KS: It's like my kid, I'll clean up my room. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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Like if you show LeBron posterizing Kevin Durant ... Mm-hmm.
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But I was lucky because I wasn't using Gmail. Mm-hmm.
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I used to do so much politics on Facebook. Mm-hmm.
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Look, to be totally candid, it hasn't been easy. Mm-hmm.
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Tony Xu: In all the tech ups and downs. Mm-hmm.
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NP: So, a big part of that is Soli. Mm-hmm.
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LG: Yeah, these two questions are from Doctor Hammer. Mm-hmm.
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Let's talk about your actual businesses — start with TV. Mm-hmm.
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Every college has got an entrepreneurship group right now. Mm-hmm.
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It's a subculture, it's an offshoot of the counterculture. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, and then you wrote a letter about it. Mm-hmm.
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I don't like anybody telling me what to do. Mm-hmm.
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There's a lot of passive voice in Silicon Valley. Mm-hmm.
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So, I think it speaks well of their partnership. Mm-hmm.
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We're kind of caught in the crossfire there. Mm-hmm. Because?
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Mm-hmm. Edtech, fintech, I mean we could ... agriculture, food. Right.
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You want the digital, this is what you get. Mm-hmm.
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And it was an awesome part of American history. Mm-hmm.
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I moved to LA. That's where it was. Exactly. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. It's just an uglier version of a real conversation.
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Mm-hmm, which is typically the case, the problem with retailers.
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Well, try to put a newspaper together by yourself. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. I think you went to the University of Oregon.
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THRUSH: So, in terms of the show, you-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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And that can't be separated from his military career. Mm-hmm.
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And that can't be separated from his military career. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. One largish essay and then a couple smaller items.
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Right, so they could check the doctors' scrip. Mm-hmm. Okay.
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Mm-hmm. And we all, sort of, we like that thing.
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Mm-hmm. I mean, I like to be in the action.
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It's my ownership, and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
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BBC reporters talk like this, you know, like they're ... Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm, because they Uber, they're using their phones, they're Tindering.
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Mm-hmm. I did a podcast with the showrunner for it.
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Mm-hmm, right, and what does Nielsen count a view as?
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Google is the most intrusive surveillance company on the planet. Mm-hmm.
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The problem was its own terms were not inclusive enough. Mm-hmm.
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The first is, all big great companies were once startups. Mm-hmm.
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So I grew up in San Francisco and Boulder, Colorado. Mm-hmm.
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So, primarily it's been funded by this Dubai organization, Meraas. Mm-hmm.
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I've only watched, you know, whatever, "The Handmaid's Tale," once. Mm-hmm.
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You see a lot of countries retreating into nativism... AXELROD: Mm-hmm.
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But, all this talk about "the decline of entrepreneurship," bullshit. Mm-hmm.
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If we're not careful, the answer will be a resounding mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Cuban: It's just a parent encouraging or letting people know.
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Mm-hmm. DG: I think the companies are part of the answer.
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So, then the last component of the movie is Trump. Mm-hmm.
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I had signed so many petitions leading up to the ... Mm-hmm.
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This popped up about a week ago on the internet. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. But I do think it's the right thing to do.
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Casey Newton: Not all of them, but many of them. Mm-hmm.
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I think the press is an enabler of him. Mm-hmm. Right.
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Mm-hmm — you were probably a reader before you were a writer.
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He was on the board of the New York Times. Mm-hmm.
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And he made that "South" comment on your show-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: --PG County is--I live in Montgomery County-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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I think that is probably an accurate observation and prediction. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. It's like the 103K buffers, in each of the buffering.
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And then it grows into this really horrible monster. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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Mm-hmm, which was very critical to happen on television, too. Absolutely.
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And that was turning out to be the limiting factor. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. I mean, I'm always restlessly looking for something to create.
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Mm-hmm. Generally don't start second company while you're running the first?
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Mm-hmm. We've invested a lot in it for a long time.
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Mm-hmm. Who points with a "Ha ha" when a company fails.
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Claire Boyle: Mm-hmm, encryption and just generally keeping yourself protected online.
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Mm-hmm. There were guys who lip synced to the Pokémon song.
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I think the city of New York wants to go there. Mm-hmm.
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I have thought there should be a new privacy bill forever. Mm-hmm.
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Eventually they just ran out of autonomy, I think, at Facebook. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. It's also true, there's new specialty stores that are doing great.
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Each of these agencies also have their own technical staffs. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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Mm-hmm. There are jurisdictions where the law in no way prohibits scooters.
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Where I grew up in Pittsburgh, there's Montour High School ... Case: Mm-hmm.
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Like "um" and "uh", humble "mm-hmm" and "uh-huh" are critical too.
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And it's just an exaggerated, slightly only exaggerated ... KS: Mm-hmm, slightly only.
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Or where you ... That's where I do try to focus, yeah. Mm-hmm.
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And I want our listeners to know that it's not hyperbolic. Mm-hmm.
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So I believe that that's true and that's the missionary zeal. Mm-hmm.
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The average American was pretty manipulated by a lot of media. Mm-hmm.
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We'd instead like to give them tools that are super intuitive. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. You can add on undergarments or socks or some other stuff?
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Mm-hmm, but that's the next big race for these carriers for sure.
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A culture around her for reasons good and bad decided that. Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: --and the less you know going into that job-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. I mean, he says things that people remember, and that's gifted.
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First, in some sense we're waiting for the next wave. Mm-hmm. Absolutely.
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Mm-hmm. I think you just have to be authentic from the beginning.
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KS: Mm-hmm, drugs, I thought drugs immediately, Jeremy, that's what I thought.
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Mm-hmm. They amassed this incredible monopoly in e-books, an indisputable monopoly.
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His house is essentially a block or two away from Stanford. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Why did you make that transition, what was between you and he?
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And I think that kind of nominee will win a resounding victory. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. And so, the learning was, we needed to educate the whole ecosystem.
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Mm-hmm. Amazon has penetration in two-thirds of U.S. households with Amazon Prime.
