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More Than 600 Google Employees Sign Manifesto Opposing Their Workplace Vaccine Mandate

This is merely 600 workers out of 150,000, and you know they’re all just going to cave in eventually, but 600 Google employees won’t go down without a tantrum over the company’s vaccination mandate.

SF Dispensaries Gear Up for Green Wednesday, the ‘Black Friday of Weed’

The day before Thanksgiving is the second-busiest cannabis shopping day of the year, and we recommend you shop early, or pre-order online.

Tesla Fremont Plant Employee Sues Over ‘Rampant Sexual Harassment’ At the Facility

An employee at the Tesla Fremont plant says she was routinely groped, catcalled, and propositioned on the job, even by her superiors, in a new sexual harassment lawsuit.

Business & Tech

DoorDash Settles for $5.3 Million Over Stiffing Drivers Out of Health Care and Sick Leave

New city attorney David Chiu’s first big settlement means cash in the hands of some 4,500 local DoorDash drivers who had tips swiped and didn’t get mandated benefits, with some drivers getting more than $10,000.

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Apple Relents and Will Let You Repair Your Own Devices, But Only On the Newest iPhones

The long-sought consumer “right to repair” will finally arrive from Apple, but only for iPhone 12 and 13, and you have to buy the tools from them.

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Facebook, Desperate to Control Distribution, Looks to Retail Stores — But Will Anyone Shop at The Meta Store?

Facebook — because I refuse to call them Meta — is going hard on retail, and eventually we're likely to see stores around the globe selling Portals and Oculus headsets and, like, Meta-branded mugs and T-shirts?

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Filings Show Elon Musk’s Stock Sell-Off Was Pre-Scheduled, Likely Unrelated to Twitter Poll

The latest Elon Musk Twitter nonsense involved a poll where his fanboys would determine whether he should sell his Tesla stock and finally pay taxes, but regulatory filings show the sale was planned in mid-September.

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Feds Sue Uber Over 'Wait Time' Fees Which They Say Discriminate Against the Disabled

The Department of Justice has filed suit against Uber over the company's practice of charging fees when drivers have to wait more than two minutes for a passenger to get in their vehicle.

Business & Tech

Amazon Reveals More About Its Planned Potrero Warehouse on Former Recology Site

Amazon had a virtual public meeting Monday to discuss its plans to build a three-story warehouse and delivery hub at 7th and Berry streets, at the edge of Potrero Hill and the Design District, across the tracks from the foot of Mission Creek.

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International Hackers Have Breached Nine Organizations, Says Bay Area Cybersecurity Firm

At least one U.S. company, but probably more, is among several firms that a Santa Clara-based cybersecurity firm says has been infiltrated via some sort of password theft scheme that appears to be targeting the Department of Defense.

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Airbnb Books Highest Net Income Quarter Ever, as People Are Vaxxed and Travelling Again

The travel rebound is being very, very good to Airbnb, which just raked in more money than in any other quarter, even though the average booking price is down $12 a day.

Arts & Entertainment

Carole Baskin Is Suing Netflix, Because Of Course

Carole Baskin and her probably very exhausted husband Harold Baskin are now suing Netflix to stop the release of the second season of Tiger King, which is set to premiere on November 17. The Baskins say that they were misled by the filmmakers, and they are alleging breach of contract.

Business & Tech

Yep, Facebook Now Wants to Be Called 'Meta'

Facebook's big rebranding reveal came on schedule today, during CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote address at the company's annual Connect conference, and the new name for Facebook is Meta.

Business & Tech

Lyft Logged More Than 3,000 Sexual Assault Incidents In Three Years, According to Their Own Data

While the company claims that nearly 40% of the sexual assaults were by riders. more than a thousand assault cases a year seems unusually high for any type of business.

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Facebook's PR Crisis Continues As More News Outlets Report on the 'Facebook Papers'

Revelations about Facebook's knowledge of its enormous and fundamental problems, and the company's ineptitude in handling them or lack of true interest in trying because it would hurt the bottom line, are continuing to roll in.

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Fired Trans Netflix Employee Says They Were Not Acting Surreptitiously With Data, But It Was About Content Equity

The Black trans Netflix employee who was fired last week amid the internal uproar at the company over the transphobia in Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special has given a new interview to explain how things went down.

Business & Tech

Facebook Is Pulling an Alphabet and Changing Its Name Next Week

It's all about the metaverse! According to an internal source at Facebook, the company is preparing a big announcement next week to change its corporate identity and name, which of course has nothing to do with all the negative associations that "Facebook" now has.

Business & Tech

Facebook Wants to Build a Hi-Res Version of 'Second Life' It's Calling the 'Metaverse'

Facebook's latest futuristic idea, which the company says it wants to build with a team of 10,000 new hires in Europe, sounds like a fancy new version of the mid-aughts virtual reality desktop game Second Life, only with Zuckerberg watching your online travels.

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Chappelle Controversy Continues Roiling Netflix as Black Trans Employee Gets Fired for Alleged Data Leak

Dave Chappelle's exhausting, transphobic, grievance-filled rant of a comedy special continues to be a problem for Netflix as news came out late last week that the Los Gatos-based company had fired a Black trans employee who was helping the organize a walkout protest related to the special.

Business & Tech

Why Are Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Constantly Hitting the Same Dead End On 15th Avenue?

Neighbors on one street in San Francisco's Richmond District seem to be witnessing the training of robot cars in the art of the three-point turn — over, and over, and over again.

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Video Streaming Service Twitch Got Breached Hard, Site’s Entire Source Code Posted Online

SF-based gaming site Twitch pretty much had the keys to their kingdom snatched and posted on 4Chan, and since it’s owned by Amazon… is anything safe anymore?

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Mark Zuckerberg Would Again Like to Assure You That Profit Is Not Facebook's Sole Motive

In response to a string of very bad headlines and a catastrophic outage of all of the company's services this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly posted a message on Tuesday that he says he sent to all of his employees, reassuring them that Facebook is not evil.

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Facebook Vaguely Explains Cause of Longest Outage In 13 Years; Whistleblower Says 'Declare Moral Bankruptcy'

The six-hour outage on Monday that brought down Facebook's entire network of products — including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus — was caused by a router issue, or something, and both the company and CEO Mark Zuckerberg say they're very sorry you had to stop scrolling for an afternoon.