2022-12-29
Once while I was working for a non profit in a project w a large technology company, an executive slapped the table and said “this would be so much easier if we could just buy you” Like yeah that was the point https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko rejected more than five Silicon Valley VC offers for “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to protect the platform's nonprofit status
2022-12-28
Once while I was working for a non profit in a project w a large technology company, an executive slapped the table and said “this would be so much easier if we could just buy you” Like yeah that was the point https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve the platform's nonprofit status
Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter Tweets: @suji_yan , @barbariancap , @wilbanks , @tariqkrim , @astaniscia8...
2021-07-14
The intersection of boring, counter-intuitive, and crucially important is the precise place where technology companies have so much leverage over civil society https://twitter.com/...
Protocol
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking
James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @hkanji , @jason_kint ,...
2020-06-14
This story on TestUtah is infuriating. Grifters misuse “open source” to mean “anything I can buy on the internet and jam into a shitty local operation for which i overbill you.” Carpet in the lab pushed me over the limit to true rage. https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
How a philanthropic COVID-19 testing effort by Utah tech companies like Nomi Health and Domo became a commercial enterprise, despite questions about performance
At a White House briefing, on April 23rd, Mike Pence offered what he described as “encouraging news” about covid-19 testing. Tweets: @kimgoodwin , @newsvulcan , @statmandue , @wilb...