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“We’re starting to address some of the underlying functionality of our community and products, like how does our site work. Were there decisions made in the early days, and so many small made decisions along the way, that have contributed to our site being the way it is and can we reevaluate some of those.” […]

“In Detroit actually at the Women’s Strike for Peace they were having a big rally and the black women wanted to have signs that said desegregation or disintegration to combine these two issues and the white women said absolutely not. And Greta Scott King often had to broker the deal. Black women were always at […]

Episode Resources: Tech workers organize protest against Palantir on the GitHub coding platform Silicon Valley Nationalism: Technology is distorting reality and reshaping narratives Early Libertarian Dreams of a Free Internet Didn’t Work Out as Planned The End of Cyberspace: Internet theorists and companies once declared themselves free of nations and governance, but that’s all over […]

“I can’t even imagine why people have resistance to a code of conduct. It’s kind of like when you’re on the airplane and the flight attendant is telling you the safety things and you travel a lot so you kind of, ya know, look at your phone.” Jayne Groll is the CEO of DevOps Institute, […]

Today’s topic is privacy

“Twitter can be a cesspool sometimes. And you have people who are constantly invoking their first amendment rights. This is not the government. You do not have first amendment rights on a private platform, sir/madam. That’s not how this works.” Bärí A. Williams is VP of Legal, Business, and Policy Affairs at All Turtles, a […]

Conversation about software engineers and their ability/qualifications to building businesses Here’s the link that started it all

“If you’re gonna enslave folks and make sure that they can’t learn to read and write…and keep them in this undignified situation, then it’s easier to look at them and think that they are inferior. So that just perpetuates that story.” John Biewen is audio program director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University […]

Topics Covered: Mueller Report, the Russians, Bitcoin, and Black Activists Tech and Conscientious Objectors Tech Continues to Question the Value of Diversity Google Organizers, Retaliation, and Solidarity Twitter’s Challenge with Banning White Supremacy Tracking and Recording Black Kids

“Let’s get a set a values that we all believe in and we can go from there. Because if we can’t make people feel safe I don’t want to start bringing in people who we believe are “culture fits” and expect them to change into how we feel they should behave.” Troy Connor is a […]