Thoughts on Navalny’s death

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🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, has died in a Russian penal colony. We’ll reflect on Navalny’s impact and what it means to push back against the slow creep of political change. Plus, more evidence that plastic recycling is a myth pushed by the plastics industry. And, we’ll weigh in on the romance novel revival and landline phones in a round of Half Full/Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals” from The Guardian

- “Tucker Carlson: ‘No decent person would defend’ what happened to Navalny” from The Hill

- “OpenAI teases ‘Sora,’ its new text-to-video AI model” from NBC News

- “Best Buy to End DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales” from Variety

- “Making beer with the help of AI” from Axios

- “Steamy, sultry and stigmatized no more: romance novels are having a moment” from Marketplace

- “The humble landline phone beloved by Gen Z” from Axios

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0:00.0	I can Google tell you that?
0:03.0	I'm going to.
0:05.0	Instagram can tell me that.
0:10.0	Yeah.
0:11.0	Hello everyone, I am Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where today makes sense.
0:17.0	None of us is as smart as all of us, all of the cat phrases.
0:21.0	It's Friday, February the 16th.
0:24.0	I'm Carter.
0:25.0	Rose Doll, as Kimberly said, it is Friday the 16th of February.
0:29.0	Thanks for joining us on the podcast, the YouTube live stream. Friday is when we do a little happy hour we check on what
0:36.7	people are drinking and then we do some half full half empty and I mean you guys know how Friday goes.
0:44.0	Yeah, it's a Friday.
0:45.0	We're going to do all the things.
0:47.0	What are you drinking, Kai?
0:49.0	Oh, I have a cup of coffee because I got things to do later.
0:52.0	Also, I was up way too early this morning.
0:54.4	So it's in my pewabic mug, but a freshly brewed cup of coffee
0:59.0	with some whole milk.
0:59.9	Thank you very much.
1:01.6	That's not going to keep you up like a long time?
1:05.1	No, no, it does.
1:07.4	What's really interesting is, it's not really interesting to anybody except me.
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