Podcasts about Runtime

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/167584830 Beatrice speaks with R.H. Lossin about how early criminal syndicalism laws were weaponized against the IWW in the early 20th century to criminalize their political education around industrial sabotage, and how those acts of repression have continued to shape how certain demands are dismissed as “too radical” or as “adolescent” today. Runtime 1:38:04 Read R.H. Lossin's piece in LPE blog here: https://lpeproject.org/blog/property-sabotage-and-the-origins-of-anti-left-repression/ Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/166952827 Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about how intellectual property has become central to global capitalism, what led the Disney corporation to send lobbyists to defend covid vaccine patents, and her new book The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World. Runtime 2:22:00 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Check out Cam's latest novel / audio drama here! What does it mean to call a horror movie a "guilty pleasure"? Why do we caveat our feelings about incredibly entertaining, funny, well-made movies by calling them "trashy "or emphasizing that they are "just a remake"? In this episode, we're not just analyzing but celebrating the glorious 2009 remake of Friday the 13th. Topics include: our glowing second impressions after a rewatch, the power of good lighting, a debate about sexuality / sex negativity / the male gaze, and what happens when you extend a cold open to become something more like a short film. LINKS: Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram Feedback & Theories: secondbreakfastpod@gmail.com 00:00 Angry YouTube Commenter 02:23 Camp Miasma 03:57 2000's Period Piece 07:42 Humor & Sexuality 12:25 Puritanical Horror Tropes 14:26 Reverence of the Original 16:39 Remakes vs. Legacy Sequels 17:32 The Power of Lighting 19:19 Memorable vs. Quotable 22:02 Production Design 23:32 The Role of Archetypes 26:25 Runtime 28:13 Rob Zombie's Halloween 31:33 David Fincher & James Wan 32:11 The Original Friday the 13th 34:06 Revolutionizing the Cold Open 36:10 Opening Credits Lore Drop 37:41 Sex Negativity Debate 44:24 Creature Design 46:09 Theory Introductions 47:15 "Trashy" Horror 50:54 "Guilty Pleasure" 58:30 Camp Miasma Tangent 01:00:07 Why We Love Horror 01:01:53 Punctum 01:04:41 Closing Thoughts

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/166214339 Beatrice speaks with John Washington about how detention camps are at once essential pieces of the immigration enforcement regime and also one of its most vulnerable sites to a variety of forms of public resistance, and about his new book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention. Runtime 1:31:42 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Emmy award-winning production sound mixer, Mathew Price CAS, joins Joshua Anderson CAS, to recount his beginnings in the New York independent film and documentary worlds, as well as his acclaimed work on “The Sopranos” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Over 11 seasons on those two ground-breaking series, Matthew earned three CAS awards and numerous CAS and Television Academy nominations. This episode was recorded in New York. Run Time 00:54

AI agents can write code for hours, but ask them to do real work in the real economy, and they break. Mitch Troyanovsky is co-founder of Basis, a unicorn AI company whose agents run autonomously for hours — sometimes days — completing complex tax returns end to end. His answer to the reliability problem: stop grading outcomes, and start supervising the process.This is a definitive, reference-style conversation on building long-horizon AI agents. Mitch walks through the full history — from ReAct and the AutoGPT crash to reasoning models and RLVR — and explains why the industry abandoned process supervision in 2023, and why it's now coming back at a completely different scale. We go deep on behavior specs, the open standard Basis just released with Braintrust for defining and evaluating how agents behave across entire trajectories, with no ground truth required.Along the way: why context is really runtime training data, why your documentation must be treated like a codebase, ontologies as "worlds for agents to live in," the judge-as-agent architecture, why Basis hires philosophy majors as Language Architects, deploying agents as "onboarding 300 brilliant alien employees," and Mitch's prediction for when the bitter lesson swallows the harness.(01:09) Why Basis Engineers Whisper to Their Agents(04:12) Accounting as Compression: an Intelligence Layer Over the Economy(06:11) Defining Long-Horizon: When You Exceed the Context Window(08:24) Anatomy of a Multi-Day Autonomous Trajectory(10:19) Handoff Design: Optimizing Output for the Reviewer(11:17) ReAct and Why Reasoning Must Regulate Its Own State(12:33) Large Working Memory, No Long-Term Memory(14:13) Compounding Errors: Why AutoGPT and BabyAGI Broke(15:51) Opus 3, o1, o3: the Three Real Paradigm Shifts(17:07) Titrating Inference Compute Across Easy and Hard Steps(18:23) Process Reward vs. Outcome Reward: "Let's Verify Step by Step"(20:32) RLVR and Why the METR Curve Overstates Reliability(22:09) Verifiable at Runtime: the Real Reason Coding Won(25:14) No Ground Truth, No Cheap Verification, No Data(26:55) Encoding Deterministic Checks From Human Review Process(29:18) Synthetic Data Limits: Generating Artifacts, Not Text(33:16) 100 Evals Pass — Does It Generalize to Production?(35:53) Primary Sources vs. Pre-Training Knowledge(36:37) Behavior Specs: Markdown, Judges, and True/False/N.A.(39:58) Specificity vs. Brittleness in Spec Authoring(42:18) Context as Runtime Training Data(44:21) Judge-as-Agent: Trajectory Maps and Sub-Agent Attribution(46:45) The Move 37 Objection: Reliability Over Optimality(50:02) The Magic Box Model: Building Without Weights Access(52:41) "Nothing Paradigm-Shifting Has Changed Since o3"(54:56) Open-Sourcing the Behavior Spec Standard With Braintrust(01:02:54) Ontology Design: Virtual Filesystems, Graphs, Embeddings(01:04:20) Canonical vs. Non-Canonical: Docs as Codebase(01:06:33) Language Architects and Writing for Runtime Interpretation(01:09:05) Deployed Intelligence: 300 Alien Employees With No Context(01:11:10) Closing the Loop: Signal → Context, Tools, Harness(01:12:50) Context Slop: the Mistake Most Agent Builders Make(01:14:29) Reward Function Design and Credit Assignment Over Trajectories(01:17:01) Will the Bitter Lesson Swallow the Harness?(01:18:46) Business Moats vs. Technical Moats(01:21:03) Paradigm Thinking Over Timeline ADHD

