Podcasts about Be Evil

Lunduke will be speaking at FUTO's "Don't Be Evil" event at SXSW. Austin, Texas. March 15th, 2025. Other Guests: Louis Rossman & Andreas Kling. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Musk og hans hær af unge programmører er gået i gang med at "rydde op" i den amerikanske stat og identificere 'spild af skattekroner'. Hvem er de unge programmører, der nu har fået administratorrettigheder til de mest essentielle it-systemer i USA? Googles motto var engang 'Don't Be Evil'. Nu fuldender de deres rejse væk fra branchens kæledægger og fjerner en linje fra deres retningslinjer om, at de ikke vil bruge AI til ting, der kan gøre stor skade. Vejen er banet for, at Googles AI'er kan bruges i krig. Og så har techbosser og toppoltikere været samlet i Paris. Det har vi set før - men alt er lavet om, efter Trump og Musk er kommet til magten i USA. Nu handler det ikke længere om alt det, der kan gå galt ved AI - men om at komme i gang. Hurtigt. Værter: Marcel Mirzaei-Fard, vært og techanalytiker og Henrik Moltke, DRs techkorrespondent.

Episode 229If your seed phrase was in your photo gallery, congratulations! You might have just funded North Korea's next Missile launch.The UK government just asked Apple to make privacy optional—because nothing says "secure" like a government-mandated security hole.A man wants to buy an entire rubbish tip to find his lost Bitcoin hard drive—because sometimes, your financial future is literally garbage.The US is considering banning a Chinese AI app, proving once again that if it's cheap, efficient, foreign, unencrypted, and collects data for a foreign government it's probably too good to be true.Massive VPN Attack – 2.8 million IPs are trying to brute-force their way into VPNs—because apparently, resetting the default admin credentials to a "strong password" is still too much to ask.Google quietly removed its promise not to build AI for surveillance or weapons, so expect "Don't Be Evil" to disappear completely in a rev. or two.If your smart TV, social media, and AI assistants feel like they hate you, it's not paranoia—it's capitalism, or that other word we can't repeat here.Earth's Inner Core Is Changing – Scientists say the Earth's core might be slowing down, which is great, because the last thing we needed was more things spinning out of control.Let's go digging!Find the full transcript to this podcast here.

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Long Live Evil: "Who wouldn't take that deal?!" Have you ever wanted to pop into the world of your favorite book? Of course you have, we ALL have! It's the deal that's almost impossible to refuse, especially if your circumstances aren't great. Especially if you're ill. Rae is ill, and with time running out is given the deal of a life time: go into your favorite story, find a flower, and be healed. Except that details weren't hammered out and Rae goes into the story as the villain whose set to be excavated int he morning! Long Live Evil is a wild ride filled with foreshadowing and world building that gets easier the second time around. Key characters and plot points may or may not be static and trying to help the story along just might make it worse. But no matter what happens, Be Evil. TW / CW: Cancer For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan and Shadowhunters by Cassandra "Cassie" Clare Mentions: Shadowhunters, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Princess Bride, A Knight's Tale *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5-star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

Mosslet -> privacy-first social networkSign up today while we're in beta to save 60% off your first year with FRIENDS60Connect with us on Mosslet!Mark -> @mark -> https://mosslet.com/profile/markIsabella -> @justagirl -> https://mosslet.com/profile/justagirlLearn more about identity graphs (and surveillance capitalism)The Social Dilemma -> watch it now on Netflix!The Age of Surveillance Capitalism -> a book! -> Shoshana ZuboffDon't Be Evil -> another book! -> Rana Foroohar

Welcome to episode #920 of Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast - Episode #920. Alan Eagle is a senior executive communications expert and co-author of the recently published book, Learned Excellence - Mental Disciplines For Leading And Winning From The World's Top Performers. The book delves into the nuances of mental toughness, the intricate balance between nature and nurture, and the pivotal role of effective communication in fostering leadership and excellence. Alan co-wrote the book with Eric Potterat. One of Eric's many accolades is that he served for 10 years as the psychologist for the US Navy SEALs, and was responsible for the mental assessment, selection, development, maintenance and enhancement programs for the SEALs. Alan is no slouch either. He worked for over 16 years as a Managing Director at Google, where he was also the speechwriter for influential Googlers like Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Marissa Mayer, and Susan Wojcicki. Alan is also the co-author of How Google Works (with Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg) and Trillion Dollar Coach - The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell (also with Schmidt and Jonathan). In a world increasingly polarized and challenging to navigate, Alan addresses how individuals and organizations can stay true to their core values, even as they grow and evolve. He highlights the crucial role of maintaining these values, not just for personal integrity but also for organizational coherence and success. Alan also explores the idea of managing people in an outcome-focused environment. He advocates for a process-oriented approach, emphasizing the journey over the destination. This perspective, he argues, is not just applicable at the corporate level but resonates universally across various levels and types of organizations. Alan offers profound insights into the realms of leadership, communication, and personal development. His experiences and perspectives provide valuable lessons on resilience, the pursuit of excellence, and the art of effective communication, essential for anyone looking to excel in today's dynamic world. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:22. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. Check out ThinkersOne. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Alan Eagle. Learned Excellence - Mental Disciplines For Leading And Winning From The World's Top Performers. Co-author Eric Potterat. Trillion Dollar Coach - The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell. How Google Works. Follow Alan on LinkedIn. Follow Alan on X. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Takeaways: Mental toughness is essential for performing well under pressure, and it can be developed through practice and training. Excellence is not limited to high-stress situations. It can be achieved in everyday life. Values and identity play a crucial role in achieving excellence, both individually and within a team or organization. Leaders can create a culture of excellence by exemplifying the principles of learned excellence and fostering open communication and trust. In a polarized world, it is important to focus on shared values and create an inclusive environment that respects diverse perspectives.  Core values should be upheld even as a company grows and faces new challenges. Focusing on the process rather than just the outcome leads to better results. Process is a universal truth that can be applied at any level and in any organization. Compelling communications are about understanding what the audience is interested in. Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction and Background 03:06 - The Importance of Mental Toughness 08:26 - The Difference Between High-Stress Situations and Everyday Stress 11:37 - The Role of Nature vs. Nurture in Developing Mental Toughness 14:48 - The Connection Between Excellence and Identity 18:43 - Applying the Principles of Learned Excellence in Personal Life 23:33 - Creating a Culture of Excellence in the Workplace 28:01 - The Role of Communication in Leadership and Excellence 31:46 - Leadership and Excellence in a Changing World 43:46 - Navigating Values in a Polarized World 47:36 - The Value of 'Don't Be Evil' 50:30 - Managing People in an Outcome-Focused World 53:42 - The Universal Truth of Process 57:08 - The Power of Compelling Communications

EPISODE #34: Today's guest is Chris Dixon, Founder and Managing Partner at A16z Crypto. Chris is here to discuss his new book "Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet". In this episode, we get into open source internet, ownership of digital property, why Bitcoin is important, regulation in the United States, fear around centralized A.I. and the future of blockchain Featuring Mike Solana , Chris Dixon Buy Chris' Book! https://a.co/d/275aNPl Subscribe to Pirate Wires: https://www.piratewires.com/ Topics Discussed: https://www.piratewires.com/p/crypto-choke-point Pirate Wires Twitter: https://twitter.com/PirateWires Mike Twitter: https://twitter.com/micsolana Chris Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdixon TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Welcome Chris Dixon To The Pod! Like & Subscribe 1:20 - Chris' New Book! 3:30 - A History Of The Internet - The Miracle Of The Internet Protocol 7:50 - Digital Property 13:00 - Web 2.0 - Companies Built & Accrue Power 21:15 - RSS vs. Corporate Power 27:00 - Fears Of Controlled Future - Getting To Web3 36:00 - Politicians Who Want More Power 44:30 - Can We Get Out Of This Regulatory Environment? 47:15 - Blockchains Turn 'Don't Be Evil' Into 'Can't Be Evil' 56:00 - Fears Of AI - Centralized Power 1:01:00 - Why We Need Blockchains & Open Source 1:05:00 - Thanks For Joining Chris! Buy His New Book!

This week on my podcast, I read my Locus Magazine column “Don’t Be Evil,” about the microeconomics and moral injury of enshittification. It's tempting to think of the Great Enshittening – in which all the inter­net services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly and irreversibly terrible – as the result of moral... more

Warning: Explicit Conversations About Politics, Culture, & Sexuality Our YouTube Channel was just zapped—15 years of peace, love, bonobos, art, music, history and sex education—erased by Alphabet bots with all the humanity of the letters #AI which might stand for “Artificial Intelligence,” but in reality, it's Artificial Ignorance. So suddenly, without warning, Pr. Maximillian Lobkowicz #Filangieri's & My video memories of a decade and a half were destroyed, our voices silenced, #ballgagged, #muzzled like a dog, banished from the YouTube commons, the public square of modern human discourse. We're in shock but not surprised, as #censorship is on the march throughout social media (YT zapped Abby Martin's wonderful RT videos a few months ago), having long muzzled Mainstream Media, and though we are bloodied by YouTube owner Google's #evil attack, we are unbowed. Yes “evil” - Google's now-discarded “Don't Be Evil” motto was just lipstick on a greedy pig. Is there a chance of resurrection? Not being billionaires or big celebrities, not likely, but we spend a portion of this #podcast trying to properly pronounce YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's name as we beseech her to take a look at our channel and into her heart and “do the right thing”. Weirdly, the one-word reason given us for our summary execution is #harassment not saying whom or what we allegedly “harassed,” let alone allowing us to face our accuser in any kind of court—but simply dumb-bot droning our 15-year-old channel, condemned without trial to “permanent” death.  Fortunately, WE are not dead, and we vow to keep fighting for #FreeSpeech and all of our sexy, lefty, pro-bonobo causes, wherever and whenever we can, with a song in our hearts, laughter on our lips and a little excitement in our undies. Speaking of life and death, we say RIP to Tortuguita, the peaceful environmental activist shot dead by police in Atlanta's Cop City. We also shout-out Mae West who was often censored in her times help newly single Samantha, aka “Posh Proletariat Spice,” with dating advice, and Wally calls in to sympathize with our #YouTubeCensorship woes, which weigh so heavy we forget to say Happy Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit so let's hop on the Motorbunny and do our best to break through the tightening muzzle of censorship in 2023. Read more prose and enjoy the shows: https://drsusanblock.com/fdr-youtube-censors

You ever sat down with someone and realized how plugged into the game they are? The little kid from the block grew up to be the connect to everything. Well, that is exactly what happened here. We sat down with the one and only Marcell Clemons, to catch up with all the projects he have coming up. He has worked with some heavy hitters in the game, like C-Wii The Trappa (Cory Armour), Tae Fontane , , Y.T. Amaya and more... Keep the grind going and come dive in deep with the hustle. Come dive in deep with us now. Marcell Clemons is known for wearing multiple hats. His wordplay has got him in rooms with some of the biggest up and coming artists, his songwriting has led him into offices with the most decorated record execs and his ear for production has earned him credits albums that you wouldn't expect him to have a part of. With him having a pretty extensive catalog such as his critically acclaimed EP's such has Sunday Service and Holier Than Thou, He doesn't fall short on his own music either. Right now you can check out his new album ‘Church Was Good So Don't Be Evil' on SoundCloud and it will be streaming on platforms such as Spotify l, Apple Music etc. very soon. You do not want to miss. Find out what my guy did that his parents did not know about. #pegpodcast #podcast #positiveenergy #positivevibes #positive #music #iheartradio #radio #uplifting #passionate ARTIST OF THE WEEK: https://instagram.com/marcellclemons_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= CVO of P.E.G: https://instagram.com/natalietbleau?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= HOST/CEO of P.E.G: https://instagram.com/lyrikal_lyriks?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= OFFICIAL PAGE OF P.E.G: https://instagram.com/pegpodcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Microsoft is a Web2 giant producing software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Yorke shares his experience working at Microsoft in a strategy and transformation role in blockchain and Web3 technology, specifically focusing on producing a blockchain-based full-stack application within one of the largest supply chains in the world. We dive into what Microsoft is doing within the blockchain space, how Microsoft is using NFTs internally, and the use-cases of Ethereum and IPFS inside the company. We also talk about the different CEOs that have led Microsoft over the years and even get into the rumors of Google choosing their slogan "Don't Be Evil" because of Microsoft. Thanking our podcast sponsors: This episode is brought to you by the Glo dollar, a new stablecoin that reduces extreme poverty as its market cap goes up. With Glo, you can lift people out of poverty just by holding a stablecoin. To join the waitlist, visit https://www.glodollar.org/defiant Store your tokens safely. Go self-custodial with 1inch Wallet.