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Yeah. Mm-hmm. They're doing that, and then you could read the entire thing.
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I don't want to teach all these girls and nobody hires them. Mm-hmm.
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Prior to this, you were running Mother Jones with Monika Bauerlein. Mm-hmm. Yep.
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Would you mind mumbling 'Mm-hmm' on my conference call for a few minutes?
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It was really interesting, and then it just got worse from there. Mm-hmm.
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So, you know, we heard people tell us that death isn't real. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. It gets a bad rep 'cause Google kind of ... Yeah, it does.
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Yeah, which I think, in some sense, is also a little unfair. Mm-hmm.
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You got yourself into a mini media controversy a few years ago. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. I think we kind of covered this, but just lay it out.
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This is a book that came out, I think, in 1803, 2001. Mm-hmm.
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Susan, for example, she majored in French and English, history and lit. Mm-hmm.
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And tech news is also kind of a part of that sliver. Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: And so, a lot of reporters who started off life-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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The first thing I'd start with is protecting your time and attention. Mm-hmm.
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But I think they're not really equipped to handle what they're in. Mm-hmm.
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Well, they're physician-ordered, but they don't necessarily have a physician interface. Mm-hmm.
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So it was a risk to take that kind of a risk. Mm-hmm.
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One of the people I interviewed for the book was Miss Manners. Mm-hmm.
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I try not to ... Yeah, okay, and maybe I'm too idealistic still. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. It was a bipartisan bill, Orrin Hatch and the senator from Illinois.
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I still think we need that desperately, we need that level-five ethic. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. It's almost like an Uber-like loss, except for you're not going public.
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Mm-hmm, we launched a community along with the book for people to come together.
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The thing I've noticed is that the knives have come out for Sheryl. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. So my feeling, they have a big footprint, let's go create new value.
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Mm-hmm. They are exclusive to you, or you're just a distribution vehicle for them?
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But then you got into politics, which was covering different campaigns and everything. Mm-hmm.
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So let's talk about music — you control one of the three major labels. Mm-hmm.
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As a result, the listener was less able to encourage the speaker with "mm-hmm".
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And so we were just looking for new waves of clusters of growth. Mm-hmm.
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It really started because of my white-hot hatred for Steve Bannon. Mm-hmm. Okay.
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I would like to see more countries take the route that Europe has. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Scandal, LA Law ... Scandal's not really the way we want to behave. Right.
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And the answer to most of those questions is yes, yes, and yes. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm, and this is not just women, too, because around the ... In Pennsylvania, everything.
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No. I was ... The only thing is I wanted them to be independent. Mm-hmm.
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That's the same thing with Product Hunt, something that appeared on Product Hunt. Mm-hmm.
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We had a very interesting interview earlier this week with Roger Stone-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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You two are together all day long, and there's nobody even to say 'Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah, so do they know you're making it a hard R "Paper Moon"?
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Just tax it and then ... We should just tax it more heavily. Mm-hmm. Right?
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Got super into using machine learning not only for robots, but for manufacturing. Mm-hmm.
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You should have the right to know and have access to your data. Mm-hmm.
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So I'd be unhappy if the only place I could speak was Twitter. Mm-hmm.
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You started when you were 15, you're 24, you're a giant YouTube star. Mm-hmm.
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But he's now talking about privacy and he's talking a lot about news. Mm-hmm.
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Now, you guys went public last year, just late last year, so recently. Mm-hmm.
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I went because of all these kids using this thing called Facebook. Mm-hmm. Right.
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And I think at different stages of the business, we've looked to different people. Mm-hmm.
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And he seems at least on the outside in, a pretty thoughtful, creative person. Mm-hmm.
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I don't know if you read his account of what happened, it's horrible. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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"Mm-hmm," responded the AI, naturally, colloquially, DECEPTIVELY, as if it were a real human being.
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AXELROD: Thought they do -- I mean, I watched Trump with George Stephanopoulos yesterday... STEWART: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. I'm somebody who spent a lot of time legislating against the abhorrent sex traffickers.
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I have given up on pretending that I am anybody that I am not. Mm-hmm.
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Take some of the words that are generally considered conversational detritus: "uh", "um" and "mm-hmm".
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Mm-hmm. Is that because you have a love of TV, or you're paying rent/mortgage?
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One of the reasons why is, humans are just not very good at this. Mm-hmm.
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Well I think they ... So I think their communication strategy has been intellectually bankrupt. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Jonathan Swan, the reporter who broke that story, he was really ... I don't know.
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KS: Oh. LG: Mm-hmm, and when you're famous like Kara Swisher, anyone can do that.
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It is also what she has been talking about for her entire career. Forever. Mm-hmm.
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Of course, well, actually airports are even safer today than they were back then. Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: Well, the one leap I would make on that is I interviewed-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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WILMORE: But, having said that, if you had to govern at that time-- THRUSH: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. In terms of when you raised the money, you said all women investors. Yeah.
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We were using email, phone calls, in-person meetings, and it was a mess. Mm-hmm.
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Um, so there are, there's some stuff that was designed for developers who are ... Mm-hmm.
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So you know Floyd Mayweather, his jeweler is Justin Bieber's jeweler, you meet Justin Bieber. Mm-hmm.
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So they took the flywheel and they said we're going to make the flywheel ours. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. At the time, I think, I'm trying to remember who some of the candidates were.
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Here's what I would say: We are chemically wired to be together as human beings. Mm-hmm.
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And there's some insecurity and some wobbliness around people not replacing their iPhone as often. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm, but that was a very different trading situation when you started, it was very different.
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When you're off-screen, you're still thinking thoughts that came from that artificial social environment. Mm-hmm.
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Let's finish talking about tech, because I did want to get to talking about tech. Mm-hmm.
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But seeing lights is a religious thing; doing business and making money it's another thing. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Especially because online is where people are now getting a lot of this wellness information.
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I would buy advertising, looks like normal ads, and then use that to distribute malware. Mm-hmm.
