Paleofuture The Uncanny Valley of Old Futurism | Defamer George Clooney Wants...
Paleofuture The Uncanny Valley of Old Futurism | Defamer George Clooney Wants to Shed His Bachelor Image and Become a Senator | Regressing Chart: Scoring At The 2014 World Cup Has Been Bonkers | Truck...
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Passive Aggressive Notes, the Silicon Valley Way
Here's what can go wrong if you have a startup as a neighbor: sometimes they'll evict you when their next round of funding comes in, or you might just have to listen to their bullshit every day.Read...
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Facebook Deliberately Experimented on Your Emotions
Imagine a company that records every detail of your biography, can recognize your face, tries to listen in on you through your phone, and stores countless messages between you and your friends. Now...
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Illegal Parking App Refuses to Stop Doing Business in San Francisco
Silicon Valley's "sharing economy" startups are known for skirting the law , but now they're blatantly violating it. Days after San Francisco's City Attorney asked Apple to ban three "predatory"...
View ArticleBitcoin is now legal in California.
Bitcoin is now legal in California. Gov. Brown signed AB 129 into law Saturday, legalizing cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin. However, COINYE West—the Kanye West-branded...
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What Happens When a Healthcare Startup Leaves You With the Bill
The health insurance sector is what happens when companies no longer try to avoid seeming evil (think Facebook in 10 years). That's why Oscar, a venture-backed health insurance startup, has seemed to...
View ArticlePaleofuture Is the Government Responsible For Sheltering You From Nukes?
Paleofuture Is the Government Responsible For Sheltering You From Nukes? | Defamer Chris Brown Trades Real Prison For Existential One | Regressing Changes In Player Heights And Weights In The NBA...
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Ex-VP Sues Tinder Alleging Coworker Called Her a "Whore" (And Worse)
This is definitely worse than your worst Tinder horror story: Whitney Wolfe, Tinder's former VP of marketing is suing the hookup startup after what she describes as a spree of misogyny and sexual...
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How's this for a metaphor for what's going on in San Francisco?
How's this for a metaphor for what's going on in San Francisco? Directly outside City Hall yesterday, a pleb-filed Muni collided with a luxury tech bus. It's the rich and the poor—the private and...
View ArticleTwitter's CFO has stepped down and been replaced by former Goldman Sachs...
Twitter's CFO has stepped down and been replaced by former Goldman Sachs banker Anthony Noto. Noto recently helped take Twitter public, but was branded "Anthony No Dough, Anthony Don't Know" during the...
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Every Fucked Up Text from the Tinder Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
A new legal offensive against Tinder, everyone's favorite iPhone promiscuity simulator, reiterates just how ugly it can be to face a macho-dominated startup office. It also suggests you should never,...
View ArticlePaleofuture Flying Car Company: China Desperately Needs Flying Cars | Sploid...
Paleofuture Flying Car Company: China Desperately Needs Flying Cars | Sploid Watch a sneak preview of the new Monty Python show opening tonight | Regressing Nazi Insults Spike On Twitter When Germany...
View ArticleGoogle just announced that it's buying Songza, no doubt in a bid to beef up...
Google just announced that it's buying Songza, no doubt in a bid to beef up its music streaming offerings. For the time being, there are no plans to change Songza and no word on the price of the deal,...
View ArticleTim Draper, who sincerely wants to divide California into six smaller states...
Tim Draper , who sincerely wants to divide California into six smaller states in order to help the aristocracy of Silicon Valley, has won the FBI's seized bitcoin auction . What a world!Read more...
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Tinder CEO: "We take gender equality very seriously"
The head of Tinder looks pretty bad this week, after a load of misogyny allegations and shameful texts went public. Now Sean Rad is defending the hookup app he co-founded, and says Whitney Wolfe, his...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg apologizes for the Facebook study that deliberately made...
Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for the Facebook study that deliberately made certain users feel bad emotions: "We never meant to upset you." Well.Read more...
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Legendary Venture Capitalist Tom Perkins Misses Bay Area Whorehouses
Tom Perkins made himself a symbol of Silicon Valley tone-deafness earlier this year. He infamously declared the Bay Area's resistance to one percenter techies was akin to the Nazi's war on Jews . But...
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Tumblr Investor to Fired Exec: "Rot in pieces, you abusive fuck"
Yesterday, prominent Yahoo! employee David Karp told his team at Tumblr that Derek Gottfrid, an exalted VP, was just fired. Soon after, an early Tumblr backer and noted New York tech-loon shared his...
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Facebook Employee Gushes Over Zuckerberg Like a Cult Member
Facebook employees love their boyish boss. Glassdoor ranked Mark Zuckerberg the most liked CEO last spring, with 99% of Facebookers approving of his leadership. But with relatively low consumer...
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Grooveshark Employee Trashes the "Clowns" and "Dumbasses" in Charge
Somehow, despite being sued into the middle of the Earth's core and losing its fan base, music-streaming site Grooveshark is still technically in business. But according to this employee account, the...
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