The Bottification of Airbnb

The Bottification of Airbnb

The “Bottification” of Airbnb Under the brutal heat dome that hovered over the eastern seaboard in mid-June of 2024, my family and I were in Washington D.C. to do the typical tourist things: the Air and Space museum, Arlington Cemetery, the Holocaust Museum, the...

Zuck’s Bafflegab Up on the Hill

Headlines on January 31st claimed that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, had apologized at a U.S. Senate hearing to parents whose children had died as a result of suicide from cyberbullying, asphyxiation from participating in the “blackout challenge,” body-image...
Elon Musk:  Tech Giant, and Moral Midget?

Elon Musk:  Tech Giant, and Moral Midget?

Elon Musk might just be one of the most interesting people on the planet: head of Space X, Tesla, and the Boring Company, he seems to be everywhere all at once.  Without his Starlink system (part of Space X), Ukraine would lack the ability to track Russian drone...
A Silicon Valley “Race to the Bottom”

A Silicon Valley “Race to the Bottom”

by Don Mayer, June 28, 2023 The antics of Silicon Valley “alpha dogs” have reached a new and disturbing level.  In the public interest, PLBW offers some extraordinary writing by  Lora Kelly of the Atlantic magazine.  By way of preface, your “perfectly...