Beste Mike Masnick Podcasts (2024)

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The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick 54:04

14d ago54:04

54:04

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Mike Masnick, CEO and Founder of Techdirt, inventor of the Streisand effect, and member of the board of Bluesky to...well...talk about quite literally that. A banger episode. https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick/ https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinel…

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The Rot Society 38:25

11h ago38:25

38:25

Blame the tech industry for the rise of authoritarianism. Blame a news media handicapped by a deference to power and a fear of bias. Blame the fact that our digital lives are unchecked ecological disasters. In this episode, Ed Zitron draws a direct line from the rot of the digital ecosystem for what happened on November 5. --- LINKS: https://www.ti…

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Locate Your Nearest X-it 51:41

5d ago51:41

51:41

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia follows The Guardian in quitting Elon Musk’s X due to disinformation and ‘disturbing content’ (Fortune) Bluesky attracts millions as users leave Musk's X after Trump win (Reuters) Advertisers s…

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William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech 53:51

7d ago53:51

53:51

Recorded live at Web Summit Lisbon, Ed Zitron is joined by William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, who is also the co-founder and president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, to talk about how the incentives of shareholder capitalism and stock buybacks are destroying innovation. --- LINKS: https…

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Presidents & Precedents 45:18

12d ago45:18

45:18

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Pennsylvania Becomes Hot Spot for Election Disinformation (NY Times) After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent (NY Times) X Is a White-Supremacist Site (The Atlantic) Papers, Please? The Republican Plan…

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Sorry, This Episode Will Not Cheer You Up 58:25

19d ago58:25

58:25

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: These look like Harris ads. Trump backers bought them (Washington Post) Facebook Took More Than $1 Million For Ads Sowing Election Lies (Forbes) Election officials are outmatched by Elon Musk’s misinformation machine (CNN) El…

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A Nobel Economist's Plan To Tax Digital Ads 33:11

22d ago33:11

33:11

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Daron Acemoglu, MIT Economist and recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, to talk about his daring - and likely effective - plan to tax all digital advertising revenue over $500m at 50% as well as how we might adjust incentives to bring big tech under control. PAPER: https://shapingwork.mit.edu/researc…

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Minisode: The Robots Take Over Ctrl-Alt-Speech 25:33

26d ago25:33

25:33

Ben and Mike are technically off this week, but we decided to run an experiment. After discussing Google’s NotebookLM and its ability to create AI-generated podcasts about any content, Mike experimented with how it would handle one of the stories Mike & Ben discussed last week: Daphne Keller’s The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform on Lawfare. M…

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A Requiem for Prabhakar Raghavan 18:48

27d ago18:48

18:48

Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan, The Man Who Destroyed Google Search, was removed from his position at Google and made a "Chief Technologist," benching him in favor of a McKinsey-Google Lifer. In this episode, Ed ZItron walks you through how the removal of Prabhakar Raghavan shows that Google is in deep, deep trouble - and may finally be falling apar…

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Data Vampires with Paris Marx 38:04

29d ago38:04

38:04

In this episode, Ed is joined by Paris Marx, author of the Disconnect Blog and the host of Tech Won't Save Us, to talk about the historic - and horrifying - push of hyper-scalers to build out and control vital parts of the world's infrastructure. Tech Won't Save Us: https://techwontsave.us/episodes Data Vampires Ep 1: https://techwontsave.us/episod…

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Regulate, Rinse, Repeat 1:00:30

1M ago1:00:30

1:00:30

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: How Russian disinformation is reaching the U.S. ahead of the 2024 election (NBC News) The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform (Lawfare) ExTwitter Makes It Official: Blocks Are No Longer Blocks (Techdirt) People are flocking…

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Zephyr Teachout On Corruption 37:49

1M ago37:49

37:49

In this episode, Ed is joined in the iHeartRadio studios in New York City by Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law Professor and Author of "Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money" to talk about corruption, the ways in which we can curb the power of corporations - and why there's renewed hope for a better world. Zephyr on X…

