Episode 27: Cash in a FedEx envelope

Direct download link: Episode 27.

This week Audrey and I chat about Trump’s travel ban, GitLab’s recent outage, the ACLU joining Y Combinator, and more. Enjoy!

Show Notes

Tech industry and the Travel Ban Executive Order

GitLab outage

ACLU & Y Combinator

Calagator & PDX Activist

Things we like on the Internet

Community Announcements

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  1. By year we mean a set of 4 issues. Some of these took a little longer on the calendar :)