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It Could Happen Here
Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable―And How We Can Stop It
Jonathan Greenblatt discusses the alarming rise of hate in America and the potential for societal collapse, drawing parallels to historical events like the Holocaust and the Bosnian War. He details the various factors that contribute to this dangerous situation and stresses the need for action to prevent it.
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I think we have reached a perilous moment in our country's history.
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Jonathan Greenblatt discusses the alarming rise of hate in America and the potential for societal collapse, drawing parallels to historical events like the Holocaust and the Bosnian War. He details the various factors that contribute to this dangerous situation and stresses the need for action to prevent it.
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I think we have reached a perilous moment in our country's history.
I think oftentimes we talk about antisemitism as the canary in the coal mine for society, and it's a sign of decay.
I think the unthinkable for me speaks to the total breach of our social fabric. It is the unraveling of what we know today.
I think many of us would like to entertain the fantasy that democracy is a silver bullet. It's not.
It's not education either. There's these tropes that... It is.
Slow Horses (Slough House)
It was described as a wonderful spy thriller on Apple TV plus, with praise for the actors and the overall quality of the show.
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My win is this wonderful show called Slow Horses which is a spy thriller based on the 2010 novel by Mick Herron.
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It was described as a wonderful spy thriller on Apple TV plus, with praise for the actors and the overall quality of the show.
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My win is this wonderful show called Slow Horses which is a spy thriller based on the 2010 novel by Mick Herron.
And it's on Apple TV plus, Gary Oldham is fantastic.
It is wonderful.
A Lie Too Big to Fail
The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
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The Art of War (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) (Fingerprint! Classics)
It was mentioned as a book that every high schooler reads, and one of its lessons was discussed in relation to the conflict in Ukraine.
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One of the first sort of lessons in Sun Tzu's, the art of war, which every high schooler reads and thinks they understand war and conflict and strategy. But one of it is unless you're gonna annihilate...
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It was mentioned as a book that every high schooler reads, and one of its lessons was discussed in relation to the conflict in Ukraine.
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One of the first sort of lessons in Sun Tzu's, the art of war, which every high schooler reads and thinks they understand war and conflict and strategy. But one of it is unless you're gonna annihilate your enemy, you always wanna give them an out.
Your Face Belongs to Us
A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
The book details an investigation into Clearview AI, a facial recognition startup, and explores the ethical implications of their technology. It discussed the technology's capabilities and its potential misuse, highlighting the ethical considerations surrounding its development and deployment.
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What Clearview has done was not a scientific breakthrough. It was ethical arbitrage.
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The book details an investigation into Clearview AI, a facial recognition startup, and explores the ethical implications of their technology. It discussed the technology's capabilities and its potential misuse, highlighting the ethical considerations surrounding its development and deployment.
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What Clearview has done was not a scientific breakthrough. It was ethical arbitrage.
I initially started digging into Clearview AI because I heard about them through a tipster who had come across the company in a public records request.
They claim that it worked with 98.6% accuracy.
But what was extraordinary about it was, as you said, they were willing to do what others hadn't. The building blocks were there.
In Europe, as they often are on privacy laws, they are ahead of us. They said that what Clearview AI did was illegal, that you can't collect this sensitive information about people, put them in a database like this without their consent. They essentially kicked Clearview out of their country.
Of Boys and Men
Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
The book was praised for articulating the issues faced by young men, providing a balanced perspective while acknowledging the bias against boys in the education sector. It was considered an important work, providing data-driven analysis for crucial conversations.
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Richard Reeves has a wonderful, really a landmark book out called A Boys and Men. He basically articulates what a lot of us have been feeling and seeing but couldn't outline biologically, economically...
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The book was praised for articulating the issues faced by young men, providing a balanced perspective while acknowledging the bias against boys in the education sector. It was considered an important work, providing data-driven analysis for crucial conversations.