Messy Times and the Brownstone Institute were both created to fight back against the tsunami of lies about the Wuhan Hysteria. The Administrative State has not ceased in its Orwellian efforts to make everyone mouth insane lies. The key to a complete governmental takeover of power is when a populace has been so beaten, bored and just wearied into mouthing the absurdities, if that is the "pass" to living a normal life. Lest anyone think that Elon Musk buying Twitter put an end to the bizarrely tight relationship between (mainly) Democrat government officials and the electronic public fora, think again. Countless people are silenced and banned from platforms like LinkedIn (that values publishing rampant antisemitism over the free speech of a Jewish executive who points out the Jew Hatred), Reddit (which squashes anything even remotely endorsing free markets or classic American values) to Google/YouTube who went from "Don't Be Evil" to "Serve Every Leftist Censorship Duty We're Given from the Chinese Communist Party or the US Democrat Party - if One Can Tell the Difference Anymore." Not as catchy as the original, but certainly accurate. We can remember a time not so long ago when journalists and public gadflies made it their sacred duty - often at real personal risk - to hold government to account. How did that turn into a hand in glove relationship where the FBI, CIA, NSA and countless others like Representative Adam "Even for a politician, I lie like a drunken sailor" Schiff produced written documents showing how they demanded private companies censor things they didn't like? They have grown so brazen in their lies that Administration officials will tell Congress under oath that "the border is secure" as millions of foreigners break our laws and invade our nation. Pay attention, kids. These totalitarian clowns locked your kids out of school and yourselves as supposed "free adults" out of work - based on the false claim of "protecting us." It was all a colossal lie. They are still telling the lie and their enforcers are so effective I'm not even posting this episode to YouTube. Not only have they not apologized, they refuse to admit despite the abundant empirical data that they were 100% wrong. Wrong about all of it - the stupid masks mandates, the idiotic plexiglass in store interiors, the random "6 foot social distancing" nonsense which is not a medical or a scientific term, the fake vaccines which did NOTHING to prevent transmission - all of it was crap, pure and simple. Those of us who stood up did so at real cost. This government has been giving you the Grouch Marx treatment and daring you to object: Whom do you believe? Me or your damned lying eyes? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/support

Hello and welcome back to Ctrl Alt Delete this is a replay of my episode with Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar from February 2020. She is a writer who investigates how today's biggest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, and our minds. This episode is on her book Don't be Evil and The Case Against Big Tech - aka Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and how tech has changed and how it's changed us. We discuss the question: can we rebel against tech now or are we just too embedded? I hope you enjoy this fascinating episode. Read ‘Don't Be Evil and The Case Against Big Tech' https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780141991085Africa's Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/africabrooke/?hl=enMy Substack page, come and say hi: https://thehyphen.substack.com/My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannonBooks mentioned on Ctrl Alt Delete podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcastTwitter: Twitter.com/emmagannonInstagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you know how to spell ICUP, prayer warriors and pay pigs? Let me google that for you. This week, Kendall and Ceres are joined by the incomparable Ashlyn to talk about the decline of google. Between SEO, a corrupt conglomerate, and a lack of media literacy, google has been on a steep decline. Looking deep in the caverns of page two of the google results, will Kendall, Ceres and Ashlyn discover a way beyond the ads? Or are redditors and tiktok users the scholars of our foreseeable future?PatreonTwitterWebsiteCeres' TwitterKendall's TwitterCeres' TumblrKendall's TumblrAshlyn does not wish to be percievedWorks Cited and Further Reading:Monster Truck Names2020 Presidential Candidates Fave Comfort FoodsHow Google Eats a Business WholeGoogle CTR in 2018How "Israel" Employs Google to Oppress PalestiniansGoogle's GatekeepersHow We Searched Before SearchFor Gen Z, TikTok is the New Search EngineA history of Google Ad LabelingSadGrl's Surfing the Web ResourcesGoogle's 'Don't Be Evil' SloganHere Let Me Google That For YouA Rough Guide to the Internet BookWonderbread Deviantart Guy

On today's episode, we're joined by Valet Jones and SAFA, Co-Founders of Jenkins the Valet. We dive into a wide range of topics, including: How Jenkins the Valet got started and its journey so far.Building a relationship with the Bored Ape Yacht Club.How the digital profile picture movement helps people feel more comfortable online.What is Jenkins the Valet Writer's Room?Contributing to the first community-generated NFT.Lessons that could help other Web3 community builders.How does licensing NFTs work?Writing a book as an NFT and the possibilities it creates.What are “Can't Be Evil” licenses and what do they mean for Web3 creators? You can follow Josh on Twitter, SAFA on Twitter, Valet on Twitter, and learn more about Unstoppable Domains and our work here. Don't forget to rate, download, and subscribe to the podcast so you won't miss an episode and we can keep producing awesome content for you. #crypto #blockchain #domains #web3.0 #decentralized

The 'Can't Be Evil' licenses are a set of six NFT licenses developed by lawyers and operators in web 3 - each license grants “different sets of rights with different degrees of permissiveness”. The licenses have been deployed on Arweave (a decentralized storage, similar to IPFS) and can be directly linked on-chain by smart contracts. The licenses are available on the a16z website (document containing the six licenses) or a16z's repository on Github. Miles Jennings and Chris Dixon published an introduction with background on the licenses that is also available on the a16z website. Miles Jennings (@milesjennings) is general counsel and head of decentralization at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) crypto, where he advises the firm's portfolio companies and DAOs on decentralization and protocol design, oversees the firm's investments, and works on regulatory and policy matters. You can find Miles' conversation with Laura Shin here. Mark Radcliffe (@markfradcliffe) is senior partner at DLA Piper, where he assists companies in strategic intellectual property advice and venture financing. Mark has worked in Silicon Valley for 30+ years and has significant experience in applying the law to the issues raised by new technologies, such as open source software, blockchain, and domain names. In 1994, he assisted Network Solutions, Inc. in developing the first domain dispute resolution system - which is still the basis for the system in use today. The link to the recording of Mark's NFT webinar is here: Non-Fungible Tokens: Technology and Legal Overview | Events | DLA Piper Global Law Firm. Ghaith Mahmood (@GhaithMahmoodLW) is a partner in the Los Angeles office of the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, and a leader in the firm's Digital Assets and Web3 practice group, and also of the firm's Video Games and Esports group. Ghaith advises clients on all aspects of intellectual property and technology transactions, from developing, licensing, and commercializing IP assets, to advising on the IP aspects of strategic transactions. In the blockchain space, he has particular expertise advising NFT projects of all shapes and sizes, from some of the biggest NFT platforms and marketplaces in the world, to individual NFT projects trying to figure out what rights and utility to grant to their NFT holders. Show highlights: [3:00] Why draft these licenses? [13:30] What projects should use these licenses [16:00] How NFT projects can incorporate the licenses [21:00] Lawful ownership [26:00] Terminating sublicenses [34:00] Notice [39:00] Hard forks [45:40] Fractionalizing & much more. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review. You can subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on the latest episodes. Disclaimer: Jacob Robinson and his guests are not your lawyer. Nothing herein or mentioned on the Law of Code podcast should be construed as legal advice. The material published is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Please seek the advice of counsel, and do not apply any of the generalized material to your individual facts or circumstances without speaking to an attorney.

When we live under the elementary principles of the world, we're capable of anything. So, we can either be free or be evil. The post Be Free or Be Evil first appeared on Faith Recovery Podcast.

Amazon has come a long way since online book sales. In fact, when it comes to revenue, Jeff Bezos' creation is the world's biggest internet-based company. But what makes the "everything store" so ubiquitous? In large part, it's the small and medium-sized businesses that use the platform to sell their goods. This year, more than 1.9 million of these businesses participated in its marketplace, which accounted for some 60 percent of Amazon's retail sales. But was it ultimately good for them? In the midst of this historic transition in shopping, that's our debate: Is Amazon good for small business?  Debating in favor of the motion is Mark Jamison, economist at the American Enterprise Institute, with Kunal Chopra, tech executive and former Amazon GM. Arguing against the motion is Rana Foroohar, global business columnist at the Financial Times and author of “Don't Be Evil”, with co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Stacy Mitchell. Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the S&P 500 entered what analysts refer to as a bear market. The index has plunged around 22 percent from its most recent peak in January. Many growth stocks and crypto assets have crashed double or triple that amount.New home sales declined 17 percent in April, causing some analysts to argue that the housing market has peaked. And, in response to rising inflation, the Federal Reserve just approved its largest interest rate increase since 1994, meaning asset prices could dip even lower.To understand what's happening in the stock market right now, you have to understand the era that preceded it. Rana Foroohar is a columnist at The Financial Times, and the author of several books on the economy including “Makers and Takers” and “Don't Be Evil.” Her view is that a decade-plus of loose monetary policy has been the economic equivalent of a “sugar high,” which kept the prices of stocks, housing and other assets going up and up and up, even as the fundamentals of the economy have been eroding. This “everything bubble,” as she calls it, was bound to burst — and that's exactly what she thinks is happening right now.So I wanted to have her on the show to discuss the economic choices — and lack thereof — that led to this point. We also discuss why the increasing power of the financial sector hasn't resulted a stronger economy, whether the housing market has indeed hit its peak, the massive missed opportunity for public investment while interest rates were low, why policymakers treat asset price inflation so differently from other types of inflation, the true costs of the meat we eat and clothes we wear, why crypto represents the apotheosis of hyper-financialized capitalism, why I'm skeptical of the argument that we're moving rapidly toward a less globalized world and more.Book recommendations:All That She Carried by Tiya MilesBeautiful Country by Qian Julie WangThe Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary GerstleWe're hiring a researcher! You can apply here or by visiting nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NewsThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris and Andrea López Cruzado; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.

Am 17.3. hat Emmanuel Macron den Plan zur Erschaffung eines europäischen Metaverse in Paris vorgestellt, das in eine öffentliche, freie, und unabhängige Infrastruktur münden soll, die europäische Bürger und Rechteinhaber vor Missbrauch schützen soll. Anlass genug für uns, um einige konstruktive Ideen in dieser Richtung zu diskutieren. Welche Fehler sollten beim Design so eines Metaverse vermieden werden, und wie könnten wir sicherstellen, dass Metaverse-Systeme nicht einfach nur dystopische Versionen des heutigen Web werden? Mehr zu Neulich im Netz auf https://www.neulich-im.net/ music by scottholmesmusic.com Quellen: Neulich im Netz: Das Metaverse (Episode 6), Dirk Kutscher: Connecting the Metaverse: In-Network Computing as Infrastructure, Présidentielle: Emmanuel Macron Veut "Un Métavers Européen", Forbes: Interest In NFTs And The Metaverse Is Falling Fast, Microsoft übernimmt Activision Blizzard, Schneier on Security: Feudal Security, Cory Doctorow: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor, Lemuel Soh, Jeff Burke, and Lixia Zhang. 2018. Supporting Augmented Reality: Looking Beyond Performance, Dagstuhl Seminar on Compute-First Networking, Eye-Tracking Tech Is Another Reason the Metaverse Will Suck, Duke University: Simulated human eye movement aims to train metaverse platforms, Rana Foroohar: Don't Be Evil, Google CEO Eric Schmidt Dismisses the Importance of Privacy, Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs, Microsoft Confidential Consortium Framework, Schönes neues Metaverse? - WOHLSTAND FÜR ALLE Ep. 131 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neulich-im-netz/message

The "Dirty Sons of Pitches" are looking at two flawed movies and trying to make something better in their wake, starting with 2016's frustrating and low-budget "Let's Be Evil," and then the 2020 Netflix family superhero action film, "We Can Be Heroes." Available on Apple and Spotify Episode 328 includes: -"Jurassic Park" prologue... now with... CGI dinosaurs. -Nate offers reviews for three awards-caliber movies: "House of Gucci," "The Last Duel," and "The Eyes of Tammy Faye." -Ben says "Encanto" is a charming addition to the House House pedigree of animation. -Switch the Pitch -- "Let's Be Evil" / "We Can Be Heroes" -The guys discuss the low=budget indie horror thriller, "Let;s Be Evil," which has a lot of conceptual issues, and Robert Rodriguez's kids superhero action adventure, "We Can Be Heroes," which also has conceptual issues, and then they combine both into a much better pitch.

Amazon has come a long way since online book sales. In fact, when it comes to revenue, Jeff Bezos' creation is the world's biggest internet-based company. But what makes the "everything store" so ubiquitous? In large part, it's the small and medium-sized businesses that use the platform to sell their goods. This year, more than 1.9 million of these businesses participated in its marketplace, which accounted for some 60 percent of Amazon's retail sales. But was it ultimately good for them? In the midst of this historic transition in shopping, that's our debate: Is Amazon good for small business?  Debating in favor of the motion is Mark Jamison, economist at the American Enterprise Institute, with Kunal Chopra, tech executive and former Amazon GM. Arguing against the motion is Rana Foroohar, global business columnist at the Financial Times and author of “Don't Be Evil”, with co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Stacy Mitchell. Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy and Flo start this week adlibbing and wondering when blatant fan service is too much. Then, Andy explains why the motto "Don't Be Evil" could be legally binding for a handful of former Googlers. We'll also discuss Google's foray into crime prediction algorithms, which is as dubious as it sounds. But we'll end on a sweeter note, debating the actual color of Android's green bubble on iMessages.

Andy and Flo start this week adlibbing and wondering when blatant fan service is too much. Then, Andy explains why the motto "Don't Be Evil" could be legally binding for a handful of former Googlers. We'll also discuss Google's foray into crime prediction algorithms, which is as dubious as it sounds. But we'll end on a sweeter note, debating the actual color of Android's green bubble on iMessages.

Hotel Penn update, injecting ads into dreams, Google sued for breaching "Don't Be Evil" contract, listener emails, international hacking news.

