Let's TikTok Business
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🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Extreme weather continues in the US, with over 4.5 million acres burned across the West Coast and a Category 2 hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast. Scientists say two Antarctic glaciers are breaking off and could contribute to large-scale sea level rise, underscoring the need for aggressive environmental policy in the US and abroad.
Oracle is close to taking over TikTok’s US operations following scuttled negotiations between Microsoft and ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok. Oracle would be a “trusted tech partner,” meaning the deal isn’t a full-on sale—instead, Oracle would manage TikTok’s US data.
And in headlines: a whistleblower at a privately-run ICE detention camp in Georgia, comparing the pandemic’s economic consequences to the ’09 financial crisis, and scientists discover a perfectly-preserved cave bear in Serbia.
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"The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 15th. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Gideon Resseck and this is what a day where we have just appointed ourselves |
| 0:11.2 | the new non-problematic authors of the Harry Potter series. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah, if JK Rowling is ruining Harry Potter for you, don't worry. Now we wrote it. |
| 0:19.2 | I am so proud of inventing Hagrid. |
| 0:22.3 | Today's show, what do you need to know about TikTok and the impending deal between the US and |
| 0:31.1 | Chinese companies, then some headlines? But first, the latest. |
| 0:35.2 | While fires don't skip towns that voted a certain way, the impacts of climate change don't |
| 0:42.0 | pick and choose. That's because it's not a partisan phenomenon. It's science. |
| 0:48.5 | It's exactly right. It is science. Well, that was Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden |
| 0:54.0 | speaking yesterday about the wildfires and his planned attack on climate change, |
| 0:57.4 | which includes rejoining the Paris climate agreement and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. |
| 1:02.4 | Meanwhile, Trump was in California meeting with Governor Gavin Newsom and other local officials |
| 1:06.9 | where he stuck to his line that poor forest management by western states is the root cause of the |
| 1:11.6 | fires, even though the federal government, not the state's control, much of the land. He also said |
| 1:17.1 | it'll start getting cooler. I wish you just watch. I wish science agreed with you. |
| 1:23.6 | Oh, well, I don't think science knows actually. That is the most embarrassing thing he said |
| 1:29.9 | in the past couple of days. I guess I don't know. Well, a federal report from government scientists |
| 1:35.0 | two years ago found fossil fuel emissions could triple the frequency of severe fires in the West. |
| 1:39.9 | Trump, of course, has spent his presidency rolling back or weakening every major federal policy |
| 1:44.6 | aimed at reducing emissions. That's according to a New York Times tracker, which we'll put in our |
| 1:48.7 | show notes. Yeah, that is a very important thing to keep an eye on as this administration goes on. |
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