Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia discusses working as a DOGE software engineer for the VA and says he was let go after his Fast Company interview was published
Gov't tech workers I spoke to went bonkers when DOGE workers began connecting non-government laptops to their systems. … Jacob Harris / @jacobharr.is : Reading Sahil Lavingia's blog post about working...
As US companies fight to attract workers in a tight labor market, Amazon has emerged as the de facto wage-and-benefit setter, causing ripples across the economy
In local markets throughout America, the e-commerce giant's facilities have an impact on inflation, job markets and labor standards Tweets: @sarthakgh , @cfishman , @cfishman , @cfishman , @cfishman ,...
Q&A with Rep. Ken Buck, leading Republican behind House's bipartisan antitrust deal, on the new bills, FTC's Facebook case, the GOP caucus, Lina Khan, and more
a party doing real damage to the place I live. This shit is real to me, my family and my community. It's not a goddamned game. Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald : As House Republicans vocally denounce Big...
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing
Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago Tweets: @noahpinion , @brianfagioli , @martinsfp , @ericnewcomer , @noahpinion ,...
Source: 35+ execs from Silicon Valley companies joined a call led by Cisco's CEO on Friday to discuss how they could effectively invest to stem COVID-19 fallout
Brian Schwartz / CNBC : Tweets: @bt_harman , @notabigdeal111 , @schwartzbcnbc , and @mdubowitz Tweets: B.T. Harman / @bt_harman : Here it comes... The wheels are spinning for the smartest and wealthi...
Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year
would tax options at vest, rather than at exercise. Many employees would be unable to pay — forcing them either to give up options or take out loans. https://www.wsj.com/... Liz Wessel / @lizwessel : ...
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built the Iowa caucus app that contributed to delays in reporting results
show’ a year ago Wall Street Journal : Iowa's Tally-by-App Experiment Fails Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic : Who Needs the Russians? Jeff Bercovici / Los Angeles Times : Tech firm started by Clinton ca...
[Thread] Democratic campaign tech projects suffer from one-off startup-like funding with no money for further development, lack of trust between campaigns, more
complicating processes that would otherwise manage just fine 👇 https://twitter.com/... Christina Holland / @americanwombat : This is a really detailed account of specific companies and people and deci...
Bernie Sanders unveils a “High-Speed Internet for All” plan with $150B to build publicly owned broadband networks, wants to break up ISPs like Comcast and AT&T
When Bernie is president … Alex Hernandez / Techaeris : Bernie Sanders promises high-speed internet for all Clyde Hughes / UPI : Bernie Sanders unveils ‘High-Speed Internet for All’ plan Jeff Baumgart...
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, popular with some of Silicon Valley's wealthiest donors, has five fundraising events in the Bay Area this week
Inside the tech network that is trying to turn a small-town mayor into a fundraising dynamo. — The two 30-somethings drove … Tweets: @ezraklein , @aaschapiro , @matthewstoller , @awolfeful , @onlxn ...