🗣️ Google employees call for company to support Palestinians and protect anti-Zionist speech
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Google employees call for company to support Palestinians and protect anti-Zionist speech. A group of Jewish Google employees is calling on the company to increase its support of Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly bombing campaign in Gaza. The conflict started with Israel’s attempt to evict Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem, and escalated when militants fired rockets toward Jerusalem and Israel responded with airstrikes. (Zoe Schiffer via The Verge)
Bitcoin plunges 10% to a 14-week low as sell-off continues, but a bottom could be near. Bitcoin fell over 10% to hit an intraday low of $40,257.80 at around 11:00 p.m. ET, according to CoinDesk data. That was the lowest level since Feb. 9. Bitcoin is off about 37% from its all-time high of $64,829.14 which was hit in mid-April. (Arjun Kharpal via CNBC)
Banks Always Backed Fossil Fuel Over Green Projects-Until This Year. In more than five years since the world agreed to limit warming temperatures, banks have poured more than $3.6 trillion into fossil fuel—almost three times more than total bonds and loans backing green projects, according to Bloomberg data. (Tim Quinson via Bloomberg)
Somewhere Good just raised $3.75M to make your somewhere good. Nearly every social media experience today is built on the same premise: Humans identify with individuality. Users create a profile, upload an avatar picture, write a short biography and can then scream into the ether to other users on behalf of… (Natasha Mascarenhas via TechCrunch)
How Parking Drives Up Housing Prices. Lewis mumford was suspicious of parking. “The right to access every building in a city by private motorcar,” he wrote in The City in History, “in an age when everyone owns such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.” (Michael Manville via The Atlantic)
'They Want Enough Money to Keep Up the Fight': New York Media's Top Union Erupts in Conflict Over Cash. The NewsGuild of New York has unleashed a wave of unionization throughout the journalism business, having organized more than three dozen print, digital, and broadcast shops, and it shows no signs of slowing down. (Joe Pompeo via Vanity Fair)
Fidelity's Pitch to America's Teens: No-Fee Brokerage Accounts. Fidelity Investments Inc. plans to open the door to a new generation of investors who will be able to trade stocks even before they learn how to drive or head to college. (Justin Baer via Wall Street Journal)
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