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter. Who is Parag Agrawal? Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent. Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block. Edge users aren't happy about Microsoft's built-in 'buy now, pay later' tool. Average American Credit Card Debt in 2021: $5,525. Onion: Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter. Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal CEO says spending via its buy-now-pay-later service soared 400% on Black Friday, as inflation bites and shoppers feel the pinch. Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider. AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services. Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon's Cloud. AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win. Finland Researchers Say First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running. Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Goes to Court. U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy. Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law. Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff. Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. Google rolling out Android digital car key support to Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 on select BMWs. Android TV 12 is now available, unclear when it's headed to Chromecast with Google TV. Chrome OS 96 rolling out: Camera tweaks, Nearby Share in Android apps, more. 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed. 23andMe is using spac funds to develop new drugs against cancer. 150 HP multi-function printer types vulnerable to exploit. Indonesian Court Gives The Government Permission To Pull The Plug On The Internet Whenever It Feels Threatened. New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media. Democrats Push Bill to Outlaw Bots From Snatching Up Online Goods. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Microsoft's Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in the Company. The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk. Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85. Picks: Stacey - Fi Smart Dog Collar Jeff - Mobile phone museum Jeff - Jack Dorsey's Net Worth After Twitter Farewell Ant - Hardheads Playoff loss Ant - Watch FLOSS featuring Lisa LeVasseur Ant - The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ourcrowd.com/twig udacity.com/TWiT twit.cachefly.com

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter. Who is Parag Agrawal? Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent. Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block. Edge users aren't happy about Microsoft's built-in 'buy now, pay later' tool. Average American Credit Card Debt in 2021: $5,525. Onion: Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter. Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal CEO says spending via its buy-now-pay-later service soared 400% on Black Friday, as inflation bites and shoppers feel the pinch. Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider. AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services. Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon's Cloud. AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win. Finland Researchers Say First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running. Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Goes to Court. U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy. Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law. Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff. Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. Google rolling out Android digital car key support to Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 on select BMWs. Android TV 12 is now available, unclear when it's headed to Chromecast with Google TV. Chrome OS 96 rolling out: Camera tweaks, Nearby Share in Android apps, more. 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed. 23andMe is using spac funds to develop new drugs against cancer. 150 HP multi-function printer types vulnerable to exploit. Indonesian Court Gives The Government Permission To Pull The Plug On The Internet Whenever It Feels Threatened. New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media. Democrats Push Bill to Outlaw Bots From Snatching Up Online Goods. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Microsoft's Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in the Company. The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk. Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85. Picks: Stacey - Fi Smart Dog Collar Jeff - Mobile phone museum Jeff - Jack Dorsey's Net Worth After Twitter Farewell Ant - Hardheads Playoff loss Ant - Watch FLOSS featuring Lisa LeVasseur Ant - The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ourcrowd.com/twig udacity.com/TWiT twit.cachefly.com

Hotel Penn update, injecting ads into dreams, Google sued for breaching "Don't Be Evil" contract, listener emails, international hacking news.

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter. Who is Parag Agrawal? Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent. Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block. Edge users aren't happy about Microsoft's built-in 'buy now, pay later' tool. Average American Credit Card Debt in 2021: $5,525. Onion: Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter. Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal CEO says spending via its buy-now-pay-later service soared 400% on Black Friday, as inflation bites and shoppers feel the pinch. Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider. AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services. Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon's Cloud. AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win. Finland Researchers Say First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running. Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Goes to Court. U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy. Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law. Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff. Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. Google rolling out Android digital car key support to Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 on select BMWs. Android TV 12 is now available, unclear when it's headed to Chromecast with Google TV. Chrome OS 96 rolling out: Camera tweaks, Nearby Share in Android apps, more. 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed. 23andMe is using spac funds to develop new drugs against cancer. 150 HP multi-function printer types vulnerable to exploit. Indonesian Court Gives The Government Permission To Pull The Plug On The Internet Whenever It Feels Threatened. New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media. Democrats Push Bill to Outlaw Bots From Snatching Up Online Goods. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Microsoft's Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in the Company. The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk. Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85. Picks: Stacey - Fi Smart Dog Collar Jeff - Mobile phone museum Jeff - Jack Dorsey's Net Worth After Twitter Farewell Ant - Hardheads Playoff loss Ant - Watch FLOSS featuring Lisa LeVasseur Ant - The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ourcrowd.com/twig udacity.com/TWiT twit.cachefly.com

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter. Who is Parag Agrawal? Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent. Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block. Edge users aren't happy about Microsoft's built-in 'buy now, pay later' tool. Average American Credit Card Debt in 2021: $5,525. Onion: Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter. Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal CEO says spending via its buy-now-pay-later service soared 400% on Black Friday, as inflation bites and shoppers feel the pinch. Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider. AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services. Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon's Cloud. AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win. Finland Researchers Say First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running. Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Goes to Court. U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy. Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law. Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff. Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. Google rolling out Android digital car key support to Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 on select BMWs. Android TV 12 is now available, unclear when it's headed to Chromecast with Google TV. Chrome OS 96 rolling out: Camera tweaks, Nearby Share in Android apps, more. 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed. 23andMe is using spac funds to develop new drugs against cancer. 150 HP multi-function printer types vulnerable to exploit. Indonesian Court Gives The Government Permission To Pull The Plug On The Internet Whenever It Feels Threatened. New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media. Democrats Push Bill to Outlaw Bots From Snatching Up Online Goods. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Microsoft's Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in the Company. The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk. Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85. Picks: Stacey - Fi Smart Dog Collar Jeff - Mobile phone museum Jeff - Jack Dorsey's Net Worth After Twitter Farewell Ant - Hardheads Playoff loss Ant - Watch FLOSS featuring Lisa LeVasseur Ant - The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ourcrowd.com/twig udacity.com/TWiT twit.cachefly.com

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter. Who is Parag Agrawal? Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent. Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block. Edge users aren't happy about Microsoft's built-in 'buy now, pay later' tool. Average American Credit Card Debt in 2021: $5,525. Onion: Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter. Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal CEO says spending via its buy-now-pay-later service soared 400% on Black Friday, as inflation bites and shoppers feel the pinch. Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider. AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services. Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon's Cloud. AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win. Finland Researchers Say First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running. Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Goes to Court. U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy. Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law. Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff. Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. Google rolling out Android digital car key support to Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 on select BMWs. Android TV 12 is now available, unclear when it's headed to Chromecast with Google TV. Chrome OS 96 rolling out: Camera tweaks, Nearby Share in Android apps, more. 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed. 23andMe is using spac funds to develop new drugs against cancer. 150 HP multi-function printer types vulnerable to exploit. Indonesian Court Gives The Government Permission To Pull The Plug On The Internet Whenever It Feels Threatened. New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media. Democrats Push Bill to Outlaw Bots From Snatching Up Online Goods. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Microsoft's Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in the Company. The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk. Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85. Picks: Stacey - Fi Smart Dog Collar Jeff - Mobile phone museum Jeff - Jack Dorsey's Net Worth After Twitter Farewell Ant - Hardheads Playoff loss Ant - Watch FLOSS featuring Lisa LeVasseur Ant - The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ourcrowd.com/twig udacity.com/TWiT twit.cachefly.com

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter. Who is Parag Agrawal? Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent. Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block. Edge users aren't happy about Microsoft's built-in 'buy now, pay later' tool. Average American Credit Card Debt in 2021: $5,525. Onion: Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter. Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal CEO says spending via its buy-now-pay-later service soared 400% on Black Friday, as inflation bites and shoppers feel the pinch. Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider. AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services. Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon's Cloud. AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win. Finland Researchers Say First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running. Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Goes to Court. U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy. Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law. Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff. Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. Google rolling out Android digital car key support to Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 on select BMWs. Android TV 12 is now available, unclear when it's headed to Chromecast with Google TV. Chrome OS 96 rolling out: Camera tweaks, Nearby Share in Android apps, more. 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed. 23andMe is using spac funds to develop new drugs against cancer. 150 HP multi-function printer types vulnerable to exploit. Indonesian Court Gives The Government Permission To Pull The Plug On The Internet Whenever It Feels Threatened. New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media. Democrats Push Bill to Outlaw Bots From Snatching Up Online Goods. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Microsoft's Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in the Company. The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk. Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85. Picks: Stacey - Fi Smart Dog Collar Jeff - Mobile phone museum Jeff - Jack Dorsey's Net Worth After Twitter Farewell Ant - Hardheads Playoff loss Ant - Watch FLOSS featuring Lisa LeVasseur Ant - The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ourcrowd.com/twig udacity.com/TWiT twit.cachefly.com

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter. Who is Parag Agrawal? Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent. Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block. Edge users aren't happy about Microsoft's built-in 'buy now, pay later' tool. Average American Credit Card Debt in 2021: $5,525. Onion: Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter. Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal CEO says spending via its buy-now-pay-later service soared 400% on Black Friday, as inflation bites and shoppers feel the pinch. Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider. AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services. Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon's Cloud. AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win. Finland Researchers Say First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running. Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Goes to Court. U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy. Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law. Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff. Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. Google rolling out Android digital car key support to Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 on select BMWs. Android TV 12 is now available, unclear when it's headed to Chromecast with Google TV. Chrome OS 96 rolling out: Camera tweaks, Nearby Share in Android apps, more. 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed. 23andMe is using spac funds to develop new drugs against cancer. 150 HP multi-function printer types vulnerable to exploit. Indonesian Court Gives The Government Permission To Pull The Plug On The Internet Whenever It Feels Threatened. New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media. Democrats Push Bill to Outlaw Bots From Snatching Up Online Goods. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Microsoft's Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in the Company. The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk. Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85. Picks: Stacey - Fi Smart Dog Collar Jeff - Mobile phone museum Jeff - Jack Dorsey's Net Worth After Twitter Farewell Ant - Hardheads Playoff loss Ant - Watch FLOSS featuring Lisa LeVasseur Ant - The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ourcrowd.com/twig udacity.com/TWiT twit.cachefly.com

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter. Who is Parag Agrawal? Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent. Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block. Edge users aren't happy about Microsoft's built-in 'buy now, pay later' tool. Average American Credit Card Debt in 2021: $5,525. Onion: Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter. Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal CEO says spending via its buy-now-pay-later service soared 400% on Black Friday, as inflation bites and shoppers feel the pinch. Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider. AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services. Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon's Cloud. AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win. Finland Researchers Say First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running. Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Goes to Court. U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy. Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law. Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff. Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. Google rolling out Android digital car key support to Pixel 6, Galaxy S21 on select BMWs. Android TV 12 is now available, unclear when it's headed to Chromecast with Google TV. Chrome OS 96 rolling out: Camera tweaks, Nearby Share in Android apps, more. 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed. 23andMe is using spac funds to develop new drugs against cancer. 150 HP multi-function printer types vulnerable to exploit. Indonesian Court Gives The Government Permission To Pull The Plug On The Internet Whenever It Feels Threatened. New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media. Democrats Push Bill to Outlaw Bots From Snatching Up Online Goods. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Microsoft's Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in the Company. The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk. Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85. Picks: Stacey - Fi Smart Dog Collar Jeff - Mobile phone museum Jeff - Jack Dorsey's Net Worth After Twitter Farewell Ant - Hardheads Playoff loss Ant - Watch FLOSS featuring Lisa LeVasseur Ant - The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ourcrowd.com/twig udacity.com/TWiT twit.cachefly.com

Headline Updates, Talking Twitter Changes, Google Sued Over Don't Be Evil, and Apple's True Wireless.Topics:Three Google workers sue over alleged violations of ‘don't be evil' motto | EngadgetMeta's crypto chief is leaving the company | EngadgetElon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster' that puts SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy – The VergeApple is exploring reverse and “true” wireless charging technology | Ars TechnicaThis browser extension shows how many brands on Amazon are actually just Amazon – The VergeTwitter bans sharing ‘private' images and videos without consent | EngadgetPatient receives the world's first fully 3D-printed prosthetic eye | EngadgetBig Tech firms should pay ISPs to upgrade networks, telcos in Europe claim | Ars TechnicaFor more info, interviews, reviews, news, radio, podcasts, video, and more, check out ComputerAmerica.com!

In this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Anna Briers about what visual art can tell us about new digital technologies. The current show at UQ Art Museum – called ‘Don't Be Evil' – seeks to show us some of the invisible power structures of networked technology, including the implications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data capitalism.Anna Briers is the Curator at the UQ Art Museum. She has curated in both an institutional and freelance capacity for over a decade in various contexts ranging from art museums and arts festivals, through to underground tunnels and golden canola fields. She holds a Masters of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Elam) from the University of Auckland.Further reading:UQ Art Museum, Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online Safiya Noble, Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism (2018: New York University Press)Timnit Gebru, 'Race and Gender' in Markus D. Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das (ed) in The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (2020: Oxford University Press)Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, The Anatomy of an AI System (2018)Simon Denny, Extractor (2019)Sean Dockray, Learning from YouTube (2018)Forensic Architecture, Model Zoo (2020) 

Vocalist and Guitarist Trevor Sullivan, as well as Vocalist and Keyboardist Jon Garniss of 5-Piece Punk-Rock Theater-Emo Band Bullpup, Zoom in to The Junk and Jam Hour - along with their inanimate friend Stanley - to chat about their early journeys in music, leading up to their incredible collaboration in producing music that speaks to their authenticity, vivacity, queerness and their courage to call out societal bullsh*t. On topic is their new music, including the beautifully gritty, 'Veronica Sawyer's Big Day Out' , featuring Glynnis Brennan of Indie Pop Band Shallow Pools, in which the music and lyrics carefully recounts the pain and frustration that assault survivors - including those within the LGBTQ+ community - continually endure, as well as narrate their own experiences as it relates to homophobia, transphobia and sexual violence. In speaking of their new music and upcoming album Be Evil, which they boldly tackle the world's heaviest subjects, they give a considerable hat tip to the contributions of their recent member and guitarist Robby Beland, for pushing them out of their comfort zone to be their most capable selves and musicians - and talk about why they felt so compelled to make a record that calls out the sketchiness of the industry. While on topic about the safety and dangers of the music scene and industry - particularly for women and young, impressionable artists - we also have a listen to and discuss, 'Birch Bark,' a Bullpup song that speaks to Jon's experience about experimenting with and wearing women's clothing since childhood. Jon further talks about their exploration into their non-binary existence. For more info and phenomenal music by Bullpup, visit www.BullpupBand.BandCamp.com Also visit www.RadioFreeBrooklyn.com and www.JunkandJam.com Background music by www.FreeBeats.io

