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Donald Trump's surprise victory in last year's presidential election has finally energized my fellow liberals, who are networking, marching and showing up at town-hall meetings across the country. There is excited talk about winning back the White…
Charlottesville: Race and Terror
On Saturday hundreds of white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia to participate in the “Unite the Right” rally.
David Sacks: Cryptocurrency fulfills the 'original vision' we tried to build at PayPal
David Sacks is one of the best known entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley. He was the COO of PayPal more than 15 years ago, which made him a charter member of the so-called PayPal Mafia, a group of influential Silicon Valley investors and…
pretty much agree with this take—TK
Netflix doesn't want to be a better streaming service - it wants to be Disney
The announcements came like a one-two punch. On Monday, Netflix announced it was acquiring Millarworld, the comic book label run by Wanted and Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar. The move would give the streaming service its own line of comic books to…
I'm fascinated by content/media because the impact of the internet on the industry has developed over time. I think we're seeing a pic of the equilibrium to come after years of decline in traditional distribution platforms and models.—TK
Unfortunately, by the time of king Hezekiah a thousand years later, the serpent had become a false idol. Instead of a symbol of God's salvation, the serpent itself was being worshipped as a god, which they called Nehushtan. As such, it was better…
'If there are so many of who are not racist who honestly honor Southern culture and heritage so much, why wasn’t there a giant protest group in Charlottesville, pushing away the Nazis while chanting “heritage, not hate”?'
The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore
Created on: 15th August 2017 at 15:15 (Delivered after 1 seconds) From: Larry Page <*********@google.com> To: James Damore <***********@hotmail.com> CC: <all-staff-worldwide@google.com> Subject: Re: “Google's Ideological…
When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism
Chris Hughes was a mythical savior—boyishly innocent, fantastically rich, intellectually curious, unexpectedly humble, and proudly idealistic. My entire career at the New Republic had been spent dreaming of such a benefactor. For years, my…
LinkedIn loses legal right to protect user data from AI scraping
A Judge today ruled that an analytics company has the right to scrape data from LinkedIn (LI). HiQ, the data gatherer, has been processing publicly available data from LI and using it to train AI models, until May when LI demanded they stop.
The Rise of Market Power and the Decline of Labor's Share
A new paper argues that the decline of both the labor and capital shares, as well as the decline in low-skilled wages and other economic trends, have been aided by a significant increase in markups and market power. Of the various ills that…
White nationalists flock to genetic ancestry tests. Some don't like the result
It was a strange moment of triumph against racism: The gun-slinging white supremacist Craig Cobb, dressed up for daytime TV in a dark suit and red tie, hearing that his DNA testing revealed his ancestry to be only “86 percent European, and…