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☆ Opinion | It’s Not Possible to ‘Win’ an Argument With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Farhad Manjoo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But pretty much every expert I talked to said that none of the issues were likely big enough to have undone Bush’s win. Then Kennedy wrote a rebuttal to my rebuttal, which I, again, rebutted. Salon, a generally liberal-leaning publication, was deluged by letters from readers angry that I was defending Bush’s win. The other day I went back and listened to a debate I had with Kennedy on public radio’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.” Lehrer opened the program by asking Kennedy for his big-picture case. Such was his effort when we met on Lehrer: Kennedy offered an assortment of claims about the election that, in big and small ways, were unsubstantiated.

Persons: Kennedy, Kenneth Blackwell, Bush, Kennedy’s breathless, Brian Lehrer, ” Lehrer, Rogan, —, Lehrer Organizations: Democratic National Committee, Bush’s Locations: Ohio, Kerry

☆ Elon vs Zuck: My money's on Zuck to win for 3 simple reasons
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As a trained jiu-jitsu and MMA practitioner, Mark Zuckerberg has skills that Elon Musk does not. I am, of course, talking about the probable scene and setting for the most talked-about fight right now: Musk vs Zuck. Zuck has skillsMark Zuckerberg training MMA. Mark Zuckerberg on Instagram and GettyWhen push comes to shove, most people probably know how to throw a punch in a fight. When all things are equal, size and strength do count, which is why professional fighters organize themselves into weight classes.

Persons: Elon, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuck, Joe Rogan, Logan Paul, Elon Musk, Grimes, I've, Musk, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Lex Fridman, Fridman, aren't, let's Organizations: Zuck, Morning, Mobile, Twitter, Getty, Zuckerberg, UFC Locations: Las Vegas

☆ Pink Floyd, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and Me
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +19 min

Muted tk tkLike other band members have done consistently over the years, Waters denied that Pink Floyd intentionally structured its 1973 album to align with the 1939 film. Before my article, “The Dark Side of the Rainbow” was just a word-of-mouth thing on an early internet message board. I mostly listened to alternative rock in those days, but Pink Floyd’s Usenet group had a hold on me. I shared that page on the Usenet group and added it to a Pink Floyd “Web ring” — a system in which people with related pages linked to one another. The article page was logging hundreds, then thousands, and eventually tens of thousands of visitors.

Persons: Floyd, ‘, Oz ’, ”, Roger Waters, Joe Rogan, Waters, Noam Chomsky, Rogan, Pink Floyd —, Oz, Dorothy, Clare Torry’s, “, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, Willie Nelson, ” Waters, ” Rogan, “ I’ve, it’s, I’m, floyd, Kurt Cobain, Toto, Marvel, grooving, Dave Gilmour, Pink, Kurt Loder, Oz ”, “ Akira ” —, Dorothy tiptoeing, perversely Organizations: The, Gazette, New York Times, Hoosier, MGM, Miss, Journal Gazette, Columbia Records, Dave Gilmour & Co, MTV, New York Daily News, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, YouTube Locations: Austin , Texas, Louisiana, Fort Wayne, Ind, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Indiana, Boston, York

☆ Mark Cuban says Joe Rogan and Elon Musk have become everything they say is wrong with the mainstream media
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cuban also slammed Rogan and Elon Musk for becoming everything they say is wrong with the media. Billionaire Mark Cuban has slammed Joe Rogan and Elon Musk on Twitter for becoming "everything" that they claim is wrong with the mainstream media. Cuban also said that Musk and Rogan have become exactly what they've said they hate about the mainstream media. "Joe, you and @elonmusk's @twitter are the mainstream online media and your platforms have become everything supposedly wrong with MSM. Hotez, for his part, has agreed to go on Rogan's show to talk about vaccines, but not to debate Kennedy.

