President Mark Cuban knights him or something–I can’t concentrate because the vice president is ANN FUCKING COULTER. The mayor of New York also inducts him into the Order of the Golden Chainsaw, which feels a bit of a letdown after the president’s thing. Despite the festive air, ...
Journalist Edward Zitron wrote that Altman was “a false prophet – a seedy grifter that uses his remarkable ability to impress and manipulate Silicon Valley’s elite”. Ellen Huet of Bloomberg News, on the podcast Foundering, reached the conclusion that “when [Altman] says something, you ...
But the company has created its own sort of insular bubble in which its employees’ perception of the world is the product of a number of biases that are engrained within the Silicon Valley tech and innovation scene Becoming overly reliant on data—which in itself is a product of availability...
I’ve never been all that interested in Ayn Rand either as a novelist or a thinker, though she’s existed out there in the periphery of my awareness of intellectual currents for almost as long as I knew what an intellectual was. I can remember way back in high school a girl I had a...
Where Did You Grow Up? Where did you grow up? I spent most of my childhood in the Michigan suburbs, where my siblings and I rode bikes down dirt roads, my first job was at the neighborhood pizza place, and we’d ring in the fall with donuts at the cider mill....
They wallow in a sanctimonious arrogance, one made possible by their privilege, which masks their subservience to corporate power and their amorality. They do not battle social and economic injustice. They silence, with the enthusiastic assistance of the digital platforms in Silicon Valley, those...
I reblogged and retweeted to support a Black actress for landing a lead role on a show on a major network. Admittedly, when I tuned in to watch the pilot, I didn’t expect that months later, I’d have rewatched the show four more times, as well as get caught in the throes of rea...
Being able to monitor the dialogue between cell and silicon chip is a crucial step toward one day manipulating it, raising the possibility ofneurochip implantsthat can help restore sight or language after a stroke, or repair neurons that malfunction in a wide range of brain disorders, from Park...
Better to do this comment now, before start going down south again… Was very nice to meet you two in Ushuaia and then in Iguazu’ jajajajja how funny was that…. I wish for you a very nice Christmas, probably in the sunny Rio….If you can go to visit the Botanical Garden there…...
I can taste the summer’s arrival in Tokyo when aesthetically appealing and refreshing seasonal dishes start appearing on menus. Summer in Japan begins with the rainy season, and once the downpours bring the humidity, my husband and I often join the long queues outside restaurants that specialis...