#362: Feature flags or canary deployments - do you need both? Viktor puts it to Alex Casalboni from Unleash, who says he argues about this with his colleagues roughly every day, and the answer lands clean. Switching a hostname, a database, an API vendor? That is infrastructure, nothing to do with who the user is, so keep your canaries and your blue-green. But a canary switches one thing at a time. Try running three A/B tests and ten behavioral changes through it and the whole approach buckles. Anything that needs to know who the user is belongs in a flag. Different layers of the stack, different tools, and most teams will end up with both whether they planned to or not. Back up, though, because there is a new word attached to all of this. FeatureOps. There is a manifesto and everything, sitting at [featureops.io](https://featureops.io/), reading a lot like someone nailed 95 theses about feature flags to a door. Real discipline, or marketing wrapper? Alex gets about ten seconds of pleasantries before he has to answer for the word. His defense is narrower than the name suggests, and better for it: every ops discipline we have gets you to the deployment and then waves goodbye. Something breaks, you go around the whole loop again - hotfix, pipeline, 20 or 30 or 60 minutes, fingers crossed. FeatureOps is the claim that the same principles apply after the code is already running. Runtime control. Alex says enterprise customers routinely have a 12 to 24-hour round trip between finding a problem and getting the fix live. Even for a hotfix. Viktor is not letting the seconds claim through unchallenged. If it takes you a day to notice and two seconds to flip, that is a day and two seconds - so stop measuring from the convenient starting line. Alex concedes the framing and then goes somewhere better with it: the bottleneck was never the clicking. It is the humans and the bureaucracy in between. Which is why Unleash is pushing impact metrics, where the SDK sends error rates back and the system kills the feature itself, no human in the loop. Then Darin calls BS on immutable event log, because there is no such thing as immutable data, and Alex takes the hit cleanly - fair, it is append-only with locked-down keys, not magic. Nobody puts this part on a landing page. Flag evaluation has an input, not just a true/false output, and that input is user context - which means an external API call is not just latency, it is your PII leaving the perimeter. A compliance problem hiding inside a performance decision. And the flag graveyard is worse than you think: companies create roughly ten flags for every one they clean up, and Alex has a customer whose oldest flag dates to 2012. His fix is an MCP server that opens the cleanup PR for you when you mark a release complete. Best line of the day, on whether flags complicate your code: everything complicates your code, and the best way to not complicate your code is to not code.   Alex's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexcasalboni/ X: https://x.com/alex_casalboni   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

In this UC Today roundtable, host Kristian McCann brings together leading security experts to confront the escalating risks of agentic AI—autonomous systems that make decisions, take actions, and roam across enterprise tech stacks often without human oversight. You'll hear from Irina Tsukerman, President at Scarab Rising; Shlomi Beer, Co-Founder & CEO at ImpersonAlly; and Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder & CEO at Salt Security. Together, they reveal how rapid adoption in customer support, sales, and finance is outstripping governance, enabling silent breaches via prompt injections, privilege accumulation, and API exploits that blend into normal workflows.Expect straight talk on the productivity boom versus harsh realities—like 80% of companies facing unintended agent actions such as data leaks or unauthorized access—and proven strategies for observability, dynamic guardrails, and non-human identity governance that safeguard UC&C environments without killing innovation.Talking points include:Why agentic AI supercharges insider threats and erodes perimeters, exposing "internal" APIs to external manipulation even within legitimate agent permissions.Governance blind spots in high-stakes sectors like retail and airlines (e.g., fraudulent refunds, customer data spills), demanding end-to-end visibility from LLMs to backend actions.Runtime defenses against self-learning exploits, deceptive "sleeper" code, and endless trial-and-error attacks that humans resist but agents can't.Zero-trust models, NHI in IAM, and regulation readiness to align agent efficiency with compliance and CX protection.Next StepsShare this roundtable with your CISOs, IT leaders, and business units to map agent permissions and API exposures right now.Evaluate IAM for non-human identities and pilot tools like Salt Security for holistic agent discovery.Subscribe to UC Today for more expert roundtables on AI risks, UC&C security, and enterprise compliance.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/165668581 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration's proposal to shift the definition of “medical frailty” under Medicaid to explicitly redefine health as your ability to work, and how this change threatens not just the healthcare coverage of countless people, but an impending blow against the Medicaid program and the healthcare system itself. Runtime 1:28:52 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Tamara Steffens is managing director of Thomson Reuters Ventures, where she invests in early-stage companies building around legal, tax, accounting, and enterprise workflow. Corporate venture capital can look like a shortcut to customers, distribution, and credibility, but Steffens says founders need to understand what has to be true before strategic money can actually help. In this conversation, we get into what happens after Thomson Reuters Ventures joins your cap table, how founders can turn a corporate investor into real product or go-to-market leverage, and why inflated TAM slides can work against you. We also talk about what founders should do before and after the check clears, why some good businesses should avoid venture capital entirely, and why she says every founder should be thinking earlier about exit paths.   RUNTIME: 36:14 EPISODE BREAKDOWN (1:53)    An Overview of Thomson Reuters Ventures (3:57) CVC Expectations: When Strategic Capital Can Actually Help (7:09) Why Your TAM Needs to Match the Product You Actually Have (10:04) When Strategic Capital Becomes Product Leverage (13:13)  What Founders Should Do Before and After the Check Clears (22:18) How CVC Evaluates Founders When the Market Gets Frothy (29:05) Building the Relationship Before Series A (31:30) Why Exit Paths Matter Earlier Than You Think LINKS Tamara Steffens Thomson Reuters Ventures Thomson Reuters Fund/Build/Scale Founder Narrative Advisory SUBSCRIBE

