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329: ‘The Scotland Board of Tourism’, With David Smith

Special guest David Smith returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch Series 7 and the state of WatchOS, Apple suing NSO Group, and more.




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350: ‘Your Sack of Meat With Teeth’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook “Pro”. No sports talk (unless you count soccer).




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369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment

Marco Arment returns to the show to discuss some genuinely startling revelations regarding iPhone and Apple ID security; the new HomePod 2; and our favorite electric vehicle maker. Also: coffee.




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371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about AI chat, new emoji, and Apple Music Classical.




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The Hour of His Judgment

The first angel of Revelation 14 proclaims a judgment that occurs before Jesus comes in glory. Once every case has been decided in the heavenly courtroom, Jesus will return with His rewards.



  • Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor

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The Cause and Cure for Discouragement

It's a fact of life that people grapple with discouragement, despair, and depression. There are many causes of discouragement. How can we deal with it?



  • Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor

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Petro vs Ingrid Betancourt, Laura Sarabia con nuevo cargo y otro cierre vía al Llano

La Luciérnaga se enciende para hablar de Carlos Alonso Lucio, exintegrante del M-19, quien estuvo presente junto a Ingrid Betancourt en el día en que, según relató, se encontró con el actual presidente en un profundo estado de crisis en su residencia en Bruselas, Bélgica. Lucio, ratificó la veracidad de todo lo expuesto por ella, ya que compartió ese momento con Betancourt en el encuentro con el entonces secretario de la embajada de Colombia en Bélgica. Además, la exjefe del gabinete de Gustavo Petro, Laura Sarabia, será la nueva directora del Departamento de Prosperidad Social. De acuerdo a lo que acabó de trascender, esto marcará su regreso a la rama ejecutiva. Y por último, Coviandina, empresa encargada de la concesión en la vía Bogotá- Villavicencio, anunció que este importante corredor vial tendrá un cierre temporal hasta el próximo martes 29 de agosto a las 3:00 de la mañana. 
La Luciérnaga, un espacio de humor y opinión de Caracol Radio que acompaña desde hace más de 30 años a sus oyentes en el regreso a casa.




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“Mi hijo todos los días llora por mi y yo por él”: Andrea Betancourt




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Ingrid Betancourt aseguró que el próximo presidente saldrá de Coalición Centro Esperanza




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Ingrid Betancourt aseguró que el próximo presidente saldrá de Coalición Centro Esperanza




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El Eterno Tour 2022 de Manuel Medrano llega a América Latina




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Mocedades se presentará en Medellín con su ‘infinito tour’

La agrupación española tendrá a Colombia y realizará un nuevo lanzamiento junto a Plácido Domingo.




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Mocedades se presentará en Medellín con su ‘infinito tour’

La agrupación española vendrá a Colombia y realizará un nuevo lanzamiento junto a Plácido Domingo.




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Harold Tejada, mejor colombiano en el Tour de Francia, habló tras finalizar la competencia

En 10AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio, estuvo Harold Tejada, quien fue el mejor colombiano del Tour de Francia, para hablar sobre su experiencia en la carrera más importante del ciclismo a nievl global.




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Do any Twitter/X alternatives let you upload your archived data yet?

I really gotta get off Twitter/X, but I'd like to have all my data on one service. Have any of the alternate federated services implemented an importer for archived data yet? If not, are there any good third-party ways to do this now?

I looked into this a couple years ago, before I set up my mefi.social Mastodon account. But I only found some GitHub repos with scripts to do things like this, and it looked like doing it on Mastodon, for instance, if you'd already created an account would run the risk of flooding the server you're on with your old posts.

But people have been leaving Twitter/X for a couple years now, and the services have had some time to catch up after the flood of initial interest. Is there a way to import this data? Especially is there a way to do this on Mastodon that won't spam mefi.social? Heh.




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Regresan los tours de fantasmas en La Candelaria




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Ya inició el GKA Kite World Tour




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Se cierra el campeonato GKA Kite World Tour




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Canal Gourmet estrena 'Los favoritos de Margarita'




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Julio Bautista y el parkour en Usme




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¿Cómo podemos darle un buen uso a Chat GPT y Midjourney?