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What is your stance about ... I mean, the Times, BuzzFeed, has a social media policy. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. When we were younger, it was your crazy uncle over the dining room table, right?
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That originally she was going to lead but couldn't get confirmed for it. Right. Right. Mm-hmm.
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Well, first of all, it depends on whether you're selling for cash or stock. Mm-hmm. Right?
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THRUSH: And you--yeah, you said recently, and got a little bit of buzz-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: I think it's becoming more like I live in suburban D.C., and, like-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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This portion of what you might call the bad billionaires as opposed to the good. Mm-hmm.
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It really builds an intuition that you can't just immediately think that you can absorb. Mm-hmm.
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And at some point, you had to step back as CEO and file for bankruptcy. Mm-hmm.
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You're never supposed to pursue a case that you don't think is right and just. Mm-hmm.
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We wrote about a version of this last fall when the iPhone X came out. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Snapchat's going to start soon going public and so we're not really at the end.
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Mm-hmm. They're claiming they're value-neutral, but their value neutrality is basically saying ... It's a value.
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And it's not that we were wrong, they were great at one point in their history. Mm-hmm.
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And in 2001, the reason why this monograph exists, in 2001 I went up to Amazon. Mm-hmm.
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Well, Lime got ... not clear what the financial deal was, but Uber has equity in Lime. Mm-hmm.
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I grew up on the south side of Chicago, where my mom was born and raised. Mm-hmm.
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We had some folks in politics, some folks in academia, some technology folks, and pretty good. Mm-hmm.
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It was very innovative, and how they thought about using data for last-minute hotel purchases. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. So if you're an agency based outside a major city, then attracting talent's always been tough.
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They're just not on the front page of the New York Times above the fold. Mm-hmm. Right?
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Well, gas was absolutely more dangerous, once the technology for electricity got to a certain predictability ... Mm-hmm.
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And if that's the case, then autonomous driving is gonna hop in sooner rather than later. Mm-hmm.
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This is ramifications that when I need to know more about, I talk to Dana Boyd. Mm-hmm.
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Let's finish up talking about what has to change, leaving aside climate change, I get that. Mm-hmm.
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So, I actually tried to explore this when I started my podcast with TED this spring. Mm-hmm.
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She is the one who came up with this idea for a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Mm-hmm.
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When an editor narrows his eyes and says "mm hmm," he doesn't have to say an actual word.
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So if he loses a game, he gets grumpy and goes and sulks in the corner. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. You have your voice interfaces, which are important, but right now you're talking to static boxes.
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Mm-hmm. I had been starting to go to the West Coast Computer Faires in the late 1970s.
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When they filled out the paper version of that form, the average wait time is 0003 days. Mm-hmm.
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Every one of those changes that took place, what once was the norm now becomes the stigma. Mm-hmm.
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Oh, you called the Washington Post to bitch them out about an article, which made me laugh. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. You put the ... But the partners get over in debts for their talent and what they contribute.
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They'll be much, much bigger before they get the level of scrutiny that Facebook and Google will. Mm-hmm.
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Because most jobs, you can't make a living on it in five hours a week of work. Mm-hmm.
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We're seeing things like experiments with mesh networking, or USB sticks and these kinds of things that ... Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm, and Amazon, presumably, is a competitor with them also, and they want another alternative to that, correct?
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And if you don't have push notifications turned on for the entire network, it just doesn't work. Mm-hmm.
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But you could make a very commercial movie attached to a brand and it still won't work. Mm-hmm.
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It's pretty intense, and actually there's some common threads between your movie and his movie, I think. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. And then what you did was you would go around and do this all around the world?
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The third, that some of these big corporations will self-regulate in a real way, probably not. Mm-hmm.
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Well, as far as my professional career, I began studying the shift to the digital in 1978. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Financially it's very stressed because, again, these declining print dollars aren't being replaced by sufficient digital revenue.
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And right now the number that comes into public television, public radio is 445 million. Mm-hmm. Small. Small.
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Isaac Reynolds: Mm-hmm Nilay Patel: So was your team involved in the decision to put what cameras were?
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And I think there's a muscle that the industry needs to develop as well as a culture. Mm-hmm.
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Yes, that's true, but it's actually a really important and interesting part of the changing business environment. Mm-hmm.
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Well I think that the president is definitely ... It's no secret, he wants to build a wall. Mm-hmm.
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And on the other side, others think that you're bending over backwards to serve a conservative constituency. Mm-hmm.
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As I recall, Digiday was, I'm going to be polite, a second- or third-tier industry trade. Mm-hmm.
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So you're basically saying these are the different areas where we need someone to contribute to the group. Mm-hmm.
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Trust me, Sheryl Sandberg wouldn't, someone like Sheryl Sandberg wouldn't touch this with a 10-foot pole. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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AXELROD: ...because there is this, sort of, strange symbiosis between Hollywood and Washington and they're similar communities... STEWART: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. There's all kinds of — for those that don't know — there's all kinds of side things in the ballrooms.
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The automated voices behind the calls were remarkably life-like with their inflections and "mm-hmm"s and "umm"s.
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Like, literally not real, and that when you die your dead brain can bring you back with love. Mm-hmm.
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I don't think it should stop them from buying it, though, because they'll somehow make Time-Warner worse. Mm-hmm.
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MS: And now the technology's progressed so much, and a handful of companies came in like DJI ... Mm-hmm, yeah.
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Mm-hmm. That source was different from what was on TV, Walter Cronkite or whoever, and the paper that landed.
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You introduced me, I remember when I was in Japan, to a company called ImaHima, if you remember. Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: But the truth of the matter is she is--my friend, Mark Landler in The Times-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: That's an interesting perspective, because that's--because that is the core--and even on your show-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: One backtrack on the--I just want you, though, to envision a Trump presidency for me-- STEIN: Mm-hmm.
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Valerie Jarrett, Kerry Washington, Robbie Kaplan, a number of really amazing women from Time's Up. So, it was ... Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. You'll see it with robotics, but it will be a little bit slower and gradual, because there's constraints.
