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Silicon Valley congressman: California should take control of PG&E as wildfire blackouts persist
“I would have them as a public utility,” says California Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat whose district spans Silicon Valley. “When you have a state that has Apple, Google and Tesla in … Read more
How Silicon Valley breeds boredom, loneliness and vanity…
We are glued to our smartphones for many reasons – to stay in touch with friends and family, to take photos and to read the news while waiting for the … Read more
Housing Bubble in Silicon Valley & San Francisco Bay Area Turns to Bust Despite Low Mortgage Rates & Startup Millionaires
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Ironically, house prices dropped the most in Silicon Valley. In the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, house prices – as measured by the median price where … Read more
JOEL KOTKIN: Silicon Valley’s Useful Idiots: Tech elites paid for the rope that may hang them.
via city-journal.org: The term “useful idiot,” often credited to Vladimir Lenin, applies to people supporting a cause or movement injurious to their own self-interest. Nowhere is this more relevant these days … Read more
Here It Comes: Silicon Valley Is Building Chinese Style Social Credit System
via fastcompany: Have you heard about China’s social credit system? It’s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program designed to nudge citizens toward better behavior. The ultimate goal is to “allow the trustworthy to … Read more
Housing Bubble 2 in San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Pops Despite Startup Millionaires & Low Mortgage Rates
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter House prices dropped again – and ironically the most in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. In the San Francisco Bay Area overall, house prices dropped again … Read more
GOOD LUCK: I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets.
via Bloomberg: I had decades of digital exhaust to clean up. “Your data across different companies is being pulled together by data brokers and ad companies. If the government asked … Read more
SUMMER SCORCHER! DC LIKE DEATH VALLEY
Dangerous Heat Wave Expands from Plains, Midwest to East into This Weekend At a Glance Hot temperatures are spreading from the Plains to the East Coast. The heat index will … Read more
The internet is not what you thought it was – “The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn’t Want You to Know”
by Anoneumou5e James Corbett takes the viewer on another journey through the web of Modern Society. This episode, focus on the communication technology we all love and use. He takes us … Read more
Google, Silicon Valley Panicking After Being Exposed For Political Bias
Big Tech Is Purging Project Veritas For Exposing Their Corruption. Project Veritas is being systematically purged from various tech platforms following their continued work exposing Big Tech censorship. First they … Read more
Silicon Valley Is Destroying American Democracy by Playing Political Favorites
via Robert Bridge: Perhaps it was expecting too much that the tech giants would check their political allegiances at the door to ensure fairness. Instead, they have let their political affinities … Read more
First Spotify, now Slack: Wall Street may be losing its iron grip on Silicon Valley
via VOX: With Slack’s apparently successful “direct listing” on Thursday, Silicon Valley scored another win in its tug-of-war with Wall Street and raised more questions about whether tech companies need … Read more
Capitalism Does Not Cause Tech Censorship: Silicon Valley is Hypercentralized
Shills squeal daily that if you don’t like tech censorship then youbdkmt like the free market. You know because muh “it’s a private company”. But what private company besides tech … Read more
Trump Declares War On Silicon Valley: DoJ Launches Google Anti-Monopoly Probe
Once shielded by the logic of Silicon Valley’s relentless churn of innovation – which dictated that no reigning tech empire could rule for long before going the way of Yahoo … Read more