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Post Reports
21 Jan 2021 • The Washington Post

All-American terrorism

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A wake-up call for federal law enforcement on domestic terrorism. How journalists who cover the White House are recalibrating post-Trump. And dogs return to the White House.

Thu. 01/21 – Mark Gurman Dishes On The Apple VR Headset

Apple’s first foray into VR is coming next year, says Mark Gurman, but the real game is in AR and that’s a ways down the road. Amazon wants to help roll out the vaccines. Are laptops getting taller? One chat app to unify them all? And everybody wants a dark mode, even the Wh...

The Daily
21 Jan 2021 • The New York Times

The Inauguration of Joe Biden

Unity was the byword of President Biden’s Inaugural Address. The speech was an attempt to turn the page. But can this be achieved without, as many in the Democratic coalition believe, a full reckoning with and accountability of how America got to this point of division? Toda...

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
20 Jan 2021 • Andrew Hickey

Episode 111: “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas

Episode one hundred and eleven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas, and the beginnings of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “My Boyfriend’s Back” by the Angels.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

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Post Reports
20 Jan 2021 • The Washington Post

The 46th president

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An inauguration like no other. And how the White House residence staff say goodbye to one first family and hello to another. Read more: Joe Biden has been inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, calling for unity in a speech to a divided nation. White...

Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
20 Jan 2021

Rick Smolan: Photo Journalist, National Geographic Photographer, and co-creator of the best-selling “A Day in the Life” series

Rick Smolan has lived a life traveling around the world documenting with his camera for National Geographic, Time, and Life magazines. He famously photographed Robyn Davidson on her 1,700 solo trek across the Australian desert with four camels and a dog in 1977 which earned a cover story on National Geographic, became a best selling book with Rick's photos, and was turned into a movie called Tracks with Adam Driver playing Rick in the movie. Listen to Rick Smolan talk about being a photo journalist and photographer and share gems from his life.

Techmeme Ride Home
20 Jan 2021 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 01/20 – A16Z To Get Into The Media Business?

Is Andreessen Horowitz about to spin up its own media platform? Anthony Levandowski gets a pardon and Jack Ma resurfaces. Netflix is about to start printing money, and they’re about to give you a “shuffle play” button. And why Ben Thompson thinks Intel is in even more troubl...

The Daily
20 Jan 2021 • The New York Times

‘Restoring the First Brick of Dignity’: Biden Supporters on His Inauguration

Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States today. Among Democrats, there is a sense of joy and hope, but also of caution and concern. We speak with a range of Mr. Biden’s supporters, including activists who had originally hoped for a more progressi...

Techmeme Ride Home
19 Jan 2021 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 01/19 – Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 870

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 870. Cruise, Microsoft and GM all get together in a beautiful marriage that is just as much about cloud computing as it is self-driving. Has the policy controversy endangered WhatsApp in India? And why the whole Smart Home and Internet of Thin...

The Daily
19 Jan 2021 • The New York Times

'What Kind of Message Is That?': How Republicans See the Attack on the Capitol

Polling in the days since the storming of the Capitol paints a complex picture. While most Americans do not support the riot, a majority of Republicans do not believe that President Trump bears responsibility. And over 70 percent of them say they believe that there was wides...

Post Reports
19 Jan 2021 • The Washington Post

Biden’s first days

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Why the nation’s capital feels like a ghost town. What President-elect Joe Biden wants to get done on his first day in office. And why the Secret Service has been paying $3,000 a month for a bathroom. Read more: President-elect Joe Biden has long been eager to undo a...

Post Reports
18 Jan 2021 • The Washington Post

Tulsa, 100 years later

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The plight of black entrepreneurs in Tulsa, nearly a century after one of the nation’s worst acts of racial violence. Read more: In 1921, a White mob descended on the Greenwood district of Tulsa, killing scores of African Americans, and looting and burning their busi...

The Daily
17 Jan 2021 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'The Valve Turners'

Most Americans treat climate change seriously but not literally — they accept the science, worry about forecasts but tell themselves that someone else will get serious about fixing the problem very soon. The Valve Turners, on the other hand, take climate change both very ser...

Techmeme Ride Home
16 Jan 2021 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus) Interesting Raise Episode 1!

The first ever interesting raise omnibus episode!

Links:

Hipcamp, ‘Airbnb of the Outdoors,’ Raises $57 Million (The Information)
Local news app News Break raises $115M (TechCrunch)
Perfect Corp., developer of virtual beauty app YouCam Makeup, closes $50 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs (TechCrunch)
Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports (TechCrunch)
Graphcore raises $222M for its ultrafast AI chips (SiliconAngle)
AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $22M at a $2.77B valuation and puts an IPO in its sights (TechCrunch)
Fintech startup Oxygen raises $17M in Series A round (SiliconAngle)
AMP Robotics raises $55 million for AI that picks and sorts recyclables (VentureBeat)
WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G (TechCrunch)

Post Reports
15 Jan 2021 • The Washington Post

Four hours of insurrection

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Today, we reconstruct the riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — hearing from the lawmakers, journalists and law enforcement officials who were there, and answering lingering questions about how things went so wrong. Read more: The four-hour insurrection: How a mo...

Techmeme Ride Home
15 Jan 2021 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 01/15 – Are We Really Getting the MacBook of My Dreams?

Is Apple finally throwing in the towel and giving us the sort of laptops we actually want? With these IPO first-day pops, forget banks screwing startups, are VC’s also undervaluing companies right now in a way that is unfair? Amazon wants to do in cars what it’s done success...

The Daily
15 Jan 2021 • The New York Times

‘Rankly Unfit’: The View From a Republican Who Voted to Impeach

This episode contains strong language. Three days after being sworn into Congress, Representative Peter Meijer, Republican of Michigan, was sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives as pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol. After the siege, Mr. Meijer made...

That Trippi Show
15 Jan 2021

One. More. Week. Impeachment, DNC, and Biden's First Moves

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What a ridiculous month. Joe and Alex are here to help you make sense of it all. First, the House has impeached the president for a second time, but the trial likely won't begin until Pres. Biden (that looks nice) is in office. What are the endgames for McConnell and the Repu...

Crossword
15 Jan 2021

An American Web

Recent events have called into question our Open Web idealism. Should we have an outlet valve for some of the worst of the web? How should the Web be legislated and policed? Should it be possible to access illegal content? And importantly… what role does Open Source have in all of this?

Post Reports
14 Jan 2021 • The Washington Post

A brief history of tear gas in America

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Tear gas is a chemical weapon banned in war. So why do police departments still use it on civilians in the United States? Producer Linah Mohammad and reporter Devlin Barrett examine the history of tear gas and the ethical questions about its use.