Marketing professor and entrepreneur, Scott Galloway, explains how Google is God, Facebook is Love, Amazon is Consumption, Apple is Sex, and their collective market dominance needs to be broken up for the sake of democracy… and innovation. Plus, Ralph talks to Michael Merhige about the political philosophy he developed while working as a CIA operative … Continued
Last fall, the tech world was a-twitter over a post by Google employee James Damore suggesting the company’s gender diversity problem might have more to do with women’s genetics than the company’s culture, and complaining that the company was too politically correct to engage his arguments. That post—and the fact that he eventually got fired … Continued
Ralph talks everything water, including how cities can maintain clean water in the face of natural disasters with George Hawkins, CEO of the municipal utility, DC Water. And media maven, Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, talks about how to maintain your power and humanity in the age of digital monopolies.
On today’s show, hosts Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Cat Brooks talk about diversity at Google, and in tech more broadly – and take your calls. Google is the midst of a blow-up over an internal memo circulated by one of its engineers suggesting the reason so few women work there might have something to do with … Continued
On today’s episode hosts Cat Brooks and Mitch Jeserich talk to Ruth Conniff, editor-in-chief of The Progressive magazine, about the healthcare bill that the senate is attempting to push through before its July 4th recess. Then Brooks and Jeserich interview Maria Noel Fernandez, the director of the Silicon Valley Rising Campaign, about the negotiations Google is attempting to enter … Continued
Science news a) 5th anniversary of Fukushima disaster b) Google DeepMind beats human at Go Guest: Peter Neufeld, author of a biograph of Werner Von Braun, rocket pioneer who worked for the Nazis hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Tom Ammiano and Tim Redmond on displacement, the Google Bus, naming a SF public hospital after Mark Zuckerberg and more…
On today’s briefing: Trump’s Plan to Destroy US Intelligence and Steal the Next Election We begin with Trump’s determination to destroy American Intelligence by placing an ignorant thug in charge of the ODNI who will have access to all of the nation’s secrets which will be manipulated and weaponized against Trump’s enemies at the same … Continued
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace about the organization’s call to boycott the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which will be hosted primarily in the United States. The wide-ranging conversation examined the intersection of sports, politics, human rights, and international solidarity. Baraka began by explaining … Continued
On today’s briefing: Trump’s Plan to Destroy US Intelligence and Steal the Next Election We begin with Trump’s determination to destroy American Intelligence by placing an ignorant thug in charge of the ODNI who will have access to all of the nation’s secrets which will be manipulated and weaponized against Trump’s enemies at the same … Continued
