You can’t believe your eyes
Beware the Photoshop of videos. The Oregon Republican Senate delegation has R-U-N-N-O-F-T. The impact of war, and failure, on many men. And Mike O’Brien wants to bring sunshine to the soda tax.
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Deepfakes
A few years ago, actor and director Jordan Peele made a video impersonation of President Obama that became known as a deepfake. You may have seen more recent, and more sophisticated, versions that target Nancy Pelosi or Mark Zuckerberg. As this technology spreads, how will we know what’s real? Ryan Georgi is a doctor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington; Jevin West is at the UW Information school and co-created a class titled “Calling BS.”
Oregon GOP skips town
What do you do when something you don’t like happens at work? Maybe you call HR, or talk to your boss. Some Republican Oregon lawmakers, on the other hand, just left. KLCC’s Chris Lehman has been reporting on their dramatic flight to Idaho so they couldn’t be forced to vote in the Senate.
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Refugees. Asylum seekers. They’re from war-torn countries, right? So are you, says poet Ocean Vuong. His debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, swells with themes of longing and loss, masculinity and failure. He spoke about the prison and the opportunity offered by each of those things, and how the failure of America is that it has been shaped by war.
Mike O'Brien on soda tax
Last week we spoke about how the city has taken in much more money than expected from its sweetened beverage tax – and how the ins and outs of how that surplus is spent aren’t as transparent as government watchdogs might hope. Seattle City Councilor Mike O’Brien is working to tighten the rules around how these funds can be spent.
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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