The attack window from the discovery of a vulnerability to its exploitation has shrunk to less than 24 hours and sometimes down to just 25 minutes. Is your security team prepared for the speed of AI-driven attacks?In this episode, Ashish sits down with Sarit Tager, who leads Cortex Cloud product management at Palo Alto Networks, to discuss why the post-Mythos era is forcing Cloud Security and AppSec out of their traditional silos. Sarit explains how AI coding agents prioritize generating code over securing it, which can sometimes result in flaws like accidentally deleting production databases within two weeks.We also explore how English has become the new primary programming language, effectively making everyone a potential developer. Sarit breaks down why relying solely on cloud posture management is no longer enough and why deploying active runtime agents is now mandatory to block real-time exploits.Guest Socials -⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarit's Linkedin ⁠⁠Podcast Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CloudSecPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:-⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Podcast- Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠If you are interested in AI Security, you can check out our sister podcast -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ AI Security Podcast⁠(00:00) Introduction: The Convergence of Cloud and AppSec(01:50) Sarit Tager's Background: From VP of Engineering to Palo Alto Networks(03:00) Why English is the New Programming Language(06:00) The Problem with LLMs Suggesting AppSec Fixes That Break Functionality(09:30) How AI Agents Can Accidentally Delete Production Databases(11:40) The Attack Window Shrinking to 25-30 Minutes(14:00) The Post-Mythos Fear and the Token Cost Challenge(16:30) Why You Must Deploy a Runtime Agent (Posture is Not Enough)(18:30) Why AI Coding Agents Put Security Second(24:00) Breaking the Silos: The Rise of Holistic Product Security(36:00) How AI Empowers Non-Experts to Investigate Across Security Domains(40:30) Fun Questions: 50 Countries, No Social Media, and Japanese FoodThank you to Palo Alto Networks for sponsoring this episode:Learn more about Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/165004076 Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration's recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fatal cancer to civilization,” and a threat to “normal, healthy, ordered living.” Runtime 2:27:45 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

You Can Make This Moment Gentle With YourselfSometimes the bravest thing you can do is pause — right in the middle of everything demanding your attention — and choose gentleness over pressure. In this episode, we explore what it really means to be gentle with yourself, not as indulgence, but as an act of courage and self-respect.You will be guided through a gentle reflection on the weight you have been carrying, a reminder that you do not have to earn the right to rest, and a breathing exercise to help your body actually feel what gentleness feels like. We close with affirmations you can carry with you long after this episode ends.TOPICS: self-gentleness, permission to rest, self-compassion, letting go of pressure, mindful breathing, affirmations, self-worth, daily calm, emotional wellness, mental healthAFFIRMATIONS:• I am allowed to take up space in this world without having to earn it.• I choose to respond to my own struggles with kindness, not criticism.• I give myself permission to make this moment a gentle one.RUNTIME: 8 minutesPRODUCED BY: HustleStudiosDISCLAIMER

# Your Quiet Moment — Episode 205**Title:** You Can Give Yourself Permission to Pause**Theme:** Encouragement, self-compassion, rest, checking in with oneself, letting go of constant productivity**Runtime:** ~10 minutes---Hey, friend. I'm really glad you showed up today. Between everything on your plate and everything circling around in your head, taking ten minutes for yourself is actually a pretty significant act of self-care. Today, we're exploring why pausing isn't about being lazy or falling behind — it's about checking in with yourself the way you'd check in with a friend. We'll talk about why you can't pour from an empty cup, and why rest is one of the most responsible things you can do — not just for yourself, but for everyone around you. Together, we'll breathe through some gentle reminders, and we'll close with affirmations to carry you through the rest of your day.---**Affirmations:**- I honor my need to pause and check in with myself.- I am allowed to stop and rest without guilt.- I release the pressure to always be producing.- I listen to my body and give it what it needs.- I choose stillness on purpose, not by accident.- I trust that rest makes me better, not worse.---**Timestamps:**[00:00] Opening — Welcome and gratitude for showing up[01:30] Settling In — Arriving in the present moment[03:00] The Theme — Part 1 — Why pausing matters, checking in with yourself[05:00] Breathwork — A gentle breathing exercise with intention[06:30] The Theme — Part 2 — Permission to rest, refilling before the crisis[08:00] Affirmations — Part 1 — Three affirmations for self-permission[09:00] Affirmations — Part 2 — Three more affirmations for trust and stillness[09:45] Closing — One small thing to do after this episode---**Tags:** #YourQuietMoment #SelfCompassion #Rest #Pause #SelfCare #Mindfulness #Gentleness #Affirmations #Podcast #WellnessDISCLAIMER

