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Alex Fink

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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Trump, White House prepare for transition

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Rafael lashes Cuba, power grid collapse

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Texas Heatwave Threatens Power

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storms trigger power outages

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Extreme heat and Hurricane Beryl make a disaster pileup in Texas

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Power outages are concentrated in southeast Texas , where the heat index is forecast to reach 105 degrees Fahrenheit .

It could take “ a few days ” to get the power back on, Public Utility Commission of Texas chairman Thomas Gleeson said.

Beryl has been a foreboding omen for what’s forecast to be a very bad Atlantic hurricane season this year .

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https://x.com/NWSHouston/status/1810630477826719796 https://www.facebook.com/cityofgalveston/posts/pfbid05R3on9ErFkTV1swcZfScSRNN6EY9N4GuKDof33zjxSqBmEgdXuTkdJHtiyFsc6M5l https://www.facebook.com/TxDEM/videos/live-hurricane-beryl-update-7-8-24/503498332245506/?mibextid=WC7FNe&rdid=Jn6rEF1mdO7ZCr8E https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd https://www.heat.gov/https://www.weather.gov/hazstat/https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/focus-on-1/https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Beryl https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-beryl-texas-7dfd5353671ee30d0c6d11518ea5a370 https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-waves https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/did-you-know/how-does-the-ocean-affect-storms/https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61303 https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/category-5-hurricane-beryl-makes-explosive-start-2024-atlantic-season https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-beryl-texas-power-outages-8bfeeed79444eed0bf116d09f1ea7e6c https://x.com/NWSHouston/status/1810424710020436432 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/us/new-orleans-hurricane-ida-heat.html

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