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21 Nov

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?

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Lauren Goode: It sounds like you're a little bit aligned with the successful tech entrepreneurs who were surveyed by the junior college in Palo Alto in terms of being a liberaltarian.Michael Calore: No, I go further left than that, I would say.Zoë Schiffer: He sounds like maybe he's Yang Gang.Lauren Goode: Oh, the Yang Gang. I interviewed Andrew Yang once.Michael Calore: Andrew Yang, he was one of the first big vocal proponents of universal basic income in the political sphere, wasn't he?Lauren Goode: Yes, he was indeed.Michael Calore: Well, I don't know anything else about him, so I can't say…

14 Nov

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

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Lauren Goode: Zoë, you had vegan pizza the other night. You said it was pretty good.Zoë Schiffer: I did. I did, and I read a really, really scary article written by Annie Lowrey in The Atlantic about dairy farming, and it radicalized me for at least 24 hours. I was on oat milk. Thank you. I don't want a prize.Lauren Goode: Mike, how long have you been vegan for now?Michael Calore: I don't know. 800 years.Lauren Goode: Nice. Our resident long-living man on this show.Michael Calore: I've been fully vegan for about five years, and I've been vegetarian ever since…

08 Nov

Unpacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

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Is Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste? Or is the infamous tech mogul trying to tell us something about Meta? Source link lol

07 Nov

Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office

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Lauren Goode: Oh, really?Zoë Schiffer: Yes.Lauren Goode: I did not have that experience on Caltrain.Zoë Schiffer: Well, you weren't reading Infinite Jest on the Caltrain, were you now?. That was my catfishing technique.Lauren Goode: What was your worst commute, Mike?Michael Calore: There was a period of time in the early 2000s when I was living out in the Sunset district of San Francisco. Which there's a couple of trains that can bring you downtown, but they take an hour. And it was pre-mobile technology, so we had Discman Walkman players, portable CD players, so you had to bring a little…

31 Oct

Unpacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

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Is Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste? Or is the infamous tech mogul trying to tell us something about Meta? Source link lol

31 Oct

Introducing WIRED’s Flagship Podcast, ‘Uncanny Valley’

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Silicon Valley has been an epicenter of global innovation for decades. But the Valley, and its associated personalities, companies, and trends, has never been home to more undiluted power than it is today.Think about it: Elon Musk, among the world’s richest people, is essentially underwriting US presidential candidates while subsidiaries of his interstellar-centric company SpaceX snap up more orbital real estate with every satellite launch; despite Facebook’s decline as a habitual platform for many Americans, Meta’s user base worldwide continues to grow, ticking ever-closer to the stunning 4 billion mark; and in the past two years, Silicon Valley startups and…