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This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation

Audubon chapter rejects offer from The Hartford to reinstate coverage

BTW - we forgot to mention, but after The Hartford said they'd reinstate coverage, the Audobon chapter told the company to kick rocks! 

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We wrap up this absolute UNIT of a two part episode by examining the Facebook story by stepping into our proverbial blue sequined rompers and seeing the world behind Mark Zuckberg's baby bangs. BUCKLE UP as Becca and Adam try to figure out - did the accumulation of unchecked power and extraordinary wealth over 20 years take ice cream scoops out of Mark Zuckerberg's brain? OR did his unique position on top of business boy mountain give him the freedom to reveal the curly-haired gremlin that was always hiding within??

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The Zuckerberg Files

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

 How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus

Mark Zuckerberg Apparently Didn’t Tell Congress the Whole Truth About Facebook

An Ugly Truth

Careless People

Good News: Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts

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05:00 - Henry Blodget Invents, Hires, Sexually Harasses, Blogs About Nonexistent AI Subordinate

15:00 AI Is Making Us Dumber. Shocker.

22:30 The group chats that changed America

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• Sperm racing in LA: Inside the first-of-its-kind race that's taking the internet by storm

• Sperm racing instagram page

• Don't Die Tech Mogul Bryan Johnson Is in an Actual Penis-Measuring Contest—With His Teenage Son

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If Sheryl Sandberg & Mark Zuckerberg never encountered one another at a Christmas party in Atherton in 2007 would the world have been a better place? Find out as we go ALLL the way back and trace the story of Sheryl Sandberg's Dr. Frankenstein and her Mark Zuckerberg monster.

Was there sexual tension between the two of them (no one explicitly has said that but I PICKED UP ON A FEW THINGS!)??. Were either of them good people who were corrupted? Or were they destined to seek power and destroy once they reached the top? What about now? Do they feel ashamed about the lives they’ve destroyed, directly or indirectly? Do they hate themselves more than we could ever hate them? Are there ANY heroes in this story at all? What do you think?!

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Why Sheryl Sandberg Quit Facebook’s Meta

“When You Get That Wealthy, You Start to Buy Your Own Bullshit”: The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg

An Ugly Truth

Careless People

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23&Me files for Bankruptcy and Anne Wojcicki's identity crisis, Zuckerberg Streisanding himself, an end to restaurant reservation scalping, and Becca's reflections on getting laid off.

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23andMe bankruptcy filing sparks privacy fears as DNA data of millions goes up for sale

Delete your data from 23&Me

Mark Zuckerberg Just Taught a Master Class in How Not to Handle a Crisis

Careless People discussion on Glamorous Trash

Bon Appetit! Governor Hochul Signs Legislation Cracking Down on the ‘Black Market’ for Restaurant Reservations

US judge sets Boeing 737 MAX fraud trial for June 23

Dominic Gates, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at the Seattle Times

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The jury is now deliberating! What do you think? Guilty or Not Guilty?

At the closing arguments of US vs. Charlie Javice, aka the Jose Baez oral rollercoaster. WEEE!!! Highlights include:

• The Monopoly Man is ACTUALLY J.P. Morgan

• Jamie Dimons "widdle baby" defense

• A scorned bank employee hopes to save bank daddies reputation

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In 2007, the mecca of hipster paradise was the Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn. Etsy epitomized elder-millennial quirk with a sprinkle of digital delusion, and no one personified the vibes quite like their CEO and founder, Rob Kalin. 

But while Kalin and his friends were building a crafters utopia, a ruthless venture capitalist had another plan for the company: destroy it from the inside out and get SUPER rich doing it.

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Etsy Wants to Crochet Its Cake, and Eat It Too

Etsy Was a Twee Culture Punchline. Now It’s a Wall Street Darling.

Etsy CEO says company is escaping ‘race to the bottom’ and getting back to its artisan roots

Dispatches from the Charlie Javice Trial!

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Charlie Javice is another Forbes 30-under-30 uber-genius-startup-founder (see: SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, or Carlos Watson) who spent about 18 months in the warm center of the venture capital fake-it-till-you-make-it circle jerk before the sisal rug gets pulled out from under her. Once she was exposed as a total phony, every investor immediately covered their own ass and scrub the internet of any trace of themselves slobbering all over her. But one investor, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, took it a step further, and (in our opinion) weaponized the United States Justice Department to punish Javice for embarrassing him infront of his big bank friends!!! 

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USA v. Javice

How Charlie Javice Got JPMorgan to Pay $175 Million for … What Exactly?

Charlie Javice, Millennial CEO Sued by JPMorgan, Was a ‘Namedropping’ Cool Boss

The 8 Most Confusing Things About FAFSA

Jamie Dimon Says Frank Acquisition ‘Was A Huge Mistake’ After JP Morgan Alleges Millions Of Fake Customers

This is an episode for our true crime lovers! we're talking about a 2019 GANG STALKING SCANDAL that involves the executives at a fortune 500 company criminally stalking a sweet old couple. What made these executives so mad? The chief executives at Ebay so deeply butthurt about a comment the couple made on their niche ecommerce blog that they crashed-out into a goodfellas-esque, rage fueled paranoid spiral, and orchestrated a highly illegal stalking and harassment campaign against them. 

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Elliott Management letter puts eBay on notice to improve stock performance

Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal

Silicon Valley elite defend nonprofit CEO with dark past - San José Spotlight

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