"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
We now know that net companies cheerfully send along our data to NSA. Their perkiness about being niftily different is evasive PR fluff. “Fetishism of Digital Commodities and Hidden Exploitation: the cases of Amazon and Apple” explores net fetishism and more…
Bruce Sterling has a must-read piece about Snowden and NSA, nailing the complicity of internet companies with the national surveillance state. Rather than being plucky little startups that made it big due to grit, determination, and new ideas, the Googles…
Silicon Valley firms are either not responding to questions about allowing government surveillance on servers or are issuing bland non-denial denials. Apple and Facebook say they don’t provide the government provide direct access to their servers, while not defining what “direct…
Homes in Silicon Valley are going for way over asking price and are on the market for just a few days before being sold. Bidding wars have returned. Once Facebook goes public, prices will soar even more, as new millionaires buy…
Scott McNealy, founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, talked with the Wall Street Journal about employment and the economy in the supposedly booming Silicon Valley. He thinks much has been lost and may not come back. His comments about…