Persons: Joe Rogan's, Rogan, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, Joe Rogan, Peter Hotez, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Hotez's, Kennedy, Elon, tweeting, Hotez, Rogan's, Cuban, Dr Hotez, Musk, they've, Joe, Bill Ackman chimed Organizations: Cuban, RFK, Twitter, Morning Locations: Cuban

☆ A new report on the top 451 podcasts in the US shows the power of true crime. Here were 4 other key takeaways.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Pew Research Center analyzed 451 top-ranked podcasts in the US. When it comes to top-ranked shows, the adoption of video is split down the middle. A new study from Pew Research Center, released on Thursday, found that just over half (51%) of the top-ranked podcasts in the US have a video component. Half of top-ranked podcasts have a video component51% of the podcasts Pew analyzed release a video version, almost always on YouTube — 97% of podcasts with a video component publish it there. Roughly half of top-ranked podcasts seek audience supportAround half of top-ranked podcasts (47%) ask their audiences to support them by offering options like subscriptions, donations, or merch.

Persons: Galen Stocking, Pew, Joe Rogan, Stocking, Emma Chamberlain, Alex Cooper Organizations: Pew Research Center, YouTube, Edison Research, Apple, Spotify Locations: Gimlet

☆ YouTube removed video of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for violating vaccine misinformation policy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —YouTube said on Monday that it had removed a video of presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. being interviewed by podcast host Jordan Peterson for violating its policy prohibiting vaccine misinformation. YouTube began cracking down broadly on vaccine misinformation in 2021, following an earlier policy preventing false or misleading claims about Covid-19. Under its policy, YouTube removes false claims about currently administered vaccines that the World Health Organization and local authorities have approved and confirmed to be safe. Although YouTube removed the video, it remains available on Twitter, showing the fractured approach to vaccine misinformation across the internet as his campaign gets underway. Hotez had tweeted in support of a Vice article criticizing Spotify’s handling of vaccine misinformation in an interview with Kennedy on Rogan’s show.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy, Jr, Jordan Peterson, ” Kennedy, Peter Hotez, podcaster Joe Rogan, Hotez, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, ” Hotez Organizations: New, New York CNN, YouTube, CNN, Instagram, Children’s Health Defense, World Health Organization, Twitter Locations: New York, Covid

☆ A prominent vaccine scientist says he was ‘stalked’ in front of home after Joe Rogan Twitter exchange
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —A prominent vaccine scientist said he was accosted outside of his home after a Twitter exchange with podcaster Joe Rogan, who challenged him to debate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. over the weekend. “I just was stalked in front of my home by a couple of antivaxers taunting me to debate RFKJr.,” Houston-based scientist Peter Hotez tweeted Sunday. The confrontation came after Hotez tweeted Saturday in support of a Vice article that criticized Spotify’s handling of vaccine misinformation on Rogan’s show. Investor Mark Cuban defended Hotez, jumping in the Twitter debate. “Trying to bully Dr Hotez is ridiculous,” Cuban tweeted, accusing Musk and Rogan of acting in their own self interest.

Persons: podcaster Joe Rogan, Robert F, Kennedy, Jr, “, ”, Peter Hotez, Hotez, I’m, Rogan, “ I’m, “ He’s, Elon Musk, ” “, Bill Ackman, Joe Rogan, Jerry Springer, ” Hotez, vaxer, Mark Cuban, Dr Hotez, ” Cuban, Musk, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Daniel Ek Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, National, Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, RFK, Twitter, MSNBC, Spotify Locations: New York, ” Houston, Covid

☆ Bill Ackman wants you to know exactly why he's been stirring the anti-vaccine pot all weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He's offering to fork out $150,000 for scientist Peter Hotez to debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the topic of vaccines. "This is a debate that you cannot walk away from," Ackman tweeted at Hotez. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who's spent a good chunk of the weekend putting his weight — and his money — behind the prospect of a Joe Rogan-hosted vaccine debate, wants you to know he's not an anti-vaxxer or an advocate for conspiracy theories. "If you are truly interested in saving lives, you need to further the public's understanding of the truth about vaccines," Ackman added. Every day we wait, thousands more will die," Ackman tweeted at the time.