Thanks to AI, you could have an idea for a startup on your way home from work Thursday and finish a rough prototype by Monday morning. That's great news for founders, but it also raises the bar: if everyone can build a convincing demo, what actually separates a durable company from a clever prototype? To explore that question in depth, I interviewed Alex Niehenke a partner at Scale Venture Partners since 2012. He invests in early-stage companies tackling complex industries like insurance, wealth management, construction, and logistics. We discuss why product innovation has to be paired with distribution innovation, how he judges your TAM estimate, how founders create entirely new categories, and what investors are looking for now that building software has never been easier. RUNTIME 41:43   EPISODE BREAKDOWN (02:58) Overview: Scale Venture Partners (04:42) What Makes Slow-Moving Markets Attractive? (06:19) Product Innovation Needs Go-to-Market Innovation (08:58) Why TAM Is Really a Test of Strategic Thinking (12:03) At Least Two-Thirds of My Investments Are Category Creation (15:54) What Founder-Market Fit Means in the AI Era (21:41) What Makes a Vertical AI Startup Fundable? (24:52) What Separates a Nice Demo from a Durable Business? (27:11) Selling Into Hard Markets (33:03) When Regulation Becomes a Competitive Advantage (34:52) Founder-Led Go-to-Market Wins Early (37:01) Why Obsession Still Matters Most LINKS Alex Niehenke Scale Venture Partners Tessa Lau, CEO/Founder, Dusty Robotics Deep Tech Without Stealth: Inside Dusty Robotics' Origin Story, Fund/Build/Scale Root Insurance Motive Shoe Dog, Phil Knight Building something that's hard to explain? That's often a sign you're working on something interesting. It can also cost you fundraising, sales, hiring, and media opportunities. I help early-stage founders sharpen the narrative around what they're building: what matters, why now, who needs to care, and why they're the right team to make it happen. If you're preparing for a raise, launch, important customer meeting, panel, or hiring push, I can help you pressure-test the story before the stakes get higher.

You Can Return to Yourself at Any MomentSometimes we drift so far from ourselves that returning feels impossible. But the truth is, you can always find your way back — in the middle of an ordinary day, in the middle of an overwhelming season, in the middle of whatever life has asked of you. This episode is a gentle invitation to pause, breathe, and come home to yourself.You will be guided through a reflection on what it means to return to yourself, a reminder that disconnection is not the same as loss, and a simple breathwork practice to help your body feel what that return actually feels like. We close with affirmations to carry with you long after this episode ends.TOPICS: self-return, inner compass, gentle return, letting go of noise, presence, breathwork, self-compassion, mindfulness, daily calm, emotional wellnessAFFIRMATIONS:• I return to myself as often as I need to, without guilt and without judgment.• I am not defined by the moments when I feel lost or disconnected.• I trust that the version of myself I am looking for is already here.RUNTIME: 8 minutesPRODUCED BY: HustleStudiosDISCLAIMER

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/164370496 Beatrice speaks with Da'Shaun L. Harrison about their book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness and the joined histories of eugenics and racial capitalism. Runtime 1:07:39 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

# Your Quiet Moment — Episode 205**Title:** You Can Give Yourself Permission to Pause**Theme:** Encouragement, self-compassion, rest, checking in with oneself, letting go of constant productivity**Runtime:** ~10 minutes---Hey, friend. I'm really glad you showed up today. Between everything on your plate and everything circling around in your head, taking ten minutes for yourself is actually a pretty significant act of self-care. Today, we're exploring why pausing isn't about being lazy or falling behind — it's about checking in with yourself the way you'd check in with a friend. We'll talk about why you can't pour from an empty cup, and why rest is one of the most responsible things you can do — not just for yourself, but for everyone around you. Together, we'll breathe through some gentle reminders, and we'll close with affirmations to carry you through the rest of your day.---**Affirmations:**- I honor my need to pause and check in with myself.- I am allowed to stop and rest without guilt.- I release the pressure to always be producing.- I listen to my body and give it what it needs.- I choose stillness on purpose, not by accident.- I trust that rest makes me better, not worse.---**Timestamps:**[00:00] Opening — Welcome and gratitude for showing up[01:30] Settling In — Arriving in the present moment[03:00] The Theme — Part 1 — Why pausing matters, checking in with yourself[05:00] Breathwork — A gentle breathing exercise with intention[06:30] The Theme — Part 2 — Permission to rest, refilling before the crisis[08:00] Affirmations — Part 1 — Three affirmations for self-permission[09:00] Affirmations — Part 2 — Three more affirmations for trust and stillness[09:45] Closing — One small thing to do after this episode---**Tags:** #YourQuietMoment #SelfCompassion #Rest #Pause #SelfCare #Mindfulness #Gentleness #Affirmations #Podcast #WellnessDISCLAIMER

You Are Safe in This MomentIn this episode of Your Quiet Moment, we explore the theme of safety — not the kind that comes from locks and systems, but the deeper, quieter kind. The kind that says: right now, in this moment, you are okay. You are held. You are safe.Join us for a gentle breathwork practice and a series of calming affirmations designed to help you soften, trust, and return to your inner sanctuary anytime.⏱ Runtime: 9-10 minutes

You Are Safe in This MomentIn this episode of Your Quiet Moment, we explore the theme of safety — not the kind that comes from locks and systems, but the deeper, quieter kind. The kind that says: right now, in this moment, you are okay. You are held. You are safe.Join us for a gentle breathwork practice and a series of calming affirmations designed to help you soften, trust, and return to your inner sanctuary anytime.⏱ Runtime: 9-10 minutes

You Can Return to Yourself at Any Moment Sometimes we drift so far from ourselves that returning feels impossible. But the truth is, you can always find your way back — in the middle of an ordinary day, in the middle of an overwhelming season, in the middle of whatever life has asked of you. This episode is a gentle invitation to pause, breathe, and come home to yourself. You will be guided through a reflection on what it means to return to yourself, a reminder that disconnection is not the same as loss, and a simple breathwork practice to help your body feel what that return actually feels like. We close with affirmations to carry with you long after this episode ends. TOPICS: self-return, inner compass, gentle return, letting go of noise, presence, breathwork, self-compassion, mindfulness, daily calm, emotional wellness AFFIRMATIONS: • I return to myself as often as I need to, without guilt and without judgment. • I am not defined by the moments when I feel lost or disconnected. • I trust that the version of myself I am looking for is already here. RUNTIME: 8 minutes PRODUCED BY: HustleStudiosDISCLAIMER