What if a technology company becomes so rich, so powerful, so exploitative, and so oblivious that that the harm it's doing begins to outweigh the quality and utility of its products? What if that company happens to run the world's dominant search, advertising, email, web, and mobile platforms? This month's episode of Soonish argues that it's time to rein in Google—and that individual internet users can play a meaningful part by switching to other tools and providers. It's half stem-winder, half how-to, featuring special guest Mark Hurst of the WFMU radio show and podcast Techtonic.* * *  Back in 2019, in the episode A Future Without Facebook, I explained why I had decided that it was time to delete my Facebook account. In short, I was tired of being part of a system that amplified hateful and polarizing messages in order to keep users engaged and drive more advertising revenue for Zuckerberg & Co. I knew at the time that Google also engages in such practices at YouTube, and that the search giant's whole surveillance capitalism business model rests on tracking user's behavior and serving them targeted ads. But I continued as a customer of Google nonetheless, while keeping one eye on the company to see whether its tactics were growing more toxic, or less.The moment when Google finally exhausted my patience came in December 2020, when the company fired a prominent Black computer scientist and AI ethicist named Timnit Gebru in a dispute over a scholarly paper she'd co-written. Gebru and her co-authors argued in the paper that without better protections, racial and gender bias might seep into Google's artificial intelligence systems in areas like natural language processing and face recognition. Google executives thought the paper was too harsh and forbade Gebru from publishing it; she objected; and things went downhill from there.It was a complicated story, but it convinced me that at the upper echelons of Google, any remnant of a commitment to the company's sweeping motto—"Don't Be Evil"—had given way to bland and meaningless statements about "protecting users" and "expanding opportunity" and "including all voices." In fact, the company was doing the opposite of all of those things. It was time for me to opt out. How I went about doing that—and how other consumers can too—is what this episode is all about. I explain the Gebru case and other problems at Google, and I also speak at length with guest Mark Hurst, a technology critic who runs the product design consultancy Creative Good and hosts the radio show and podcast Techtonic at WFMU. Mark publishes an important site called Good Reports, where consumers can find the best alternatives to the services offered by today's tech giants in areas like search, social media, and mobile technology.Hurst emphasizes—and I agree—that leaving Google isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. The company is so deeply embedded in our lives that it's almost impossible to cut it out entirely. Instead, users can uncouple from Google step by step—first switching to a different search engine, then trying a browser other than Chrome, then switching from Gmail to some other email platform, and so forth."Setting a goal of getting ourselves 100 percent off of Google is is unrealistic," Mark says. "And it's I think it's a little bit of a harmful goal, because it's so hard that people are going to give up early on. But instead, let's let's have a goal of learning what's happening in the world and then making some choices for ourselves, some small choices at first, of how we want to do things differently. If enough of us make the decision to extricate ourselves from Google, we'll form a movement and other companies will see an opportunity to build less exploitative tools for us. You've got to start somewhere!"NotesThe Soonish opening theme is by Graham Gordon Ramsay. All additional music by Titlecard Music and Sound.If you enjoy Soonish, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts. Every additional rating makes it easier for other listeners to find the show.Listener support is the rocket fuel that keeps our little ship going! You can pitch in with a per-episode donation at patreon.com/soonish.Follow us on Twitter and get the latest updates about the show in our email newsletter, Signals from Soonish.Chapter Guide0:08 Soonish theme00:21 Time to Find a New Favorite Restaurant02:46 What I'm Not Saying04:01 Re-introducing Mark Hurst07:08 The Ubiquity of Google11:04 Surveillance Capitalism and YouTube Extremism12:29 The Timnit Gebru Case18:01 Hurst: "Let's shut down the entire Google enterprise"19:48 Midroll announcement: Support Soonish on Patreon20:54 10 Steps toward Reducing Your Reliance on Google29:04 Using Google Takeout30:20 The Inevitability of YouTube31:44 Be a Google Reducetarian32:20 Enmeshed in Big Tech37:04 The Value of Sacrifice40:17 End Credits and Hub & Spoke Promo for Open Source

In this special episode of Bankless, we bring on some of the best minds in the space to discuss where DeFi is and where we're headed. ------

with guest Donna Harris, Praxis | Builders and Backers Afghanistan's drug economy is one of the most lucrative in the country. But what happens when a new business provides communities with jobs cultivating tea as an alternative agriculture? That's when you get something truly helpful: “redemptive entrepreneurship”. In this episode, Donna Harris of Praxis talks about “redemptive entrepreneurship” and how this can be embedded into the bones of a business with a desire to help—it's not just about making money and giving part of it away; it's about structuring a business to meet the needs of its community. "You can build beautiful things, and you can be a leader that exhibits kindness and concern as well as grows a highly scalable business. It's a different way to think about the gift that entrepreneurship can be in the world". Recommended Readings: https://amzn.to/3uA6tVI (Strength to Love) by Martin Luther King https://amzn.to/3dSubqF (Makers and Takers) by Rana Foroohar https://amzn.to/3bDLZD4 (Don't Be Evil) by Rana Foroohar https://amzn.to/3ssWq2W (Lincoln's Melancholy) by Joshua Wolf Shenk Episode hosted by Shelaine and Eric. Support this podcast

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL  Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP).  She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. She is author of The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018) and Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2020).  She is winner of international prizes including the 2020 John Von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Rana Foroohar is global business columnist and associate editor for the Financial Times, and CNN’s global economic analyst. Her first book, Makers and Takers, was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year in 2016. Her second, Don’t Be Evil: the Case against Big Tech, was published in 2019 and was a Sunday Times Business Book of the Year and Observer Book of the Week. 5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to tell of their lives and inspirations. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Bill Hull talks about books he read during 2020 and he would like to recommend to you. Cindy Perkins and Jim Thomas also join in to discuss some good reads from the year. Do you have a book you have not finished? Bill shares some books he has started yet has not completed. Bill's Novel for the interested – The Disciple: Better to Do Evil Than to Be Evil by Bill Hull.

Vincent is joined by Rana Foroohar; CNN global economic analyst & FT global business columnist & associate editor and Author of Don't Be Evil': How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - and All of Us, and also Daniel Susskind. Economist at Balliol College in Oxford and Author of A World Without Work; Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond. Taking Stock with Vincent Wall on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Mark discusses the best tech books and video games of 2020. Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "David Courtwright, "Age of Addiction" excerpt" [Techtonic from Feb 3, 2020] - "Rana Foroohar, "Don't Be Evil" excerpt" [Techtonic from Feb 24, 2020] - "Toby Ord, "The Precipice" excerpt" [Techtonic from Apr 20, 2020] - "Steven Levy, "Facebook: The Inside Story" excerpt" [Techtonic from May 25, 2020] - "Elaine Kasket, "All the Ghosts in the Machine" excerpt" [Techtonic from Aug 17, 2020] - "William Deresiewicz, "The Death of the Artist" excerpt" [Techtonic from Nov 2, 2020] - "2020's best video games with DJ Paradox" JARC - "Move On Up" [Thanks to the Duane Train, Dec 16 episode] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/99746

...Senior Technology Correspondent Breitbart News, tells James about Deleted - his terrifying book about Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement. They discuss how Wikipedia has become a defamatory mechanism for destroying the reputation of anyone on the right, how Google - the world's most dangerous company - has forgotten its founding motto ‘Don't Be Evil'; how - unless Trump wins - much worse is yet to come.

The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising — the government’s most significant attempt to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago.And it could just be an opening salvo. Other major tech companies including Apple, Amazon and Facebook are under investigation at both the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission.“Google is the gateway to the internet and a search advertising behemoth," U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen told reporters. “It has maintained its monopoly power through exclusionary practices that are harmful to competition.”Lawmakers and consumer advocates have long accused Google of abusing its dominance in online search and advertising. The case filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that Google uses billions of dollars collected from advertisers to pay phone manufacturers to ensure Google is the default search engine on browsers. That stifles competition and innovation from smaller upstart rivals to Google and harms consumers by reducing the quality of search and limiting privacy protections and alternative search options, the government alleges.Critics contend that multibillion-dollar fines and mandated changes in Google’s practices imposed by European regulators in recent years weren’t severe enough and Google needs to be broken up to change its conduct. The Justice Department didn't lay out specific remedies along those lines, although it asked the court to order structural relief “as needed to remedy any anticompetitive harm.”That opens the door to possible fundamental changes such as a spinoff of the company’s Chrome browser.Google vowed to defend itself and responded immediately via tweet: “Today’s lawsuit by the Department of Justice is deeply flawed. People use Google because they choose to -- not because they’re forced to or because they can’t find alternatives.”Eleven states, all with Republican attorneys general, joined the federal government in the lawsuit. But several other states demurred.The attorneys general of New York, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee and Utah released a statement Monday saying they have not concluded their investigation into Google and would want to consolidate their case with the DOJ’s if they decided to file. “It’s a bipartisan statement,” said spokesman Fabien Levy of the New York State attorney general’s office. “There’s things that still need to be fleshed out, basically”President Donald Trump's administration has long had Google in its sights. One of Trump's top economic advisers said two years ago that the White House was considering whether Google searches should be subject to government regulation. Trump has often criticized Google, recycling unfounded claims by conservatives that the search giant is biased against conservatives and suppresses their viewpoints.Rosen told reporters that allegations of anti-conservative bias are “a totally separate set of concerns” from the issue of competition.Sally Hubbard, an antitrust expert who runs enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, said it was a welcome surprise to see the Justice Department's openness to the possibility of structurally breaking up Google, and not just imposing conditions on its behavior as has happened in Europe.“Traditionally, Republicans are hesitant to speak of breakups,” she said. “Personally, I’ll be very disappointed if I see a settlement. Google has shown it won’t adhere to any behavioral conditions.”The argument for reining in Google has gathered force as the company stretched far beyond its 1998 roots as a search engine governed by the motto “Don’t Be Evil.” It’s since grown into a diversified goliath with online tentacles that scoop up personal data from billions of people via services ranging from search, video and maps to smartphone software. That data helps feed the advertising machine that has turned Google...

Guest: Josh Bachynski Topic: Tribalism Josh is an SEO expert and commentator, creator of the documentary "Don't Be Evil", has a show about internet search engine ethics, a philosopher, meditation guide and has spoken on an array of platforms like Ted X. twitter: @joshbachynski Email Josh: joshbachynski@gmail.com Dao Agathos (book on The Good and Reincarnation): bit.ly/DaoAgathos The Zombies (book on wider morality - more technical philosophy): bit.ly/OnMorality Bach Meditation Youtube Show: bit.ly/bachmeditation FREE Meditation APP: app.meditationassistant.com ►Like Subscribe and RING THE BELL! Thank you for your support! ►Get all Tom Foolery content in one place on the official Tom Foolery website: http://TomFooleryPC.com ►You can currently listen to Tom Foolery episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, YouTube, Google Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Podbean and on the official Tom Foolery Website.►Have questions or want to debate? Contact the show Tom@TomFooleryPC.com ►Follow Tom Foolery on Facebook for clips/videos, information on upcoming episodes, and Live streaming on Streaming Saturdays (Saturday nights around 8:30pm). http://facebook.com/TomFooleryPC

This week the boys discuss Google going from "Don't Be Evil" to an evil mega corporation, the boys YouTube trouble and YouTube's crappy algorithm, Double D becoming a gaming streamer, Jesse "The Body" Ventura considering a Presidential Run as the Green Party nominee, more on Biden's rape allegations and vote shaming, Ventura being the Green Party's "big moment", Trump's "Populist" image, mistakes in the Bernie Campaign, the boys personal qualms with their local chapter of the Bernie Campaign, people voting for Biden because of the Obama/Biden Memes, Leftists prefering Nazis over, Noam Chomsky witnessing what happened in Germany happening in the United States, Biden not being any better than Trump, new evidence adding credibility to Tara Reade's rape allegation, and "The First Vegetable President!"**We apologize for the audio quality, had some issues with John Boy's Mic!****Patreon Goal Update: $80/200!SUBSCRIBE! LIKE! COMMENT! SHARE! BANG THE DANG BELL!You can support the podcast by making onetime donations to the Entitled Millennials channel PayPal:https://www.paypal.me/entitledmillennialsTo further support the podcast subscribe to the Patreon at:https://www.patreon.com/Double_DThere you can access all Double D's written works, including poetry, flash fiction, and full-length short stories! All for less per month than what you spend on coffee or lunch every day! As little as $3 per month!Once we reach our $200.00 goal, we will release a Patron-Exclusive podcast. We will also include free Entitled Millennials merch exclusive to our regular Patrons! Join us today!