Persons: Bill Ackman, Peter Hotez, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Ackman, who's, Joe Rogan, Rogan, Kennedy, Elon Musk, Musk, Rogan —, Hotez, dogpiling, snowballing — Ackman Organizations: Morning, Pershing, Twitter, MSNBC, Ackman

☆ A vaccine scientist says being tag-teamed and dogpiled on by Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and RFK Jr. all at once has been 'overwhelming'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But the attacks are now coming from Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, Twitter's most influential users. And let's face it, when you have RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk, all tag-teaming, those tres hombres at the same time," Hotez added. "I offered to go on Joe Rogan but not to turn it into the Jerry Springer show with having RFK Jr. on," Hotez said. "First, science is not something that is typically debated like say 18th enlightenment philosophy or political issues," Hotez added. And then there is the particular problem of debating RFK Jr on this.

Persons: it's, Peter Hotez, he's, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Hotez, MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, Joe, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Rogan, Peter, Bill Ackman, Kennedy, MSNBC's Hasan, Jerry Springer, Tweeting, I'm, Elon Organizations: Twitter, RFK Jr, Billionaire, RFK Locations: duking

☆ Bill Ackman offered to donate $150,000 if a doctor debated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about vaccines on Joe Rogan's podcast
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bill Ackman offered to donate $150,000 if a doctor debated vaccines on Joe Rogan's podcast. Dr Peter Hotez criticized Rogan for hosting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his podcast. Bill Ackman has waded into a vaccine misinformation debate, offering $150,000 to charity if a doctor agrees to debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Joe Rogan's podcast. Rogan responded to Hotez's criticism by pledging $100,000 to charity if he came on the podcast to debate Kennedy. Rogan signed a $200 million deal with Spotify to bring his hugely popular podcast exclusively to the streaming platform in 2020.

Persons: Bill Ackman, Joe Rogan's, Peter Hotez, Rogan, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Elon Musk, Dr Peter Hotez, Joe Rogan, Kennedy, Hotez, lockdowns, Ackman, goad, Musk, It's, Neil Young Organizations: Morning, Pershing, Capital Management, Baylor College of Medicine, National, Tropical Medicine, Spotify Locations: Nazi Germany, Houston

☆ True crime dominates among top-ranked podcasts. Here are 4 other takeaways from new Pew research, from video's rise to the state of exclusivity.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Persons: Galen Stocking, Pew, Joe Rogan, Stocking, Emma Chamberlain, Alex Cooper Organizations: Pew Research Center, YouTube, Edison Research, Apple, Spotify Locations: Gimlet

☆ How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Max Read | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Compared with the strange and compelling creatures on display elsewhere on YouTube, it can be hard to understand precisely what’s appealing about MrBeast. Eligible creators on the platform earn around half of the revenue from advertising that YouTube sells against their videos. Even within this context, Donaldson stands out for his dedication to understanding how YouTube works. For most of his teenage years, “I woke up, I studied YouTube, I studied videos, I studied filmmaking, I went to bed and that was my life,” Donaldson once told Bloomberg. “I hardly had any friends because I was so obsessed with YouTube,” he said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” last year.

Persons: Donaldson, MrBeast, ”, —, “, ” Donaldson, Joe Rogan, Rogan, Warren Buffett Organizations: YouTube, Bloomberg, Berkshire Hathaway, Forbes

☆ The viral AI-generated image showing an explosion near the Pentagon is 'truly the tip of the iceberg of what's to come,' tech CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

People need to prepare for a surge in AI-generated content being shared online, a tech CEO told CNN. The viral image of an explosion near the Pentagon is just "the tip of the iceberg," Jeffrey McGregor said. The viral AI-generated image showing an explosion near the Pentagon is "truly the tip of the iceberg of what's to come," a CEO who works in image authenticity detection has warned. Earlier this year, a photographer sparked debate about whether AI-generated images can be classed as art after an image he created using DALL-E 2 won a major international photography competition. It's not just AI-generated images that are being used to deceive people.

Persons: Jeffrey McGregor, we're, Donald Trump, hadn't, It's, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Emma Watson, McGregor, Ben Colman Organizations: CNN, Pentagon, Reality

☆ Spotify to lay off 200 workers in podcast division
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 5 (Reuters) - Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) said on Monday it would cut 200 jobs from its podcast unit in its second round of layoffs, as the company restructures the business after years of heavy investment. Spotify had spent aggressively to build up its podcast business in recent years, hoping the higher engagement levels offered by the format will bring in more advertisers. In response, Spotify cut 6% of its workforce earlier in 2023 and announced the departure of Dawn Ostroff, who helped shape its podcast business and guided it through controversies such as the backlash around Joe Rogan's show for allegedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19. Sahar Elhabashi, who heads the podcast business, said on Monday that the company has "made the difficult but necessary decision to make a strategic realignment." Spotify also said it will merge its Parcast and Gimlet studios into a single Spotify Studios division, which will produce Spotify originals.

