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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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📌 Deportations, Nigeria’s Kidnappings, More

Angela Palmer

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TOP STORY

Highest deportation of people in 10 years

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WORLD

Over 2M Nigerians kidnapped, 600K killed

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N Korean hackers stole $1.8B in crypto

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Chess Club Thrives in Congo

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A chess club for kids thrives in a Congo refugee camp. It’s about more than the game

ABC News

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A chess club for kids thrives in a Congo refugee camp in the midst of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Chess is "a therapeutic escape from the stress and horrors these children have endured," says club's instructor.

More than 5 million people have been displaced by decades of conflict in eastern Congo .

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English

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https://apnews.com/article/congo-goma-m23-ramesh-rajasingham-c25566d2312e0674cca5489e3ff1bf8a https://apnews.com/article/congo-displaced-migration-conflict-88975c963b3e1c61d7635de00881f4dd https://apnews.com/article/congo-crisis-m23-kivu-2c1c7789e499622e377eefcacc833ec2 https://apnews.com/article/congo-north-kivu-ceasefire-aid-9007389fa0a3544c454288c13b237d7b https://apnews.com/article/congo-north-kivu-truce-ceasefire-aid-abuses-4b64881b5cb7eff34e24dbee313a1eea http://ap.org/https://apnews.com/hub/africa-pulse https://apnews.com/article/un-congo-rwanda-us-war-rebel-humanitarian-7cb66d4e9f05931fefc350d166110d47 https://www.ap.org/about/standards-for-working-with-outside-groups/https://apnews.com/hub/democratic-republic-of-the-congo

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