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An Appeal a Day Keeps the Censor Away 52:12

1M ago52:12

52:12

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: States sue TikTok over app’s effects on kids’ mental health (CNBC) Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media (Substack) Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control (The Verge) TikTok lays off hundreds in Malaysia in move t…

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The Subprime AI Crisis 47:46

1M ago47:46

47:46

In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the brewing subprime AI crisis. The entire generative AI market is run on the back of unprofitable tech run at prices subsidized by big tech, and when OpenAI and others have to charge the actual costs underlying their services, there may be terrible consequences. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/better…

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Why OpenAI Is A Terrible Business 46:56

1M ago46:56

46:56

As of last week, OpenAI is now worth $157 billion - yet below the hood is a far darker story. In this episode, Ed Zitron explains the cold, hard truth - that OpenAI is a terrible business that burns billions of dollars, and its failure to scale its cloud business tells a dark tale about the wider generative AI industry. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyu…

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Moderation has a Well-Known Reality Bias 1:00:59

2M ago1:00:59

1:00:59

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Professor Kate Klonick, who has studied and written about trust & safety for many years and is currently studying the DSA & DMA in the EU as a Fulbright Scholar. They cover: EU Commission’s Digital Fairness Fitness Ch…

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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 4 30:57

2M ago30:57

30:57

Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN and Arielle Garcia, Director of Intelligence at CheckMyAds, for the final episode of Better Offline's coverage of the Department of Justice's second antitrust case against Google. The case alleges that "through Serial Acquisitions and Anticompetitive Auction Manipulation, Google Subverted Competition in…

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Is This The Real Life? Is This Just Fakery? 1:07:23

2M ago1:07:23

1:07:23

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Cathryn Weems, who has held T&S roles at Yahoo, Google, Dropbox, Twitter and Epic Games. They cover: Google outlines plans to help you sort real images from fake (The Verge) Fake AI “podcasters” are reviewing my book …

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How To Break the Internet with Chris Stokel-Walker 43:56

2M ago43:56

43:56

Just over a month after the CrowdStrike debacle, Ed Zitron is joined by journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker to "stokel-walk" through the brittle patchwork of open source, non-profit and for-profit entities that hold up the internet - and how calamitous it would be if any of them buckled. Article: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/crowdstrike…

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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 3 42:14

2M ago42:14

42:14

Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN and Arielle Garcia, Director of Intelligence at CheckMyAds, for the third episode of Better Offline's coverage of the Department of Justice's second antitrust case against Google, one that alleges that "through Serial Acquisitions and Anticompetitive Auction Manipulation, Google Subverted Competition in…

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Smells Like Teen Safety 51:52

2M ago51:52

51:52

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Breton’s resignation could mark a new chapter for EU digital policy (Euractiv) Finnish horse enthusiast is an EU tech front-runner (Politico) Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes (New …

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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 2 32:47

2M ago32:47

32:47

Ed Zitron is once again joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN, for the second episode of Better Offline's coverage of the Department of Justice's second antitrust case against Google, one that alleges that "through Serial Acquisitions and Anticompetitive Auction Manipulation, Google Subverted Competition in Internet Advertising Technologies." This is th…

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Blunder from Down Under 54:50

2M ago54:50

54:50

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Riana Pfefferkorn, a Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered AI. They cover: Australia threatens fines for social media giants enabling misinformation (Reuters) Social media ban for children to be …

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Silicon Valley Fashion With The Menswear Guy 39:03

2M ago39:03

39:03

After earnings failed to reassure investors about their concerns around generative AI's return on investment, NVIDIA's stock suffered a record $279 billion loss in the space of a day. Nevertheless, the most important NVIDIA story is that of Chief Executive Jensen Huang, who appears to be one of the few tech executives that knows how to dress himsel…

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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 1 45:52

2M ago45:52

45:52

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN, to set the scene for Better Offline's coverage of the Department of Justice's second antitrust case against Google, one that alleges that "through Serial Acquisitions and Anticompetitive Auction Manipulation, Google Subverted Competition in Internet Advertising Technologies." This is t…