Persons: Dawn Ostroff, Joe Rogan's, Sahar Elhabashi, Elhabashi, Tiyashi Datta, Vinay Dwivedi, Shweta Agarwal Organizations: Spotify Technology SA, Spotify, Spotify Studios, Thomson Locations: Sweden, Bengaluru

☆ Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Spotify announced Monday it's laying off roughly 200 employees, or about 2% of its-person workforce, as part of an effort to change how the streaming company handles its partnership with "leading podcasters from across the globe." Spotify's global workforce was 8,359 people in 2020, according to an SEC filing, with 4,332 of those employees in the United States. The cuts were announced by Sahar Elhabashi, vice president at Spotify, in a memo to employees. Spotify has spent heavily to expand its podcast unit in the last three years. Since 2020, Spotify spent 493 million euros ($526 million), on four different acquisitions in the podcast space, according to an SEC filing.

Persons: Sahar Elhabashi, Elhabashi, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Joe Rogan Organizations: Spotify, SEC Locations: United States

☆ Tesla Model S beats Porsche to reclaim fastest lap for a production EV at Nürburgring
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Jason Ma | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Tesla Model S reclaimed the lap record for a production electric vehicle at Nürburgring. That beat the previous record set last year by the Porsche Taycan Turbo S by more than 8 seconds. The Tesla Model S beat Porsche to reclaim the lap record for a production electric vehicle at the famed Nürburgring track in Germany. On Friday, the Model S that set the new lap record hit speeds as high as 179.5 miles per hour. In 2021, he said on Joe Rogan's podcast that the Model S eventually could get under the 7-minute mark.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Joe Rogan's Organizations: Tesla, EV, Porsche, Plaid, Model Locations: Germany, Nürburgring

☆ Big Tech execs like Mark Zuckerberg are swapping the boardroom for the dojo. Here's why martial arts are taking hold of Silicon Valley.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tech executives including Mark Zuckerberg and PayPal's Dan Schulman have taken up martial arts. The combat techniques mirror the pace and intensity of the tech industry, one former exec said. Zelig added that Krav Maga helped to build self-awareness, which is important when it comes to decision-making, especially under stress. She added that the training helped her to focus on the present and develop distance from her work in her "own version of mindfulness." He said it's been "invaluable" in helping him negotiate complex partnerships in his former business-development roles at LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Skype.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, PayPal's Dan Schulman, Zuckerberg, Joe Rogan, Joris Merks, Benjaminsen, Danny Zelig, Dan Schulman, Krav Maga, Zelig, Dan, Maga, Schulman, Joanna Pineda, Bob Rosin, it's, Rosin Organizations: Morning, Big Tech, Facebook, Forbes, Matrix Group, hapkido, Microsoft, Skype Locations: Redwood City , California

☆ Remember that jiu-jitsu tournament Mark Zuckerberg won? He was also choked out during the match.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Zuckerberg has taken to improving his physique as he gets more interested in jiu-jitsu. In May, Zuckerberg participated in his first tournament and was choked unconscious, NYT reports. The road to Mark Zuckerberg's gold and sliver medals at a recent jiu-jitsu tournament apparently came with a few bumps, according to a new report. Zuckerberg didn't respond to a request for comment from the Times, and Meta, where Zuckerberg is CEO, didn't respond to a request from Insider. "I really like watching UFC because I also like doing the sport," Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg's, José Lucas Costa da Silva, he'd, Costa da Silva, Khai Wu, Conor McGregor, —, Joe Rogan Organizations: Meta, New York Times, Facebook, Times, UFC Locations: Brazilian, Meta, Brazil, Thai

