Wendy Liu
@dellsystem
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dont talk to me, im trying to read Big Books
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Joined February 2009
it's a strange time to promote a book, but 'Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism' is out today. thanks to @RepeaterBooks for publishing it, and to @NaomiAKlein, @doctorow, @HelenHester and @n_srnck for their kind words
abolishsiliconvalley.com
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism, published by Repeater Books (2020).
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Everyone’s looking for the “Short NYC” button. So we built it. Here’s how to short New York real estate in seconds 👇
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these people told you they were going to revolutionize art and science, cure cancer, fundamentally change human existence, and what they have delivered is More Ads
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never stop to appreciate a flower. and NEVER say hi to your mailman. every time you do you lose you 5-10 seconds. add those up over a year and you've wasted 4 minutes that you could have spent dropshipping bootleg indonesian juul pods to sixth graders.
order your groceries. saves an extra 1-2 hours a week. compounded, thats 50-100 hours a year. a whole week work of work you gain. i promise that time is more important then the $10 delivery fee
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One of the few certainties in social science is high social trust is essential to healthy societies which can only be achieved through greater equality. We not only rejected greater equality (ofc) but built our economy around a machine whose primary value proposition is deception
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For months, a startup named Artisan has covered San Francisco with billboards saying “Stop Hiring Humans” and “The Era of AI Employees Is Here.” But does their product actually live up to the hype? For Bay Area Current, Wendy Liu @dellsystem investigates. https://t.co/G0mPQuXaht
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San Franciscans hated them, and they were right. These billboards suck — and our rage is their gain.
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San Franciscans hated them, and they were right. These billboards suck — and our rage is their gain.
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Thousands of people map the world with Over the Reality. New friends are joining us. 🤖 Watch this Unitree Go2 robot dog capture camera feeds and generate a 3D map. This is just the beginning. An early test. But soon, fleets of robots will autonomously map the world,
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Everyone in the Bay knows its two cultural references—vibes and data—but few have understood their relationship. Zoe Stahl @wecometothe90s shows us that vibes and data do the same thing: advance an impossible fantasy of an optimized self and life. ➡️ https://t.co/B55RlBKepn
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San Francisco billboards are my favorite perennial story but three years ago I started getting texts from out of town friends landing at SFO, asking: “Mike, what the hell does this even mean” so we did a quiz! how fluent are you in tech advertising? https://t.co/Nq568S3CrM
nytimes.com
Take this quiz to test how fluent you are in the lingo of today’s tech industry.
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everybody's talking about the coldplay incident but somehow nobody's recognized it for what it is: a once-in-a-thousand-years astrological event heralding the advent of Side Piece Summer
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the only 7/4 i celebrate is “Shoreline” by the Canadian indie rock supergroup Broken Social Scene off their 2005 self-titled album.
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Ever wonder what the hell SF's weird tech billboards are saying? Wendy Liu—@dellsystem—tells us that while the billboards aim to sell to other businesses, they have a hidden social meaning: This city is not for you: SF belongs to tech ruling class. https://t.co/ktcX0Sm7Vf
bayareacurrent.com
Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, explains what those weird tech billboards are really saying.
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spoke to @zeitchikWaPo about burning waymos. if this leads to my death in a waymo-involved freak accident, so be it, but please avenge me
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The moves of some Los Angeles protestors could be the start of something far bigger. Welcome to the techlash.
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People are burning Waymos because they are vile representations of governance that has valued profit over the public good: they represent labor replacement, the decimation of public transport, & wild sci-fi fantasies being privileged over common sense.
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Abraham Watkins Law Firm is incredibly honored to have represented a remarkable family who suffered unimaginable tragedy — the loss of a loved one and life-altering injuries. This $60 million mid-trial settlement brings justice and closure to a family that placed their trust in
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💻NEW EPISODE💻 In the 15 years since its release, THE SOCIAL NETWORK has become a historic document. We welcome back our unofficial Silicon Valley correspondent @dellsystem to discuss. Get it: https://t.co/AVWuu1Q3ov Preview: https://t.co/327YT10LwF
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