Paul Bradley Carr
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Past articles by Paul:
Pando: The Assholistocracy
In both Britain and America, the levers of power are now in the hands of men (mostly men) who, when faced with anything resembling a moral decision, appear to ask themselves only one question: What would a total fucking asshole do? → Read More
Pando: Engineers are fixing Silicon Valley
If the past decade gave us the “cult of the founder” – where investors, users and employees, were forced to bend to the whims of the Kalanicks and Dorseys no matter how much evil they did – perhaps the next decade will be remembered for the resurgence and reiteration of the cult of the engineers. → Read More
Pando: "The line"
I finally got my green card. Here's what I couldn't say about US immigration until now. → Read More
Pando: Masterclass: My new favourite fucked company
It's Khan Academy for price-insensitive dilettantes. Like me! → Read More
Pando: He's back!
Michael Arrington has chosen this of all moments to loudly re-enter the public eye. → Read More
Pando: Karma to Pishevar: You've been Sherved
How dare anyone (except Shervin Pishevar) claim that Shervin Pishevar is tight with Putin. → Read More
Pando: Facebook will be regulated, just maybe not by America
Zuckerberg's arrogance is giving European lawmakers all the excuse they need. → Read More
Pando: Faces of Silicon Valley
After eight years of sobriety, it's impossible to miss the similarities between my former addiction problem and that of the tech industry. → Read More
Pando: Jack and Biz don't want to fix Twitter
No amount of protest will be enough to change who Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone are, or how little they care about the plight of their users. → Read More
Pando: Jack Dorsey's character limit
Twitter - a texting toy founded by three milquetoasts who couldn’t disrupt a dinner party with an airhorn - has turned out to be the most dangerous tech company on the planet. → Read More
Pando: London regulators find Uber "not fit and proper": A most damningly British indictment
Five whole levels worse than “not up to snuff”, two higher than “acting like a bunch of tossers” → Read More
Pando: Breaking news from (maybe) 2020: It was so, so much worse than we thought
Watching the Facebook/Russia coverage is painful. → Read More
Pando: Abusing Ourselves To Death
It’s tantalizing to wonder what Neil Postman would have made of the age of Social Media trolling as politics. → Read More
Pando: Desperately seeking escapism: Pando goes to Magic LIVE (Part One)
Monday. The Orleans Hotel, Las Vegas NV. → Read More
Pando: Marc Canter and his wife decry "fake news," attack victim, say women who wear "plunging necklines" should expect to be harassed
Sometimes explaining why someone is fucking awful takes a lot of words. Other times it requires almost no words at all. Below, falling firmly into the latter camp, is a series of increasingly unbelievable (decreasingly believable?) messages posted on Facebook over the past few days by "master of multimedia" Marc Canter and his wife, Lisa Brewer Canter. In the days long rant, the Canters insist… → Read More
Pando: Y Combinator's Sam Altman goes full-on Donald Trump, makes astonishing threat against Pando/Sarah Lacy
The Donald Trump of Venture Capitalists. → Read More
Pando: The State of Pando 2017: Dropping the paywall on stories from the Silicon Valley Swamp
And here we are, stuck in the middle with you. → Read More
Pando: Five years on: Telling the uncensored story of NSFWCORP, in real time
Las Vegas, September 18th 2011. Early that morning I took a cab to a strip mall TV studio somewhere behind the Mirage hotel. Mic’d, wired and staring into a black void, I explained to viewers of Howard Kurtz’s CNN media show why I had suddenly and publicly resigned from AOL/TechCrunch. My resignation came at the end of an increasingly bitter turf war between AOL’s Arianna Huffington and… → Read More
Pando: Monsters
Uber executives reportedly obtained and distributed the medical records of a rape victim in order to discredit her. → Read More
Pando: The Beat
Did you see Trump fired Comey? Did you see Trump gave secret intel to the Russians? Did you see Trump told Comey to stop investigating Flynn? Did you see they’ve appointed a special counsel? Did you see Trump called the investigation the biggest witch hunt in American history? → Read More