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Protect democracy, vote for Biden
I know you don’t want to hear this from me. And I guarantee I don’t want to say it. But we are facing an unprecedented attack on the foundations of democracy itself. If you are a US citizen, anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against...
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The Overdue Conversation about Patriarchy and Misogynoir in Black Politics
Join the conversation between Wade Davis, Harry Edwards, Luke Charles Harris, Kiese Laymon, and Alvin Starks
Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers
Employees at Verkada accessed the company's facial recognition system to take photos of women colleagues and make sexually explicit jokes.
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Ellen K. Pao
If a group of employees share photos of coworkers and make sexual jokes about them on Slack, how should you deal with them? Unless I'm missing something (and I doubt it), Verkada's response is a huge fail and bad for tech on a larger scale.
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‘Social Media Reward Bad Behavior’: An Interview with Ellen Pao
Ellen K. Pao was an unlikely troublemaker. A graduate of Princeton, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School, she was hired in 2005 by Silicon
Ellen K. Pao
I spoke with @nybooks about social media, the election, and tech, including why managing harassment and hate is not censorship; how employees, customers, users, and public sentiment against hate will force the end of today's hands-off approach, and more
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Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet
In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies.
2020 Election Live Updates: After Final Debate, Campaigns Enter Homestretch
Joe Biden and President Trump clashed over race, the environment, taxes, the coronavirus and foreign policy. Trump will campaign in Florida on Friday, and Biden will give a speech in Delaware about the pandemic.
Ellen K. Pao
It's time for another lesson on the Streisand Effect nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand…
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Streisand effect - Wikipedia
Ellen K. Pao
It's time for another lesson on the Streisand Effect nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand…
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Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity
The investment chief of the university’s $31.2 billion endowment sent a message this month to the firms that manage Yale’s money: They would be measured on their progress increasing their investment staffs’ diversity.
Don’t Reboot the 2016 Horror Show
How we might have prevented November’s election from turning into another sequel to “The Purge”
TikTok will now tell you why it removed your video
Instead of making you take a wild guess.
Ellen K. Pao
I bet it also reduced violations, too. I hope other platforms follow with similar transparency, including better transparency reports
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Groundbreaking New Report!
Facebook is the world's engine for anti-Muslim violence
ClipDrop (AR Copy Paste)
The quickest way to capture and transfer anything around you.
Judge Barrett is family to me. Don’t confirm her
A relative of the Supreme Court nominee speaks out in The.Ink
Pope endorses same-sex civil unions in new documentary film
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco,” which had its premiere at the Rome Film...
U.S. Postal Service Benches Its Police Officers Before Election
The U.S. Postal Service has ordered its police officers off city streets, sparking a legal battle in the final weeks of an election that could hang on mail-in ballots.
Renegade Sheriffs Say They Might Not Enforce Ban on Guns at Michigan Polling Places
At least three sheriffs won’t commit to enforcing the directive issued last week after the feds busted an armed militia plot to kidnap the governor.
Amy Coney Barrett ruled n-word use does not make a workplace hostile - TheGrio
A White supervisor calling a Black employee that word wasn't proof of an abusive environment, Barrett wrote last year on the appeals court.
The Sackler Family’s Plan to Keep Its Billions
The Trump Administration is poised to make a settlement with Purdue Pharma that it can claim as a victory for opioid victims. But the proposed outcome would leave the company’s owners enormously wealthy—and off the hook for good.