How do I defend myself or others from violent white supremacists and their ilk if self-defense can be spun against me?
I’m facing a self-defense conundrum
Every high tech employer has issues with gender equality, but few are as bad as Silicon Valley
Once Google asked to interview me and I said no. Given high tech’s problem with sexism, my answer today would be “Hell no.”
Google was right to fire sexist manifesto-writer James Damore
Google’s not responsible for firing James Damore for writing a 10-page sexist rant. James Damore is.
Gannett adopts the blue dot, emblematic of market-driven thinking, at its newspapers
Oh, my. Look at the dot. It’s blue. It’s representative of “one unified network,” says the chief marketing officer of Gannett, owner of the USA Today Network. The blue dot — and […]
“And then the death threats began” – a Facebook meme for the Donald era
I know, let’s update the “And then the murders began” Facebook literary meme to be a news meme with “And then the death threats began.” That’ll be fun, right?
Spotify’s “sponsored content”: payola by any other name…
by Amber Healy It’s too soon to know whether the new “sponsored content” policy helps artists or harms them. Payola is the practice—the illegal practice—of a record label paying a broadcaster to […]
When a company cuts jobs, it shouldn’t spin that reality with corporate bullshit
The owner of the grandparent of weekly news magazines, Time, has decided to shed 300 jobs through layoffs and buyouts to reduce its costs. A media corporation whacking jobs to save money? […]
Dame Magazine story on dating in Seattle tells us about the guys, but something is missing
I feel like I’m only hearing half the story about online dating in the Emerald City. I just tripped across a really interesting article on dating in Seattle from Dame Magazine. It’s from […]
Your opinion vs. mine: where are the facts we can agree on?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan But what about alternative facts? — 2017 by Carole McNall I’m cruising my Facebook feed when […]
A tale of newspapers’ financial collapse in three charts …
Three charts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, two covering about 15 years, bluntly demonstrate the swift collapse of the centuries-old newspaper industry business model. They also herald the rise of an […]
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