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Mm-hmm, for America, if they don't get to ... Of course, their complaint is that they don't get to speak.
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But if we weren't having an election this year, we'd find something else to replace that void with. Mm-hmm.
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And so what we have to learn is to be able to work side by side with machines. Mm-hmm.
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Seems like we don't hear that much about that these days, I think partly because Facebook pays zero. Mm-hmm.
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Then you basically have to build an unbelievably strong culture to catch these changes in terms of the market. Mm-hmm.
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We want to find a way to benefit alongside our streamers, because that's the way we stay in business. Mm-hmm.
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AXELROD: But you must've met people over the course of -- from '280 to last year, doing this show... STEWART: Mm-hmm.
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AXELROD: If you talk to one of the 20,000,000 people who have healthcare or they didn't have healthcare... STEWART: Mm-hmm.
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And really seeing this sort of ... you know, the fact that those promises are increasingly threadbare on both counts. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. They're too much thinking about the bottom line and how they could use the ad revenue ... Growth. Growth. Growth.
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One of the fights, I guess I should call it a fight, that we have is over the budget. Mm-hmm.
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It's interesting, what we're finding out is there is a lot of older people are on the social media. Mm-hmm.
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They had to do it with mechanisms that were designed to keep us ignorant, designed to bypass our awareness. Mm-hmm.
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I don't see why there should be a rule that says you have to publish under your own name. Mm-hmm.
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Sure, I think a pretty big deal is that Apple has decided to officially distribute their iPhones on Amazon. Mm-hmm.
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I think it would be very, very hard to imagine a Delaware court overturning the concept of voting control, ... Mm-hmm.
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We thought it was like a Margaret Atwood book of ... It was like reading about the Salem witch trials. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. So I wanted to bring back some of that, and also, it had a variety of length, you know?
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People like me have to keep it on its axis let's say, so it doesn't spin out of control. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Claire Boyle: There's this kind of trend of taking a picture of yourself in that camera on the screen.
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What I want to see is I want to see every state make this a top agenda, regardless of politics. Mm-hmm.
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What we found is that if you run the analysis, you don't find that the most innovative companies always win. Mm-hmm.
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And it is hard to invest in other places where you're not ... There's just a time in the day problem. Mm-hmm.
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We try very hard to invest ... I don't have the data off the top of my head about our portfolio. Mm-hmm.
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I think they're pioneers and they're going to end up with mud on their face and nails in their back. Mm-hmm.
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And knowing what is right and what it wrong and where biases are and being able to test for it. Mm-hmm.
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My mom taught ... She has a master's in education, and so she taught early child development in the nursing school. Mm-hmm.
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There's a number of AI applications for business applications, VitaHealth uses that for example, managing their relationship through the coaches. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. I remember when we first heard — well, two things, either the birther movement, or that President Obama was a Muslim.
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So, I wanted to talk about a few other things, and we wanted to get some questions from the audience. Mm-hmm.
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And so I think that the conversation needs to continue in ways until a person is satisfied and feels comfortable. Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: And, you know, there have been times when I've been like, when they were in a yes phase-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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And their right eye is looking at that while they're trying to do their work with their left eye. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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There should be multiple providers so that you don't have one or two dominant places where you have to go. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Because there's nothing that frustrates me more than seeing a journalist publish something on a site that's just factually incorrect.
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And I hope that we can get some effort also from the German government and to really support that mentality. Mm-hmm.
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Become and sustain, and sustain for me has always been a minimum of 15 years, some make it 50 or more. Mm-hmm.
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Today, 35 to 40 percent of our menu is warm bowls ... sold in warm bowls, and a lot of hot food. Mm-hmm.
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I know that that camp thinks that way, and I think they're gonna ... That doesn't necessarily mean they're abandoning the label. Mm-hmm.
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They both try to goose their own numbers, but Lyft's claim is that they're doing really well here in San Francisco. Mm-hmm.
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I think any other executive would have turned that over immediately if one of your underlings had gotten ahold of it. Mm-hmm.
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At one point the bot's 'mm-hmm' response even drew appreciative laughs from a techie audience that clearly felt in on the 'joke'.
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Tony Xu: It's one of the reasons why we were fairly understated and under the radar in our five-year history. Mm-hmm.
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We've been the fastest growing for the past year, year and a half, growing now over 250 percent year on year. Mm-hmm.
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" Ms Richardson, sitting snug against her sister, accompanies her with hyperactive head rolls, hand gestures and expostulations of "mm-hmm" and "That's right!
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So I've been looking at issues of race, power, gender and artificial intelligence, and some of the issues around tech culture. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm, and to attract people to the platform, much like TaskRabbit, I guess, it's the idea that there's somebody to do something.
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Mm-hmm. I think he's scarred, literally and figuratively, by the end of the movie, and I think scars change people, you know?
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So I took a screenshot of SoFi's ad and tweeted it to the CEO and tweeted it to their corporate handle. Mm-hmm.
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I want them to ... I want to see a different type of leadership from these men and I think it's possible. Mm-hmm.
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The people I ... some philanthropists in California who are spending their money trying to make our census count more accurate. Mm-hmm. Right?
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I'm sort of biased towards people who are fun and who let you in and who don't really give a fuck. Mm-hmm.
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You guys talk about the fact that you took down 8 million terrible pieces of content in the last quarter. Mm-hmm. Right?
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Overall, I think you've just got to keep an eye on which family members are the biggest abusers of the data. Mm-hmm.
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I mean, your business, a lot of your business you were describing is based on talent, people who have an out- Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Well, I got to the Post in September of '84 and by January of '85 I was put on the beat.
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Mm-hmm. So it's from our C-suite all across the company, and it's at the forefront of our minds, literally every day.
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I mean, I think, you know, kind of the major ones in enough ... Of course there's the rumors about Apple. Mm-hmm. Always.
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And the beauty of it that I noticed was when you play fantasy sports, something I know, Kara, you know well ... Mm-hmm.
