Google, James Damore, Outage Addiction and Media Arrogance
Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced calls to resign following the firing of engineer James Damore over a controversial internal memo regarding gender diversity. The company canceled a town hall meeting citing safety concerns after employees were allegedly doxxed online. Analysis suggests the public reaction is fueled by "outage addiction," a process where internet anger releases dopamine in the brain, creating a cycle of dependency similar to gambling.
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00:00 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak It's Sunday August 13th 2017 This is your award winning Gizmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 9 or 5 5! This is no agenda Claiming the title of counter podcaster and coming to you from the darkest corners of the internet right here in the capital of drone star state downtown Austin Tejas. In the Clubeo, in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where I am not the counter anything...I'm John C. Dvorak Okay, well you know what the good news is. The good news is... Well- Is this all the good news there is? Yeah we have good news! Good News We don't have to talk about that damn Google memo anymore Well I've got a clip about it No no one needs to talk about it It's..we're done I gotta clip about because I have a bone to pick Do you want to do that right now or start off with that? Like might as well since you brought up stuff Alright But first I wanna back up on couple of
01:05 of beats and ask you why do we not have, you don't think it's gonna or maybe it's only in the Bay Area but they just babble on about this thing forever. About what? Oh the memo? The memo that guys being interviewed everywhere No John no...the next I dunno if its gonna be Days weeks or months, but we're back to square one. We're back to Hitler. I'm so tired of it Hitler Hitler That's that's what is hitler Hitler! Okay, let's do your Google story. Yeah okay you have it right there all right It's been a rough week for tech giant Google There is now call for the CEO to resign over the way he handled an internal memo made public that questioned the abilities of women The CEO fired that employee who wrote the memo and now he is under fire NBC business correspondent Jolene Kent has the latest
02:00 Tonight, pressure on Google mounting as CEO Sundar Pichai is called to resign after canceling a company-wide meeting to address gender discrimination late yesterday. The town hall was scheduled in response to the internal memo written by engineer James Damore now fired he wrote that women are underrepresented in tech due to quote biological differences and efforts to achieve more diversity are bad for business I mean one thing that I want to make clear is that Just attacking diversity. I'm not attacking left ideology necessarily, I'm just attacking the fact that we can't honestly discuss any of these issues and if that is actually hurting the problem The town hall was canceled when some conservative groups online threatened to expose Google workers who plan to ask questions 80% of the company's tech workers are male
02:53 are male, an imbalance Google has pledged to change. Last night in his first public remarks since the controversy the CEO spoke to aspiring young women engineers I want you to know that there's a place for you in this industry There's a place for you at Google. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise." Google fired D'Amour for violating its code of conduct and advancing harmful gender stereotypes He filed the federal complaint and told NBC News he plans to take legal action against Google. D'Amour supporters argue, he is a victim of political correctness Diversity advocates firmly disagree
03:32 up to work and you say something that harms your co-workers, employers have an obligation to take action. And less than this week, more than 80 women have reached out to a California law firm which is planning to file a class action lawsuit against Google for alleged compensation discrimination. This story far from over. Far from over! Thank you. I can understand why it's far from over there but you guys have your own little country going on in California. You've got your own little thing happening there who gives a crap what's going on elsewhere? So here's my thing... Google has no friends in the media except for one or two guys who are of course they don't because they're taking their money No, I mean generally speaking. They don't have into being to protect press right because they they've cut themselves number of years ago They pretty much cut themselves off from any contact with the outside world hmm
04:24 They don't have a press room that I know of. If you want to contact somebody in the media, for media information you have to write an email to Press at Google. And sometimes you hear back and sometimes you don't but you never really get to talk to anybody. Oh, well, I'm convinced also! They've become an incredibly arrogant company and they have no sympathizers so people are loving this. This is fantastic it's hilarious. It's just the way to get into Google Yeah, they all live in glass houses. They should be very apples on deck next you watch no Maybe yeah, whatever the case there's a number of aspects to this like is Desmond Demoner or whatever his name is He is You should just go do a book deal right away. He was making a huge mistake Well he may be doing it and the other all these grousing women and something they have like I put that this
05:19 Image in the next newsletter if I can remember which is show some of the Googlers the female Googler's are all kind There's a lot of very sketchy nutty Nutty Women Google ers over there. Yeah, well I don't have much to add to it other than but I did put in the show notes and people you might want to check out those show notes once in while this stuff in there that we don't necessarily talk about on the show and And you can go to search.nashownotes.com to find something specifically, or archive.noagendanotes.com There's all in every... if you go to noagendashow.com You can find these links and the four scientists that he quoted in his SCREEEEEEEED respond including an Asian-American woman who is one of the scientists and they say well, you know He quoted our research correctly
06:15 But the thing that I found most interesting, and hadn't really thought... Yeah. And I can read it for you but they say hey our research was right it was spot-on he quoted he quoted properly The my millennial who have been having an ongoing conversation with about this send me a... Stay woke! Oh yeah stay woke my millennials Send me a thoughtful article What's the title of it? Google firing shows how outrage addiction is making us stupid And I hadn't really thought about... Ooh, outrage addiction. Yes! And I liked it too and what he asserts with some backup from research, you know sure paid for by the tobacco industry is just like gambling or sex outrage can become a process addiction form of behavior that our bodies come to rely on to feel good
07:04 The mechanics of anger addiction are simple. When we erupt in anger, our brains get hit with dopamine which yields the sense of euphoria just as drug users will quickly become dependent on their substance of choice to get that euphoria those who overindulge in outrage will often end up relying on that behavior to release the desired dopamine and there were many examples of this over the weekend I mean actual dopamine addicts who just erupts so I think there's something to that Internet outrage and I'm sure it makes people feel good. It makes me feel good whenever I do it, huh? Whenever I go to the reddit I gotta hit a dope. I'm honest. I get hit of dopamine that like saying hey your mom's calling she's upstairs dinner time I Did a lot of that over the weekend is very funny like understand up there for my entertainment so I think we should keep that in mind the outrage addiction an
08:07 Well, plenty of that go there didn't apparently the whole Bay Area is addicted. Yeah yeah yeah well this conversation has just kind of stopped this the Google memo it's just kind of over Well I don't know that was that last report was from Friday. No I know but its just in California It's just in California That was on NBC nightly news Yeah but its but the outrage is really only in California Now maybe yeah all I knows I don't alright I'm going to use this to transition because i have an outrage addict. Hold on a second, where's my outrage addict? Yes the outrage addict in question is Ana Navarro
