bastille Day Boy. In the postgame for patrons, believe it or not, we actually finish our long march through Jordan Peterson vs. 20 Atheists. Order Steve's book: https://stevepaxton.co.uk/buyNowHCE.php Follow Steve on Twitter: @Steve__Paxton Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going: patreon.com/benburgis Read the weekly philosophy Substack: benburgis.substack.com Visit benburgis.com…

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The Daily: ‘Modern Love’: How to Keep Love Alive, With Rob Delaney of ‘Dying for Sex’ 37:04

3 days ago37:04

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When we meet Rob Delaney’s character, “Neighbor Guy,” in FX’s limited series “Dying for Sex,” he’s scarfing down a burrito in an elevator, dripping food on his face and the floor. But Delaney’s performance reveals that under Neighbor Guy’s messy exterior is a man capable of deep vulnerability and empathy. “Dying for Sex” follows a woman named Molly, played by Michelle Williams, who is dying of cancer and desperate to experience sexual pleasure before it’s too late. At first, Molly thinks Neighbor Guy is disgusting, but the two soon discover they make sense together, sexually and emotionally. Williams and Delaney received Emmy nominations for their roles. On this episode of Modern Love, Delaney tells host Anna Martin why exposing the messy and painful parts of ourselves to other people can be rewarding and hilarious. He talks about tending his own relationship and reads a Modern Love essay about a couple who decides to try some role play to avoid getting too comfortable with each other. For more Modern Love, search for the show wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.…

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The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer: How the Tech Billionaires Bought Radical Journalists 46:28

3 days ago46:28

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Tech lords such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are among the richest humans who have ever lived and have an enormous sway over the American political system but even that isn’t enough for them. They also want a compliant media, one that echoes their ideas, doesn’t investigate their business practices, and goes after their enemy. This is the subject of a new book by Eoin Higgins: Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. I talked to Eoin about two of the major figures in this story, Peter Thiel, a plutocrat who is eager to abandon the human species and Matt Taibbi, a onetime anti-establishment voice who now has become a standard reactionary. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Odd Lots: Why the Damage to Fed Independence May Have Already Been Done 27:43

4 days ago27:43

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There’s a long history of US presidents putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, but the techniques have often been subtle or quiet in some way. Under President Trump, attacks on the Fed have risen to a whole new level. And it’s not just Trump that’s called on Chair Jerome Powell to cut rates. Other members of his administration (along with allies in Congress) have been hammering him both on policy and also topics unrelated to monetary policy, such as the cost of renovating the Federal Reserve building in Washington. Investors are taking seriously the prospect that Trump will find a way or a reason to remove Powell before the end of his term next year. And regardless of when Powell is replaced, there’s a widespread anticipation that the next Fed chair will be someone more closely resembling a Trump loyalist. So do we still have an independent Fed at this point? On this episode, we speak with University of Texas-Austin economics professor Carola Binder about why central bank independence is so cherished by economists, why mere criticism of the Fed could be inflationary, and whether Fed independence has been permanently damaged. Read More: Odd Lots Newsletter: Central Bank Independence Is a Spectrum What Happened the Last Time a Fed Chief Was Bounced Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox — now delivered every weekday — plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts: How To Build A Police State (With The Supreme Court’s Blessing) 58:53

4 days ago58:53

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Over the last six months, life has been upended for millions of people in America as Stephen Miller's extreme immigration policies have been unleashed. And while the first weeks of the second Trump administration saw some genuine pushback from the Supreme Court, six months in, that feint at checking and balancing has fallen away. On this week's Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick welcomes Aaron Reichlin Melnick, Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Reichlin Melnick last appeared on the show in the days after Trump's inauguration and the initial barrage of lawless Executive Orders targeting the immigration system and the millions caught in it. Half a year into Trump 2.0, and Stephen Miller's no-holds-barred anti-immigrant plan for America, what's stuck? What's accelerated? And in light of the new budget, what's next? Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1236: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin 48:56