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Sure. I think it's hard to talk about how The Daily podcast came to be without talking about the 218 election. Mm-hmm.
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I prefer to be in a place where your client is not a company or an individual but is the public. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Right. And there's this obsession around quarterly results, and I feel like it's gonna, if we don't change that as business people.
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Mm-hmm. Amr Gaber: And then the last demand is promoting the chief diversity officer to answer directly to the CEO and the Board.
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Our view is that the biggest companies that scale the most are not going to have ... They're going to have big returns. Mm-hmm.
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So companies have no choice but to get involved in social cause work if they want to hire and retain great talent. Mm-hmm.
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It was through that first meeting that I realized that this was possibly a really interesting place for me to hang out. Mm-hmm.
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He spent $51 billion, the most money that has ever been spent to put on an Olympics, to create an entire city. Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: And one of the things that I asked her was, you know, did sympathy for you over the Lewinsky matter-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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Was that--now that the attacks are much more about his danger--you talk about the danger to the public-- TIM MILLER: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah. So what was the bank's explanation for why it had lended June so much less than what he had asked for?
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It seems like it's only getting worse because on social media, as you said, it's twitchy, it creates that, it separates people. Mm-hmm.
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But, in a lot of ways, it was a way to more broadly start to use software to redefine physical entertainment experiences. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Which was really a celebrated example of something people didn't like, there were congress hearings, Rob Portman, you know, everybody. Prostitution. Yeah.
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But you've also, and you're trained to ... When you construct the system, you think of human beings as a pile of data ... Mm-hmm.
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Well, you are seeing more of these like mini-series and short series because I think that is the wave of the future. Mm-hmm.
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What I basically said is, this is gonna be a financial bloodbath because of sort of the fundamentals of a two-sided market. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Meredith Whittaker: But this is an issue I think for the tech industry overall and for the way that businesses are run, generally.
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I think people are just starting to ... it's just starting to sink in, how outrageous some of that behavior was, again, for decades. Mm-hmm.
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Huh allows the listener to catch up with the speaker, while mm-hmm can function as a conversational turn pass: I'm with you, keep going.
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Mm-hmm, and how does the prevalence of the technology — not just technology itself, but social media — all kinds of things have on that workplace?
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I know, to that point, there's a lot of investors who probably know you as someone who maybe can make connections for them. Mm-hmm.
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Angela Merkel makes it clear at the time that she wants to keep Greece in the euro area pretty much at all costs. Mm-hmm.
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Angela Merkel makes it clear at the time that she wants to keep Greece in the euro area pretty much at all costs. Mm-hmm.
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I was in a moment where something incredible was happening to me and I was ... You know, I talk about this as luck. Mm-hmm.
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Yes, the office actually started out doing a lot of work on the machine learning that goes into the advertising systems at Google. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. I missed out on a lot of things at that age when I was working, but that's why I moved away from Berlin.
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FEARGHAS O'BEARABrussels Johnson wrote about the importance of pauses in conversation, such as the use of "mm-hmm" to show sympathy as a listener (December 16th).
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If you're ever gonna use a social network, then think about where that data's gonna be stored and how it might be used. Mm-hmm. Louie?
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However, to me, the end goal is that the customer, the normal person on the street, doesn't even know that technology's powered by AI. Mm-hmm.
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To watch the students grapple with the biographies and then try and cut and paste from those on to their own sense of themselves. Mm-hmm.
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So, I think that is something which ... Because we talk the talk on that, we don't simply walk the walk, that can really help. Mm-hmm.
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But he also was a factor in the losing money, so my major sadness was I thought it was really a very good magazine. Mm-hmm.
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The workforce is becoming much more diverse, and people want to be in that kind of place that has got that kind of energy. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Just split your time between two exotic locations, go surfing from time to time, then eventually sell your site to the New York Times.
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Of the you can view the invite and the event creator will see that you've seen the invite, but you still don't have to respond. Mm-hmm.
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And I look at this and ... Kara, all by yourself, you have shone lights on so many of these problems and it's having an effect. Mm-hmm.
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Jeff Skoll has done this through participant media where he made waves with "The Inconvenient Truth," the film that he funded on climate change and ... Mm-hmm.
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And it's really, really, really problematic, and I think that having a diverse set of innovators and creators and entrepreneurs would change some of this. Mm-hmm.
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Right. As I explained in the book, she approached Walgreens and Safeway in early 2010 claiming that she ... Mm-hmm, seven years after she started. Right. Right.
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So it was a combination of the two, and it looked not just at the impact of technology but of demographics, urbanization, growing political uncertainty. Mm-hmm.
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The sales side, the exchanges in the middle, the buy side, and they also participate in all those markets themselves, as their own independent player. Mm-hmm.
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There are a lot of sick people in this country, and a lot more will get sick if we just go about our normal lives. Mm-hmm.
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There are a lot of sick people in this country, and a lot more will get sick if we just go about our normal lives. Mm-hmm.
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And product launches are a part of that, but there are certainly a lot of other big, breaking news items that aren't necessarily product launches. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. We'll get to that in a second, but the history of women's clubs, what were you trying to get at for that part of it?
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Mm-hmm, it was the coverage of Bill O'Reilly and Harvey Weinstein and Louis C.K. and the auto workers in Ford and restaurants here in New York.
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Mm-hmm. I think it'll take about three years to fully retool everything at Facebook to be on top of all the content issues and security issues.
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Mm-hmm. And then you have these Airbnbs and these search services, and it feels fragmented all over the place in terms of how it works. Yeah.
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Mm-hmm. The answer to that is a lot of our contracts are under NDA with a partner, and so we can't comment on the exact terms. Okay.
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We have this huge amount of data that we're still learning about at an incredibly rapid pace about our own bodies and how our bodies work. Mm-hmm.
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These staffs are blended, but we have to make all these different things, and so ideally, you're just making them to very best of your ability. Mm-hmm.
