Silicon Valley’s inequality machine: a conversation with Anand Giridharadas

Editor’s Note: Technology, startups, entrepreneurship, unicorns, S-1s. Silicon Valley has created an economic engine unlike any other in the world over the past few decades. That success has come with incredible influence over our society, politics, and economy, an influence that is increasingly under the microscope. Our industry has gained outsized power, and now it […]

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This artist replaced cartons of eggs with thousands of miniature Virgin Mary sculptures

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Viviana Troya is a Colombian artist, whose work ‘Hatchery‘ captures our obsession with the symbol of the egg – something fragile and ubiquitous, yet also synonymous with life and love.  Read more…

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Sequoia India and Accel back on-demand scooter startup in $12.2M deal

Two of India’s most prominent VCs are backing a motorbike on-demand service after Sequoia India and Accel led a $12.2 million investment in Metro Bikes. Sequoia India and Accel were joined in the round by Raghunandan G, who founded TaxiForSure which sold to Ola, among other investors. Metro Bikes started out as a luxury bike rental service […]

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Church puts their nativity scene in a cage to protest Trump’s immigration policies

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Traditionally, the nativity scene is pastoral — meant to inspire feelings of joy, not gut-wrenching horror. 

No wonder, then, that the nativity scene recently posted outside of Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis has inspired such a reaction. The Reverend Canon Lee Curtis had the statues of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph placed in a cage and displayed on the church’s front lawn to symbolize the families currently detained indefinitely at the border.

“The stark reality is many families have experienced or are experiencing this,” Curtis told Mashable.  Read more…

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These 8 books are required reading for anyone who wants to change the world with tech

“Changing the world,” the rallying cry of the technology industry, sounds like a concept bursting with optimism. But in reality, it’s complicated.
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Interfaith social network Pray.com raises $14M Series A to add new features to its mobile app

Pray.com, an interfaith social networking app for members of religious communities, has raised a $14 million Series A led by TPG Growth. Previous investors Science Inc. and Greylock Partners also returned for the round, which brings the Santa Monica-based startup’s total funding, including a seed round announced last June, to $16 million. Founded in 2016, […]

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There’s a new religion centered around artificial intelligence and it sounds terrifying

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There’s a new church for tech-minded folks, and it sounds like something out of a science fiction novel.

“Way of the Future” (or WOTF, as they abbreviate it) is 

1. Not a joke, and 

2According to them (and this is real) “about creating a peaceful and respectful transition of who is in charge of the planet from people to people + ‘machines.'”

Yes, you read that correctly. They want to get a head start on selling out the human race to our machine-overlords-to-be.

The church (for lack of a better word) assumes that technology will eventually surpass human capabilities, and turn into an all-knowing, all-seeing being that will resemble—or arguably actually be—a god. And that we need to know who’s on the computers’ side by keeping track (more on that later).  Read more…

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