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Roger McNamee
@Moonalice
Author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Musician - Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System.
San Francisco, CA
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    May 16, 2025
    Today, Moonalice returns with a reflective new song and video, “Me and My Family.” Erika Tietjen of the @TSistersmusic takes center stage with her soulful vocals and heartfelt lyrics about keeping your loved ones close, especially in times of stress. 🎧 moonalice.ffm.to/meandmyfamily
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Jun 27, 2020
    Big day for #StopHate4Profit: Unilever, Honda, Coca-Cola, and Hershey’s joined the “pause.” Does it matter? Investors think so. FB lost ~$55.8 billion in value today, costing Zuck ~$15.75 billion. Amplifying hate for profit is no longer acceptable. StopHateForProfit.org
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Dec 19, 2020
    One of the core attractions of algorithms is that they allow the powerful to blame a black box for politically unattractive outcomes for which they would otherwise be responsible (e.g., predictive policing, mortgage redlining, biased hiring).
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    Dan Diamond
    @ddiamond
    Dec 19, 2020
    Replying to @ddiamond
    Facing angry doctors, Stanford official tries to explain why vaccine went to others instead. The algorithm “clearly didn’t work,” he says, as doctors boo + accuse him of lying. “Algorithms suck!” shouts one protester. “Fuck the algorithm,” says another. (video via tipster)
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Oct 29, 2024
    .@WIRED reports that FB is enabling militias to organize. It is even autogenerating Groups for them. After 8 years of this, Congress and the legal system have failed to do anything to rein in this company.
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    Leah Feiger
    @LeahFeiger
    Oct 29, 2024
    SCOOP via @misstessowen: Ahead of the election, militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even *auto-generating* pages. Yes, *auto-generating* wired.com/story/facebook…
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Nov 10, 2024
    No one understands this moment and how we got here better than @carolecadwalla. If ever there was a “must read” essay, this is it.
    theguardian.com
    A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole...
    The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Aug 15, 2020
    This got buried in the crush of news yesterday. FB abandoned drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluids under sea floor in OR. Is this not a perfect metaphor? Move fast, break things, leave behind toxic waste, hope no one notices.
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    Kale Williams
    @sfkale
    Aug 13, 2020
    Facebook was drilling under the Oregon coast to connect a high-speed cable to Asia earlier this year when an accident left drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid stranded beneath the seafloor. The company has no plans to retrieve it. oregonlive.com/environment/20…
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Oct 7, 2024
    I have been to dozens of playoff games. Many different ballparks. No park is as loud as Citizens Bank Park. Tonight was the loudest I have ever heard CBP. Someone will do isolated crowd audio after the Harper and Castellanos homers, but take my word for it. Ears still ringing.
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    Crossing Broad
    @CrossingBroad
    Oct 6, 2024
    BRYCE HARPER DIDN’T HEAR NO BELL!
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Jul 12, 2024
    Dear @WhitMerrifield, As an insane @Phillies fan, I want to thank you. You are one of the classiest people in MLB. Your assist from LF on Wednesday was one of the greatest I have ever seen. I was excited when we signed you and sad that it did not work out. I wish you the best.
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Jun 30, 2024
    Until today, I was a subscriber to the @PhillyInquirer for the @Phillies coverage and @Will_Bunch. As of today, I am a subscriber because I believe in democracy and the Inquirer does, too. Read and subscribe. It is a fantastic newspaper. inquirer.com/opinion/editor…
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Oct 26, 2024
    Another use case, another disaster with generative AI. This time, it is adding invented things to medical transcripts. What could possibly go wrong?
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    The Associated Press
    @AP
    Oct 26, 2024
    Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said apnews.com/article/ai-art…
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Apr 24, 2024
    Really great engineers don’t make wasteful, underwhelming products like generative AI; they design chips and systems that work in space for 46 years before failing … and can still be fixed when they are 15 BILLION miles away.
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    𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗
    @CharlesCMann
    Apr 23, 2024
    Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/0…
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Aug 21, 2020
    Facebook waited until after it undermined democracy in the US, UK, and Brazil, undermined US pandemic response, converted a couple million Americans to QAnon, empowered white supremacy, and robbed every user of privacy before initiating a “test” it should have done in 2016.
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Oct 29, 2021
    I wrote a limerick about today’s news … There once was a hacker named Zuck Who screwed half the world for a buck People hoped he’d do betta So the name changed to Meta But the name and the product still suck
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    Roger McNamee
    @Moonalice
    Jul 8, 2024
    🧵 Today I was on @SquawkStreet on @CNBC to talk about the bubble in AI stocks. @GoldmanSachs put out a report warning capex for AI was way too high, given lack of high value use cases. Goldman is right on, but does not address other crippling issues facing AI. Thread. 1/15
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    Squawk on the Street
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    Jul 8, 2024
    "America loves financial manias," @Moonalice discusses whether the markets can sustain the tech stocks driving its record highs with @davidfaber, @carlquintanilla & @saraeisen.
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