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LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism

The Verge

An employee from Fiji said, “It is not solely a ‘white’ problem to solve. The same day, a white employee followed up with the employee from Fiji — the one who’d spoken about this not being just a “white” problem — to discuss why the words had been harmful. The chat function on BlueJeans, however, told a different story.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

Moreover, Oceankind itself is not a nonprofit, which are required to open their books every year in public filings to the IRS. Page and his family are reported to have spent much of the pandemic in Fiji. Instead, Southworth incorporated Oceankind as a limited liability company (LLC), making it virtually opaque to public scrutiny. “I

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The Station: Uber’s new battles in the UK, Lucid Motors’ second life plans and Cruise acquires Voyage

TechCrunch

SMART’s co-founders, Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, are targeting the cycling market first with their METL tire, which is set to become available to the general public by early next year. Voyage’s partnership with FCA, now called Stellantis, will also end once the acquisition with Cruise closes.