The improbable rise — and reinvention — of a 25-year-old engineer at the center of a national controversy.1. The Quiet Beginnings of a Silicon Valley EngineerIn the leafy suburbs of Montgomery Township, New Jersey, Marko Elez grew up not unlike many ambitious young technologists who would come of age in the decade after the smartphone revolution. Born in 1999 or 2000, Elez showed early promise — graduating from Montgomery High School in 2018, a year ahead of many of his peers. There, he wasn’t j
#JeffBezos paid 75 millions $ for "Melania" and now cuts one-third of the #WashingtonPost staff. Time for a new tagline.
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The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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project led by Prof. Francesca Bria, xof-research.
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Flights too expensive, classes in session, and no postal voting—Sabah youths are blocked from voting. Hajiji and Putrajaya must act: allow postal voting so every eligible voter can participate. #SabahVotes #DemocracyAtRisk
Doug Ford is nothing more than a two-faced con man. His attempt to hide this with attacks on Donald Trump was only because he and his cronies lose money if there's no cross border trade.
First robbing municipalities of their democratic rights with his authoritarian Mayor's Law, now robbing indigenous and rural settler people of their right to decide on the fate of their lands with the obscene Bill 5, he's shown his true motives.
Ontario needs genuine democratic leadership and Doug Ford sure ain't it.
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