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Judge, Jury and Moderator 55:20

2M ago55:20

55:20

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Social networks can’t be forced to filter content for kids, says judge (The Verge) Judge Rejects Yet Another Attempt By Texas To Police Online Speech (Techdirt) Telegram apologizes for handling of deepfake porn content in S. …

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How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions 36:43

3M ago36:43

36:43

In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how Google used their monopolies over search and search advertising to scam advertisers - and why the entire tech industry should demand that Google is broken up and forced to compete like the rest of us. LINKS: http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.redd…

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How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse 34:13

3M ago34:13

34:13

A few weeks ago, a federal judge declared that Google has a monopoly over the search industry and text-based advertising. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the many monopolies of big tech hurt you on a daily basis. LINKS: http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffli…

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The Platform to Prison Pipeline 53:03

3M ago53:03

53:03

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: TikTok must face a lawsuit for recommending the viral ‘blackout challenge’ (The Verge) Third Circuit’s Section 230 TikTok Ruling Deliberately Ignores Precedent, Defies Logic (Techdirt) France charges Telegram CEO Pavel Durov,…

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Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies 58:04

3M ago58:04

58:04

In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with Matt Stoller, author of the BIG Newsletter and Research Director of the American Economic Liberties Project to explain what a monopoly is, why they're so pervasive, how America entered a "monopoly crisis," and what all of this means for Google, Apple, Meta, and the rest of big tech. Want to read the transcr…

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ChatGPT Told Us Not to Say This, but YOLO 1:01:35

3M ago1:01:35

1:01:35

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Daphne Keller, the Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center. They cover: Ninth Circuit Rules in Favor of NetChoice Over California’s Age Appropriate Design Code (Ninth Circuit)…

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Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain 1:27:47

3M ago1:27:47

1:27:47

In the fourth live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron sits down with the BBC's Thomas Germain to talk about breaking up big tech, and how we can find hope in the hopelessness of multiple monopolies and algorithms. LINKS: Thomas Germain: https://x.com/thomasgermain vkgoeswild: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKM5fcSsaEFZRP-bjH8Y9w Dan Ya…

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Do Not Leave a Fake Review for this Podcast 52:52

3M ago52:52

52:52

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: EU takes shot at Musk over Trump interview — and misses (Politico) Online Safety Act not fit for purpose after far-right riots, says Sadiq Khan (The Guardian) See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes (T…

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Big Tech Is The Enemy of Innovation 42:54

3M ago42:54

42:54

As the AI bubble collapses, it's time for the tech industry to repent, and to recognize that the future cannot be decided entirely by four or five trillion-dollar firms that are no longer capable of innovation, only copying other people's ideas. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the generative AI boom shows how little big tech cares …

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How The AI Bubble Bursts 40:40

3M ago40:40

40:40

After a year of opulent spending, the markets have begun to sour on big tech's $200 billion bet on generative AI, unfortunately timing with the delay of Nvidia's new AI-specialized "blackwell" chips. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the pale horses of the AI apocalypse - and what this means for the tech industry at large. LINKS: http://…

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Should Speech Cost a GARM and a Leg? 1:03:09

3M ago1:03:09

1:03:09

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Bluesky adds Techdirt founder Mike Masnick to its board (TechCrunch) X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott (New York Times) WFA Shutters GARM, X Antitrust Suit Cited (MediaPost) UK fac…

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Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant 1:53:25

4M ago1:53:25

1:53:25

In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about the forces that have turned the tech industry away from innovation - and how we might turn the tide against them. CORY DOCTOROW: https://pluralistic.net/ https://x.com/doctorow BRIAN MERCHANT: Blood In …

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I Bet You Think This Block is About You 1:03:04

4M ago1:03:04

1:03:04

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Jim Jordan Demands Advertisers Explain Why They Don’t Advertise On MAGA Media Sites (Techdirt) TikTok Has a Nazi Problem (Wired) NazTok: An organized neo-Nazi TikTok network is getting millions of views (Institute for Strateg…