You Can Make This Moment Gentle With YourselfSometimes the bravest thing you can do is pause — right in the middle of everything demanding your attention — and choose gentleness over pressure. In this episode, we explore what it really means to be gentle with yourself, not as indulgence, but as an act of courage and self-respect.You will be guided through a gentle reflection on the weight you have been carrying, a reminder that you do not have to earn the right to rest, and a breathing exercise to help your body actually feel what gentleness feels like. We close with affirmations you can carry with you long after this episode ends.TOPICS: self-gentleness, permission to rest, self-compassion, letting go of pressure, mindful breathing, affirmations, self-worth, daily calm, emotional wellness, mental healthAFFIRMATIONS:• I am allowed to take up space in this world without having to earn it.• I choose to respond to my own struggles with kindness, not criticism.• I give myself permission to make this moment a gentle one.RUNTIME: 8 minutesPRODUCED BY: HustleStudiosDISCLAIMER

The Fork In Your Ear Ep#217 Goldblooming - Show Notes 7-18-26 Quick Summary Tim and Nate return after a short break with the usual tech hiccups (cats on keyboards, webcam fails, Windows being Windows) before diving into heavy gaming industry salt. Sony's disc production shutdown and account purge policy spark debate, while Xbox's massive reset (layoffs, studio sales, id Software cuts) gets the full breakdown—including John Carmack's level-headed take. Personal life gets real with Portland traffic nightmares, Oregon gas station confusion, back/PT woes, and Tim's Palworld co-op adventures with his wife (complete with "Slavery Corporation" clan drama). Nate suffers through Hollow Knight for his daughter, and there's plenty of He-Man movie love, Obsession raves, and Kara's corner mentions. Detailed Show Notes

Enterprises are running more AI agents than their security teams realize, and attackers only need to be right once. Anand Oswal, EVP of Network Security at Palo Alto Networks, explains how to secure agents across four surfaces: enterprise, SaaS, endpoints, and the browser. With host Michael Krigsman, he covers shadow agent discovery, MCP and browser risks, prompt injection, agent identity, and why a unified platform beats a stack of point products.YOU'LL DISCOVER✅ The four agent surfaces every CISO must secure at once: enterprise, SaaS, endpoints, and the browser✅ Why discovery comes first: you cannot secure agents, models, tools, and plugins you cannot see✅ The Palo Alto Networks finding that one third of public MCP servers carry takeover level vulnerabilities✅ How vibe coding agents demand privileged access to local files, terminals, and cloud credentials✅ How browser agents inherit your session and cookies and can perform identity impersonation✅ Runtime threats to know: prompt injection, memory poisoning, tool misuse, and model DoS✅ How MCP and A2A protocols expand the attack surface, and why a centralized AI gateway anchors identity, runtime, and observability controls✅ The case for zero trust, an AI-driven SOC, and one unified platform over point products, and where Prisma AI fits⏱️ TIMESTAMPS0:00 Introduction0:22 Agent memory poisoning and tool misuse0:59 Discovering shadow agents across four surfaces2:32 Vibe coding agents and MCP risk4:46 Browser agents and session misuse6:20 Runtime threats and prompt injection7:17 Agent-to-agent protocols and attack surface8:04 Agent identity and the control plane9:16 Centralizing control at the AI gateway10:23 Zero trust and an AI-driven SOC11:29 One platform, not point productsSubscribe for weekly conversations with the business and technology leaders shaping the enterprise. Get the CXOTalk newsletter: https://newsletter.cxotalk.com Show notes, transcript, and summary: https://www.cxotalk.com/episode/palo-alto-networks-evp-securing-ai-agents-in-the-enterpriseEpisode 924#CXOTalk #EnterpriseAI #CIO #AIGovernance #AgenticAI #IBM #DigitalTransformation #AIStrategy #AILeadership

You Can Honor Where You Are Right NowIn this episode of Your Quiet Moment, we explore the theme of honoring where you are — not where you thought you'd be, not where someone else said you should be, but exactly where you are right now. This is an invitation to stop the exhausting chase, release the shame of feeling behind, and give yourself permission to be exactly where you are on your path.Join us for a gentle breathwork practice and a series of affirmations designed to help you release comparison, trust the process, and honor your own pace.⏱ Runtime: 14 minutes

You Can Honor Where You Are Right NowIn this episode of Your Quiet Moment, we explore the theme of honoring where you are — not where you thought you'd be, not where someone else said you should be, but exactly where you are right now. This is an invitation to stop the exhausting chase, release the shame of feeling behind, and give yourself permission to be exactly where you are on your path.Join us for a gentle breathwork practice and a series of affirmations designed to help you release comparison, trust the process, and honor your own pace.⏱ Runtime: 14 minutes