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Meredith Whittaker: This was a more-or-less secretive contract with the DoD that was essentially leveraging Google's artificial intelligence capabilities to build surveillance for drones. Mm-hmm.
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" One of them (I'm not sure if it's Diamond or Silk) does all the talking in these videos, and the other one goes, "uh huh!" and "mm-hmm!
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I know that it makes me sad, and I know that a lot of people who have watched ... There's something about it that makes me sad. Mm-hmm.
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It was in hindsight perhaps obvious, but at the time obviously, to some very smart people, it wasn't clear how that could be abused so strongly. Mm-hmm.
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Well, I want to promote Magic Leap, because I live in Florida, and we only have two real unicorns down there, Chewy and Magic Leap. Mm-hmm. Chewy!
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The only reason those apps have been so successful is because there's a foundation of a platform that you're comfortable being around you at all times. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. I think that's been useful to them to create a bond with their community and to enlist political support in the places where they've needed it.
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Yes, that's ... And so for her, the work is really creating a world where people are gonna experience this particular, imaginary, speculative way of working through trauma. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Jeff Bezos — I put this in Be Fearless, in the book — Jeff Bezos said when he was thinking about quitting his Wall Street job ... At D.E. Shaw?
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Mm-hmm. I had friends of friends of friends and just was relentless and bugged people and got meetings, and then they acquiesced and introduced me to other people.
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You never have to wait around for someone else to do something for you, you just figure it out yourself or you don't do it at all. Mm-hmm.
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Went and studied computer science at Cambridge University and then did a PhD on this big question of, "It's so hard to program robots to do stuff ..." Mm-hmm.
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I think Dean Baquet, a year ago maybe, told me that the Sunday Times print edition is still the biggest part of their business. Post-op. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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For example, if I have a town hall and if in my town hall in a district that is heavily Asian American no Asian American showed up. Mm-hmm.
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I think I said 11:00 PM last night, I've been a little bit less on Twitter in the last few days- Mm-hmm, it goes up and down.
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So, that's what I think has changed, and I think the way to get back to first principles is to make sure you understand what they are. Mm-hmm.
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And also the right for a Google worker to bring a coworker or other supporter in to an HR investigation, because that can be a very daunting process. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm, yeah, that's one reason why the horse race model, even though nobody really believes that strongly in it, continues on, because it has an answer to that, right?
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I think where it goes next is, I think we have to do something about the perceptions that people have around, are work places actually in need of diversity. Mm-hmm.
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In other words, even before AT&T was looking to buy Time-Warner, every distributor out there was concerned that I'm paying more for HBO than the next guy. Mm-hmm.
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And it just gave me a bug on the country, the region, the culture, but also a bug for getting paid to travel the world and bring back stories. Mm-hmm.
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And I think they don't understand how much they have to lose, and maybe I get it because I'm in a body that has an 8 percent approval rating. Mm-hmm.
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And certainly, one of the things that I think has been emerging is just imagining that ... We're at this point where the internet does show signs of kind of fracturing. Mm-hmm.
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Erica Anderson: Yeah, absolutely, but we found each other in a really unexpected way, and so it's been so inspiring and I don't know, something I'm really excited about. Mm-hmm. Stephanie?
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Facebook is more useful with two billion people on it than when there were 10, and you can actually argue that's not the case, but that's the generally accepted theory. Mm-hmm.
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I still think that we encourage our boys to get dirty and be technical and to build and create things and we're still pushing dolls and princesses to our girls. Mm-hmm.
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I'm not as impressed with their editorial efforts over the many years, and it's changed and changed and changed again and I've largely come to the conclusion they don't care. Mm-hmm.
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And as he was talking, it occurred to me that basically what was happening was the technology companies were becoming so important that they were really more like the Navy. Mm-hmm.
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So I think that Facebook, Google and Twitter are moving ahead pretty well in that regard, and I'm impressed with the turnaround that I've seen, looking through side channels. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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So, form networks, listen to other people, be curious about what they're angry about, and then try and work with the people who you share common goals and frustrations with. Mm-hmm.
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I do find it interesting, the people that talk — and you'll find this, Casey — the people that talk to me who love the podcasts are a very different fan base. Mm-hmm.
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And then, just the next year, there were four different vehicles that actually finished the entire race, two from Carnegie Mellon, then Stanford one, and then there was another one. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. You're either appealing to the brain, the heart or the genitals, and as you move down the torso, the margins get better because the decision making becomes more irrational. Right.
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Mm-hmm. That any means necessary to get there is justified and of course every tech company has always shipped products at the first moment and let the users sort out the problems.
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Mm-hmm. Revolve. That's another one where they have stores where they only have one item in each place and they bring you things, but they have a different kind of experience. Yeah.
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And we often don't think about, I sometimes feel like I don't hear from these CEOs unless there's a walk-out happening or a protest happening or a sexual harassment allegation. Mm-hmm.
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I'm in a group message with all the women in my neighborhood who are Wing members, and then, now, you can post jobs and apply for jobs and hire each other. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm And they have to be passionate that the technology that they come in to work every day to go build is being used in ways that are aligned to their purpose now.
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It's funny, I just would have assumed, people are very sensitive about their image and especially like when they go on a popular service like yours or a popular account like yours. Mm-hmm.
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It's almost as if that ... I think one of the kind of surreal aspects of our current political environment is there is the sense that people are kind of afraid of power. Mm-hmm.
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The idea was creating a restaurant that ... or a place to eat that made you feel excited to eat it, good while you're eating it, good right after, and good many years after. Mm-hmm.
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We are so detached from what is happening in the rest of the world and I think a lot of that has to do with what we see on our social media feeds. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. And so we've got a bill that was introduced by David Cicilline, chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, that would allow us to band together as an industry and negotiate collectively with them.
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And, I mean, that continues all the way through college, where the kid just doesn't feel empowered to do it without somebody there telling them whether they are doing it right or wrong. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Anyway, actually, one of the things which was very pivotal in how I started thinking about this particular issue of technology and democracy was I went to a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
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Mm-hmm, well, I use an analogy in my piece for social status to sort of like a cryptocurrency, where there's sort of some hurdle you have to go over to get ... Proof of work, right?