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My Phd Is Bigger Than Yours

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Daniel Martínez y las opciones de ser líder del Ineos en el Tour de Francia




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Rigo Urán confirmó la carrera en la que reaparece antes del Tour de Francia




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¿Qué esperamos de los colombianos en el tour de Francia?




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Nairo Quintana entra en la pelea del Tour de Francia




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Santiago Buitrago sobre el Tour de Francia: “Me postularé a ver si me llevan”




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¿Qué respondió Sebastián Betancourt y el abogado Muñoz sobre el supuesto aporte de Daily Cop a la campaña Petro presidente?

¿Tiene relación Daily Cop con la campaña Petro Presidente?




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¿Qué es la ‘Patrulla Gourmet’ de la Policía? Así funcionará en Bogotá durante la Copa América

El jefe de Estrategias Operativas de la Policía Metropolitana de Bogotá,  Mayor Javier Bello, le explicó a 6AM  de Caracol Radio la nueva estrategia que aplicarán las autoridades para ofrecer toda la seguridad a los ciudadanos durante la celebración de este evento deportivo. 




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Petro sabía que estaba abriendo como caja de pandora reincidencia de ‘Gafas’: Betancourt

En Caracol Radio estuvo Ingrid Betancourt, exsecuestrada por las Farc




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PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Medieval Radiance And Incarnate Jazz: Light Gathering in NYC on November 8th

In the universe, every element, every star, every atom is constantly sending out waves of light—some visible, most hidden. From gamma rays, to the brilliance of sunlight, to the subtle glow of infrared, everything in existence shines. In this concert, we gather that light, pulling from the vast spectrum, where ancient harmonies meet the rhythms of the modern world...




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PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Announcing SMOKE Jazz Club’s December Line-up Featuring The 12th Annual Coltrane Festival With Ravi Coltrane’s Smoke Debut, A Spectacular New Year’s Eve Celebration, Catherine Russell and Sean Mason, And More

Entering its second quarter century as committed as ever to pure jazz (All About Jazz),” SMOKE Jazz Club continues its 25th anniversary season with an exciting line-up in December. The holiday season kickstarts with “A Nat King Cole Christmas” featuring singer Allan Harris (Dec 4). SMOKE is thrilled to welcome acclaimed vocalist Catherine Russell in her club debut in a thrilling duo with pianist Sean Mason (Dec 5-8) performing repertoire off their latest album My Ideal...




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CONTEST: Don’t Miss Your Chance To Be Part Of The 11th Edition Of The 7 Virtual Jazz Club International Improvised Music Contest!

New Application Deadline: December 31, 2024 With the eleventh edition of our international improvised music contest, we reaffirm our commitment to promoting talent from around the world and across all musical genres, making our format even more open and inclusive to celebrate every form of music. ...




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PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Aaron Parnell Brown and The Riverside Gang Come To Black Squirrel Club In Philadelphia On Saturday November 23, 2024

Come see and hear one of Philly's most extraordinary artists in Jazz, Soul, and Blues—Aaron Parnell Brown and The Riverside Gang! Coming to the Black Squirrel Club on Saturday November 23rd! Saturday, November 23, 2024...




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PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Rick Bogart Releases 5th Album 'Rick Bogart Sings Mr. Paganini' - Debut Performance at Backstage Tavern on Friday, November 8

Acclaimed jazz clarinetist and vocalist Rick Bogart is thrilled to announce the release of his highly anticipated new album as a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Rick Bogart Sings Mr. Paganini, now available on all streaming platforms...




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Keeping your child busy over the holidays

Schools closed over a week ago, and if you have children in lower, and upper grades, and teenagers, you might be experiencing some tsunami in your household.




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Automating Ourselves Out of Existence

Time has grown more scarce after having a child, so I rarely blog anymore. Though I thought it probably made sense to make at least a quarterly(ish) post so people know I still exist.