ESG funds, stocks, outperforming their ‘conventional’ counterparts in markets’ downturn. Several analysts believe now is a good time to buy these stocks and funds. See which ones they recommend! Investors should also consider artificial intelligence and infrastructure stocks too. With companies reducing or eliminating dividends, one dividend-paying socially responsible stock comes highly regarded. And More PODCAST: ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn. Transcript & Links, Episode 29, April 10, 2020 Hello, Ron Robins here. Welcome to podcast episode 29 for April 10, 2020, titled “ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn.”—presented by Investing for the Soul. investingforthesoul.com is your site for vital global ethical and sustainable investing news, commentary, information, and resources. Remember that you can find a full transcript, links to content – including stock symbols – and bonus material at this episode’s podcast page located at investingforthesoul.com/podcasts. And, Google any terms that are unfamiliar to you. Now with the recent market turnaround, many investors are feeling a sense of relief and thinking beyond the COVID-19 turmoil! With that in mind, the analysts’ research I’m reporting on now might be of interest to you. ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn. So, let’s start with the first research comment that illustrates again the ESG funds, stocks, opportunities in this downturn. This comment is titled ESG ETFs Appear Unscathed by the Coronavirus Carnage by Zacks analyst Sanghamitra Saha. She writes that” Wall Street just recorded the worst quarter since the fourth quarter of 2008. But ESG ETFs appeared somewhat resilient to the acute selloffs.” End quote. Ms. Saha cites the following ESG ETFs as having gained significant assets during the sell-off. They are: Global X Conscious Companies ETF (KRMA). Quote “Its top holdings are Regeneron, Clorox, Biogen, Newmont, Netflix and Amazon.” End quote. Next is SP Funds S&P 500 Sharia Industry Exclusions ETF (SPUS). Quote “The underlying S&P 500 Sharia Industry Exclusions Index comprises the constituents of the S&P 500 Sharia Index other than those from the following sub-industries: Aerospace & Defense, Financial Exchanges & Data, and Data Processing & Outsourced Services…” End quote. Finally, the Nuveen ESG Mid-Cap Growth ETF (NUMG). Again, quoting her she says that “It uses a rules-based methodology that provides investment exposure that generally replicates that of mid-cap growth benchmarks through a portfolio of securities that adhere to predetermined ESG, controversial business involvement and low-carbon screening criteria.” End quote. ------------------------------------------------------------- 2) ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn. Now a post for those ethical and sustainable investors wishing to get back into the markets with individual stocks. Ian Jenkins has written an article titled 6 Stocks Cashing In On The $30 Trillion Impact Investing Trend that appears on the oilprice.com site. Here are his six picks. Now I’m just going to name the company and then follow it with a short quote by Mr. Jenkins on that company. Alphabet (GOOGL). “Is a shining star in the tech world. Despite being one of the largest companies on the planet, in many ways it has lived up to its original ‘Don’t Be Evil’ slogan.” Facedrive Inc. (FD.V). “For the first time in ride-sharing history, Facedrive is giving customers a choice to be more environmentally conscious. That’s because it’s utilizing new technology to calculate the estimated CO2 emissions for each ride and allocating a portion of the proceeds accordingly to local organizations to help offset those emissions.” Apple Inc. (AAPL). “Not only have they decreased their average product’s energy use by 70 percent… They’ve reduced their total carbon footprint by more than 35 percent in just a few short years…” Microsoft Inc. (MSFT). “It’s pushing so hard that it is aiming to be carbon NEGATIVE by 2030. That’s a huge pledge. And if anyone can do it, it’s Microsoft.” NextEra Energy (NEE). “[The] world’s leading producer of wind and solar energy… By 2025, the company aims to reduce their own emissions by 67 percent while doubling their electricity production from a 2005 benchmark.” Lastly, Total (TOT). “One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies… Through its subsidiaries and new investments, Total is making major waves in the ‘green revolution.’” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 3) ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn. Do you favour tech stocks like most ethical and sustainable investors? Then you might want to see the recommendations of Billy Duberstein. His article is titled 3 Top Artificial Intelligence Stocks to Buy in April and appeared on The Motley Fool site. Here are the stocks he recommends with each followed by a quote from him. Lam Research (NASDAQ: LRCX). “Makes the machines that allow chipmakers to produce smaller, more powerful chips.” Alteryx (NYSE: AYX). “Its main product is an end-to-end, comprehensive software suite, which allows both data scientists and non-data scientists to work together building and deploying machine learning algorithms.” Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU). “Micron's product portfolio will be essential to future artificial intelligence applications, which will require lots and lots of DRAM memory and NAND flash storage. In addition to these products, Micron is also one of only two companies to have 3D Xpoint, a new kind of non-volatile memory that is faster than NAND, though also more expensive. Micron is the only company to have all three technologies.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 4) ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn. It appears that the next big US fiscal stimulus plan may involve huge spending on infrastructure. Due to this many investors are looking for companies engaged in that sector to buy into. In her post on the Motley Fool site, Neha Chamaria writes about 3 Top Infrastructure Stocks to Watch in April. They are – and again followed by a quote from her on each company. Nucor (NYSE: NUE). “Nucor is North America's largest manufacturer and supplier of critical infrastructure steel and steel products.” Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC). “Vulcan is the nation's largest manufacturer of construction aggregates, primarily crushed stone, gravel, and sand, as well as a major producer of asphalt and concrete.” Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT). “If infrastructure spending picks up, Caterpillar should be a leading indicator as the world's largest construction-and-mining equipment manufacturer.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 5) ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn. Ms. Chamaria has also written a post titled 3 Top Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy in April, also on the Motley Fool site. So, following the same format as previously, I’ll say the company followed by a quote from her. NextEra Energy Partners (NYSE: NEP). “NextEra Energy Partners was formed in 2014, when NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) spun-off its solar and wind energy projects to form an exclusive clean-energy focused limited partnership.” Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE: BEP). “One of the best diversified renewable energy stocks you can find. While NextEra Energy Partners is focused on wind and solar, Brookfield Renewable specializes in hydropower, or the generation of electricity from water streams.” TPI Composites (NASDAQ: TPIC). “The world's largest independent composite wind-blade manufacturer.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 6) ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn. With this downturn, many investors are finding that dividends they’d become used to from stocks are being cut or even eliminated. Thus, those looking for dividends to provide income has become a real concern! Now, this might be helpful to you in that regard. BNK Invest has published an article titled FirstEnergy a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock With 3.9% Yield (FE). They write that “FirstEnergy Corp (FE) has been named a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock by Dividend Channel, signifying a stock with above-average ‘DividendRank’ statistics including a strong 3.9% yield, as well as being recognized by prominent asset managers as being a socially responsible investment, through analysis of social and environmental criteria.” End quote. ------------------------------------------------------------- 7) ESG Funds, Stocks. Opportunities in Downturn. Tom Lydon of ETF Trends is making the case for green bonds at this juncture. In a post titled Going Green With Bonds Is a Winning Idea he recommends the VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (NYSEArca: GRNB). He writes that “The VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF tracks the S&P Green Bond Select Index, which is ‘comprised of labeled green bonds that are issued to finance environmentally friendly projects, and includes bonds issued by the supranational, government, and corporate issuers globally in multiple currencies,’ according to VanEck.” End quote. Here's another interesting item from his article. Mr. Lydon quotes Thomas Wacker, head of credit at UBS Global Wealth and reported in Bloomberg reports as saying that “Sustainable bonds are a ‘defensive opportunity’ that credit investors should favor over non-green, investment-grade corporate notes,’” End quote. ------------------------------------------------------------- End Comment Well, these are my top news stories and tips for ethical and sustainable investors over the past two weeks. And to get all the links, stock symbols and more, or to read the transcript of this podcast and with additional information too, please go to investingforthesoul.com/podcasts and scroll down to this episode. Also, be sure to click the like and subscribe buttons in iTunes/Apple Podcasts or wherever you download or listen to this podcast. And, please click the share buttons to share this podcast with your friends and family. That way you can help promote not only this podcast but ethical and sustainable investing globally. So, let’s help create a better world with our investments! Contact me if you have any questions. Do stay well and healthy – and most wise with your investments at this extraordinary time. Thank you for listening. Talk to you again on April 24. Bye for now. © 2020 Ron Robins, Investing for the Soul.

In conversation with Rana Foroohar Rana Foroohar is a New York-based journalist specialising in business, finance and Big Tech. She is global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times, as well as CNN's global economic analyst. Her most recent book, Don't Be Evil (2019), forensically traces how the world's tech giants have enriched themselves on the fruits of surveillance capitalism, and proposes alternative frameworks to reduce their unrestricted influence.

In conversation with Rana Foroohar Rana Foroohar is a New York-based journalist specialising in business, finance and Big Tech. She is global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times, as well as CNN's global economic analyst. Her most recent book, Don't Be Evil (2019), forensically traces how the world's tech giants have enriched themselves on the fruits of surveillance capitalism, and proposes alternative frameworks to reduce their unrestricted influence.

One of the most influential women in my career and life is Eartha Kitt, who I was lucky enough to develop a brief pen pal relationship with in the early 90s, before she became a household name again with her vocal appearance on Disney's Emperor's new groove. Please enjoy this encore presentation of FOF #1805 – The Purrrfect Legacy of Eartha Kitt, an interview with Eartha Kitt's daughter Kitt Shapiro. FEATURED WEBSITE:http://www.earthakitt.com/The late great Eartha Kitt is probably best remembered for her role as the iconic Catwoman in the 1960s TV show Batman as well as for her provocative songs “Santa Baby” and “I Want to Be Evil.”Everybody wanted to be evil when Eartha Kitt played Catwoman. Coming from humble origins in South Carolina, Eartha Kitt grew up to tour the world as a young dancer but it was the Broadway show “New Faces of 1952” that catapulted her career into the mainstream.As a champion of civil rights, Eartha Kitt didn’t hold back when she spoke out against the Vietnam War and that tenacity got her blacklisted in the U.S. for years. Eartha took her show all over the world, and along for the ride, was her daughter Kitt, who Eartha took everywhere.Joining us today is Kitt Shapiro, who is now dedicating her life to preserving her mother’s legacy by starting Simply Eartha, a lifestyle brand that uses the images, writings and wisdom of Eartha Kitt to inspire both old and new fans.Eartha once said “The only thing I can sell and still own is my talent.” That and albums, CDs, posters, coasters, canvas wall art, and crystal paperweights.Listen as we talk with Kitt about her mom’s peculiar way of speaking, Eartha’s outrageously fun music and what it was like to work for her mom for over 25 years.➤ The linguistics behind Eartha Kitt’s purr.➤ Nobody else worked a one armed sofa like Eartha Kitt.➤ Being of mixed heritage and a celebrity during segregation.➤ Eartha’s last days before dying on Christmas Day.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
with NO ADS:★ feastoffun.com/plus

In Don’t Be Evil, Financial Times global business columnist Rana Foroohar tells the story of how Big Tech lost its soul, and ate our lunch. “Don’t be evil” was enshrined as Google’s original corporate mantra back in its early days, when the company’s cheerful logo still conveyed the utopian vision for a future in which technology would inevitably make the world better, safer, and more prosperous. Unfortunately, it’s been quite a while since Google, or the majority of the Big Tech companies, lived up to this founding philosophy.  Today, the utopia they sought to create is looking more dystopian than ever: from digital surveillance and the loss of privacy to the spreading of misinformation and hate speech to predatory algorithms targeting the weak and vulnerable to products that have been engineered to manipulate our desires. How did we get here? How did these once-scrappy and idealistic enterprises become rapacious monopolies with the power to corrupt our elections, co-opt all our data, and control the largest single chunk of corporate wealth, while evading all semblance of regulation and taxes?  Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com.

With Google changing the formatting of it's search results, paid placement/advertisements are now more indistinguishable from organic results than ever. Could such intentional confusion be considered "deceptive"? What does the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have to say? And how might any such deception affect advertisers (including law firms)? Was "Don't Be Evil" deceptive? A question apparently worth asking...in Virtual Legality. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO AT: https://youtu.be/3Eu5S08PSqc #Google #Search #FTC *** Discussed in this episode: "Google’s ads just look like search results now" The Verge - January 23, 2020 - Jon Porter (@JonPorty) https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/1/23/21078343/google-ad-desktop-design-change-favicon-icon-ftc-guidelines ".com Disclosures" Federal Trade Commission - March 2013 https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-staff-revises-online-advertising-disclosure-guidelines/130312dotcomdisclosures.pdf "Re: Complaint Requesting Investigation of Various Internet Search Engine Companies for Paid Placement and Paid Inclusion Programs" FTC Guidance Letter - June 27, 2002 https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/closing_letters/commercial-alert-response-letter/commercialalertletter.pdf "FTC Consumer Protection Staff Updates Agency's Guidance to Search Engine Industry on the Need to Distinguish Between Advertisements and Search Results" FTC Blog Post - June 25, 2013 https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/06/ftc-consumer-protection-staff-updates-agencys-guidance-search "The FTC’s Endorsement Guides: What People Are Asking" FTC Guidance - Updated September 2017 https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking "Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct" https://courts.michigan.gov/Courts/MichiganSupremeCourt/rules/Documents/Michigan%20Rules%20of%20Professional%20Conduct.pdf *** FOR MORE CHECK US OUT: On Twitter @hoeglaw At our website: https://hoeglaw.com/ On our Blog, "Rules of the Game", at https://hoeglaw.wordpress.com/

Jimmy and Roya met with Google employee Armando Munoz at Eye Innovate!SOURCES https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/great-american-eye-exam-scam/602482/10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google – mashable.com10 Unusual Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Google – businessinsider.comIs Google Redefining ‘Don’t Be Evil’? – cnn.com65 Interesting Facts About Google – businessinsider.com10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Google – businessweek.comGoogle at $400 Billion: A New No. 2 in Market Cap – telegraph.co.ukGoogle’s 15th Birthday: 15 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know – facts.randomhistory.com10 Most Interesting Facts About Google – themost10.comThe Story of Google Maps – telegraph.co.ukTour Google’s Luxurious ‘Googleplex’ Campus In California – businessinsider.com

