From the New York Times:
How Tech Companies Lose Women During the Hiring ProcessBy KATHARINE ZALESKI AUG. 15, 2017I am the co-founder of a company that helps clients find ways to diversify their work f...
01m21s — The North Korean knot. (The fruit of inattention, inertia, gullibility, and shallow diplomacy.)12m16s — China's circus, China's monkey. (Welcome to Pyonghattan.)18m41s — Let's make a deal. (Wh...
This week's big story on the CultMarx front was the firing of Google employee James Damore. The firing offense was, he had written a document titled Google's Ideological Echo Chamber and circulated it ...
A tweet storm from “liberaltarian” journalist Will Wilkinson, of the Niskansen Center and sometimes of The Economist:
That Google memo was almost perfectly crafted to out people who don’t grok social-f...
From Recode, the first purportedly inside account of who was behind firing coder James Damore for crimethink:
How CEO Sundar Pichai made the decision to fire James Damore was just as hard as Google’s ...
Below is the Thursday memo from Google’s CEO announcing that he wasn’t going to explain his firing of James Damore after all.
Projection is not just a river in Egypt.
Or something.
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From Ben Kurtz:
… Google has just earned itself a lawsuit.California Labor Code § 1102 requires that “no employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or by...
David Brooks writes in the New York Times:
Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O.
Judging from this clip, Principal Skinner would appear to have what it takes to be the frontrunner for the job...
Late on Wednesday, Steve Sailer ruminated here that:
[I]n my new Taki’s Magazine column, “The Trillion-Dollar Question,” I point out that Google’s decision to fire James Damore due to hurt feelings rai...
From Slate:
Stop Equating “Science” With Truth
Evolutionary psychology is just the most obvious example of science’s flaws.
By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
… Most saliently in the context of the Google m...
As I mentioned before, in my new Taki’s Magazine column, “The Trillion-Dollar Question,” I point out that Google’s decision to fire James Damore due to hurt feelings raises some questions about how con...
From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
The Trillion-Dollar Questionby Steve Sailer, August 09, 2017Back in March, I asked in my Taki’s Magazine column “Diversity Versus Debate”:
Does the increasing ca...
On CNBC, a California employment lawyer writes:
Why it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer over his now viral anti-diversity memo
It wasn’t exactly a memo, it was an essay posted on an in...
The Gizmodo report that pushed this internal Google memo to the public said this:
In the memo, which is the personal opinion of a male Google employee and is titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,...
The Bloomberg story Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences [By Mark Bergen and Ellen Huet, August 7, 2017] features an interview between Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang (who's very...
From Bloomberg:
Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity MemoBy Mark Bergen and Ellen HuetAugust 7, 2017, 6:21 PM PDTEngineer wrote memo blasting “politically correct monoculture”Alphabet I...
From recode:
Firing expected after Google CEO says employee who penned controversial memo on women has violated its Code of ConductThe author wrote, among other things, that females suffered from more ...
Re Steve Sailer's blog posts Google’s Rotten Core of “American Computer Scientists” and Ya Gotta Read This One from the ATLANTIC on Tech’s “Rotten” White Male CoreFrom: An Anonymous Guy Who Still Has A...
Google’s suggestions for “American scientists” are famously Woke, with blacks dominating the list. (Here are my speculations on the reasons behind this.)
On the other hand, the “rotten core” of the te...
Yeyo sends along a tweet storm. It’s interesting both as an amusing example of Projection at its most paranoid and, now that I think about it, a Plan.As a notorious Bad Guy, it never occurs to me to th...
The market capitalization of Google (now Alphabet) is currently $643 billion. That’s rather a lot, so it’s hardly surprising that many social justice jihadis are constantly scheming to appropriate a ti...