Remembering 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...
View ArticleCartoon: Wearable tech expo
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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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