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Richard Reeves has a wonderful, really a landmark book out called A Boys and Men. He basically articulates what a lot of us have been feeling and seeing but couldn't outline biologically, economically and from a societal standpoint.
When the Heavens Went on Sale
The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
Ashlee Vance's new book, When the Heavens Went on Sale, discusses the wild west of space and focuses on the individuals and companies driving the commercial space race beyond the well-known figures like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson.
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His latest book is called When the Heavens Went on Sale, The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach.
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Ashlee Vance's new book, When the Heavens Went on Sale, discusses the wild west of space and focuses on the individuals and companies driving the commercial space race beyond the well-known figures like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson.
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His latest book is called When the Heavens Went on Sale, The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach.
My main argument in the book is that we spent a lot of time talking about Mars and the moon and these things that are kind of far away but the real action, all the money so far has been poured into building this, I call it a computing shell in low earth orbit full of thousands and thousands of satellites.
The Odyssey
It was mentioned alongside "The Iliad", as a significant story about a journey home; the speaker had also read it multiple times.
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Iliad see Odyssey. Yeah, like I read that. Jesus Christ. That's an important story about the journey home.
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It was mentioned alongside "The Iliad", as a significant story about a journey home; the speaker had also read it multiple times.
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Iliad see Odyssey. Yeah, like I read that. Jesus Christ. That's an important story about the journey home.
Night (Night Trilogy)
It was described as a short book about torture and the brutalization of the people of Israel. The speaker had read it in college and said it stayed with them.
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Does it have pictures?
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It was described as a short book about torture and the brutalization of the people of Israel. The speaker had read it in college and said it stayed with them.
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Does it have pictures?
No, you don't want pictures in this book.
It's about those really difficult moments, which this is.
Together
The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
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Tools and Weapons
The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
The book was mentioned in the context of its author, Brad Smith from Microsoft, who was discussed as a potential leader for Facebook. His views on Facebook and data privacy were also mentioned.
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He wrote a book called Tools and Weapons.
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The book was mentioned in the context of its author, Brad Smith from Microsoft, who was discussed as a potential leader for Facebook. His views on Facebook and data privacy were also mentioned.
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He wrote a book called Tools and Weapons.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The climate crisis was discussed, referencing Bill Gates' book on the topic and the opportunities for economic growth in addressing climate change.
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I've interviewed Bill Gates about this. I've discussed what his book...
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The climate crisis was discussed, referencing Bill Gates' book on the topic and the opportunities for economic growth in addressing climate change.
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I've interviewed Bill Gates about this. I've discussed what his book...
Give People Money
How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
This book, published in 2018, focuses on Universal Basic Income (UBI). Kara Swisher noted it was a great book and recalled possibly featuring Annie Lowry on one of her podcasts.
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She has a book in 2018 called Give People Money. It was about...Yeah, she's a big UBI person. UBI, yeah. That was a great book.
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This book, published in 2018, focuses on Universal Basic Income (UBI). Kara Swisher noted it was a great book and recalled possibly featuring Annie Lowry on one of her podcasts.
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She has a book in 2018 called Give People Money. It was about...Yeah, she's a big UBI person. UBI, yeah. That was a great book.
Autocracy, Inc.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
The book explores a network of autocrats, not an alliance, who seek to gain absolute power and share resources and techniques to maintain it. The author highlights how Donald Trump admires these autocrats, particularly for their ability to get away with whatever they want.
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She's got a new book out called Autocracy Inc., the dictators who want to run the world.
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The book explores a network of autocrats, not an alliance, who seek to gain absolute power and share resources and techniques to maintain it. The author highlights how Donald Trump admires these autocrats, particularly for their ability to get away with whatever they want.
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She's got a new book out called Autocracy Inc., the dictators who want to run the world.
So what the book describes is a network of autocrats. It's not an alliance. There isn't a secret room where they all meet and make decisions.
