Google discovered a big security bug, but kept it secret to avoid regulation
A few months ago, Google quietly removed “Don’t be evil” from its code of conduct, and as we learn more about its activities, it’s increasingly easy to see why.On Monday, Google announced the sudden...
View ArticleFacebook finds Americans are taking pages from the Russian disinformation...
With just weeks until the midterm elections, Facebook has deleted hundreds of political accounts and pages for violating their terms of service. In an announcement, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity...
View Article"'You have a right to your weariness,'" writes Charles Blow in the NYTimes...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Here is the link to Blow’s brief column, in the weary time, just one day short of a week after the Mid-Term elections: www.nytimes.com/… Blow is arguing for no...
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Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n.1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; This new book seems...
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Join Nonprofits Calling for PG&E Bankruptcy to Add Consumer...
16 Million PG&E Customers Deserve A VoicePG&E's customers and neighbors have the most at stake in PG&E's bankruptcy, and should be represented in this bankruptcy case. So far, PG&E’s...
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Silicon Valley Really Doesn't Like Trump
Trump gave The San Francisco Bay Area a bad name by trespassing on our land today. Apparently, he was meeting with a bunch of rich supporters from Silicon Valley. We caught his motorcade on the way up...
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01/29 Open Thread: January 22 is Curmudgeons Day, thank you very much
Kindly Reduce Expectations We are getting ready to head out on yet another multi-week adventure in the near future. This means that I need to write, post and schedule a whole bunch of OTs for the...
View ArticleCA State Senate: Ann Ravel faces opponent kept afloat by big oil #SD15
As Californians are learning, the effects of climate change become more destructive every year. Our government, awash in big fossil-fuel money does not appear willing to hold the fossil-fuel and...
View ArticleThe Hidden Sacrifice: Those Who Keep Us Safe on YouTube
Facebook acknowledged the horrors their content moderators face. It’s time for Google to do the same.[I’m posting on behalf of myself and 2 fellow undergraduates at Stanford University].When you type...
View ArticleThe Economy Needs a President Too
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]I went shopping at the local Costco yesterday and got immensely discouraged, all the cleaning products, paper towels and toilet paper had been stripped. Oh my god...
View ArticleDNC Chair Jaime Harrison demolishes RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel's fake outrage
Ronna McDaniel is worried about the world. Mostly, as chair of the RNC, she’s worried about the fact that Google is, based on her theory, suppressing right-wing voices. While there hasn’t been a lot of...
View ArticleSan Jose Mass Shooting With 9+1 Fatalities. Now With Bomb Squad @ Shooter's...
About 6:35am PST a lone gunman shot multiple persons at the San Jose Valley Transit Authority maintenance yard. There have been several fatalities including the gunman by suicide.Unconfirmed reports...
View ArticleRemembering the "Valley of the Heart's Delight"
From the San Francisco Chronicle: After more than three years of negotiations, San Jose officials voted late Tuesday to approve Google's plan for a sprawling downtown campus with thousands of new...
View ArticleStanford is opening a new climate change and sustainability school thanks to...
On Wednesday, John Doerr announced that he and his wife Ann gave $1.1 billion to Stanford University to establish its first new school in 70 years: The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Doerr, a...
View ArticleProfessor Scott Galloway discusses the least patriotic Americans, the titans...
Silicon Valley billionaires in the tech sector used government subsidies, our labor, and intellect yet do as much as possible not to pay back for their good fortune.Silicon Valley billionaires are...
View ArticleKTK: MAGA school board candidates in Silicon Valley? Also thoughts on Mayor race
It is fairly well understood MAGA Republicans are focusing on school boards nationally. Last election cycle Gov Youngkin of Virginia rode a wave of bigoted fears of Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ+ kids...
View ArticleSan Jose Mayoral candidate misleads on the NRA issue. And thoughts on other...
xEquating groups like @MomsRising, @Everytown or @MomsDemand to the NRA is incredibly insulting. The NRA has never been interested in civil discourse. They promote their agenda at the cost of children...
View ArticleHow Business Schools Destroyed Silicon Valley, are Destroying America, and...
“Oh we, like sheep, have gone astray, -ay”“Every one to his own way.”— Handel’s MessiahThis holiday season, Americans can give thanks that our democracy seems to have survived, if only temporarily, and...
View ArticleNeoreactionarism May Explain Why Elon Musk Took Over Twitter.
I decided to look up something that one of the reporters for MSNBC flagged today about Elon Musk (I am sorry I don’t remember the man’s name or have a link yet). It was reported that Elon Musk and...
View ArticleElizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years for defrauding investors
Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of fraud and will spend about 11 years in jail. Overlooked, in all the excited chatter about an appointment of a special counsel to investigate DJT’s role in the Jan 6...
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A Businessy Take on Mastodon
[Note: the original for this is also viewable at my blog site]I was a late convert to Twitter. I dabbled about a year ago and then I discovered that Ukraine war news appeared there first. Everyone in...
View ArticleBye-Bye, Birdie!
Recently, one of Silicon Valley’s renowned creations and premier platform for getting out the word, Twitter, lost its soul to someone named Elon Musk.I rather like Elon Musk, in many respects, because...
View ArticleSilicon Valley sits on the sidelines in the fight against homelessness
With the right app, you can get anything you want. So why can’t the unhoused find one to help them get a roof over their heads?By Ethan Ward, for Capital and MainVince Williamz’s fall days were filled...
View ArticleHere we go again: Wall Street billionaires demanding public bailouts of...
