The Weirdest Shit to Come Out of Silicon Valley in July 2021
This month, we look at breakup couriers, fired robots, and IRL dating cafes...
UberA collection of 19 posts
With Prop 22, Uber and Lyft Successfully Bought the Vote in California
The most expensive measure in state history demonstrates everything wrong with money in politics...
10 People You Meet in an UberPool
Meeting your fellow San Franciscans can be…entertaining...
What Driving for Uber Revealed to Me About San Francisco
Spoiler: Classism is alive and well...
Which Company is Causing The Most Harm to San Francisco?
We spent the holiday recording new episodes of ‘This is Your Life in Silicon Valley’ — our podcast about the Bay...
Weekly News Roundup: “Techsploitation” Edition
This week, scooters have become an apparatus in anti-tech protests....
Why Uber Is Just Another Taxi Company Doomed to Bankruptcy
And how its self-driving future isn’t as close as we think it is...
Uber’s Goal Is Not to Operate Alongside Public Transit but to Replace It
And that’s exactly what the company is doing in Egypt...
We Tested Uber’s New Discount “Ride Sharing for Clunkers” Subsidiary, “Püber”
The ride-sharing giant thinks consumers will jump at the chance to save money by riding with unvetted drivers in older cars....
Ten Candidates for Uber COO
Who will save the company from Travis Kalanick?...
Uber’s Auto-Loan Program Is Basically Indentured Servitude
The troubled gig-economy company breaks new ground in exploitation....
If You’re Deleting Uber, You Might as Well Delete Lyft Too
In terms of ethics, the two companies are not that different....