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Keith A. Spencer (page 6)

Keith A. Spencer is a social critic and author. Previously a senior editor at Salon, he writes about capitalism, science, labor and culture, and published a book on how Silicon Valley is destroying the world. Keep up with his writing on Twitter, Facebook, or Substack.

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Don’t fear fake accounts on Facebook. Fear Facebook itself

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Mark Zuckerberg (Getty/Gerard Julien)

Mark Zuckerberg’s latest comment shows he has no idea how Facebook works

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Aliens at the dinner table

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The Mars rover, named Opportunity, is shown in this artist conception. (AP Photo/NASA)

Martian storm could doom NASA’s Opportunity Rover

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Peter Thiel; Ron Paul; Milton Friedman; Julian Assange (AP/Getty/salon)

How Bitcoin made right-wing conspiracy theories mainstream

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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds organic molecules on Mars – evidence life may have existed on planet

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Elon Musk (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Why is Elon Musk so bad at Twitter?

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Jane Kim

San Francisco’s progressive mayoral candidate Jane Kim has tech millionaires running scared

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Mary Meeker (Getty/Mike Windle)

Much-vaunted “Internet Trends Report” drops: A glimpse at how Silicon Valley sees the world

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California reaps $60 million in marijuana tax revenue, loses $7 billion to gig economy

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Is your planet too frigid for life? Just add methane

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Bird and Spin scooters sit parked on a street corner in San Francisco, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Scooter race to the bottom: Three scooter companies, one exploitative labor model

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Larry Harvey, co-founder of the Burning Man festival (AP/John Curley)

Larry and me: My dinner in Switzerland with the late founder of Burning Man

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Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man; Elon Musk; Josh Brolin as Thanos; Donald Trump (Marvel Studios/AP Photo)

Peak superhero? Not even close: How one movie genre became the guiding myth of neoliberalism

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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein (Getty/Josh Edelson)

“Live Work Work Work Die” paints a portrait of Silicon Valley hypocrisy

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Naturopathic doctor treats preschooler with “rabid dog saliva”: This is our world

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The cryptocurrency bubble stems from our STEM obsession

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Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

An Italian experiment is tantalizingly close to detecting dark matter

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Thomas Piketty says Bernie Sanders’ electoral strategy is the way to beat back the right

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Some millennials aren’t saving for retirement because they don’t think capitalism will exist by then

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Wall Street is bearish on Trump (again)

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signs a bill March 5, 2018, that makes Washington the first state to set up its own net-neutrality requirements. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Washington governor signs net neutrality bill into law

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Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg, possibly drunk, says he won’t cooperate with Mueller subpoena

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A man removes the word Trump from the marquee outside the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City, March 5, 2018. (AP/Arnulfo Franco)

How the Trump Hotel Panama saga captures the failures of the #Resistance

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