4 days ago48:56

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello have a morning chat about the measles epidemic and H5N1 in cows before Dr. Griffin discusses how vaccination associates with reduced dementia risk before deep diving into recent statistics on measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, a potential new influenza antiviral drug, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 variant should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, immunization recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, associaton of remesdivir administration and long-term sequelae and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada) Measles (WHO) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines : evidence bearing on causality (NLM) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts (ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP ( jpg ) The impact of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus infection on dairy cows (Nature) Avian flu exacts heavy financial toll on dairy industry, report says(CIDRAP) Inherited IFNAR1 deficiency in otherwise healthy patients with adverse reaction to measles and yellow fever live vaccines (Journal of Experimental Medicine) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) ENFLONSIA: novel drug approvals 2025 (FDA) RSV- Net work (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Systematic review and expert consensus on the use of long-acting monoclonal antibodies for prevention of respiratory syncytial virus disease: ARMADA (Advancing RSV Management And Disease Awareness) Taskforce (OFID) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID cases likely rising in half of states, CDC estimates(CBS News) Estimated COVID-19 Periodicity and Correlation with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein S1 Antigenic Diversity, United States (Emerging Infectious Diseases) Respiratory Illnesses Data Channel (CDC: Respiratory Illnesses) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) Estimated COVID-19 Periodicity and Correlation with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein S1 Antigenic Diversity, United States (Emerging Infectious Diseases) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (biRxiV) This CDC Resignation Should Scare You (Substack: Beyond the Noise) ACIP: COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations — COVID-NET , April 2025 Update (CDC: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases)) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Infusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug treatments for mild or moderate covid-19: systematic review and network meta-analysis (BMJ) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Paxlovid (Pfizer) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Extended nirmatrelvir–ritonavir treatment durations for immunocompromised patients with COVID-19 (EPIC-IC) (LANCET: Infectious Diseases) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin’s evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Invivyd and Leading Researchers Form SPEAR (Spike Protein Elimination and Recovery) Study Group to Assess the Effects of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Long COVID and COVID-19 Post-Vaccination Syndrome (INVIVYD) Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1236 Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary ( pdf ) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey . Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.…

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The Nation Podcasts: How the Tech Billionaires Bought Radical Journalists | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer 46:28

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Tech lords such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are among the richest humans who have ever lived and have an enormous sway over the American political system but even that isn’t enough for them. They also want a compliant media, one that echoes their ideas, doesn’t investigate their business practices, and goes after their enemy. This is the subject of a new book by Eoin Higgins: Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left . I talked to Eoin about two of the major figures in this story, Peter Thiel, a plutocrat who is eager to abandon the human species and Matt Taibbi, a onetime anti-establishment voice who now has become a standard reactionary. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: Exploring Hybrid Literary Forms 1:01:12

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A new Craftwork conversation with Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante , co-authors of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre , available from W. W. Norton & Col. Davison is the author of Doubting Thomas and founder of The Lab, a generative writing workshop. He is emeritus faculty in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California with his husband. LaPlante is the author of the craft book The Making of a Story and the New York Times best-selling novel Turn of Mind . She has taught creative writing at Stanford and San Francisco State University and lives in Mallorca, Spain, with her family. *** ⁠⁠ Otherppl with Brad Listi ⁠⁠ is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠ Apple Podcasts ⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ Spotify ⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ YouTube ⁠⁠ , etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠ Brad Listi’s email newsletter ⁠⁠ . ⁠⁠ Support the show on Patreon ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Merch ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Instagram ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ TikTok ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Bluesky ⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a ⁠⁠ proud affiliate partner of Bookshop ⁠⁠ , working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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In Moscow's Shadows: In Moscow's Shadows 209: Eagle, Dragon, Bear - how the Ukraine war drives Moscow into Beijing's orbit 52:12

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In the first half, I offer a (rather pessimistic) assessment of not just Trump's 50-day ultimatum but also recent EU and UK sanctions, before pivoting to explore how the US president has inadvertently made it clear that it is not him but China's Xi Jinping who has more influence with Putin. What is the nature of the Sino-Russian relationship, and where is it going? The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr , which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hybrid warfare, counter-terrorism, civil affairs and similar situations. You can also follow my blog, In Moscow's Shadows , and become one of the podcast's supporting Patrons and gain question-asking rights and access to exclusive extra materials including the (almost-) weekly Govorit Moskva news briefing right here . Support the show…

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1237: Hepatitis C and persistence with Charlie Rice 1:06:24

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From the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society for Virology, Charlie Rice, 2020 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, talks with Vincent and Kathy about his career and the scientific difficulties he and his laboratory encountered in their attempts to achieve replication of hepatitis C virus in cells in culture. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler Guest: Charlie Rice Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV 2020 Nobel Prize (Nobel Prizes) Hepatitis C human challenge study (Lancet Gastro Hepatol) Rat hepacivirus mouse model for hepatitis C (Hepatol) Replication of hepatitis C virus in cells in culture (Science) Lessons from domestication of HCV (Curr Opin Virol) Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.…

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Letters from an American: July 18, 2025 15:11

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Outside Lands San Francisco: 572: Jason Moore of BAM 1:35:15

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Nicole sits down with WNP Film Club partner Jason Moore of Bay Area Movies to discover their shared love for San Francisco, past and present. Hear about Jason’s Bay Area upbringing, the magic of neighborhood theaters, and why there’s still so much to appreciate about the city today.