One of the big things I have been noticing over the past year or so is an increasing level of automation in ways that are not particularly brilliant. :D

Just from this past week I've had 3 treat encounters on this front.

One marketplace closed my account after I made a bunch of big purchases, likely presuming the purchases were fraudulent based on the volume, new account & an IP address in an emerging market economy. I never asked for a refund or anything like that, but when I believe in something I usually push pretty hard, so I bought a lot. What was dumb about that is they took a person who would have been a whale client & a person they were repeatedly targeting with ads & turned them into a person who would not recommend them ... after being a paying client who spent a lot and had zero specific customer interactions or requests ... an all profit margin client who spent big and then they discarded. Dumb.

Similarly one ad network had my account automatically closed after I had not used it for a while. When I went to reactivate it the person in customer support told me it would be easier to just create a new account as reactivating it would take a half week or more. I said ok, went to set up a new account, and it was auto-banned and they did not disclose why. I asked feedback as to why and they said that they could not offer any but it was permanent and lifetime.

A few months go by and I wondered what was up with that and I logged into my inactive account & set up a subaccount and it worked right away. Weird. But then even there they offer automated suggestions and feedback on improving your account performance and some of them were just not rooted in fact. Worse yet, if they set the default targeting options to overly broad it can cause account issues in a country like Vietnam to where if you click to approve (or even auto approve!) their automated suggestions you then get notifications about how you are violating some sort of ToS or guidelines ... if they can run that logic *after* you activate *their* suggestions, why wouldn't they instead run that logic earlier? How well do they think you will trust & believe in their automated optimization tips if after you follow them you get warning pop overs?

Another big bonus recently was a client was mentioned in a stray spam email. The email wasn't from the client or me, but the fact that a random page on their site was mentioned in a stray spoofed email that got flagged as spam meant that when the ticket notification from the host sent wounded up in spam they never saw it and then the host simply took their site offline. Based on a single email sent from some other server.

Upon calling the host with a friendly WTF they explained to the customer that they had so many customers they have to automate everything. At the same time when it came time to restoring hosting that the client was paying for they suggested the client boot in secure mode, run Apache commands x and y, etc. ... even though they knew the problem was not with the server, but an overmalicious automated response to a stray mention in a singular spam email sent by some third party.

When the host tried to explain that they "have to" automate everything because they have so many customers the customer quickly cut them off with "No, that is a business choice. You could charge different prices or choose to reach out to people who have spent tens of thousands on hosting and have not had any issues in years." He also mentioned how emails can be sent to spam, or be sent to an inbox on the very web host that went offline & was then inaccessible. Then the lovely customer support person stated "I have heard that complaint before" meaning they are aware of the issue, but do not see it as an issue for them. When the customer said they should follow up any emails with an SMS for servers going offline the person said you could do it on your end & then later sent them a 14-page guide for how to integrate the Twillio API.

Nothing in the world is fair. Nothing in the world is equal. But there are smart ways to run a business & dumb ways to run a business.

If you have enough time to write a 14-page integration guide it probably makes sense to just incorporate the feature into the service so the guide is unneeded!

Businesses should treat their heavy spenders or customers with a long history of a clean account with more care than a newly opened account. I had a big hedge fund as a client who would sometimes want rush work done & would do stuff like "hey good job there, throw in an extra $10,000 for yourself as a bonus" on the calls. Whenever they called or emailed they got a quick response. :D

I sort of get that one small marketplace presuming my purchases might have been a scam based on how many I did, how new my account was, and how small they were, but the hosting companies & ad networks that are worth 9 to 12 figures should generally do a bit better. Though in many ways the market cap is a sign the entity is insulated from market pressures & can automate away customer service hoping that their existing base is big enough to offset the customer support horror stories that undermine their brand.

It works.

At least for a while.

A parallel to the above is my Facebook ad account, which was closed about a half decade or so ago due to geographic mismatch. That got removed, but then sort of only half way. If I go to run ads it says that I can't, but then if I go to request an account review to once again explain the geographic difference I can't even get the form to submit unless I edit the HTML of the page on the fly to seed the correct data into the form field as by default it says I can not request a review since I have no ad account.

