The Only Answer is the American Democracy
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]I chatted briefly last week with a Twitter acquaintance I greatly admire, a single mother who is the epitome of spunk and defiance, who was initially disgusted with...
View ArticleApple co-founder Steve Wozniak leaves Facebook: 'It's brought me more...
This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before Congress about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which has been the impetus for many criticisms about Facebook's practices as a...
View ArticleVenture Adaptation: Jupiter Intel and the Emerging Business of Climate Change
In episode 67 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons talks with Rich Sorkin, CEO and Co-Founder of Jupiter Intel. Rich shares the history of Jupiter Intel as a silicon valley start up and his short and long...
View ArticleReports reveal Zuckerberg secretly congratulated Trump on his win days after...
It’s not uncommon for CEOs to publicly congratulate the president on their win, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a different angle. BuzzFeed News reports that he secretly placed a phone call to...
View ArticlePink Elephants Podcast #17 — LaborFest! Workers Rights, Workers Lives:...
As part of LaborFest, commemorating the 84th anniversary of the San Francisco General Strike, San Jose’s SEIU hall hosted an all-day forum focusing on the ravages of the subcontracted labor market and...
View ArticleThe Girl Who Kissed Putin
OK, I see this story on Business Insider about Masha Drokova, a 28 year old woman venture capitalist who plays romantic matchmaker for company founders to improve returns.It appears to be a fairly...
View ArticlePink Elephants Podcast #18 - FutureProof: Conversations on the Future of...
The future of urban development is one of the most complex and multi-faceted issues of our time. It’s also one of the most prominent wellsprings of inequity in most areas of the United States,...
View ArticlePink Elephants Podcast #20 - The Rape Kit Backlog Must Be Eliminated
There are few things more emblematic of the blind eye America turns towards sexual violence than the epidemic of untested rape kits currently found in the criminal justice system. Estimates range...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleMust-read (-or at least read about)
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...
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