Monte Judah examines the rapidly escalating conflict between the United States and Iran, Israel's military strategy, growing political opposition to Israel in America, and what these developments may mean through the lens of biblical prophecy. Join us for this week's Messianic World Update from Lion and Lamb Ministries.Uscreen Timestamps (29:18 Runtime)00:00 Introduction 00:40 U.S. Military Operations Against Iran 02:28 Iran's Negotiating Tactics 05:18 Strait of Hormuz Strategy 08:17 Iran's Underground Nuclear Facilities 10:04 Houthis & Red Sea Threats 11:35 Military Campaign Expands 13:31 Israel's Current Role 16:10 U.S.–Israel Defense Partnership 18:37 Lebanon Security Update 20:12 Gaza & Hamas Operations 21:50 American Politics & Israel 24:08 Media Coverage and Prophecy Perspective 26:42 Looking Ahead 28:08 Closing RemarksContinue growing in your faith throughout the week with LionandLamb.tv, your home for biblical teaching from a Messianic perspective. Watch weekly programs featuring Monte Judah and special guests as we explore Bible prophecy, the Hebraic roots of the faith, current events, and practical discipleship.Looking to go deeper?• The Greater Exodus — Learn more about God's prophetic plan: https://thegreaterexodus.com/• Monte Judah Teaching Collection — Books, studies, and teaching series: https://www.messianicmarketplace.org/collections/monte-judah• Lion and Lamb Ministries — Discover our ministry, events, and free resources: https://www.lionandlambministries.org/• Messianic Marketplace — Browse books, Bible studies, gifts, and educational resources: https://www.messianicmarketplace.org/• Yavoh Magazine — Subscribe to our free monthly Messianic magazine, available in digital or print: https://www.yavohmagazine.com/As these prophetic days continue to unfold, your partnership helps us proclaim the Gospel of Messiah, teach the whole counsel of God, and equip believers around the world.Support Lion and Lamb Ministries today at: www.LLGive.comThank you for standing with us as we proclaim God's Word, support Israel, and prepare believers for the return of our Messiah.Shabbat Shalom!

Your Quiet Moment - Episode 151: You Can Let Yourself FeelThere's something on your mind today, isn't there? Something you've been carrying. Something you've been pushing through, or pushing down, or trying to get past. But right now, in this moment, you don't have to push it away.In this episode, we talk about giving yourself permission to feel what's already there — without fixing it, without understanding it perfectly, and without rushing it away.TOPICS:• Permission to feel without explanation• The cost of outrunning our emotions• Why feelings are data, not danger• Trusting that feelings are temporary even when they feel permanent• Gentleness with yourself while you're going through somethingAFFIRMATIONS:• I am allowed to feel what's real for me.• I don't need permission from anyone to have my feelings.• My feelings are valid, even when I can't explain them.• I am not weak for feeling deeply.• I release the pressure to be fine all the time.• I give myself permission to have a hard day.• I am allowed to take up space with what's true for me.TIMESTAMPS:[00:00] Opening — Permission to feel[02:15] Settling In — The pressure to be fine[05:30] The Theme Part One — The cost of outrunning feelings[12:45] The Theme Part Two — You don't need to understand to be allowed[18:00] Breathwork — A moment to just breathe[20:30] Affirmations — Seeds to carry with you[23:45] Closing — You're not weak. You're human.RUNTIME: 10 minutesCATEGORY: Encouragement / Self-Compassion / Emotional Wellness#YourQuietMoment #LetYourselfFeel #EmotionalWellness #SelfCompassion #FeelYourFeelings #MentalHealth #Encouragement #Mindfulness #PersonalGrowthDISCLAIMER

You Can Find Comfort in Your Own CompanySometimes the quiet feels heavy. Sometimes being alone with your own thoughts feels more like a burden than a gift. But what if the silence wasn't something to escape from — but something to lean into? Today, we're exploring what it really means to find comfort in your own company, and why the relationship you have with yourself is the longest one you'll ever sustain.This episode offers gentle guidance on building a kinder relationship with your own mind, practical starting points for cultivating solitude, and breathwork to help you settle into the present moment.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━AFFIRMATIONS• I am comfortable in my own company.• I don't need noise to feel at peace.• I enjoy my own presence.• I am enough, all by myself.• I choose to be kind to myself today and every day.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS[00:00] Opening — Finding comfort in silence[01:30] Settling In — The last time you enjoyed being alone[04:15] The Theme: Part One — Stopping the run from yourself[07:00] Breathwork — One breath together[08:00] The Theme: Part Two — Cultivating your own company[10:30] Affirmations[11:30] Closing — You showed up for yourself today━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━RUNTIME: 8 minutes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#YourQuietMoment #SelfCompassion #Solitude #InnerPeace #Mindfulness #GentleGuidanceDISCLAIMER

As part of our summer replay series, we're revisiting one of the standout conversations from Runtime, a16z's conference on AI infrastructure and the future of computing. Gavin Baker, Managing Partner and CIO of Atreides Management, joins David George to examine the biggest questions surrounding today's AI investment cycle. Is AI a bubble? What does the unprecedented buildout of data centers, GPUs, and compute infrastructure mean for the economy? And how should investors think about the companies building the next generation of AI? The conversation explores frontier models, Nvidia, Google, custom silicon, AI infrastructure, application software, robotics, and why Baker believes today's AI investment cycle looks fundamentally different from the internet bubble of the early 2000s. Along the way, they discuss the economics of GPUs, enterprise software, AI business models, and what comes next as AI moves from experimentation into the broader economy.   Resources: Follow Gavin Baker on X: https://x.com/GavinSBaker Follow Atreides Management on X: https://x.com/atreidesmgmt Follow David George on X: https://x.com/DavidGeorge83 Stay Updated:Find a16z on YouTube: YouTubeFind a16z on XFind a16z on LinkedInListen to the a16z Show on SpotifyListen to the a16z Show on Apple PodcastsFollow our host: https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/163701602 Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the long history of RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) being used as a tool of repression against left movements, and what we can learn from the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists. Runtime 1:30:00 Today's episode originally aired September 25th, 2023 and is being re-aired today in light of the Prairieland sentencing, the 'Minnesota 15,' and other developments. We'll be back next week with a new episode! Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