The flip side of the above is if that level of automation can torch existing paid accounts you have to expect the big data search & social companies are taking a rather skeptical view of new sites or players wanting to rank freely in their organic search results or social feeds. With that being the case, it helps to seed what you can to provide many signals that may remove some of the risks of getting set in the bad pile.

I have seen loads of people have their YouTube or Facebook or whatever such account get torched & only override the automated technocratic persona non grata policies by having followers in another channel who shared their dire situation so it could get flagged for human review and restoration. If that happens to established & widely followed players who have spent years investing into a platform the odds of it happening to most newer sites & players is quite high.

You can play it safe and never say anything interesting, ensuring you are well within the Overtone Window in all aspects of life. That though also almost certainly guarantees failure as it is hard to catch up or build momentum if your defining attribute is being a conformist.

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Hurricane Helene caused big losses for North Carolina's fall tourism industry

Tourists stayed away from western North Carolina this year after Helene swept through the area, and towns that depend on leaf lookers are bracing for big losses.




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A Two Hour Journey Awaits You

Produced, Engineered and Hosted by Nicopisa 90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio Wednesdays 12h – 14h – Set your dial to 90.1 FM Streaming live at KKFI.org and archive.kkfi.org Wednesday, 30 October 2024 […]

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Teresa Ghilarducci: Is Your Employer Selling Off Your Pension? and HELU, Higher Education Labor United

Pension expert Teresa Ghilarducci returns to the Heartland Labor Forum this week to explain how some corporations are selling off workers’ pension plans and putting them at risk. Find out […]

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HOW CAN YOUR CITY MEET THEIR CLIMATE GOALS? BUILD AND USE SOLAR!

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. EcoRadio KC is glad […]

The post HOW CAN YOUR CITY MEET THEIR CLIMATE GOALS? BUILD AND USE SOLAR! appeared first on KKFI.





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Why it's not just your brain that makes you smart

Science journalist Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Extended Mind, wants to dispel us of our brain fixation. Meanwhile assistant professor Julia Kam, who runs Internal Attention Lab at the University of Calgary, emphasizes how important it is to let the mind wander.




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Edna O'Brien discusses her journey from Ireland's outcast to celebrated icon

Listen to O'Brien's conversation from 2009 with Eleanor Wachtel. O'Brien died on July 27, 2024 at the age of 93.



  • Radio/Writers & Company

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Dec 17: Our annual holiday book show, including the health hazards of space travel and more

A history of COVID-19 and the neuroscience of religion.



  • Radio/Quirks & Quarks

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Dec 31: Our annual holiday question show

On this year's edition of our holiday science question show, we've got answers for your burning science questions like why did Bob's voice change so much? Does more C02 help trees grow? Do insects and reptiles play? And more...



  • Radio/Quirks & Quarks

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Our Summer in the Field special

For many of us, summer is the time for things like beaches, bike rides, and BBQs. For some scientists, however, summertime is also when they are at their busiest, travelling to remote locations to get up close and personal with nature.



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Forget oil: Microchips are today's most valuable resource, says author

Nearly every powered device we use these days depends on microchips, from cars to electric guitars. A look at the origin of the integrated circuit, its rapid development, and the way this technology has changed the world's geopolitical and economic landscape.




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Rethinking energy storage technology as our need for battery power grows

How can we meet the increased demand for the materials needed to build batteries, while keeping the environmental and human costs of resource extraction low?




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Corporations at COP27, Tweeting as Elon Musk, the labour movement takes a stand, Margaret Sullivan and more

Corporate influence at COP27; cartoonist Jeph Jacques gets booted from Twitter for impersonating Elon Musk; Margaret Sullivan on how to cover Trump and Trumpism; what Ontario unions' victory over Bill 28 means for Canada's labour movement; graphic novelist Cecil Castellucci hopes Shifting Earth will be a path toward climate action; and more.



  • Radio/Day 6