And we're talking about a specific group of countries who, we're talking about Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Belarus, and a handful of others, who are led by people who don't believe that they should have any checks on their power. They should have total impunity. They should be able to do whatever they want. They shouldn't be stopped by media, by judges, by lawyers, by courts, and of course not by voters either. And so they have this vision of absolute power.
And that's because he instinctively, I don't know if he frames it this way in his mind, but he instinctively admires their ability to get away with whatever they want.
It's a terrific book. I've read it. It's fantastic. The book is Autocracy Inc., the dictators who want to run the world and good fucking luck, boys. We'll see if you can do it.
Project Hail Mary
A Novel
The book was referenced in a conversation about climate change solutions and the potential for risky geoengineering; the host mentioned the book's scenario involving a potential solution to a global crisis.
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Some of these ideas do have to do with sulfur guns and cooling down the climate and have unintended consequences. You know, even though he was writing about it in a fictional way that has been raised.
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The book was referenced in a conversation about climate change solutions and the potential for risky geoengineering; the host mentioned the book's scenario involving a potential solution to a global crisis.
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Some of these ideas do have to do with sulfur guns and cooling down the climate and have unintended consequences. You know, even though he was writing about it in a fictional way that has been raised.
Doing Justice
A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Preet Bharara discussed his book, "Doing Justice," mentioning it was written after he left his position as a U.S. attorney and before he began teaching and podcasting. It was mentioned in the context of his career path.
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Well, so I decided to write a book. I did not want to immediately return to the practice of law.
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Preet Bharara discussed his book, "Doing Justice," mentioning it was written after he left his position as a U.S. attorney and before he began teaching and podcasting. It was mentioned in the context of his career path.
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Well, so I decided to write a book. I did not want to immediately return to the practice of law.
The Psychology of Money
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
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Sandy Hook
An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
The book chronicles the spread of conspiracy theories surrounding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and how online platforms failed to adequately address the resulting harassment of the victims' families. It details the legal battles against those who profited from spreading misinformation.
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Sandy Hook is the story of the spread of the conspiracy theories is really a foundational story in a lot of ways because it sort of predicted what we would go through when it came to,...
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The book chronicles the spread of conspiracy theories surrounding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and how online platforms failed to adequately address the resulting harassment of the victims' families. It details the legal battles against those who profited from spreading misinformation.
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Sandy Hook is the story of the spread of the conspiracy theories is really a foundational story in a lot of ways because it sort of predicted what we would go through when it came to, you know, Pizza Gate and QAnon and Coronavirus and the 2020 election lie. And then there we are on January 6th at the Capitol.
As he was sort of pleading with them, can you please take some of this content down because people are hunting us online and he just couldn't get anything other than an automated response?
It was 21st graders and six educators.
Jones InfoWars platform made somewhere around $165 million between 2015 and 2018 according to the HuffPost.
So my greatest worry is that for the next election, as we saw to some degree in the last, we won't need Russia to interfere. We won't need them to sow disinformation. A swath of the Republican Party has proven themselves willing to do that themselves.
Goldfinger
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Treasure Island (Deluxe Hardcover Book)
The podcast mentioned Robert Louis Stevenson as the author of a book with the quote "everybody sooner or later sits down at a banquet of consequences", which was discussed in relation to the Robinhood app and the suicide of Alex Kearns. The quote was read and discussed as part of a larger commentary.
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everybody sooner or later sits down at a banquet of consequences and that is the Ashen meal now in front of Robin Hood's co-founders and co-chief executives, Vlad Tenev and Baiju Ba, Ashen meal.
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The podcast mentioned Robert Louis Stevenson as the author of a book with the quote "everybody sooner or later sits down at a banquet of consequences", which was discussed in relation to the Robinhood app and the suicide of Alex Kearns. The quote was read and discussed as part of a larger commentary.
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everybody sooner or later sits down at a banquet of consequences and that is the Ashen meal now in front of Robin Hood's co-founders and co-chief executives, Vlad Tenev and Baiju Ba, Ashen meal.
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