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And the way that they've solved that, and this is so actionable, is they have every single person, every year, write what they call a CLUE, which stands for a Colleague Letter of Understanding. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Right. There was a possible deal before the trial took place where the DOJ said, "Hey, we'll let this deal go through if you sell Turner," meaning you don't buy Turner, which includes CNN.
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By the way, who are we to think that ... You know, there's a third of the country that likes Trump, and not all of them are crazy people, when we should take them seriously. Mm-hmm.
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I think lots of folks have been behind, the folks that are the most behind and I know you've talked about this and you and I talked about this on my podcast, lawmakers. Mm-hmm. 210%.
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I googled, there's like 900 places to talk and all kinds of opportunities, but I think once you say something that's not in their value system, maybe it's not a place you need to work. Mm-hmm.
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They're thinking about how you can solve the underlying problems of, say, homelessness, so you don't have to just give a man a bed, that you can prevent homelessness from happening in the first place. Mm-hmm.
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It's actually really fundamentally aligning the companies with their long-term plans, and it became one of the reasons I'm optimistic, is tech companies tend to have leaders that are around for a long time. Mm-hmm.
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Not just because ... So look, before this election ... I'm a partisan, but I believe that Democrats winning the House was one of the most important steps we could take as a country to protect ourselves. Right. Mm-hmm.
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THRUSH: --who you--we were talking a little bit about-- WILMORE: Mm. THRUSH: --before we turned this thing on, where Roger Stone was kind of talking about how Trump needs everything orally, like he has-- WILMORE: Mm-hmm.
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But one of the things that UTC is doing as a tech company to help develop more of its workforce is to retrain people who are already there to help them keep up with changing technology. Mm-hmm.
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Someone who can sit down with a Cabinet Secretary and say, "Your system isn't gonna launch the way you thought it was going to," but can also put their hands on the keyboard and do a thing. Mm-hmm.
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Last week we got news that Nest — which is a division of Google that makes, among other things, security devices — got hacked by some dude who made a family think they were under a nuclear missile assault. Mm-hmm.
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Anyways, so no, I wasn't among those who railed against the Huffington Post, although it's interesting to note that HuffPost got more traffic by aggregating my coverage of Nelson Mandela's funeral than the New York Times did. Mm-hmm.
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And I had two great mentors, Michael Ray and Bill Azir, who are both professors there who went to bat for me and got me in to start teaching at Stanford when I was 883 years old in 1988. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Meredith Whittaker: I really feel the possibility of building this new source of power, figuring out what it means to use these skills collectively toward a vision that we think is healthier and better and safer for everyone.
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I think that we have to show women a different way and not be stuck in the way that we have been actually raising young girls, and we as women have felt that we actually can't take risks. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, I went to Penn and worked at Goldman in the '103s, but then I went out to the west coast and worked at a firm called Brentwood Associates, which was one of the early venture firms in LA. Mm-hmm.
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Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science focuses, rightly or wrongly — and I think rightly — on the second group, the folks designing the next generation of what's going on, and so for that, we still have a dangerous undersupply. Mm-hmm.
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And when you take that lens and say let's use VR, not just to train soldiers, but let's train athletes, and let's train people who work at a big consumer ... So I think training is a low-hanging fruit. Mm-hmm.
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We started to think about that and out of that came this plan which if I had a picture I could push through this microphone and show you, I think you would see that it's very architecturally ambitious. Mm-hmm.
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And that's really important because I don't know if ... There's a famous quote, where Francis Ford Coppola is talking about how filmmaking will only be an art form when the 13-year-old girl can make a movie with her camera. Mm-hmm.
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But we have found that, while in the first years of the U.S. Digital Service the story was about trying to establish the group, one thing that we found is if we can be better partners and collaborators ... Mm-hmm, with these agencies.
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If you have vertical expertise and you are willing to sit down and scrub through AI, learn how to use data and how data's becoming so much more valuable, Silicon Valley certainly doesn't have any type of monopoly on data. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm, yeah, like I think it turns out that ... Well, two things: Initially, I was writing on Amazon because I felt like whereas Apple had a lot of people writing about it all the time, not that many people wrote about Amazon.
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Maybe I read about this when she was arraigned, and then as I was doing research for this, I was actually doing some googling, there was a Vanity Fair piece about this same case that came out about a month ago. Mm-hmm.
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And then, similarly, you can say, "I'm a freelance writer and I'm looking for beauty opportunities," to write about beauty or something, and sort of amplify, signal boost what you're looking for professionally, and then people can find you that way. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. What I love about Indie Hackers is it's so focused on the mechanics and the details, and it's not about, you know, everyone can get excited about the idea of starting a company, but how do you actually do that?
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Over, and over, and over again, think about how many times Donald Trump, and this is a good thing, I guess, has threatened to sue someone or threatened to change something, and most of the time he doesn't do it. Mm-hmm.
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It's grown incredibly fast, and it provides property and casualty insurance online, and effectively, if you have no offices, no brokers, no agents, no Super Bowl ads, and really good tech, you can offer people a much better product for much less. Mm-hmm.
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The other one is this notion of machine intelligence, and automation is a big part of that, which we're seeing more and more systems that can mimic and do the kinds of things that we thought only humans can do really well. Mm-hmm.
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So VitaHealth, for example, which is one of our current investments at Aspect, is using an online coaching platform to manage chronic conditions and they have super significant ... So you have diabetes or ... Diabetes, or obesity, smoke secession, actually emotional health as well. Mm-hmm.
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They just didn't have access to as much as you could get, so even when you censor, and I think that they way that we manage search results, when we knew that there was an area the government would not let us show. Mm-hmm.
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So even the companies I feel like have made huge mistakes thus far, some of the ones we've named, I'm actually highly optimistic about them adapting and moving to the direction that's more beneficial for them and society over the next five years. Mm-hmm.