主播丨徐涛 *嘉宾丨 *李蓉慧 后期制作丨迪卡普里鑫 （以下文字只是音频节目的少许补充。「硅谷早知道」每周周五中午12点准时更新，敬请期待。） Google 两位联合创始人 Larry Page 和 Sergey Brin 在美国时间 12 月 3 日下午，宣布辞任 Google 母公司 Alphabet 的 CEO。 我们都知道这一刻迟早会到来，但为什么是在现在？ 这不是一个好时机，你甚至可以说 Google 面临内忧外患。 在内部，Google 管理层和员工之间正经历着愈演愈重的不信任危机 ；在外界，Google 过去「印钞机一般的商业模式」也正受到来自竞争对手、转向 AI 需要商业化的挑战。 制作本期节目都时候，两位创始人辞任都消息还没有发布。但我们已经观察到了一些让人不安的端倪：Google 在 11 月已经对外透露即将改变 TGIF 活动， 改为每月举行一次，并且只专注于「产品和商业战略」——这是最能代表 Google 企业文化的活动之一，它的变化意味着什么？ 今天我们请到了原《第一财经周刊》驻硅谷记者李蓉慧来聊聊这个话题：我们梳理这家曾是世界上「最让人快乐的」科技公司近年来发生的事情，你会理解为什么我们说 Google 正面临挑战，又为什么说硅谷的理想主义正在消散。 近两年，不论是 Google 的高管性丑闻、信息泄露、员工维权，还是被取消的与美国国防部订单，这家曾经代表着平等开放、理想主义的企业，似乎逐渐背离了「Don't Be Evil，不作恶」的初衷，加上其他公司的种种负面新闻，逐渐让很多人意识到过去对硅谷的科技公司抱有过高的幻想和期望，忽略了它们本质上是商业公司。TGIF 的变化反映了过去几年里左派右派的矛盾、社会思潮斗争在 Google 内部引起的矛盾和无法解决的无奈，也暴露了硅谷的开放文化在当下的社会语境里被挑战，以及当公司面临商业转型时，企业文化也会随着变化相应的被调整。 对 Larry Page 和 Sergey Brin 个人而言，不参与 Google 未来可能遇到的质疑和难堪，也许是一种最好的安排；但对于 Google，以及喜欢和偏爱 Google 对人而言，只能叹息一个时代的终结。 另外「声动活泼」正在筹划新一档播客节目 ——「反潮流俱乐部」。在这档节目里，我们会涉足时尚和潮流圈，并展示背后有趣、深刻的那一面，大家可以添加添加我们小助手「声小音」的微信 shengfm1 咨询，或者点击下方链接直接支持我们并解锁第一期 Demo： 国内用户 「冲呀 」 (https://www.chongya.com/@shengfm) ，「爱发电」 (https://afdian.net/@shengfm) 国外用户「patreon」 (https://www.patreon.com/shengfm) 本期主播 徐涛,「声动活泼」创始人/制作人 本期嘉宾 李蓉慧, 原《第一财经周刊》驻硅谷记者 The takeaway 以 Google 为代表的硅谷的科技公司，它们支持言论自由、要把这个世界变得更好、要帮助人类的所谓的开放文化 ，其实掩盖了一个根本事实：他们都是商业公司。当他们对媒体讲「科技让世界更美好」时，科技当然应该让世界更美好，但如果认为这些科技公司的责任是做慈善，这是错误的理解。 「All hands meeting」其实创造了一个公共空间。在这个公共空间里，大家有一致的目标，在这个目标下可以暂时放下彼此的不同。但是当环境发生变化，当公司必须面对很多跟政治、意识形态、社会舆论相关的话题冲突时候， 「All hands meeting」就从最开始大家一起庆祝这一周的工作，慢慢变成公司的管理层要回答大家的问题，再变成了公司处理内部冲突的一个公开场所。它的变化带来的一个很明显的负面反应就是公共空间变得越来越小，必须站队，必须选择一边。 现在在硅谷，大家虽然觉得 Facebook、Google 更酷，更倡导透明，苹果特别严苛。但其实在 1980 年代，苹果那个标志性的广告片（女孩把大锤子砸向屏幕和人），它也是作为一个具有反叛象征的代表。所以，可能公司最开始的时候是以反叛者的角色出现，但是随着发展壮大会难以避免的背离自己。 本期讨论的主要问题 Google 的 TGIF 全员大会的由来及传统 TGIF 全员大会遇到了什么挑战，为什么取消 Google 发展中遇到的内部、外部问题 硅谷科技公司的本质其实还是商业公司 访谈中提及名词 All hands meeting，起始于硅谷科技公司的全员大会，它作为一个内部的公开平台，每周召开一次，并且任何员工都可以提问题，并与管理层自由开放地讨论话题。 TGIF， Thank God It's Friday 的缩写；之后成为 Google 全员大会的代称。 桑达尔·皮查伊（Sundar Pichai），节目中提及的「劈柴哥」 ，曾是 Google 的产品负责人，2015 年任职谷歌 CEO ，今年 11 月他在一封发给员工的电子邮件中表示，将把「TGIF」 缩短至每月一次。 20/80，谷歌联合创始人拉里·佩奇（Larry Page）和谢尔盖·布林（Sergey Brin）曾提出，谷歌鼓励员工每周利用 20% 规定的工作时间（如 5 天工作日中的 1 天）去做非官方立项的项目。它也是 Google 开放文化的象征之一，Google 早期有一些知名产品都来自员工在 20% 时间的创造。 The Information，2013 年由前《华尔街日报》记者 Jessica Lessin 创办，采用会员付费模式。最近苹果在内部召开会议谈论 AR 项目计划，The Information 独家披露了这次内部会议的内容。 The Verge , 成立于 2011 的一家美国科技媒体网站，提供新闻、产品评论、播客、视频等内容。今年 Facebook 的一次全员大会，The Verge 获得独家爆料披露了扎克伯格的内部讲话，随后 Facebook 选择在线直播全员大会来防止「泄密」。 相关阅读 Google Hires Firm Known for Anti-Union Efforts - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/technology/Google-union-consultant.html) Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech (https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/) 硅谷早知道第三季丨S3E29 自杀、开除、欲盖弥彰，Facebook是下一个“美国工厂”？ (https://36kr.com/p/5254129) BGM Back to the Old House - White Bones Happy Without You - Wildson 微博：@声动活泼 微信公众号：@声动活泼 网站：shengfm.cn

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer who is the author of the book “No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests.”Impeachment hearings start up again today, this time before the House Judiciary Committee. Democrats on the Intelligence Committee yesterday released their report, which, they say, shows damning evidence that President Trump committed crimes so grave that the only response must be removal from office. Today, four renowned legal scholars will testify as to the constitutional basis for impeachment. The second day of the two-day NATO Summit ended in acrimony after President Trump canceled a press conference and abruptly returned to Washington. This came just hours after Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada, Prime Minister Johnson of the UK, President Macron of France, and Prime Minister Rutte of the Netherlands were caught on a hot microphone mocking Trump. Ann Wright, a retired United States Army colonel and former U.S. State Department official in Afghanistan, who resigned in protest of the invasion of Iraq and became an anti-war activist, joins the show. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the former Stanford University roommates who founded Google 20 years ago, resigned yesterday from all executive positions at Google and its parent company, Alphabet. Both Google and Alphabet will now be run by Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO. Page and Bryn will remain as board members and as Google’s largest shareholders. The resignations come at a time of turmoil for Google and in the immediate aftermath of the firing of a group of employees who sought to form a union at Google. And in the past year, Pichai has cracked down on employees who complained that the company was violating its own edict of “Don’t Be Evil” by working in national security and with oppressive regimes around the world. Brian and John speak with software engineer and technology and security analyst Patricia Gorky. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. A charismatic organizer beloved by the Black liberation and socialist movement, Hampton was gunned down as he lay in bed by Chicago police at the age of 21. But his legacy continues to inspire activists today. Aislinn Pulley, an organizer with the Black Lives Matter movement and Co-Executive Director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, and Eddie Conway, Executive Producer with The Real News Network, was a leading member of the Baltimore branch of the Black Panther Party, and a political prisoner for 44 years, seven of which were in solitary confinement, joins the show.Yet another general strike is taking place today in Colombia as protests against the anti-worker, anti-peace agenda of far-right president Ivan Duque continue. 5 people have been killed so far, and more repression is feared today. James Jordan, a member of the Alliance for Global Justice and has been deeply involved in supporting the Colombian peace process, joins Brian and John. Wednesday’s weekly series, In the News, is where the hosts look at the most important ongoing developments of the week and put them into perspective, including the impeachment hearings, the NATO summit, and more. Sputnik news analysts Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek join the show.Our regular Thursday segment is on Wednesday today, and deals with the ongoing militarization of space. As the US continues to withdraw from international arms treaties, will the weaponization and militarization of space bring the world closer to catastrophe? Brian and John speak with Prof. Karl Grossman, a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury and the host of a nationally aired television program focused on environmental, energy, and space issues, and with Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.

Happy Halloween to all of our “Tall, Dark and Random” listeners! Join us today for a special movie watchalong event as we sit down and watch the 1991 cult classic “Ernest Scared Stupid”, starring the late, great Jim Varney and the amazing Eartha Kitt. Grab your Authentic Bulgarian Miak, put on your costume and watch along as we give you a play by play as Ernest P. Worrell fights to save the children of Briarville, MIssouri from Trantor the Troll. Don’t want to watch the movie? Throw the show on anyway as you spend your evening taking the kids house to house trick or treating or even shut off the porch light and disappoint the neighborhood as you spend the evening laughing along with us and the podcast that’s always a terrific provider of background noise. Music: “I Want to Be Evil” by Eartha Kitt. “Scared Stupid” by Bruce Arntson & Kibry Shelstad. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talldarkandrandom/support

Wouldn't it be cool if a law school and a business school could collaborate on issues of legal analytics, entrepreneurial opportunities in the law, and collaboration between the university and the local business and law firm industries? We talk with a couple of professors at Georgia Statue University (GSU) who are turning this 'cool idea' and making it a reality. Anne Tucker, Professor of Law, Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative, and Ben Chapman, Executive Director, Legal Analytics and Innovation Initiative join us to discuss the details behind The Institute for Insight at GSU. The Institute brings together professors from different backgrounds of Engineering, Computer Science, and Statistics and with this type of cross-pollination with business and law, the professors are looking at applied analytics questions and bringing in their own unique skill sets to understand and solve these issues. This mashup of law, business, data science, risk management, statistics and more isn't a purely academic endeavor for the Institute. Following in the tradition of GSU being an urban school, the Institute works with well known players in the Atlanta business and legal community to put the ideas into real-world situations. This gives the Institute's professors and students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the business and legal leaders to help identify, study, analyze, and potentially solve issues facing the business and legal industry. This is one of the many values which Tucker and Chapman see for not just preparing students for the practice of law, but also for the business of law. Information Inspirations While Greg was busy playing guitar in his law firm's band, Marlene was speaking at the DLaw Summit in NYC last week. Competitive Intelligence guru, Kevin Miles from Norton Rose Fulbright gives us some nice checklists on different CI topics along with some templates designed in MS Word to help start you on the CI path at your law firm. The Financial Times came out with a 15 article report on the legal industry ranging from top legal business technologists, to the Big-Four's advancement in the legal industry, to both the promise, and the overwhelming nature of understanding legal tech processes. We hope that Google still follows the "Don't Be Evil" rule because they are now touting success in the Quantum Computing area. Google recently announce that its new Quantum Computer can computerate complex data in less than 3 minutes what it would take current supercomputers 10,000 years to do. We guess it's not a good or bad thing, but the future is definitely upon us. Northwestern Law's Daniel Rodriguez, and Legal Mosaic's Mark Cohen have a lengthy discussion on how to advance today's law school's teaching into the 21st Century. It's a great conversation. Listen, Subscribe, Comment Subscribe, rate, and comment on The Geek In Review on your favorite podcast platform.

