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Act one and act two of this episode of This American Life are fantastic.
Act one: two men obsessively compete to run the furthest to win a year of free Chipotle. There are no winners here.
Act two: OpenAI generates poetry, read aloud by Werner Herzog
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/832/that-

US VC firms are putting pressure on tech startups to ask their Chinese backers to divest as VCs anticipate tighter controls on foreign ownership from Washington (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://t.co/J70od5P8PP

The Chilling Reason You May Never See the New Trump Movie
Negotiations are ongoing, and domestic distribution could still come together.
Yet the possibility that American audiences won’t be able to see “The Apprentice”
isn’t just frustrating.
It’s frightening,
because it suggests that
💥Trump and his supporters have already intimidated some media companies, 💥which seem to be pre-emptively capitulating to him.
Some established distributors might simp…

Opinion | ‘The Apprentice:’ Why You May Never See the New Trump Movie
Hollywood shouldn’t pre-emptively capitulate to the MAGA movement.

Good Morning #Canada
Today is International Surfing Day, the 3rd Saturday in June, that celebrates a lifestyle that is over 5,000 years old. Canada is not known for its surfing locations, but Tofino, British Columbia, would be our surf capital of the country. Despite our long coastline, there may be a few thousand surfers in Canada versus over 4 million skiers who prefer the frozen version.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Surfing
https://www.americansurfmagazine.com/article/canada-surf-guide

#Hamburg Vortrag
*"La irrupción del
"Anarcoide-capitalismo" en Argentina: Mitos y realidades" *
(Der Aufstieg des "Anarchokapitalismus" in Argentinien: Mythen und Realitäten)
*Guillermo Santos /(IESCT - Universidad Nacional de Quilmes - Argentinien)/*
am *17.06.2024* um *18 Uhr *im *Hörsaal Phil E* ("Philosophenturm",
Von…

Opinion | Janet Yellen: Use Russia’s Assets to Support Ukraine - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/janet-yellen-ukraine-russia-g7.html

Opinion | Janet Yellen: Use Russia’s Assets to Support Ukraine
The U.S. treasury secretary explains why America and its allies should unlock the value of Russian capital immobilized at the start of the war to give Ukraine the financing it needs.

Khartoum, the capital of Sudan and one of the largest cities in Africa,
has been reduced to a charred battleground.
A feud between two generals fighting for power has dragged the country into civil war and turned the city into ground zero for one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes.
As many as 150,000 people have died since the conflict erupted last year, by American estimates.
Another nine million have been forced from their homes, making Sudan home to t…

Famine Looms in Sudan as Civil War Pushes Capital Toward Abyss
A year of fighting has turned the once proud capital, Khartoum, into a charred battleground. Millions have fled. Now a famine threatens in one of Africa’s biggest countries.

Another genocide now threatens Darfur, the region that became synonymous with war crimes two decades ago.
Fields have become battlegrounds in the country’s breadbasket.
The health system is crumbling.
And a plethora of armed groups, including hard-line Islamists, foreign mercenaries and even former pro-democracy protesters, has piled into the fight.
With American-led peace talks stalled, the Sudanese state is collapsing and threatening to drag down a fragile region w…

Famine Looms in Sudan as Civil War Pushes Capital Toward Abyss
A year of fighting has turned the once proud capital, Khartoum, into a charred battleground. Millions have fled. Now a famine threatens in one of Africa’s biggest countries.