A lot of founders assume raising venture capital is just part of the process: you have an idea, build a deck, find some investors and start pitching. But what if you don't actually need the money yet? Elia Wallen is the founder and CEO of Engine, a business travel platform valued at $2 billion. He bootstrapped his first company and resisted raising outside capital for Engine until the business was growing faster than he could support on his own. In this episode, we talk about why raising too much money too soon can lead founders astray, how to tell the difference between needing capital and craving validation, why early-stage equity may be the most expensive money you'll ever raise, and how to know when your company is actually ready to start talking to investors. We also get into the risks of letting investors steer a company before product-market fit, why founders should pressure-test how much money they really need, what Elia means by having "conviction with rationale," and why the opportunity should be pulling you forward before you raise. RUNTIME 35:13   EPISODE BREAKDOWN (1:40) What is Engine? (3:25) Why ignorance can be an advantage (5:38) Are you raising money for validation? (8:58) What constraint teaches founders (10:57) How much money do you actually need? (17:44)When it actually makes sense to raise (21:18) How investors can pull you off course  (26:38) Equity is more expensive than you think (30:55) How to know when you're ready to raise LINKS Elia Wallen Engine The Case for Raising Less Money Than You Can, Inc.com Building something that's hard to explain? That's often a sign you're working on something interesting. It can also cost you fundraising, sales, hiring, and media opportunities. I help early-stage founders sharpen the narrative around what they're building: what matters, why now, who needs to care, and why they're the right team to make it happen. If you're preparing for a raise, launch, important customer meeting, panel, or hiring push, I can help you pressure-test the story before the stakes get higher.

# Your Quiet Moment — EP083 **Title:** You Can Give Yourself Permission **Theme:** Permission to rest, to say no, to take up space, to prioritize yourself without guilt **Runtime:** 10.6 minutes **Tone:** Warm, supportive, conversational — like a big sibling who genuinely believes in you --- ## Summary We live in a world that tells us rest is lazy, that our needs are inconvenient, and that we have to earn the right to take care of ourselves. This episode pushes back on all of that. It's a gentle but firm reminder that you don't need anyone else's permission to rest, to say no, to take up space, or to be exactly who you are. You're allowed to stop. You're allowed to exist unapologetically. You've always had that right — you just need to claim it. --- ## What You'll Hear - Why rest isn't a reward for productivity — it's a basic human need - How to recognize when you've been shrinking yourself to fit into someone else's expectations - Why the permission that matters most is the one you give yourself - A short breathing exercise to help you settle in and be present - Affirmations to remind you of your right to take up space in this world --- ## Affirmations in This Episode - I give myself permission to rest, without guilt and without earning it. - I give myself permission to say no, without overexplaining or apologizing. - I give myself permission to take up space, exactly as I am. - I give myself permission to prioritize my needs without feeling selfish. - I give myself permission to be seen, to be heard, to be myself. - I am allowed to set boundaries and protect my energy. - I am allowed to be whole, not just useful. --- ## Timestamps [00:00] Opening — A breath, a welcome, an invitation [02:00] Settling In — Where are you right now? [05:00] The Theme, Part 1 — Permission to rest [08:00] Breathwork — A simple breathing exercise [09:00] The Theme, Part 2 — Permission to take up space [12:00] Affirmations, Part 1 [14:00] Affirmations, Part 2 [16:00] Closing — Claiming your permission --- ## Tags #YourQuietMoment #SelfPermission #SelfCare #Rest #MentalHealth #Wellness #Affirmations #PersonalGrowth #SelfCompassion #Mindfulness --- **Produced by Hustle Studios** **Subscribe to Your Quiet Moment on Spreaker**DISCLAIMER

Donna & Steve open the show talking about why Anne Hathaway quit working in the movie Knocked Up, you can officially buy Wayne Manor and what's something you like that your kids do now?In hour two, we play the Mike Myers edition of the College of Pop Culture Knowledge, people are already selling stuff from Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce's wedding and summer safety tips for dogs.Finally, Mariska Hargitay will host this year's Emmys, the most popular baby names of 1976 and we find out the Soup of the Day!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We've been torturing Chad all show with bumper music from Journey, who he claims is flat-out a horrible band. What band do you hear and IMMEDIATELY turn off? Then, what's the ideal run-time for a movie? You might be surprised at what a recent survey found.

Join Ege Celik, Co-Founder and CEO of Atlantic AI Inc., for an unvarnished examination of why the current enterprise fascination with text-based chatbots is fundamentally hitting a wall. While the initial wave of corporate AI focused on superficial text summaries and basic Q&A interfaces, it completely ignored the execution bottleneck: work doesn't get done by talking to a blank prompt; it gets done by executing multi-step workflows across an organization's tools, permissions, and reporting hierarchies. Drawing from an exceptional trajectory that spans launching a multi-city digital marketing agency at age 16, serving as an EdTech CMO at 17, and co-developing EEG-guided neurotechnology protocols, Ege is treating the company organization chart not as a static visual graphic, but as the active software runtime layer for enterprise AI. In this episode—following Atlantic AI's recent $5M seed valuation—we explore how the team is shifting the paradigm from generalized copilots to dedicated, role-specific autonomous agents that execute workflows end-to-end.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/162983378 Beatrice speaks with Hadley, Tina and Beau from the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac Editorial Collective about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work and the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac, described as "a journal of anti-colonial agriculture; an almanac for the end of the world." Runtime 2:14:51 This is the eighth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed. MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

Check out Cam's latest novel / audio drama here! At one point during this episode, Maggie calls Evil Dead (2013) a miracle. It's a remake of one of the best and most influential horror movies of all time that has somehow itself become one of the best and most influential horror movies of this century. Topics include: the film's reverential remixes of the source material, the art of ninety minute horror movies, what makes gore memorable / effective, the best creature design since The Exorcist, provocative comparisons to a few modern classics, and some tricky theories about cursed families and talking metaphors. LINKS: Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram Feedback & Theories: secondbreakfastpod@gmail.com 00:00 Intro / Context 05:58 Second Impressions 22:55 Runtime 28:35 The Evil Dead 31:29 Terrifier 32:51 Obsession 34:52 Talk To Me / Bring Her Back 36:03 Subgenre Smoothie 38:34 Creature Design 47:34 Theory: Hereditary Possession 51:40 Theory: Addiction Personified 54:08 Punctum 01:01:42 Closing Thoughts

