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My lord, the Overton window is wide open these days… people were saying this privately during the trial, then at dinner parties and now on PW as a historical recap … at the time everyone was afraid to be even *modestly* critical of Pao publicly. 🪟
My lord, the Overton window is wide open these days… people were saying this privately during the trial, then at dinner parties and now on PW as a historical recap … at the time everyone was afraid to be even *modestly* critical of Pao publicly. 🪟
HOW GIL DURAN COMMITTED ETHICS CLEANSING Years ago, the New Republic published a series of false stories that were so egregiously fake that a movie was made about it called Shattered Glass. Now it’s happening again. A “journalist” named Gil Duran just committed a act of ethics…
HOW GIL DURAN COMMITTED ETHICS CLEANSING Years ago, the New Republic published a series of false stories that were so egregiously fake that a movie was made about it called Shattered Glass. Now it’s happening again. A “journalist” named Gil Duran just committed a act of ethics… https://t.co/1d4I3LW23S
tech's ideological capture began with ellen pao's bullshit case against kleiner, an embarrassing, unmitigated disaster framed by our partisan, niche press as a stunning, "important" victory. great retrospective from @metaversehell in pirate wires.
tech's ideological capture began with ellen pao's bullshit case against kleiner, an embarrassing, unmitigated disaster framed by our partisan, niche press as a stunning, "important" victory. great retrospective from @metaversehell in pirate wires.
If tech's days of forced ideological conformity are on their way out, no postmortem of "tech's silent winter" can be complete without an analysis of former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao and how she became "Silicon Valley's #1 feminist hero" after her 2012 #MeToo lawsuit against her former…
Google is now "mission first." Brendan Eich has been redeemed. Tech's silent winter is ending. It's time for a postmortem. Up first: Ellen Pao, whose 2012 discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins failed at trial but catapulted her to fame — and set off tech's #MeToo
Google is now "mission first." Brendan Eich has been redeemed. Tech's silent winter is ending. It's time for a postmortem. Up first: Ellen Pao, whose 2012 discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins failed at trial but catapulted her to fame — and set off tech's #MeToo
Impossible to overstate the importance of this win. Please spread the word. Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+. The real winner? The United States of America.
Impossible to overstate the importance of this win. Please spread the word. Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+. The real winner? The United States of America.
america is actually nothing like nazi germany, on the other hand
america is actually nothing like nazi germany, on the other hand
very odd, they’re behaving in a manner that suggests they don’t want to succeed, and would prefer the company go to zero. unthinkable choices from a business perspective. almost as if bytedance isn’t being run by the CEO. but that would be crazy.
very odd, they’re behaving in a manner that suggests they don’t want to succeed, and would prefer the company go to zero. unthinkable choices from a business perspective. almost as if bytedance isn’t being run by the CEO. but that would be crazy.
fact check: true
Coinbase founder @brian_armstrong's advice for Google on leaving politics at the workplace behind: pay your worst employees to quit. “[We’re] available to help any company looking to make this transition if we can,” he told us. “I can assure you, life is so much better on the…
3/ “The thing that I should focus on, rather than the thing I couldn’t do, was the thing that I already did better than other people.” @micsolana shared insights on finding his communication style as a founder. Watch Mike’s full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=W9fXAB…
these idiots really think they can gatekeep the entire, critical field of disinformation research, of which I am not only a part but a leading figure. where did I get my phd? in the field I fucking invented? go back to your columbia university tent city, dweeb.
these idiots really think they can gatekeep the entire, critical field of disinformation research, of which I am not only a part but a leading figure. where did I get my phd? in the field I fucking invented? go back to your columbia university tent city, dweeb.
nina jankowicz is a vicious state propagandist. I didn't say she was given the explicit power to censor. the point of her board was to provide a federal list of voices and opinions for social media companies to censor, which they would do for fear of federal retaliation. evil.
nina jankowicz is a vicious state propagandist. I didn't say she was given the explicit power to censor. the point of her board was to provide a federal list of voices and opinions for social media companies to censor, which they would do for fear of federal retaliation. evil.
"now that divestment passed, what will happen next? who will get it?!" nobody lol we're entering a 12-month period of total chaos
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My lord, the Overton window is wide open these days… people were saying this privately during the trial, then at dinner parties and now on PW as a historical recap … at the time everyone was afraid to be even *modestly* critical of Pao publicly. 🪟
If tech's days of forced ideological conformity are on their way out, no postmortem of "tech's silent winter" can be complete without an analysis of former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao and how she became "Silicon Valley's #1 feminist hero" after her 2012 #MeToo lawsuit against her former…
@micsolana @metaversehell Damn it's been awhile since I've heard her name. I remember revolting against her as a reddit neckbeard. Now she's in the dustbin of history. Again, nature is healing.
@protosphinx @micsolana The piece focuses on the trial and 2015-onward fallout
@micsolana Ben Collins was always a joke. Glad to see him embrace it.
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If tech's days of forced ideological conformity are on their way out, no postmortem of "tech's silent winter" can be complete without an analysis of former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao and how she became "Silicon Valley's #1 feminist hero" after her 2012 #MeToo lawsuit against her former…
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@micsolana Ironically, his job (writing silly nonsense that no reasonable person should believe) remains unchanged
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Not even implicit, they’ll just tell you openly if you ask
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Trying to imagine if 20-year-old me jumped in a time machine and asked present me what kind of work I was doing in 2024
@iamjasonlevin @PirateWires @micsolana Girl, same
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Libertarians still have liberal or conservative morality (by the standards of the above test). Most fights inside of the libertarian movement are in fact between these two camps. x.com/matthewthartle…
@jeremykauffman OK, but what if you're a libertarian?
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