This is a magical girl podcast, hosted by Ayu! I've talked about my comic on there before as well as the third season of Symphogear. Now I've come back to talk about the grandmother of the magical genre, Bewitched!
Hope you enjoy it! :akko_listen: It's, uh, two hours, so yanno, maybe listen to it while you eat dinner or something :zerotwoevillaugh:
"Nonetheless, Professor Tal says Benjamin Netanyahu turned a blind eye to large amounts of cash being funneled to [Hamas], in particular from the Gulf state Qaatar."
"He did everything he could in order to sustain the Hamas and to allow the Hamas to flourish within the Gaza strip. 'Here I am, I'm fighting against the Hamas', but he would stop short of eliminating the Hamas."
Ein Preis für deutschsprachige Podcasts...bis jetzt habe ich mich nur bei drei von den insgesamt fünf Kategorien entscheiden können: "Seelenfänger" (Spannung),
''Geschichte der kommenden Welten'' (Newcomer:in)
"Lost Sheroes" (Information)
Ein paar Podcasts, die ich gerne höre, fehlen. Hoffentlich reichen sie ihren Podcast nächstes Jahr ein.
@MichaelTunnell talks about LXQt Desktop, Nouveau Lead Joins NVIDIA, AlmaLinux making waves, New Linux Tablet & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
Supplying housing to professionals who move to take up positions is common in Oz. Why do we not do this here? Owning and managing houses, if done well, is cheaper than paying enough in salaries for rents or mortgage payments. Especially at times when these are ballooning.
2022: #JohnNaughton lays out the well-known propertarian and Hayekian side of crypto evangelism, then this intriguing observation;
"Lots of people will point out that the Satoshi memo, which released the idea for blockchain, more or less coincides with the fall of Lehman Brothers, and... [that] being a token for the corrupt, uncontrollable nature of financial capitalism and it's untrustworthiness."
"Citizens were challenging big business, holding them accountable, demanding governmental oversight, exercising their democratic rights. To [Lewis] Powell, the corporate lawyer and perennial corporate board member, this was a bridge too far. The chorus must be killed, power returned to the kings.
The future Supreme Court Justice went on to outline in detail how the corporate world must retake control and influence over every aspect of American life."
One of the most successful parts of the Powell strategy has been the reframing of "liberty". From it's original meaning; freedom from tyranny, to the freedom to be a tyrant (eg ZuckerBorg, Bezos, Thiel, Musk etc). Buying into this framing...
"Limitarianism v Libertarianism"
... implies we can only have economic justice at the cost of political freedom (a la China). I call bollox on this.
PSA: If you used to listen to #podcasts on the Google Podcast app, and moved your subscriptions over to YouTube Music ... don't even bother trying to listen there. It's a pretty awful experience.
"If you look around our country, there's almost no area of our political economy, and culture, and society, that is not being strategically planned by corporations."
"Just a wee plea to my lefty friends not to get stuck into this idea that if you just show people enough data they will change their minds. Because this government is actively saying, 'we will erase the data'. Because it doesn't matter. It's not real to us it's not what we believe."
"... one of the challenges of [deliberative democracy] is to get the mainstream media interested in it. I think they're not interested partly because it's quite technical, and secondly because I actually think they're threatened."
"What I discovered is that... [pharmaceutical corporations] don't, by and large, invent medicines. They behave like hedge funds. They buy the rights to produce medicines that have been made by others - with public money, or at small biotech companies - and then they squeeze the most they possibly can out of those drugs Whatever the consequences are to society... [or] how unaffordable they are."
"Since end-to-end encrypting communications on the platform as a measure to protect user privacy, Meta no longer has access to the content of messages so cannot monitor what is spreading. But the company now says it has technology to spot accounts engaging in abnormal behaviour, with 8m accounts banned a month – 75% of which are banned before those accounts are reported by users."
> still continue to disseminate terrible pieces of information, untruths, rumours
"[Politicians making blatantly untrue claims] is where media's role should be, to [say] 'no, that's just a lie', and just squash it. But they don't. They just repeat it. They amplify it."
Those decrying cultural spaces on campus for Māori and Pacifica know very well that "segregation" is not what they are. Some of them were alive in the 1960s when real segregation policies still excluded Māori from many public spaces. Despite being staunchly anti-racist since high school, even I didn't know about these until the recent documentary about them.
60 minutes on an American phenomenon called Garage Punk --- All the tracks come from a 3 CD collection released by Strawberry Records through Cherry Red
When Spotify entered the podcast world, audio producer Alex Sujong Laughlin was wary — and with good reason, since back when she was a social media editor working at The Washington Post, she saw the devastating effect some private tech companies have had on media and journalism. She's sad to be proved right. "Spotify — along with many other companies — wants to create a closed ecosystem for the creation, distribution, and consumption of podcasts, bypassing RSS technology altogether because that would allow them to harvest more listener data to leverage with advertisers," she writes in this story for Defector. Luckily, she says it's not too late to take back our feeds. "You don’t have to understand the technology of RSS to choose to listen to your podcasts on an open app. You can just choose to do it." [Story may be paywalled]
Friend: Do you listen to (NAME) podcast?
Me: No, I...
Friend: Oh, you may like it (proceeds to describe podcast)
Me: Uhm, I don't listen to podcasts. Podcasts are basically talk radio for Millennials and I can't get into talk radio.
Friend: Oh
Me: :akkoShrug: You do you, tho.
"When I engage in a critique of liberalism, it often seems that by extension I'm engaged in a certain critique of protestantism as well. In other words, the tendency towards fragmentation, of individualism, of self-assertion, of a concept of tje human being that begins at the level of the individual, and the individual exercising choice as the primary self-understanding."
Patrick J. Deneen, Professor of Political Science, 2024
I recently stumbled on the work of David Runciman, whose political analysis I find both unusual and insightful. Just listened to the audio version of his 2024 Guardian piece, looking at the effects of the pandemic on both geopolitics, and domestic politics in a range of countries;