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With a family legacy steeped in courage,  becoming an entrepreneur was almost inevitable. As the founder of , a smoothie and health food shop in New York City, Kelly's small business journey began with big dreams.&nbsp; Listen now to learn about her entrepreneurship journey, how the past informs the future, and building community through sharing on social media. #entrepreneur #thenourishspot #healthyliving Sponsored by -&nbsp; Toast All-In-1 Restaurant POS:&nbsp;

How To Build a Nourishing Brand and Community Using Social Media Storytelling

This week, Daniel Liebau, founding chairman of Lightbulb Capital, a research and advisory firm related to blockchain, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They discuss decentralized finance technology, and also Dan’s DeFi 2034 paper, as well as some possible future scenarios for TradFi and DeFi. 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockchain-scholars-podcast/?viewAsMember=true
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42521-023-00088-8#:~:text=Decentralized%20Finance%20(DeFi)%20is%20a,relying%20on%20traditional%20centralized%20intermediaries.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-021-00539-9

2:30 – Dan joins the podcast and walks through his background and his company 
6:30 – Dan gives a preview of the DeFi 2034 research paper he’s working on
9:30 – Common misunderstandings on how DeFi will impact TradFi
12:30 – Dan explains some of the tools he used to utilize the data for his paper 
14:00 – Possible future scenarios for how DeFi will play out 
22:30 – Sending analog signals into a digital world
31:00 – Changing mindsets on “better, faster, cheaper”
33:00 – Warming up to public blockchains
35:30 – Examples of DeFi experimentation in the capital markets

Episode 280: An exploration of the DeFi world

In 2022, I was asked to contribute to a symposium at Yale Law School on the question, "How can the humanities inform tech policy and design to promote 'healthier' discourse and democracy online?"  The ultimate result was this article, published in the 2023 symposium issue of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.  
A scanned pdf of the article can be found as an attachment here:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/100047377

I also gave a short presentation at the symposium in 2022; since visual evidence is important to the argument of this article, I hope to expand upon the slides that I used in that presentation in order to produce a video with a full-length visual track to accompany the article.

Film of Sumi Jo performing second half of Olympia's aria, "Les Oiseaux dans la Charmille," in Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffmann," at Opera de Lille, 1997:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW2iiZ8MyGI

Thank you to the editors and staff of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities and the Justice Collaboratory.

Article: "In the American Tempest: Democracy, Conspiracy, & Machine"

The bitter cold winters in the industrial town of Krasnoyarsk, Russia come with an added bonus–a phenomenon known by locals as “black sky.” This suffocating, chemically saturated smog emerges from the Yenisei River and blankets the city. Sometimes up to three months a year. Black sky is recent–since around 2012. But its causes reach back to the industrialization of the region in the 1950s and 1960s. The Yenisei hydroelectric dam and massive aluminum plant have irrevocably altered the landscape. What causes black sky? And what are the origins of Siberian industrialization? In what ways did conquering nature shape the local identities of the workers who built Krasnoyarsk? The Eurasian Knot turned to Mariia Koskina to talk about her scholarship, the Yenisei River, and the environmental degradation caused by the Yenisei hydroelectric dam.

Guest:

Mariia Koskina is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Fribourg. She is currently involved in a project on the history of Soviet glaciology in Central Asia, with a focus on Kazakhstan. Mariia's book project narrates the transformation of the Yenisei River under Soviet development and explores how Siberian nature itself influenced environmental relations and subjectivities.

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Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk

Crystal Peterson, owner of Yo’ Mama’s, has kept service at the forefront of her strategy from day 1. Located in downtown Birmingham, the family-run comfort food restaurant targets the city’s busy visitors and workers during lunch hour with quick and friendly counter service. Reviewer Delia S. shares how her first experience in Yo’ Mama’s welcoming community space made the restaurant a staple in her rotation.    Theme Music by  and

Counter Service and Community Building: Yo’ Mama’s Recipe for Success

We dig into the latest proposed legislation to ban TikTok — which is quickly moving in the US House with broad bipartisan support — and the jingoistic motivations, the complete lack of concern about any of the actual cultural influence, social impact, economic power, or just empirical reality of this technology, and instead the hyper-fixation on this being a Chinese app rather than an American app. Indeed, the ban bill would force TikTok into becoming American owned — thus becoming a way more pernicious and shitty piece of tech.

••• TikTok Crackdown Shifts Into Overdrive, With Sale or Shutdown on Table | Wall Street Journal https://archive.is/fGfnc 
••• TikTok Is For Millennials, It Turns Out https://www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-millennials-turns
••• The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-paid-promote-designer-knockoffs-from-china/ 

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326. The Problem With America’s Ban on TikTok

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326. The Problem With America’s Ban on TikTok

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