- 00:29:48 Retweeted @yashar 2017-05-09 23:14:32 Source in the FBI field office in LA tells me Comey was in the LA office when his firing was announced and he found out by seeing it on TV.
- 02:39:30 Retweeted @mattyglesias 01:21:43 That’s a funny coincidence https://t.co/hk0qTyY0Ks
- 03:13:27 Hey @jeffbarr, thought you might like my latest side project. A family of automated podcasts made using Polly:… https://t.co/OUoA8WPgrS
- 04:16:36 They thought it would be “win-win”. Truly the dumbest people on the planet. -> Behind Comey’s firing (Josh Dawsey) https://t.co/oSDk1nvYyV
- 04:22:58 Retweeted @colinjones 01:02:58 So here’s a gif of Anderson Cooper eyerolling at Kellyanne Conway https://t.co/HT0Q1oTDV4
- 04:23:37 Retweeted @EricHolder 04:01:14 To the career men and women at DOJ/FBI: you know what the job entails and how to do it. Be strong and unafraid. Duty. Honor. Country.
- 04:52:10 Reading – Trump Fired Comey Because the Government Works for Trump (Jonathan Chait) https://t.co/z7XGUruqLi
- 05:10:24 Retweeted @BrendanNyhan 03:03:58 Remember: This is what WH is getting away with despite the clown car of geniuses currently running the show. Imagin… https://t.co/RgsYFGLtw4
- 05:10:32 Retweeted @mattyglesias 01:51:51 The reckless thing about Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell is they have no idea what they are helping to cover up.
- 05:13:18 Retweeted @rustyk5 05:07:42 @paleofuture Who would have imagined, when we elected the stupidest person who ever lived, that things would go so wrong in reply to paleofuture
- 12:18:25 Retweeted @Scatterbrandy 05:13:01 Well, there’s stupid and then there is TRUMP stupid, which takes plain old stupid to a whole new level. It’s like t… https://t.co/zV5VFmK4wD
- 12:43:59 Reading – After Trump fired Comey, White House staff scrambled to explain why (Jenna Johnson) https://t.co/tR2B4Ueqcb
- 14:10:37 Retweeted @MiekeEoyang 2017-05-09 22:20:54 The last time Comey left goverment, he blew the lid off the Bush Administration’s efforts to continue a warrantless… https://t.co/ArOATND6IP
- 14:25:19 Reading – The Fourth Circuit Examines Trump’s Travel-Ban Motives (Amy Davidson) https://t.co/Xsn6xeCSyb
- 14:42:29 Retweeted @BYUfan 07:06:02 Hey @abulsme you need to update the audience on your bitcoin investment. https://t.co/RWWwuJnxju
- 15:57:27 Complete coincidence I’m sure. https://t.co/VvG0hXIvEb
- 16:26:26 Retweeted @peterbakernyt 15:37:20 Which White House aide thought the two people Trump should be seen with today are Russia’s foreign minister and Henry Kissinger?
- 16:32:29 Surreal https://t.co/zC4KKTCago
- 16:33:27 Retweeted @burgessev 16:25:55 Some GOPers concede they would have reacted differently if Obama had done same thing w Comey: “Role reversal is a way of life around here” in reply to burgessev
- 17:06:15 Retweeted @frankthorp 17:06:05 JUST IN: Acting FBI Dir Andrew McCabe will testify before Senate Intel on Thurs in the place of Comey for their hearing on Worldwide Threats
- 18:44:36 Retweeted @MitchPileggi1 18:12:07 Ahem? https://t.co/lnZFdn0HsB
- 18:48:20 Retweeted @JustinWolfers 18:16:26 Firing Comey was both the most important and most abnormal event of the Trump presidency (so far).… https://t.co/KXdKr79jc0
- 18:51:48 Reading – Their Lines Are Softening (Josh Marshall) https://t.co/fJlKyNPcoK
- 19:46:46 Retweeted @pbump 18:07:44 Quinnipiac asked people what word first came to mind when they thought about Trump. https://t.co/ks0UauOs9O https://t.co/HQ3bYWhD16
- 19:48:46 Listening to Wiki Wiki What Episode 020 – Medium-Sized Camel
via iCatcher! https://t.co/mcDgw1mPuP - 22:11:58 Retweeted @AmyNotAmy 21:14:19 Do they understand how secrets work? https://t.co/Eoxf9Yn3sj
- 22:12:16 Retweeted @eosnos 19:27:59 Longtime aide to John McCain https://t.co/yOcRFDFSFa
- 22:13:31 Retweeted @JZTessler 01:16:15 Nothing to see here, just a Dem coming within 56 votes of a Republican in an OKLAHOMA race https://t.co/FiUbrnyJmi
- 22:13:38 Retweeted @PoliticsWolf 01:29:22 Wow, this Oklahoma state House seat voted roughly 73-23 for Trump. GOP won it 67-33 in 2016. GOP won just 50-48 in… https://t.co/ZaB0zf3FwT
- 22:19:57 Listening to Mac Power Users 376: Notifications!
