marc benioff
Can We Stop Putting Tech Billionaires’ Names On Bay Area Hospitals?
I was stuck in a traffic jam on CA-24 in Oakland and I started to look around. I like driving, I know it’s cool to hate cars, and I understand the root of their argument – cars are bad for cities, and investments in public transportation are what is needed
Oakland’s Satirical News Source Back In Action
Bay Area humorists, rejoice: Oakland’s premier satirical news source is back. If you’ve lived here since circa 2012 (or, like me, you left and came back), you may remember Oakland Unseen. The satire specialist covered local controversies like Occupy Oakland, police brutality, and the annual unwashed tide of Burning Man
The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide
A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But
An Open Letter to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
Hey Marc! Broke-Ass Stuart here. I’ve been trying to connect with you for a little while by emailing your team and tweeting at you, but I’ve had no luck so far. I don’t take it personally though. After all, I am the guy who wrote a viral article naming your
The Hightest-Paid Tech CEO Is One of the Most Evil
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is climbing in the polls, due in part to her tendency to roll out plan after plan designed to make America a fundamentally fairer country to live in. As the Atlantic succinctly put it a couple years ago, America has “one small, predominantly white upper class that
Salesforce Employees Join #TechWontBuildIt Fight
The protest and press conference was a response to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, The demands of Salesforce employees follow similar actions by workers at IBM, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, who are demanding their company cancel contracts with the federal government in response to Trump administration policies.