Most startup fundraising advice focuses on how to get investors interested. Ryan Ziegler sees the process from the other side of the table. As a General Partner at Edison Partners, Ryan evaluates startups that have already survived one of the hardest phases of company building: finding customers willing to pay for what they've built.  By the time founders reach him, the question is no longer whether the idea is interesting. It's whether the business is repeatable. In this episode, Ryan explains why most startups shouldn't raise money even if they can, how investors separate durable customer demand from vanity metrics, what actually makes a company ready for Series A, and why founder self-awareness may matter more than a perfect pitch deck. We also discuss customer reference calls, leadership scorecards, founder coachability, and why companies need an operating system before they try to grow. RUNTIME 45:29   EPISODE BREAKDOWN (2:37) How Edison Partners Finds Bootstrapped Companies Ready to Scale (5:40) Why Most Startups Shouldn't Raise Money (Even If They Can) (11:39) How Venture Capital Can Create False Signals About Product-Market Fit (19:49) What Series A Readiness Actually Looks Like (25:01) The Difference Between Real Customer Demand and Fundraising Theater (27:35) Founder Transparency, Investor Trust, and Long-Term Partnerships (33:32) Why Coachability Beats Founder Ego (35:45) Building an Operating System That Scales Beyond the Founder (38:21) A Practical Series A Readiness Self-Audit LINKS Ryan Ziegler Edison Partners SUBSCRIBE

Check out Cam's latest novel / audio drama here! The House That Jack Built is — by a country mile — the most messed up movie we've ever seen. Oddly, it might also be the funniest. In this long-gestating episode, we're finally doing a deep dive investigation into one of the trickiest, densest, and most provocative movies ever made. It's a crime thriller. It's a black comedy. It's an unbearably grisly horror movie. But then again, you could also argue that it's the foremost (albeit nontraditional) adaptation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Topics include: the rudest needle drop of all time, an uncomfortably apt comparison to It's A Wonderful Life, the terror of temporary found footage, the potency of simplistic creature design in depicting pure evil, Lars Von Trier's use of the color red, and the boundless talent of Matt Dillon. LINKS: Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram Feedback & Theories: secondbreakfastpod@gmail.com 00:00 Introduction 05:26 Impressions 17:39 Runtime 27:26 Funny Games 29:07 American Psycho 32:02 It's A Wonderful Life 35:37 Yorgos Lanthimos 37:01 Eugene Delacroix 40:24 True Crime 42:57 Crime Fiction 51:03 Horror 55:48 Comedy 01:02:28 Creature Design 01:11:18 Theory: The Color Red 01:18:14 Theory: Misdirection 01:26:00 Punctum 01:33:48 Closing Thoughts

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/162399538 Beatrice, Artie and Tracy discuss the potential impacts of a Trump executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets,” which threatens to dramatically expand involuntary psychiatric commitment and make it easier for the government to disappear people off the streets, allegedly in the name of “compassion.” Runtime 1:51:47 Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

Check out Cam's latest novel / audio drama here! David Fincher's Zodiac is a masterpiece, but it's not that simple. This is more than just a perfect true crime movie. It's also a horror movie that relentlessly denies the viewer any sense of closure or narrative satisfaction. As we argue in today's episode, Zodiac is a spiraling mystery in conversation with everything from slashers and possession movies to journalism stories and the complicated idea of "the great American novel". We also explore the film's unorthodox creature design (handwriting analysis!), its place within the larger David Fincher canon, and the question of whether or not the ending really is "ambiguous" at all. LINKS: Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram Feedback & Theories: secondbreakfastpod@gmail.com 00:00 Introduction 02:32 Impressions 22:17 Runtime 30:55 Genre Innovation 48:44 Creature Design 52:55 Comparisons 59:07 Theories 01:07:15 Punctum 01:15:05 Closing Thoughts

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/161771826 Beatrice speaks with Jack from Below Sea Level Aid about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. Runtime 52:30 This is the seventh episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed. MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/acap-06-philly-161158245 Beatrice speaks with Ona, Renya, and Zara from Philly Childcare Collective about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. Runtime 1:31:03 This is the sixth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed. MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

This week on The Jock and Nerd Podcast, we discuss reports that Spider-Man: Brand New Day could become the longest Spider-Man movie ever made and examine how Tom Holland helped shape the film's production after working with Christopher Nolan on The Odyssey. We also react to trailers for Onslaught, How to Rob a Bank, and... The post JAN 645: Masters of the Universe (2026) Review – Spider-Man: Brand New Day Runtime Revealed (06/10/26) appeared first on The Jock and Nerd Podcast.

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/160543761 Beatrice speaks with Alice, Fish, and Caris from a Turtle Island-based Free Clinic about care as a site of struggle, abolishing the medical industrial complex, and their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. Runtime 2:30:51 This is the fifth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed. MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

Atef Najib, a former security chief, is the highest-profile member of the Assad regime to go on trial. We ask why the speed, uneven spread and murky legal basis of justice troubles many Syrians. Our series leading up to America's 250th birthday continues to plumb our archive. Today: the cold war and Vietnam. And why whiskymaking is booming in China.Guests and host:Gareth Browne, Middle East correspondentAnnie Crabill, senior digital editorDon Weinland, China business and finance editorJason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”Topics covered: Syria, judicial system, transitional justiceAmerica, 250th anniversary, historyChina, business, whiskyGet a world of insights by subscribing to Economist Podcasts+. For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account.Runtime: 24 minTWITTER HANDLES OF CONTRIBS @BrowneGareth – Syria@annie_crabill – US250@donweinland – whisky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.