Archive - May, 2016

Inside Uber’s Auto-Lease Machine, Where Almost Anyone Can Get a Car

May 31 Comments Off on Inside Uber’s Auto-Lease Machine, Where Almost Anyone Can Get a Car Category: Facebook, Feed

Hmmm, Goldman Sachs teams up with Uber to offer sub-prime loans to allow Uber drivers to take out overpriced leases payed automatically out of drivers’ profits, on cars that Uber tracks 24/7? I’m sure this will turn out to be a wonderful example of… oh it’s a dehumanizing shitshow that is destroying the entire economy? […]

I’m Voting For The Democrat In November Because I’m Not A Human Tire Fire

May 31 Comments Off on I’m Voting For The Democrat In November Because I’m Not A Human Tire Fire Category: Facebook, Feed

“If it makes you feel good in your feelings to stay home from the polls because you don’t like Hillary or don’t agree with things that she has done or said, you are effectively voting for Donald Trump.” This is for anybody wasting time online blathering about how Hillary and Trump are the same; how […]

Peter Thiel Violates Core Principles of Silicon Valley

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One has to wonder, if so many support Thiel, are trust and transparency actually Silicon Valley’s values, or just it’s marketing? “Peter Thiel’s secret war violated two of Silicon Valley’s most core and fundamental principles, trust and transparency. And he did so for revenge of the most sinister kind — a prolonged, well-funded, secret and […]

I Stand With Gawker

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Exactly: “Such childish hostility notwithstanding, I believe that Gawker serves an essential function in a celebrity-obsessed culture, and if it were to disappear the world would be poorer and the cause of journalistic truth would be damaged. […] “Gawker is new media, but it possesses an old-fashioned sensibility that dates from the 18th century. The […]