This episode features a conversation between Peter Van Valkenburgh - Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin - and Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack PBC. Peter and Muneeb discuss Coin Center’s mission and recent work, Facebook’s Libra Coin, the case for a true electronic cash, and more. 0:00:50 Peter's bio 0:01:09 Peter: "[Coin Center] was my first big job out of law school." 0:02:58 Muneeb: "You're OG now. When did Blockstack start sponsoring Coin Center?" 0:03:18 Peter: "Coin Center got its start in 2014. We got some really generous runway from a couple of donors who are just individuals who wanted to see a more adult advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. focused on this stuff." 0:04:56 Peter: "Coin Center is supposed to be an independent digital civil lIberties organization that goes and represents the underlying open technologies to Congress or to regulators." 0:06:08 Muneeb: "I simply say [the people at Coin Center]... actually understand this technology and they understand the regulations and the law, which is a rare combination. And they can be the right bridge between this technology and the various regulators or lawmakers." 0:06:29 Peter: "I think that's right. A lot of what we do I often think of as translation." 0:07:13 Peter: "More often than not we're explaining the law to lawyers in this space." 0:08:51 Peter: "There's no company - and all previous financial regulations - almost all - rely on finding a regulated entity and obligating that regulated entity to achieve the policy result that government wants." 0:09:37 Peter: "In the Bitcoin case, who's the issuer of the Bitcoin security?" 0:09:52 Peter: "Who in the Zcash space should be obligated for money laundering compliance?" 0:11:38 Muneeb: "One of my working theories is that Satoshi Nakamoto - whoever that person or group of individuals were - not only understood computer science, distributed systems, applied cryptography, and game theory, they actually knew securities regulation as well and that's why we don't know who is Satoshi Nakamoto." 0:12:42 Peter: "The policy objective that securities law seek to address are correcting the asymmetric information between issuers who are promising things to investors and the investors who've paid money to the investors." 0:13:51 Peter: "There are still the potential for information asymmetries. And I've sort of gotten into this debate with Angela Walch before about whether there's information asymmetries between software developers and the users of a software." 0:15:35 Muneeb: "Speaking of securities regulation I should just make a note here: we have a public filing with the SEC." 0:16:13 Peter: "From my perspective [Blockstack] has taken a really responsible and conservative approach to securities law compliance." 0:17:06 Peter: "I'm not a huge fan of the way we do investor protection in this country because it's very permissioned and it also excludes a lot of investors from participating." 0:18:58 Muneeb: "We actually had you host our Blockstack Summit in Berlin, and you interviewed Edward Snowden there. How was that experience? And has he been more active in the space? Or was that a one off thing?" 0:19:32 Peter: "That experience was awesome - it's still probably one of the craziest things I've ever done." 0:22:36 Peter: "I do think [Edward Snowden] has been quasi-active in the Zcash development community." 0:24:43 Peter: "He's worked on something really cool with the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is if you have an old cell phone and want to turn it into an alarm system." 0:26:16 Muneeb: "Have you checked out any of the latest stuff that's been built on Blockstack?" 0:26:24 Peter: "I have a real interest in Graphite, which is the Google Docs type app." 0:27:05 Peter: "We've been looking for a long time for some sort of non-Google "Can't Be Evil" alternative to Google Docs." 0:29:29 Peter: "Network effects are a bitch, to put it a somewhat grotesque way. If you're talking about a communication system or a system where people pay each other, the systems that succeeded are not the ones that were best architected." 0:29:55 Peter: "Just look at all the attempts and failures at doing encrypted email." 0:30:16 Peter: "You're just going to default to the one everyone's on, even if it's not great for privacy." 0:32:32 Muneeb: "We're super excited to have [Neal Stephenson] at the 2019 Summit in San Francisco. I think Naval Ravikant is going to have a fireside chat." 0:33:40 Peter: "The Diamond Age describes Zcash." 0:36:01 Muneeb: "Coming back to this idea of decentralized applications - one model I have in my mind was when Linux was starting." 0:38:51 Peter: "Maybe decentralized apps will have their best success early on in those sort of niche enterprise / highly technical persons use-cases." 0:40:16 Peter: "Good luck getting a bunch of lawyers even to this day to group edit a Google Doc, let alone use Graphite." 0:40:24 Muneeb: "I think we knew that Linux won the server wars when even Microsoft started using Linux in their data centers." 0:40:32 Peter: "[Microsoft] has done a total 180, probably because they saw the writing on the wall as far as their consumer software business." 0:40:56 Muneeb: "What do you think of Facebook Libra?" 0:41:05 Peter: "I have a lot of thoughts about Facebook Libra. I should be careful about what I say because I don't want to be unfair." 0:41:30 Peter: "It's a really complicated system they're building that is still nonetheless permissioned. It's a permissioned blockchain." 0:42:29 Peter: "[Libra] is not an open blockchain. It's not a blockchain where anyone can add transactions to the ledger and independently verify the transactions." 0:43:15 Peter: "With Bitcoin, there's a lot of regulations that don't apply because it would be nonsensical to apply them because there isn't a centralized intermediary who you can trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:32 Peter: "With Libra, that's not true at all. There are identified parties who you could trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:56 Peter: "Even if you're an individual, you're not allowed to transact or interact economically with someone on the SDN list, like everyone in Iran." 0:44:42 Peter: "The Libra association is going to be this group of identified persons, which are really just corporations, including Facebook, Visa, and Mastercard. Whose laws are they going to comply with with respect to sanctions?" 0:45:21 Peter: "[Libra's] not censorship resistant cash. It's not really a cryptocurrency. It's just another payment rail. Why build it in such a complicated way?" 0:45:43 Peter: "Another thought is the whole reserve thing. So aside from being permissioned vs permissionless, Lbra is going to be asset-backed." 0:46:36 Peter: "If you are a company that has assets in a reserve, and people are trading - effectively - a pro-rata share of the value of those assets? That sounds like a security to me." 0:47:16 Peter: "And yet, I don't think there's plans to register Libra as a security because, frankly, if you did, it would be very useless as a currency, because it would only be allowed to be traded on securities exchanges." 0:48:09 Peter: "I've never seen such a rapid and aggressive response from members of Congress to a new tech project." 0:49:28 Muneeb: "Do you think the reaction from Washington is linked with some of the antitrust stuff as well?" 0:50:07 Peter: "Maybe they thought, 'This is us proving that we're investing in being less powerful'? Kind of like how they talk about WhatsApp a lot now." 0:51:03 Peter: "People in Congress ... are gonna say, 'This is Facebook, who some of us are already talking about anti-trust issues, and now they want to become the global reserve currency for all payments everywhere?" 0:51:40 Peter: "If any company is going to build a payments tool, they should build cryptocurrencies. I'm just disappointed they didn't basically fork Bitcoin or integrate it." 0:52:13 Muneeb: "That's what they say in the whitepaper, 'We're giving ourselves five years to figure out how to build an open system, but in the meanwhile - because of scalability - the only way to scale to a billion users is to use a closed system." 0:52:54 Peter: "I've heard a lot of people say that Move, the smart contract language [Facebook's] architected, is apparently extremely elegant." 0:53:17 Muneeb: "The motivation for Move is very similar to the smart contract language that we launched yesterday, Clarity." 0:54:38 Peter: "God knows that Solidity has had this particular issue where it's hard to know exactly what you just wrote in a smart contract until you launch it on Mainnet and someone breaks it in the DAO hack example." 0:55:44 Muneeb: "Ethereum is very interesting. They have a large community and kind of started everyone in the industry in a certain direction from a technology perspective. And I believe that most of those things were wrong." 0:57:05 Peter: "Maybe the network effects are just age-based, but it could also be this willingness to push stuff out there maybe before it's fully manicured or even fully compliant with the law." 0:57:51 Peter: "I should disclose that I'm a member of the Zcash Foundation's Board of Directors." 1:00:00 Muneeb: "I swear we're not doing this on purpose, but every decision we make ends up being the exact opposite of Ethereum." 1:04:13 Muneeb: "What's the biggest project you're spending your time on these days?" 1:05:50 Peter: "We were faced around a year and a half ago with, 'What's going to be a big issue in a year or two years? What do we need to start laying the groundwork on from a policy perspective now in order to have good policy outcomes later?'" 1:07:12 Peter: "Bitcoin, I think, ultimately needs to change and be more private and a lot of the privacy coins that we now see were originally proposed as amendments to the Bitcoin protocol." 1:08:38 Peter: "Any of the very public blockchains will ultimately need to find ways to obscure that transaction graph because, otherwise, we're gonna just be giving totalitarian states the best tool for mass surveillance that anyone's ever developed." 1:08:52 Peter: "So, with that in mind, we said 'What are the policy issues here?' And the big ones are anti money laundering law." 1:09:18 Peter: "Bank robbers use getaway cars. Even terrorists use encrypted messaging. This is just a reality, but that doesn't mean we should ban automobiles and encryption." 1:10:06 Peter: "We use the term 'electronic cash' because it's really like cash then. You can send it from one person to another, no one is in between, it's censorship resistant, and it doesn't leave a record." 1:10:23 Peter: "What if we get some sort of overbearing, overzealous response from policy makers that says we can't have these things anymore?" 1:11:51 Peter: "Most people have written about First Amendment issues here: ... if you're writing in computer code... it's still speech." 1:12:44 Peter: "What I don't think is a well enough explored area are the Fourth Amendment issues. The Fourth Amendment in the US says you need a warrant if you're a law enforcement and want to search somebody." 1:13:43 Peter: "Banks have been reporting our entire transaction history to governments whenever they ask, without a warrant, since 1970." 1:14:12 Peter: "The reason why that's constitutional in this context is because people willingingly hand over those records to banks during the regular course of business. ... You lose your reasonable expectation of privacy because your sharing it with a third-party." 1:15:09 Peter: "There's no reason for a developer to have all that private information about the users of their software. There's definitely a reason for a bank to have a bunch of information about the users of the bank." 1:15:48 Peter: "From a constitutional law standpoint... the only reason why it's okay for banks to bulk collect, surveil their users, and report that to government without a warrant, is that they have a reasonable business purpose to collect that information." 1:16:03 Peter: "There's no reasonable business purpose for an open source software developer to collect information about the users of their software - it just doesn't make sense." 1:16:29 Peter: "If it's interesting to your audience, I highly recommend you pick up our report. It's explained much more carefully and you don't need to be a lawyer or to have gone to law school to understand it." 1:17:33 Muneeb: "Where can people find you?" 1:17:37 Peter: "All our work at Coin Center is made public and made available at CoinCenter.org. And we rely on donations from people who are just excited about the technology and want to see good advocacy in DC." 1:18:18 Muneeb: "Blockstack is a supporter and we've been extremely happy with our involvement with Coin Center. They've been super helpful whenever we need them." 1:18:29 Muneeb: "Goodbyes." Peter Van Valkenburgh http://twitter.com/valkenburgh Muneeb Ali http://twitter.com/muneeb Zach Valenti http://twitter.com/zachvalenti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back for another episode of Nick's Non-fiction! For July 2019 we have The Mind of the Market by Michael Shermer. Michael Shermer is a highly published author and wrangler of masters degrees but is best known for starting The Skeptic Society magazine and website. His third party view of the American economy leaves us with countless free money tips to integrate into your life during this months show! Press Play! Free nightly memes @hairysh1t on Instagram, where we’ll be celebrating 10k this month, don't miss it! I’ll see you first thing in August for a brand new episode! 0:00:00 Introduction 0:03:15 About the Author 0:09:40 Prologue: Economics for Everyone 0:19:20 Chapter 1: The Great Leap Forward 0:33:00 Chapter 2: Our Folk Economics 0:53:25 Chapter 3: Bottoms Up Capitalisms 0:59:20 Internet tax 1:06:00 Walmart Welfare 1:09:00 Chapter 4: Market as a Living Organism 1:17:00 Bichael Shermer & 7/11 1:20:30 Chapter 5: Minding Our Money 1:24:20 Finding Blindspots 1:29:00 Iraq, 4th Times a Charm 1:32:15 Chapter 6: Spending Habits 1:36:00 Chapter 7: Moral Math 1:39:10 Imprinting Styles 1:42:20 My Masters Thesis 1:47:00 Chapter 8: Why Money Cant Buy You Happiness 1:53:00 Hamster Wheels/Durability Bias 1:56:20 Happiness Hacks 2:00:30 Chapter 9: Cowboy Ethic 2:07:55 Chapter 10: The Science of Good Rules 2:13:10 Chapter 11: Don’t Be Evil 2:16:30 Google Good Guy Program 2:19:00 Chapter 12: Free to Choose? 2:23:00 Libertarian Paternalism 2:30:00 Epilogue: To Open The World 2:33:00 State of Nature & Price of Freedom 2:39:00 Conclusion & Goodbye! Youtube: https://youtu.be/3exWvMHqCIg iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nick…on/id1450771426 Thanks for stopping by!

Remember Google's "Don't Be Evil" motto? We do, and we miss it. The motto was quietly swept aside after the 2015 restructuring of Google under parent Alphabet. Perhaps it's for the best as today it might look a bit more like "Don't Appear To Be Evil." Plus our Fast Five: - Apple & Goldman Sachs want you to spend more; - When image recognition goes bad; - Facebook's long-overdue privacy fix for Android; - The latest on Microsoft Dynamics; and - When kids realize their parents share TMI online. Our Tech Bites Topic: The alt-reality of 6G. Our Crystal Ball: AT&T "marketing" rollout of 5Ge on mobile devices get's challenged in court because it's not 5G! Who wins and who loses in this vaporware battle? This episode features: Daniel Newman (@danielnewmanUV), Fred McClimans (@fredmcclimans), and Olivier Blanchard (@oablanchard). If you haven't already, please subscribe to our show on iTunes or SoundCloud. For inquiries or more information on the show you may email the team at info@futurumresearch.com or follow @FuturumResearch on Twitter and feel free to direct inquires through that channel as well. To learn more about Future research please visit www.futurumresearch.com. Futurum Research is a research and analysis provider, not an investment advisor. The Futurum Tech Podcast is a newsletter/podcast intended for informational use only. Futurum Research does not provide personalized investment advice. No investment advice is offered nor implied by this podcast.

