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The Gist

Facebook's Data Monopoly

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, we learned that Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted swing states during the 2016 election. Initially hesitant about sharing information with the government, Facebook finally gave in to avoid a deeper discussion on regulation, but tech companies have grown so big that it might be time for the government to step in. Journalist Franklin Foer explains how tech has become so powerful, and why it's essential to be skeptical of technological innovation. Foer's new book is World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. In the Spiel, gun-control regulations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.

0:07.0

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

0:15.0

So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill.

0:21.0

On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.

0:25.0

Oh, that's nice.

0:26.0

Search zero with an ace. It goes healthy business as beautiful business.

0:30.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:33.0

It's Thursday, October 5th, 2017 from Slated to the Gisdai, Mike Pesca.

0:42.0

Kazoo Ishiiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

0:46.0

Author of Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day.

0:49.0

Not only a literary feat, but also a famous lunchbox.

0:52.0

My fifth grader has been using a suburban con lunchbox, the George Clooney Directed, Matt Damon Film.

0:59.0

True fact, factual truth.

1:01.0

Here's a citation from the Nobel Committee.

1:04.0

In novels of great emotional force, Kazoo Ishiiguro has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.

1:13.0

And to me, that is not so much an explanation or a justification or a citation.

1:19.0

That's just trying to get Kazoo Ishiiguro to look at you or to look at a piece of prose you wrote and say, hey, that's some good writing.

1:26.0

Now, I've been going through these citations, especially for the literature citations.

1:32.0

And they started off really, really plain and understandable.

1:37.0

Thomas Mann, here is the citation.

1:39.0

Prince of Blay for his great novel, Bunden Brooks, which has one steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature.

1:46.0

They're basically citing critics like it.

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