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The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac 1:50:41

4M ago1:50:41

1:50:41

In the second live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by the New York Times' Mike Isaac and The Verge's Kylie Robison to discuss the current state of tech journalism. KYLIE: https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison MIKE: https://x.com/MikeIsaac https://www.threads.net/@mike_isaac?hl=en https://ww…

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Live at TrustCon 2024 1:00:50

4M ago1:00:50

1:00:50

In the first ever live recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike and Ben are joined at TrustCon 2024 by Dona Bellow, Platform Safety Policy at Reddit, and Alice Hunsberger, PartnerHero’s VP of Trust & Safety and Content Moderation, to round up the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, including: Meta content moderation …

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Rot Economics with MIT's Daron Acemoglu 33:08

4M ago33:08

33:08

In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with famed MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to talk about the economics of the tech ecosystem, the ridiculousness of generative AI's promises, and the realities of tech's growth-at-all-costs ecosystem. Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Social…

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Spotlight: Modulate CEO Mike Pappas on Voice Moderation 36:07

4M ago36:07

36:07

In this sponsored Spotlight episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, host Ben Whitelaw talks to Mike Pappas, the founder & CEO of our launch sponsor Modulate, which builds prosocial voice technology that combats online toxicity and elevates the health and safety of online communities. Their conversation takes an in-depth look at how voice is becoming an increas…

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CrowdStruck 30:11

4M ago30:11

30:11

On Friday July 19, millions of Windows PCs entered a doom-loop that rendered them non-functional thanks to an update sent by a little-known company called CrowdStrike - and in this emergency Better Offline dispatch, Ed Zitron walks you through exactly what happened, why it's so bad, and why both CrowdStrike and Microsoft executives should face crim…

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Conspiracies Abhor a Vacuum 53:21

4M ago53:21

53:21

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Russia and China pounce on Trump rally shooting to undermine U.S. (Washington Post) The Gunshots Rang Out. Then the Conspiracy Theories Erupted Online (New York Times) Chaos on social media platforms after Trump shooting is a…

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The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS 56:17

4M ago56:17

56:17

In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" - as defined by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt in "on BS" (and yes I'm censoring that) - and created one of the most enjoyable and prescient papers ever written. In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by academ…

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Pop Culture 49:48

4M ago49:48

49:48

When the money gets nervous, so should you. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through a remarkable report from global investment bank Goldman Sachs where multiple economists call BS on the AI movement - and why it's time for the rest of the world to follow suit. LINKS: https://tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: ht…

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Over to EU, Elon 43:24

4M ago43:24

43:24

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Domonique Rai-Varming, Senior Director, Trust & Safety at Trustpilot. Together they cover: Amazon, Expedia and Trustpilot unite to fight fake reviews (BBC) EU charges Elon Musk’s X for letting disinfo run wild (Polit…

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How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry 55:47

4M ago55:47

55:47

The shareholder supremacy has eaten the tech industry, driving private and public companies to chase unprofitable, unsustainable ideas like generative AI as a means of expressing eternal growth to the markets. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how this destructive mindset has created an entirely new kind of manager - one disconnected fro…

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The Shareholder Supremacy 34:05

4M ago34:05

34:05

In this episode, Ed Zitron tracks the history of the growth-at-all-costs rot economy to a court case in 1916 that established the Shareholder Supremacy, and set the terms for General Electric's Jack Welch to fundamentally break capitalism, an era where companies moved away from building lasting, sustainable companies that created things and instead…

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I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Ft. Nik Suresh & Robert Evans 45:06

5M ago45:06

45:06

A few weeks ago, an Australian tech worker called Nik Suresh wrote an evisceration of the current AI hype boom called "I Will F**king Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again." Ed Zitron and Robert Evans sat down to talk about the blog - and the wider problems that Nik sees in the tech industry at large. LINKS: Nik's blog: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/b…

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