via iCatcher! https://t.co/xxyvXOPiX0 - 22:22:03 Retweeted @MEPFuller 22:11:32 To summarize Paul Ryan:You do you, Donald. I’m not troubled at all by anything, as long as I get some tax cuts.
- 22:38:23 Reading – How Comey’s Firing Accelerates the Russia Investigations (Evan Osnos) https://t.co/8504H26OWh
- 22:48:15 Ha ha ha ha! More likely that they change the rules again to only require 40 votes! https://t.co/OkhKWZJlzx
- 22:49:16 Retweeted @frankthorp 22:31:51 Per a Senate historian, this is the 1st subpoena Senate Intel has issued since their 9/11 joint inquiry –> https://t.co/Zw4lVI4bfg
- 22:51:48 Retweeted @Scout_Finch 22:31:29 You know who needs to speak up? Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and other possibly semi-sane Republicans who respect the rule of law.
- 22:58:37 Retweeted @jbendery 22:55:33 The White House just sent out this “official timeline” of Trump’s decision to fire Comey. https://t.co/UinibGNfJ7
These are quite a bit different than Curmudgeon’s Corner, the podcast I have done with Ivan Bou since 2007 where we talk about current events each week. That podcast will continue as always. (If you aren’t already listening to that, you should of course check it out too!) Instead, these are short quick hit podcasts. Little bursts of knowledge to enlighten your day. Just a few minutes long each. Often shorter than 2 minutes long in fact. The podcasts consist of the summaries of Wikipedia articles. Each of the three choose which articles to highlight in a bit different way. Because it is just the summaries, not the whole articles, they are quick digestible chunks of information. I of course don’t have the time or consistency to create three podcast episodes every day, even 2 minute podcasts. So the trick here is that these are fully automated podcasts. There will be new episodes every day, even if I am super busy and swamped with other things. Now that things are all set up, they will (hopefully) just run on auto-pilot unless I decide I need or want to change something. The idea for these had been percolating in my head for a couple months, and a little over two weeks ago I pulled the trigger and started working on it an hour here and an hour there as I had time. Basically, the daily topics are chosen from Wikipedia APIs or RSS feeds, I pull the content from Wikipedia using another API, then I generate the actual audio for the podcast using Amazon Polly and assemble the Podcast RSS feeds. I also set up a website… wikioftheday.com… that dynamically shows the most recent episodes of each Podcast, gives easy access to old episodes, and has a detail page for each episode with the text of the episode script. I did most of this with PHP since I’m pretty familiar with that, with a few Unix shell bits where that was more convenient. It was fun to do, and I hope at least a few people will find the actual podcasts interesting too. Go to wikioftheday.com and you can check them all out and listen to a few of the episodes that have been produced so far. There are just a handful so far, but there will be new ones every day! They are indeed read by computerized voices… a bunch of different ones episode to episode for variety… but that technology has come a long way in the last few years, and they are actually pretty decent to listen to. I’ve started to submit the three podcasts to the directories for this sort of thing, but it will take awhile for them to start actually showing up when you search for them in your podcast player of choice. So for the moment if you want to subscribe, you’ll have to tell your podcast player app to subscribe manually using the link to the feeds. Below are descriptions of the three podcast along with the feed links. Please subscribe! And listen!
For each of the three, I exclude articles with no summaries or really short summaries. I exclude “articles” that are just lists, disambiguation pages (which John Smith did you want to know about?), and other pages of that type. I also have each of the three podcasts set to not repeat the same article within 100 days, even if it comes up again in the source feed. Stuff like that. Anyway, please check them out, and subscribe if you enjoy them! And let me know what you think of them! :-) Oh… and tell your friends about them too! I appreciate it! This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan’s main topic is Trumpcare passing the House, the implications of that, and what comes next in the healthcare debate. But they spend plenty of time on other things too. From the latest book Sam has read, to Ivan changing data plans, Puerto Rican bankruptcy, Clinton on why she lost, violence on Facebook Live, and much more. Oh, and at the very end Sam reveals his new secret project. Click below to listen and subscribe!
Show Details: Recorded 2017-05-05
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