#silicone valley

[mysharona1987]

[snootchie-bootchies]

Okay but the scene of Jared cleaning Richard nails is so intimate oh my god

[dk-thrive]

beneath the mask of my fake self, a sound bangs inside of my chest like a drum: my heart chanting no, no, no.

Excellence, rapid-fire productivity, lean bodies, optimization, logic, peak performance. Don’t stop. Never stop. Keep working. You are better than everyone else. You don’t need food. You don’t need sugar. Work harder. Work harder. Work harder. Grow beyond what you are. Transcend your fears. Leave your heart at home. All that matters is your output.

His words are built into the air, invisible spores, our company culture a one-man contagion. I almost lose myself in the thrum of productivity. But beneath checking items off of my to-do list, beneath the mask of my fake self, a sound bangs inside of my chest like a drum: my heart chanting no, no, no.

— Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe: A Novel (Scribner, July 11, 2023)

[lordfreg]

big head and erlich

[a-dotrivenitupontop]

wait is silicone valley like an actual place i thought it was something akin to the metaverse

[mannytoodope]

[digitalesleben]

The Big One - offizieller Trailer zum Buch

The Big One - das nächste Buch von Ralf-T. Grünendahl. Ein Tech-Thriller, der unser Digitales Leben erschüttert. Ich zeige seinen offiziellen Trailer zur Veröffentlichung seines Buchs am 24.5.2024.

Lange erwartet – bald ist es da. Das Buch meines Freundes Ralf T. Gruenendahl. Ich durfte bereits eine Vorabversion lesen und freue mich darauf, endlich die finale Version in Händen zu halten. Ab 24.5.2024 wird das Buch im Buchhandel verfügbar sein. The Big One ist der Titel und die Geschichte spielt im Silicone Valley. Da werden doch gleich Assoziationen mit dem großen Erdbeben wach, das…

[kropotkindersurprise]

February 10, 2024 - A crowd in San Francisco surrounds a Waymo self-driving taxi and burn it down. [video]

[worldcoin-1]

Silicon Valley’s Bank (SVB) Collapse 2023

The hard-hit tech sector first made information in past due 2022 and early 2023 with mass layoffs.  Over a period of just two days in March 2023, the bank went from solvent to broke as depositors rushed to SVB to withdraw their funds, resulting in federal regulators closing the bank on March 10, 2023.

SVB’s collapse marked the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history after Washington Mutual’s in 2008. While bank failures aren’t uncommon, it’s rare to see banks of SVB’s size become insolvent. When these rare occurrences happen, questions arise about how they can be prevented.

[reasonsforhope]

"The California state government has passed a landmark law that obligates technology companies to provide parts and manuals for repairing smartphones for seven years after their market release.

Senate Bill 244 passed 65-0 in the Assembly, and 38-0 in the Senate, and made California, the seat of so much of American technological hardware and software, the third state in the union to pass this so-called “right to repair” legislation.

On a more granular level, the bill guarantees consumers’ rights to replacement parts for three years’ time in the case of devices costing between $50 and $99, and seven years in the case of devices costing more than $100, with the bill retroactively affecting devices made and sold in 2021.

Similar laws have been passed in Minnesota and New York, but none with such a long-term period as California.

“Accessible, affordable, widely available repair benefits everyone,” said Kyle Wiens, the CEO of advocacy group iFixit, in a statement. “We’re especially thrilled to see this bill pass in the state where iFixit is headquartered, which also happens to be Big Tech’s backyard. Since Right to Repair can pass here, expect it to be on its way to a backyard near you.” ...

One of the reasons Wiens is cheering this on is because large manufacturers, from John Deere to Apple, have previously lobbied heavily against right-to-repair legislation for two reasons. One, it allows them to corner the repair and maintenance markets, and two, it [allegedly] protects their intellectual property and trade secrets from knock-offs or competition.

However, a byproduct of the difficulty of repairing modern electronics is that most people just throw them away.

...Wien added in the statement that he believes the California bill is a watershed that will cause a landslide of this legislation to come in the near future."

-via Good News Network, October 16, 2023

[liberalsarecool]

We have to end this capitalist construct.

[mysharona1987]

[diyjewelry013]

[smarmy-yet-satisfying]

I hate it here

Let this be a lesson against believing politicians lies.

Keeping wealth concentrated in the 1% is the end goal of capitalism.

They will do whatever is necessary to keep the working class desperate and dependent on the system that impoverishes them.

[i-scavenger]

Like new Silicone Valley Start Ups game found in a dumpster enclosure.