☆ Russia's being more cautious with its tanks and trying to hide them after heavy losses in battle, but it's shooting itself in the foot
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Heavy Russian tank and armored vehicle losses have led Russia to change its tactics, according to a new report. A Ukrainian soldier checks a wrecked Russian tank outside of the village of Mala Rogan, east of Kharkiv, on April 1, 2022. "It is pretty rare to find a Russian tank that hasn't blasted ERA on every single surface they can conceivably get it on, including somewhere it's really counterproductive," Watling said. While ERA is quite effective, the Ukrainians know where the weak points are to one-shot kill a Russian tank, though it's not always easy to get a clean shot off. Destroyed Russian tank is seen outside of Izyum district of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on October 13, 2022.

☆ Seth Rogan is 'distressed' that streaming companies are 'digging in on' using AI to write for TV, sharing support for the strike: 'Thank god for labor unions'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Seth Rogan threw his support behind striking writers and echoed concerns over the use of AI in writing television shows. Rogan said you'd have to "shove a lot of weed" into an AI model to get it to write good-quality TV. Members of the guild previously told Insider they are worried about the threat of AI models like ChatGPT usurping writers as a cheaper substitute. Studios will never act fairly or equitably without being forced to," Rogan told IndieWire. "I'm personally very disturbed and distressed by the lack of information that I personally get from these streaming services that we have films and television shows on," Rogan told the outlet.

☆ Opinion | Why Journalists Have More Freedom Than Professors
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The new cultural liberalism in the media reflects the views of senior staff members and is opposed by affinity groups and young employees. That’s important, because surveys consistently find that “woke” values are twice as prevalent among younger leftists than among older leftists. Over eight in 10 undergraduates at 150 leading U.S. colleges say speakers who say B.L.M. What’s more, seven in 10 think a professor who says something that students find offensive should be reported to their university. First, the media is, by definition, an outward-facing, audience-driven enterprise, dependent on some kind of mass market for its viability.

☆ In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Giri Nathan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

What all these fighters seek is freedom, a word that appears capitalized throughout the book, like a term of art or faith. It comes in two types: Low Freedom (death, however it might find them) and High Freedom (pardon, commutation or clemency after three years survived on the circuit). If you recoil at that unholy fusion, that’s kind of the point; and the author keeps pulling off this shock, page after page. Adjei-Brenyah has a fine intuition, an almost spatial sense for what we need to see and what we don’t. His names are crisp, like Sunset Harkless (a man) and Spinifer Black (a spear), and his compact euphemisms a gift.

☆ Tucker Carlson's next move
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Tucker Carlson's dismissal signals a new realignment in conservative media. Nobody at Fox "was as connected to the MAGA base as Tucker Carlson," one ex-Trump official said. Whatever the reason, Carlson's dismissal signals a new realignment in conservative media. Last month, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the top-rated program among all news channels with 3.25 million viewers including 421,000 viewers in the coveted age 25-54 demographic. His previous work includes the 2022 profile of Carlson, The Tucker Carlson Origin Story.

Carlson, the highest-rated single host at Fox News, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The decision to part ways with Carlson was made Friday evening by Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott, a person familiar with the matter said. During his time as a prime time host on Fox News, Carlson ascended to become one of the most influential figures inside the GOP. In a text on Nov. 5, 2020 — two days after the 2020 election — Carlson wrote his producer Alex Pfeiffer: “We worked really hard to build what we have. Last month, she sued Fox News, Carlson, his executive producer Justin Wells and other figures, as well as Fox’s parent corporation.

☆ Gunmen ambush family in South African homestead, kill 10
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Rogan Ward | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/6] A body is moved at the scene of a deadly mass shooting, near Pietermaritzburg, South Africa April 21, 2023. REUTERS/Rogan WardJOHANNESBURG, April 21 (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a homestead in a township outside the South African city of Pietermaritzburg and ambushed a family, killing 10 people, police said on Friday. South Africa has one of the world's highest murder rates, with about 20,000 murders recorded every year out of a population of 60 million. Cele said police management needed to sit down to talk about whether the province needed more police resources. According to campaign group Gun Free South Africa, 30 people on average are shot and killed every day in the country, where about 4.5 million guns are registered.

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