Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse

Ovvero di come gli oggetti connessi in rete stanno vengono utilizzati come strumento per esercitare violenza domestica e privata.

“Abusive relationships are about power and control, and he uses technology.”

Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?

This is such a great article. Please, read it on, and pass it on.

I am an Uber survivor

I knew that some reported life at Uber sucked, but there’s too many stories around, now, to ignore that Uber’s culture is shit. When a company’s culture is shit, there’s only one person to blame: its CEO.

On Y Combinator’s Defense of Peter Thiel

Jason Putorti, in a piece published on Startup Grind a week ago:

What Mr. Graham, not a stranger to allegations of misogyny himself, and Mr. Altman are being insensitive to is the fact that for many people, myself included, wrapping Donald Trump in the blanket of “a major party nominee” is normalizing his behavior. So because Mr. Trump is a major party nominee, normalizing rape culture and referring to it as “locker room talk” is treated as normal political speech.

The worst types of workplace sexists—and how to fight them

Nice round-up of sexist enemies in the workplace (not only in the workplace) by Jessica Bennett.

(Hat tip to Francesca Massarenti.)