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There's always one or two — Chance the Rapper is out there — who have gone and created a successful musical career without a big label or they created a successful musical career with a label and then they go off on their own, like a Radiohead. Mm-hmm.
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I think the big picture is, we're gonna end up in a world where it's much, much easier to move around in cities because of these short solutions, or the last-mile, last-yard kind of solutions, also because of autonomous vehicles, which are coming. Mm-hmm.
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If you talk to people who have a Pell Grant, or if you talk to people who are, finally, after all these centuries, enjoying their full rights, gay and lesbian Americans, they feel positively that government has been on their side, at least... STEWART: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah. So I know a lot more about retail than you think, and one of these companies, and I'm blanking, it was a very trendy teen retailer and it was in Washington, DC, and it took off like a roman candle on the stock market.
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But if I'm reading your essay, the fact that I enjoy House of Highlights so much should make the NBA worried, because the suggestion there is I'm going to be more happy watching House of Highlights that I would watching an NBA game. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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But the customer is delighted because instead of going to a patent firm and paying an exorbitant cost to write a patent filing and waiting three to four weeks, we can do it in one to two weeks for a third of the cost. Mm-hmm.
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The thinking being that if I posted my new app on Product Hunt, I'm not only gonna get discovered by maybe journalists who will write about it, but investors who want to give me money, 'cause they're always lookin' for the new, hot thing. Mm-hmm.
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That's a great ... So a lot of early military funding, but it's a great example where you have a well-defined enough problem where you can sort of approach it and put a real good dent in it in that focused of a space. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. Stephanie Parker: It's coming off the backs of the employees who are working overtime and competing against each other for the little bit of money that's left, so that a few people at the top can get even richer and have even more power over our lives.
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He wanted to keep his news values intact, and so he fired Harry, and Harry, you know, with his swashbuckling end, you know, kind of jumped out of there, and so in a sense, we were both sort of free and ready to make our lives anew. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. And you could hear him thumping a table, and ... Yeah, we are sitting down during the interview as you do in a lawyer's conference room and then we had stood up to leave and then he put his hand on the table and kind of leaned over.
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The, you know the thing that they -- I think the people who are rallying to him would say -- I mean, some of it is just, I think, grounded in pure racism, and nativism, and all of that, but there also is the fact that the economy; you mentioned globalism, technology... STEWART: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. So I stayed on the board as long as I thought I could be helpful, mostly, and the company is in a really good place now compared to some of the time it's been before and I just felt like I want to spend my time and energy on other things.
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But I do think as individuals ... I think there's a lot of people out there that would look back on their tweets and posts and conduct online since they started using Twitter and say ... Let's say they took all of my tweets and made an artificially intelligent version of me. Right. Mm-hmm.
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GLENN THRUSH: The counter-argument is Cruz--in terms of his mainstream acceptability, Cruz is probably at his apex because he's right now being--you know, if you looked at the exits from Wisconsin, so many people who voted for him identified themselves as an anti-Trump voter-- TIM MILLER: Mm-hmm.
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Like a logistical ... Tony Xu: That way we can actually live in a much more positive I think view of tech, which is not displacing all these jobs but actually keeping the 60 percent of jobs that are reduced by these businesses, which that statistic has been true for six decades now. Mm-hmm.
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But how we use that technology, what kind of obligation we impose on the tech companies, I do think that the congressional scrutiny of how these tech companies are operating, whether they're using best practices, whether they're being good corporate citizens, whether they still deserve that immunity provision ... Mm-hmm, we'll get to that.
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Rights to the NFL games, rights to MLB games, and they already own some of these things, and I think, you know, if they take a deeper look they're like, oh, CBS already owns a lot of these rights and they're really good at producing these programs around them, so maybe we just do that then. Mm-hmm.
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So basically our books are our recipes on how we do work and how we think about work and how we think about growing a company, and marketing and not taking money and working remotely and working calmly and doing 40-hour weeks and eight-hour days and thinking that's enough versus going crazy. Mm-hmm.
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I have to say, I'm sorry for calling her out, but a platform that is steering 2 billion peoples' thoughts in a known, documented, radicalization way that we know is causing people to believe conspiracy theories, and to increase hatred, and 0003 percent of white nationalists in this Bellingcat study said YouTube is what "red-pilled" them into white nationalism. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm. They thought, "We're going to wait until '20 and just take back the White House," but I think when the military steps in and these people, regardless of what you think of them or the political elites, these people have been standing watch for our nation for decades, and they're not paid very well or they're not rich people.
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Mm-hmm. If you were comparing something like the Apple Watch to a traditional fitness watch, people are like, "Oh, the Apple Watch has a beautiful display," and it absolutely does, but that's the trade-off right there is that your battery life has a day and a half or so, maybe two days, and a traditional fitness watch could be a month.
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There hasn't been a lot of innovation recently, and I thought that I'd want to spend the next decade of my life diving into new areas like that, and as a result, actually, the last six years I've spent about maybe 25 percent of my time and money investing in healthcare innovation, which is something I'd never been able to do before. Mm-hmm.
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And before I scare a lot of you with that, I mean when you go out there and you want to learn what an enemy is up to, what an adversary might be thinking, when an adversary or an enemy begins to use all these modern tools, and especially back in that day, they were putting them up into a domain that was near defenseless. Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.. But the other thing of a lesser nature, but relates to this, that he's been criticized for is not compelling the president to come speak to him, not issuing a subpoena, and fighting it out to get actual live testimony with the possibility of follow-up questions to understand what was in the mind of the president when he was engaged in those- Which was critical to obstruction.
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Maybe it doesn't affect you, but it's causing genocides around the world, or it's causing millions of people to believe conspiracy theories and debasing our social fabric, but because that doesn't affect you, people don't have that same level of urgency of we have to shut it down, but they really need to see, it's not like the world was broken before, 10 years ago, when you could watch a video and nothing auto-played. Mm-hmm.
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