UPDATE: Friday, Mar 10, 2023 · 8:19:42 PM +00:00·kosJust watch, all the usual suspects will make the same f’n arguments: xMeanwhile here's Summers putting the brakes on helping millions struggling with...
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did some Venture Capitalists do Previous Guy a solid by causing the SVB bank run
Seems a bit like the chaotic part of creative destruction at work, causing mayhem in the tech startup community of Silicon Valley. Some of the bank run may have been triggered by Peter Theil, and a few...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Bank has faced a sudden collapse
SVB Financial Group, doing business as Silicon Valley Bank, had not only the first bank failure since 2020, but it also had the largest bank failure since the Great Recession, as the bank was closed by...
View ArticleSign the petition: Hold Big Banks accountable and undo the 2018 Trump law...
Silicon Valley Bank has collapsed, and it was completely avoidable. In 2018, Donald Trump and the Republican Congress—at the behest of the banking industry—rolled back key parts of the Dodd-Frank law...
View ArticleMeet the elite couples who want to overpopulate the planet with their elite...
The Telegraph has an absolutely horrifying piece entitled, and how we all wish we were joking about this, "Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind." Yes, it is a real thing. The Telegraph...
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View ArticleReaction and Contempt in Tech and Business
Why is there so much bullshit in tech?Part of it must be that we live in a golden age of bullshit. Bullshit is easier to generate, easier to spread, easier to get into mainstream conversation than at...
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Billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. They'll have to...
Silicon Valley billionaires behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree in Northern California have finally released some details about their plans for a new green city, but they still must win...
View ArticleCollaborative Solutions to the Housing crisis. Full Circle Fund hosting...
I wanted to share a neat event coming up next week Tuesday in San Francisco. Full Circle Fund is hosting an interactive learning event run by Catalyze SV. Focused on collaborative community solutions...
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defective altruism's poster boy
Bad Madoff. Faulty neoliberal capitalism where corruption and theft get rationalized.Is Sam Bankman-Fried now the exemplar for the excesses of the Effective Altruism movement, especially when he tried...
View Article"Fear and Tension" Led to Altman's Ouster at Open AI
I imagine, like most humans, you are fascinated by AI but also afraid of what it might do, not only to jobs, and to creative people, but to humanity and our planet as well.The shocking ouster of Sam...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Silicon Valley Shenanigans - Part I
My work travels have taken me to many parts of the United States. Some of those places are not near the top of my vacation list. But I learned much about each place, especially focusing on the history...
View ArticleThe "Water Engine" Prank and the Internet of Lies
For people with too much time on their hands, YouTube offers a fun and sometimes educational way to kill it. YouTube offers a wide range of “documentaries” for streaming. They range in length from...
View ArticleCartoon: New tech trends
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The Donald's fraud numbers are a drop in Sam Bankman-Fried's bucket because...
Money still counts even at $23 x 1018 dollars. Where will Trump get the cash on Monday even if he’s only an ultra-lite villain at 215 pounds, wet. Hard Work, Talent, and Luck is not his law firm, but...
View ArticleLimiting The Power Of Silicon Valley Oligarchs: Musk's $56 Billion...
The wage gap between CEOs and workers continues to rise, with estimates last year showing that the CEOs in the country’s 300 largest firms earned an average of $10.6 million a year, compared to the...
View ArticleI Wanna Tweet Like Common People Do
Jack Dorsey has officially left the board of Bluesky, letting the world know via a rambling interview. In that interview, Dorsey inadvertently highlights the anti-equality, ant-liberty view of too...
View ArticleWhat do you call tech billionaires who back Trump? Fascists. You call them...
Here's a new CNN story about Silicon Valley billionaire's newly emphatic embrace of the coup-attempting convicted felon Donald Trump, and it's positively enraging because it continues to peddle the...
View ArticleHow Art Thou Crazy? Let Me Count the Ways
Here’s the One Weird Trick to understanding the techbro billionaires who represent the emerging next generation of Conservative Funders.Long Termism.It’s the belief we must prioritize the long term...
View ArticleAI Money Should Be Spent on Doing Something Useful
I have talked about this before, but two recent news items bring it back to the fore. First, OpenAI is on pace to lose approximately 5 billion (with a B) dollars this year. The Imitative AI industry...
View ArticleCartoon: Sam Altman's AI bubble-burstin' blowout
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Barbarism's trickle-down with a transhumanist's eyeliner
Ret-conning ineffectual altruism and the PayPal mafia doing "the same douchebag gaslighting"Framing the anarcho-capitalist wetdreaming of election 2024 as a false dichotomy where "One is running a...
View ArticleJD Vance's Startup Was Hell on Earth Before It Went Bankrupt
CNN’s expose on JD Vance’s failed foray into American business is brutal and something every American should read. The D in JD evidently stands for dilettante. Like lambs to the slaughter, Eastern...
View ArticleWhy some Silicon Valley billionaire bros want Trump to be the ‘CEO of America’
The former president has attracted growing support from tech investors, who are seeking favorable tax policies and more deregulation that could widen inequality.By Daria Solovieva for Capital &...
View ArticleWhat Happened? How are DEI, pronouns, trigger warnings, and Silicon Valley...
OOOF! Where lies sanity now?This was a good and thoughtful column by Joe Klein to America's self-imposed and dramatic political Decline surged by Trump’s return to the White House. I don’t agree with...
View ArticleThe Unwisdom of Silicon Valley. Or Read a Dman Book
Clever way to avoid censor in the title, eh? Although now ChatGPT will think that is how the word is spelled.Yesterday there was a brief thread in Blue Sky around Silcon Valley venture capitalists...
View ArticleCartoon: Whack apps
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