GREETINGS MONSTERS AND CREATURES OF THE NIGHT !!! WELCOME TO THE PREMIERE OF WHAT WILL BE MY FIRST EVER VINYL RECORD RELEASE .......LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I GIVE YOU.....THE THEATRE !!!!!!! M/ AND STAY TUNED IN DECEMBER FOR MY KRAMPUSNACHT EPISODE !!!! GO FORTH !!!! BE EVIL !!!!!! IN NOMINE SATANAS 

In This Episode: Google dumped its "Don't Be Evil" promise years ago, but can a new idea to "decentralize the web" work, and keep its promise forever? The Facebook breach affects more than your Facebook account. Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt project. And game streaming? Show Page: https://TEHpodcast.com/teh43

On this week’s show Chris & Matt discuss the nature of “Bernie” projects – those IT initiatives that continue to chug along even though everyone involved knows that the patient is dead. We also have Internet Yin in the form of Google Don’t Be Evil and Google, really, Don’t Be Evil. And the best Internet Yang so […]

Voilà déjà notre 171ème épisode dans lequel nous retrouvons cette semaine Benoît et Marc. Comme toujours, on parle ensemble de l’actualité Web et technologique de la semaine. Bonne écoute ! https://youtu.be/pzxE0-vdP9E A comme Alexa Quand Alexa enregistre et diffuse des conversations privées (source) A comme Apple Le HomePod a 349 euros en France (source) B comme Bendgate Apple était au courant du bendgate mais n’a rien dit (source) B comme Bug Un étudiant reçoit 31.000€ de Google lors d’un bug bounty (source) C comme Cuisine Imaginez un restaurant tenu par des Thermomix (source) D comme Drones Comment les drônes vont changer nos villes (source) I comme Intel Intel aurait-délibérément viré ses employés les plus âgés ? (source) L comme Lune Jeff Bezos veut s’offrir la lune (source) O comme Ovie Après Tupperware, voici le smartware (source) P comme Plainte RGPD : Facebook et Google déjà visés par des plaintes (source) Enfants et unboxing sur youtube : exploitation et travail illégal ? (source) R comme Reflex Sony et Fujifilm veulent prendre la forteresse des reflex (source et source) S comme Slogan Google renonce à son slogan “Don’t Be Evil” (source) W comme Wéménon Pornhub lance son propre VPN… Qui n’est pas très efficace. (source) Avec: Benoît Marchal (Chroniqueur)http://marchal.comGamin, je me rêvais écrivain, boulanger ou photographe. Je choisis informaticien, pour toucher à tous les métiers.Marc Alagem (Chroniqueur)http://www.alagem.be/ - http://www.freedelity.beTombé tout petit dans l'informatique, biberonné à coup de ZX80 et de Commodore 64 puis élevé à la programmation et au graphisme avec l'Amiga et les premiers compatibles PC, j'évolue aujourd'hui dans le monde merveilleux de la consultance freelance après avoir traîné durant 20 ans dans à peu près tous les secteurs de l'IT. Professionnellement, je me partage entre Freedelity (dont je suis co-fondateur) et d'autres projets IT (comme The Art Company) ou media (comme Les Technos). Et quand je ne consacre par mon temps libre à ma petite famille, je cherche de quoi remplir mes kindles, je massacre des arrangements sur mon DAW, je bidouille tout ce qui me tombe sous la main, j'optimise mes scripts de backup et j'essaie d'initier mon chat aux joies de la dockerisation sur NAS Synology.Marc Lescroart (Animateur / Réalisateur)http://www.commealaradio.netPassionné par les nouveaux médias, les nouvelles technologies, ...J'ai fréquenté avec assiduité les studios de radios belges durant plus de 30 ans en tant que réalisateur, producteur, chroniqueur, animateur ou encore webmaster.

Voilà déjà notre 171ème épisode dans lequel nous retrouvons cette semaine Benoît et Marc. Comme toujours, on parle ensemble de l'actualité Web et technologique de la semaine. Bonne écoute !https://youtu.be/pzxE0-vdP9EA comme AlexaQuand Alexa enregistre et diffuse des conversations privées (source)A comme AppleLe HomePod a 349 euros en France (source)B comme BendgateApple était au courant du bendgate mais n'a rien dit (source)B comme BugUn étudiant reçoit 31.000€ de Google lors d'un bug bounty (source)C comme CuisineImaginez un restaurant tenu par des Thermomix (source)D comme DronesComment les drônes vont changer nos villes (source)I comme IntelIntel aurait-délibérément viré ses employés les plus âgés ? (source)L comme LuneJeff Bezos veut s'offrir la lune (source)O comme OvieAprès Tupperware, voici le smartware (source)P comme PlainteRGPD : Facebook et Google déjà visés par des plaintes (source)Enfants et unboxing sur youtube : exploitation et travail illégal ? (source)R comme ReflexSony et Fujifilm veulent prendre la forteresse des reflex (source et source)S comme SloganGoogle renonce à son slogan “Don't Be Evil” (source)W comme WéménonPornhub lance son propre VPN… Qui n'est pas très efficace. (source)Avec:Benoît Marchal (Chroniqueur)http://marchal.comGamin, je me rêvais écrivain, boulanger ou photographe. Je choisis informaticien, pour toucher à tous les métiers.Marc Alagem (Chroniqueur)http://www.alagem.be/ - http://www.freedelity.beTombé tout petit dans l'informatique, biberonné à coup de ZX80 et de Commodore 64 puis élevé à la programmation et au graphisme avec l'Amiga et les premiers compatibles PC, j'évolue aujourd'hui dans le monde merveilleux de la consultance freelance après avoir traîné durant 20 ans dans à peu près tous les secteurs de l'IT. Professionnellement, je me partage entre Freedelity (dont je suis co-fondateur) et d'autres projets IT (comme The Art Company) ou media (comme Les Technos). Et quand je ne consacre par mon temps libre à ma petite famille, je cherche de quoi remplir mes kindles, je massacre des arrangements sur mon DAW, je bidouille tout ce qui me tombe sous la main, j'optimise mes scripts de backup et j'essaie d'initier mon chat aux joies de la dockerisation sur NAS Synology.Marc Lescroart (Animateur / Réalisateur)http://www.commealaradio.netPassionné par les nouveaux médias, les nouvelles technologies, ...J'ai fréquenté avec assiduité les studios de radios belges durant plus de 30 ans en tant que réalisateur, producteur, chroniqueur, animateur ou encore webmaster. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News Screenwriter Mark L. Smith tapped to develop script for Tarantino Trek. Star Trek: Discovery Pinewood Toronto Studios To double in size. Friday, January 12, Hockey: the Florida Panthers vs. the Calgary Flames -- and also Star Trek Night. Each ticket includes a cool Star Trek commemorative piece. Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Ubisoft) is now playable without VR on PS4 & PC. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: After Trek 5, were u surprised they made a 6th film? Also, were u also surprised how good Trek 6 was compared to 5? Star Trek in pop culture: “Let’s Be Evil” 2016. Horror/Sci Fi about young adults caring for a group of gifted kids being specially trained in a VR world. Clip1: One of the caretakers comments on the glasses “I feel like Geordi LaForge - Star Trek”. 00:06 Clip2: The same person comments on a VR test being given. 00:29 Last week in Trek Episode insight: ENT: S4, Demons Character insight - Gabler from TAS Subspace communications

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News Screenwriter Mark L. Smith tapped to develop script for Tarantino Trek. Star Trek: Discovery Pinewood Toronto Studios To double in size. Friday, January 12, Hockey: the Florida Panthers vs. the Calgary Flames -- and also Star Trek Night. Each ticket includes a cool Star Trek commemorative piece. Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Ubisoft) is now playable without VR on PS4 & PC. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: After Trek 5, were u surprised they made a 6th film? Also, were u also surprised how good Trek 6 was compared to 5? Star Trek in pop culture: “Let’s Be Evil” 2016. Horror/Sci Fi about young adults caring for a group of gifted kids being specially trained in a VR world. Clip1: One of the caretakers comments on the glasses “I feel like Geordi LaForge - Star Trek”. 00:06 Clip2: The same person comments on a VR test being given. 00:29 Last week in Trek Episode insight: ENT: S4, Demons Character insight - Gabler from TAS Subspace communications

From Silicon Valley to Lhasa, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is one of the world’s most beloved figure Professor Thurman explains in this week’s podcast covering the Tibet House US “Man of Peace: Illustrated Life Story of Tibet’s Dalai Lama” Graphic Novel. The first part of the podcast details the origins of the “Man Of Peace” Graphic Novel, how it relates to Robert AF Thurman’s earlier book “Why The Dalai Lama Matters” and a humorous discussion of Google’s motto  “Don’t Be Evil”. Second part of this week’s podcast discusses John Oliver’s recent interview with HH Dalai Lama, global militarism, Truman’s use of Thermonuclear weapons on Japan and the centrality of anger in all conflicts. Recorded at the November 2nd “Robert Thurman: “Man of Peace” Talks at Google” at Googleplex in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California. Special Thanks to Isa Gucciardi Ph.D. & Foundation of the Sacred Stream for their production & hosting work for the 2017 West Coast “Man Of Peace” Book Tour. The Foundation of the Sacred Stream is a non-profit organization and school for consciousness studies dedicated to bringing the wisdom of ancient spiritual and healing traditions into the awareness of contemporary society. It was created on the basic principle that there is a common source of wisdom that underlies all authentic spiritual, cultural and artistic traditions that informs and enlivens them. The Foundation of the Sacred Stream was founded in 2002 and is located in Berkeley, California. To learn more about Isa Gucciardi Ph.D. & Sacred Stream please visit: www.sacredstream.org. To watch + listen to more recordings of past events with Robert AF Thurman please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. Learn about joining the Tibet House US Membership Community with a monthly tax-deductible donation by visiting: www.tibethouse.us. Full Access starts at $2 a month. The song ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.

Paul Buchheit is a Partner @ Y Combinator, the world’s most successful accelerator with portfolio companies including the likes of AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, Zenefits, Twitch, the list goes on. Before YC and starting from the beginning, Paul was the 23rd employee at Google where he created Gmail, developed the original prototype for Google AdSense and even suggested the company's former motto, "Don't Be Evil". He then started FriendFeed in 2006 where he created the like button as we know it, the company was later acquired by Facebook where Paul worked until his move to Y Combinator in 2010, where he is a partner. Paul is also a prolific angel having created an immense portfolio with the likes of Gusto, Checkr, Optimizely and many more incredible teams. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Paul made his way from creating Gmail in the early Google days, to founding the like button we know today, to being with Y Combinator currently? 2.) What does Paul believe it is that makes Paul Graham (PG) the special individual that he is? How has Paul seen the scaling of PG and Jessica Livingstone as leaders with the scaling of YC? 3.) Why does Paul believe it is fundamental to attain 100 happy users? How can one stress test levels of customer satisfaction accurately? How can founders determine which users and which advice to incorporate and which to disregard? 4.) Having worked alongside the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Paige, what does Paul believe makes the truly special founders? How does Paul assess the balance between stubbornness and vision? What is the telltale sign of stubbornness beginning? 5.) Question from Justin Kan: How does Paul look to determine the 10% that delivers 90% of the value? Where has Paul made mistakes and seen others make mistakes in trying to implement this level of focus? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Paul’s Fave Book: Eckhart Tolle Paul’s Most Recent Investment: Greo As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Paul on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

In today's episode, we try to take on "Let's Be Evil." It's a sci-fi/horror-y kind of movie that has a lot of great concepts. The execution is a little less than great.

In today's episode, we try to take on "Let's Be Evil." It's a sci-fi/horror-y kind of movie that has a lot of great concepts. The execution is a little less than great.

In today's episode, we try to take on "Let's Be Evil." It's a sci-fi/horror-y kind of movie that has a lot of great concepts. The execution is a little less than great.

Tim and David discuss the Nintendo Switch and the new Zelda game in much more detail, including how the new console is a real game changer. (Please excuse the pun!) Then David talks about his latest Nintendo product! Also, did Google forget the Don’t Be Evil aspect of their mission statement again? Sponsored by MacSales.com

Tim and David discuss the Nintendo Switch and the new Zelda game in much more detail, including how the new console is a real game changer. (Please excuse the pun!) Then David talks about his latest Nintendo product! Also, did Google forget the Don’t Be Evil aspect of their mission statement again? Sponsored by MacSales.com

Reviewing new cinema releases including Danny Boyle's return to Scotland in T2: Trainspotting, animated musical fun with Sing, Oscar nominated war with Hacksaw Ridge, and true drama with movies Chrisine and Denial. In the home release section we have Deepwater Horizon, War On Everyone, Let's Be Evil, The Wailing and more!

Digital, virtual, augmented, gamified, other techno buzzword kid baddies on a rampage! The guys were joined this week again by Dave Devito for this weeks viewing of Let’s Be Evil. This movie stars Kara Tointon, Elizabeth Morris, Jamie Bernadette and is directed by Martin Owen. Got a movie you think we should see? Hit us up @onestarpodcast or on […]

The guys cast their eyes to Marvel's Doctor Strange, Korean zombie movie Train To Busan, French divorce story After Love, animated tale Ethel & Ernest, Herzog documentary Lo And Behold, Brit-com The Comedian’s Guide To Survival, drama Starfish, horror flick Let’s Be Evil, and British dramedy Burn Burn Burn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today Bennett Fisher, playwright and Jesca Prudencio, director, join us to talk about the smashing successful run of Campo Maldito at San Francisco Fringe Festival. There are three more performances: 9/12 at 6 p.m., 9/18 at 10:30 p.m., 9/16 at 7 p.m., and 9/20 at 2:30 p.m. at the Exit Theatre, 156 Eddy Street in San Francisco. See http://www.peopleofinterest.org/ (trailer) & http://www.ubuntutheaterproject.com/  Bennett Fisher is company member of Campo Santo, an associate artist with the Cutting Ball Theater, and a co-founder of the San Francisco Theater Pub. His plays include Campo Maldito, Borealis, Pay Dirt, Hermes, Don't Be Evil, Devil of a Time, and Whoa is Me. Bennett was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting at UC San Diego, class of 2016. Jesca Prudencio is a director, choreographer, and community based artist. She has worked on new plays, musicals, and dance theater works with companies including The Movement Theatre Company, Fresh Ground Pepper, Ingenue Theatre, and the Asian American Arts Alliance. Her site-specific dance pieces include We Walk, We Stop at the Astor Place intersection and Nothing Matters When We're Dancing in Washington Square Park. As a member of Ping Chong + Company, she has worked as a writer, director, and facilitator on a dozen interdisciplinary and documentary theater projects, and including co-writing and directing Listen To Me: voices of survivors of child sexual abuse and those who help them presented in the Bronx and Manhattan. She recently directed and choreographed a new musicalThe Firebird at NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Jesca has a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.