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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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News from extreme weather and cataclysms

Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about extreme weather and cataclysms, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 919 stories have been published about extreme weather and cataclysms which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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VOA

VOA

'Bomb cyclone' brings high winds and soaking rain to Northern California and Pacific Northwest

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torontosun

torontosun

’MY HEART SANK’: Trial hears diapers, mittens set off search for family found frozen

torontosun

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CityNews

CityNews

Are you prepared for winter driving conditions? Wet flurries possible in GTA later this week

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DevX

DevX

Big Oil funds climate misinformation blitz

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Good News Network

Good News Network

Officials Applaud Canadian Woman Who Saved Boy from Drowning in Frozen River

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BBC

BBC

Snow: Flintshire, Wrexham, Powys and Denbighshire schools closed

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CityNews

CityNews

A 'bomb cyclone' sounds scary but meteorologist says it's not alarmist

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ABC News

ABC News

Northern California and Pacific Northwest brace for atmospheric river

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Uplynk

Uplynk

Biden seeks nearly $100B in disaster aid after Hurricanes Helene and Milton

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Global News

Global News

Demand grows for Saskatoon emergency shelters ahead of winter - Saskatoon | Globalnews.ca

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PBS

PBS

'Cut the theatrics.' Climate negotiators urged to get down to business at COP29 in Baku

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CNN

CNN

Stockpile nappies, medication, baby food: NATO members Sweden and Finland advise citizens on how to survive war | CNN

CNN

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Telegraph

Telegraph

How to drive your car safely in snow and ice this winter

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Yahoo

Yahoo

Wildfire smoke, poor air quality can have an impact on health — even for people who live far away

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PBS

PBS

PHOTOS: India's capital chokes on air pollution 50 times the safe limit

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edmontonjournal

edmontonjournal

Edmonton weather: Intense wind chills herald the coming of Winter

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ABC News

ABC News

Police in Massachusetts arrest man on charge of intentionally setting brush fires

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BBC

BBC

Snow and ice expected as UK braces for ‘first taste of winter’

BBC

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AFP.com

AFP.com

Majority of South Sudanese will be food insecure next year: UN

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Yle News

Yle News

Snow front moving toward Finland

Yle News

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