From 2016

Was just reminded of the article...

Metro: How Satan Became the New Face of Secularism
A meet and greet with Silicon Valley's Satanists.
January 27, 2016 by Jennifer Wadsworth

Every Woman Thinks She Can Be a Writer

Tech veteran pens Silicon Valley chick-lit book by Carolyne Zinko

website, publisher's page, Twitter and FB

Deborah Kalb Q&A

Apple Town School District Going to Suffer

I have no sympathy.

Steve Sailer links to Cupertino school board to mull potential $5M in cuts due to declining enrollment, costs

Are We Going to Get Any Sex Trafficking/Prostitution Ring Busts Here?

Vanity Fair: Inside Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side

Pat Gelsinger

Jesus is Coming …To Silicon Valley By Geoff Koch
In this post-faith tech paradise, a lone evangelical CEO spreads the word.

Obstacles to evangelization? The aggressive secularism of California, the multiculturalism/ethnic diversity of the Silicon Valley, SJWs, what else?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for Silicon Valley

New @Google logo. pic.twitter.com/ij18LYVHgX

— Mr Мaitra (@MrMaitra) August 8, 2017

Appleland Stupidity

Appleland City Council is a joke; I don't know how many of those jokers got voted out of office last November.

Cupertino: Marina Plaza project gets a round of approvals

Meanwhile, none of FUHSD's schools were recognized by Niche. FUHSD parents are part of the problem that is Appeland and Silicon Valley in general.

It's great how the people living in Silicon Valley add support to Putnam's findings about the loss of social capital and trust.

Hijab Here, Hijab There...

One sees them everywhere, Costco, Santana Row...

And then there's the propaganda surrounding one Olympics athlete: Rio 2016: The first American Olympian to compete in a hijab wins a bronze medal

Of course there are youtube channels and videos about them.
ChelseyHijabLove
BubblegumHijab
TheAmericanHijab



Steve Sailer asks, "Hijabs in Chicago: Immigration or de-Assimilation?"






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So Sad

Vox Day: Mississippi Stands Firm

"Round Two is coming. I don't know which issue will set it off yet, but it's increasingly obvious that Round Two is on the horizon. There is no nation any longer, and the sooner the various nations inside the USA go their separate ways, preferably in peace."

Stay and fight in suburbia? Leave for a state that is more in line with what one believes? Or move to another part of California where the conservatives live and hunker down with them? How many of the smug and the affluent who live and live the illusion that is Silicon Valley are in a mental state in which they can convert to a serious, traditional form of Christianity? And then there are the immigrants, legal and illegal...

And then there is the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley -- must of the audience members are boomers or close to them in age. As for donors? Some businesses, but a lot of private individuals, too -- are they also boomers or close to them in age? What will happen to the Freight once demographic reality catches up? How are businesses going to be able to justify a donation to the Freight and Salvage, which favors overwhelmingly forms of music that are not appreciated by non-whites? (A few exceptions here and there on the calendar, but a few.) Will they change their programming? Or will the Freight simply close?

It is probable that many of the patrons are also SJW leftists who congratulate themselves for their leftist/multiculturalist orthodoxy. Little do they know that they've killed any sort of musical legacy that they would have liked to see continue in Berkeley.

Related:
The Unitary State of America by John Seiler

America boasts of its “federalism,” that the 50 states (originally 13) still are “free and independent,” as the Declaration of Independence proclaimed. The country’s name, the United States, is plural.

Limited immigration and assimilation is still ideal, but I'll still favor Cantonese chains over Taiwanese ones...

Din Tai Fung at Valley Fair opening in May?

Taiwanese 7-Eleven to Open in Four U.S. Cities Early 2017

"Taiwanese-American" -- how many of them watch Fresh Off the Boat?

No Sh*t

Rebellion: Silicon Valley’s annual economic study reveals foreign workers squeezing out Americans

Nothing like the smell of curry during your nightly walk to remind you of home.

California Business Casual

Steve Sailer: Neckties Down, Socks Up: How Silicon Valley Is Like an All Girls Catholic High School
Ties falling into disuse and folded collars disappearing from dress shirts? Why not?

Business casual v. [Business] informal v. semi-formal v. formal

Importing Customs

Been seeing this more and more, even among the Indian kids at school. I am reminded of bobbleheads -- "How racist!"




Head Wobble
wiki
Quora
CNN: The Great Indian Head Bobble
BBC

The Dragon Lady is Gone

Ellen Pao resigns. Check out the excuse-making in her resignation. The Reddit announcement. NYTimes white-knights and Steve Sailer notices.

Take that, Richard Pan.

But he's a doctor! Bill to Eliminate ‘Personal Belief’ Vaccine Exemption Passes Key California Senate Committee

A living example of how Asian Americans have been assimilated to the dark forces of neo-Yankee progressivism. The bogey of the Chinaman, indeed.

Vox has a link to the open letter by an immunologist, Tetyana Obukhanych, to the California state legislature: The limits of vaccines.

Is her argument any good? Does it matter if the common good is merely the sum of individual goods that the government has been created to protect?

Natural Immunity Fundamentals
2012 interview
A critique of her book.

Related:
Postcard from the End of America: Silicon Valley

Down With the Techies

I'm generally not a fan of Peter Lawler's writing as he's too much of a nationalist and a Straussian but he's probably correct in his judgment here: Silicon Valley: Trashing the Liberal Arts

'Silicon Valley'

Post by Fresh Air with Terry Gross.