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4645: Withdrawing From The WHO

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Episode 4645: Withdrawing From The WHO

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4644: 16 Year Plan To Destroy America; Who Actually Governs You

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Episode 4644: 16 Year Plan To Destroy America; Who Actually Governs You

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 7/19/24: Saagar Asks Andrew Schulz "Do You Regret Voting For Trump", JD Vance Vibe Check 39:33

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Saagar sits down with Andrew Schulz and crew to discuss whether they regret voting for Trump, how they conducted the Trump interview, does JD Vance pass the vibe check?, and more. Andrew Schulz Fragrant Pod: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialFlagrant To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.locals.com/support Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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The Gist: Live From America with Mike Pesca 28:16

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On this Saturday we play some of Mikes conversation on the podcast Live From America Hatem Gabr, one of the cohosts talks to Mike about NPR and the media landscape. Produced by Corey Wara Production Coordinator Ashley Khan Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ad-sales@libsyn.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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Wisdom of Crowds: What is Happiness? 53:45

4 days ago53:45

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What is happiness? Why are so many Americans — by their own admission — unhappy? These are the central questions in this special episode, live from the Aspen Ideas Festival . At the festival, our house philosopher, Dr. Samuel Kimbriel, hosted a discussion with three distinguished thinkers. Adam Sandel is a philosopher and assistant district attorney in Brooklyn whose latest book is titled Happiness in Action: A Philosopher’s Guide to the Good Life . Agnes Callard is a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who just published Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life . Finally, David Brooks is a well-known opinion columnist for the New York Times whose 2016 book, The Road to Character , explores the development of a good personality. Samuel sets the stage by reading off startling statistics showing that Americans are by and large less happy today than they were even five years ago. Adam advances the idea that what makes us happy is “an activity for the sake of itself, [an] activity that is intrinsically fulfilling in the moment.” This could be sports — he cites Roger Federer as an example of a happy man, at least during tennis tournaments. Callard counters: “We can’t will ourselves to do a thing for its own sake. When we know what the good is, we will do it for its own sake. Until then, we have to inquire.” She proposes an “intellectualist” approach to happiness, arguing that a life of inquiry is the best prelude to happiness. Brooks enters the fray by arguing against Callard’s intellectualist approach, saying that what moves human beings is “intensity” and “surrender,” and that the things that bring us joy are necessarily plural, not singular. Callard argues back, contending that Brooks confuses those things which human beings want with those things that are actually good. It’s a rollicking discussion complemented by Samuel’s deft moderation and questions from the audience concerning grief, internal versus external goods, and the common good. Free for all subscribers — you will not want to miss this episode. Required Reading: * Samuel Kimbriel, Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation ( Amazon ). * Adam Sandel, Happiness in Action: A Philosopher’s Guide to the Good Life ( Amazon ). * Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life ( Amazon ). * David Brooks, The Road to Character ( Amazon ). Wisdom of Crowds is a platform challenging premises and understanding first principles on politics and culture. Join us! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wisdomofcrowds.live/subscribe…

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Macro N Cheese: Ep 337 - The Overdose Economy with Charles LeBaron 1:04:42

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Dr. Charles LeBaron is a retired CDC scientist and the author of Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids. He talks with Steve about the ill-considered response to the opioid crisis and the tragic and preventable consequences of the CDC’s 2016 guidelines. Restricting prescriptions without providing treatment (whether for pain relief or addiction) drove users to illicit opioids like fentanyl and a surge in overdose deaths. The conversation expands to systemic issues, including the corporate greed of Big Pharma, political exploitation of the crisis, and the punitive rather than rehabilitative approach to addiction. Steve and Charles highlight how austerity policies and privatization exacerbate the epidemic, disproportionately harming working class and marginalized communities. They criticize current political responses, such as RFK Jr.’s proposed cuts to addiction treatment programs in favor of ineffective "healing farms," as emblematic of a broader failure to address root causes. Both emphasize the need for compassionate, science-driven solutions over criminalization, underscoring how public health and social equity are inextricably linked. For more than twenty-eight years, Charles LeBaron worked as a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While there, he was the author of more than fifty scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals, including first- or senior- author papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.…

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Interesting Times with Ross Douthat: She Exposed Epstein, and Shares MAGA’s Anger 58:38

4 days ago58:38

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Julie K. Brown thinks Jeffrey Epstein didn’t act alone. On this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross talks to Brown, the investigative reporter whose work ultimately led to Epstein’s re-arrest, about what the government could release that it hasn’t and how the story is bigger than Epstein. 2:32 - Brown's initial interest in the Epstein case 5:26 - Discovering Epstein's crimes and the plea deal 13:13 - Epstein's victims and the impact of Brown's reporting 18:20 - Epstein's wealth and connections 25:20 - Epstein's social circles 35:01 - Certainty and unsolved mysteries 45:25 - The role of government in the case 51:04 - Trump and the political fallout (A full transcript of this episode is available on the Times website.) Thoughts? Email us at interestingtimes@nytimes.com. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel, Interesting Times with Ross Douthat. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.…

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The Good Fight: Dan Williams on Misinformation 46:23

4 days ago46:23

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Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss fake news. Daniel Williams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He writes the Conspicuous Cognition newsletter, which brings together philosophical insights and scientific research to examine the forces shaping contemporary society and politics. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams explore whether the term misinformation is defined too broadly, how to judge if something is fake news, and what is meant by the “everyone is biased” bias. Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Apple⁠ | ⁠Google⁠ X: ⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠ & ⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠ YouTube: ⁠Yascha Mounk⁠ , ⁠Persuasion⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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The Daily: 'The Interview': Sandra Oh Knows What's Great About Middle Age 41:38

4 days ago41:38