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Techmeme Ride Home
10 Feb 2021 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 02/10 – TikTok Pardoned By Biden?

Maybe… the whole TikTok kabuki theater is at its endpoint. Salesforce thinks the whole concept of the “9-to-5 workday” is at its endpoint. More smoke around the Apple Goggles fire. Why you need to get hip to the concept of non-fungible tokens. And why cops have gotten hip to...

The Daily
10 Feb 2021 • The New York Times

What Will It Take to Reopen Schools?

Almost a year into the pandemic and the American education system remains severely disrupted. About half of children across the United States are not in school. The Biden administration has set a clear goal for restarting in-person instruction: reopening K-8 schools within 1...

Post Reports
09 Feb 2021 • The Washington Post

‘The framers’ worst nightmare come to life’

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The impeachment trial begins with an argument about whether it is constitutional in the first place. And, how the Keystone XL pipeline became a political shorthand for climate policy. Read more: On the first day of former president Donald Trump’s second impeachment t...

Techmeme Ride Home
09 Feb 2021 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 02/09 – Amazon To Release An Alexa ‘Command Center?’

Amazon is ginning up a new Echo device that’s like a dashboard for your household. Big changes to Android leaked to the internet. Reddit raises a big round. Mark Cuban is gunning for Clubhouse. And I’ve been warning y’all of industrial hacking. We almost had a big disaster d...

The Daily
09 Feb 2021 • The New York Times

A Guide to the (Latest) Impeachment Trial

The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump will begin today. This time, the case against Mr. Trump is more straightforward: Did his words incite chaos at the Capitol on Jan. 6? We look ahead to the arguments both sides will present. Guest: Jim Rutenberg, a...

Post Reports
08 Feb 2021 • The Washington Post

Trump’s rhetoric on trial

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On the cusp of another impeachment trial, court documents point to how former president Donald Trump’s rhetoric allegedly fueled the rioters who attacked the Capitol. And, whether double-masking makes sense. Read more: Reporter Rosalind S. Helderman shares the latest in th...

Techmeme Ride Home
08 Feb 2021 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 02/08 – Tesla Buys Bitcoin While Elon Sends Dogecoin To The Moon!

The singularity is near, cause all our meme stories are colliding. Tesla has bought a ton of Bitcoin while Elon is tweet-pumping Dogecoin. Clubhouse is blocked in China. Cold water on the Apple Car story from Hyundai itself. TikTok is skipping directly to an ecommerce buildo...

The Daily
08 Feb 2021 • The New York Times

Liz Cheney vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene

The departure of President Donald Trump and the storming of the Capitol have reignited a long-dormant battle over the future of the Republican Party. Today, we look at two lawmakers in the Republican House conference whose fate may reveal something about that future: Liz Che...

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
08 Feb 2021 • Andrew Hickey

Episode 113: “Needles and Pins” by The Searchers

This week’s episode looks at “Needles and Pins”, and the story of the second-greatest band to come out of Liverpool in the sixties, The Searchers. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a sixteen-minute bonus episode available, on “Farmer John” by Don and Dewey.

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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The Daily
07 Feb 2021 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'The Many Lives of Steven Yeun'

Jay Caspian Kang, the author and narrator of this week’s Sunday Read, spoke with the actor Steven Yeun over Zoom at the end of last year. The premise of their conversations was Mr. Yeun’s latest starring role, in “Minari” — a film about a Korean immigrant family that takes u...

Techmeme Ride Home
06 Feb 2021 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus) Office Hours With Garry Tan

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Post Reports
05 Feb 2021 • The Washington Post

Democrats prepare to go it alone on covid relief

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What you need to know about the economic relief package, and how Democrats are pushing it through Congress without any Republican support. And America’s chicken wing crisis.

Fri. 02/05 – An Apple Ad-pocalypse For Everyone?

Are Apple’s coming IDFA changes going to have a bigger ripple effect across the entire tech industry than we’re even anticipating? Chinese users are flocking to Clubhouse which… probably means the end of Clubhouse in China. Why a shortage of silicon is causing automakers to ...

The Daily
05 Feb 2021 • The New York Times

The $2.7 Billion Case Against Fox News

“The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for president and vice president of the United States.” So begins the 280-page complaint filed by Smartmatic, an election software company, against the Fox Corporation. Smartmati...

That Trippi Show
05 Feb 2021

Bipartisanship, The Party of QAnon, A Race We Need To Win Now

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First up this week, President Biden took a meeting with GOP Senators who want to compromise on the COVID relief package, but he seems to want to press forward with or without them. Who wins in the battle to look bipartisan — and is that what voters want? Then, Marjorie ...

Mastodon Blog
05 Feb 2021

Developing an official iOS app for Mastodon

One of the ways Mastodon sets itself apart from current-day Twitter is its API-first approach (every function available through the web interface is available through the API, in fact, our web client is just an API client that runs in the browser). A third-party app ecosyste...

Crossword
05 Feb 2021

Perspectives with Andrea Middleton

Andrea Middleton is a Community Organizer for the WordPress project. She shares how she first got involved with WordPress and how she ended up working with Community. We cover WordCamps, Meetups, COVID-19, and what it all might mean for the future of WordPress and the WordPress Community.

Post Reports
04 Feb 2021 • The Washington Post

Putin’s latest gamble

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The Kremlin cracks down on opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s supporters all over Russia. And, how Pfizer is making the most of its available vaccine doses.

Thu. 02/04 – The Most Details On Apple’s AR/VR Headset Yet

Whole bunch of Apple rumors today. The most details yet on the Apple headset. Will the Apple car be an AV first, and does that just mean it will be for delivering things? Is the iPhone 13 getting better cameras? And also, Amazon is deploying cameras on its trucks. And Senato...

The Daily
04 Feb 2021 • The New York Times

The End of Democracy in Myanmar

Rumors had been swirling for days before Myanmar’s military launched a coup, taking back power and ousting the civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar’s experiment with democracy, however flawed, now appears to be over. Today, we examine the rise and fall of Aung San ...