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Jose Fermoso

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Covers:  technology, internet of things, robotics, sociology, psychology, political movements, security issues, health issues.
Road safety reporter for @oaklandside, @UMKnightWallace '22 Fellow, 🌳 Host of @elprogresopod: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/el-… TIPS: jose@oaklandside.org
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The Future of America's Oldest Profession

The Future of America's Oldest Profession

OZY — You can find Liara Roux online, posing in lingerie as she rolls between sheets or stretches into erotic poses. She says she's a student looking for a "little fun on the side," and lets readers know she keeps herself "au natural." Based in San Francisco, but available to travel nearly anywhere, she charges $1,100 for two hours and $4,000 for eight. "If you are interested in adding another woman or man to the mix, please don't hesitate to let me know!" she adds. Of course, payment is expected promptly, be it cash, credit card or ... bitcoin. Bitcoin.
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Silicon Valley coders dig Into Apple's WatchKit

Silicon Valley coders dig Into Apple's WatchKit

Silicon Valley Business Journal — A day after Apple Inc. released its software development kit for its upcoming Apple Watch, app developers across Silicon Valley are excitingly scrambling to figure out what they can build for the wearable devices.
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The Boundary-Busting Cabaret of Yana Alana

The Boundary-Busting Cabaret of Yana Alana

OZY — Sarah Ward met - so to speak - Yana Alana when she was 28 and in a dark place. She was in therapy, struggling with her identity after coming out and feeling unsafe in the conservative environment of her native Melbourne, Australia. So she started going to drag shows. There, she found people of all persuasions. Slowly, the idea of a woman who wouldn't care what anyone thought of her started to take shape, a woman who'd write a self-help book called Go Fuck Yourself while gleefully bouncing homophobic insults off her naked body. And Yana, the cabaret singer alter-ego Ward invented, was born.
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Lalo Alcaraz and the Mexifornia of 'Bordertown'

Lalo Alcaraz and the Mexifornia of 'Bordertown'

OZY — The writers' room of the Fox cartoon TV series is a pressure cooker. Some of the most talented and experienced comedy staffers in town are here, including veterans from Bordertown Futurama and American Dad, as well as elite up-and-comers from The Simpsons. There are 14 people in all, men and women of different ethnicities, capable of throwing brutal fastballs and nasty, gut-busting curveballs. The oldest guy in the room is Lalo Alcaraz, and he keeps up with the kids by flinging quips, laughing at others' best jokes, politely clapping at the worst, and above all, enjoying his first real shot at Hollywood.
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The meaning behind iOS 7's kaleidoscope of colors

The meaning behind iOS 7's kaleidoscope of colors

VentureBeat — Many iPhone and iPad users are angry with the color palette on Apple's new iOS7. Some have even compared it to the Easter bunny on weed. But a few of the color world's most influential experts like the choices because they fit current design trends towards lightness and harmony. A color trend is the end result of a long process. It usually starts with designers analyzing the emotional outlook of the culture, which includes political and economic movements. When U.S. mood was uneasy leading up to Y2K, colors reflected that. Today, at the tail end of a long war and recession, many of us want to feel happy and secure.
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The Entrepreneur Driving Mexico's Ride-Sharing Evolution

The Entrepreneur Driving Mexico's Ride-Sharing Evolution

OZY — For being one of Mexico's hottest young technopreneurs, Cristina Palacios comes across as pretty old school. The co-founder of Aventones, a ride-sharing startup that was recently gobbled up by a global giant in the game, Palacios lives with her parents in a home outfitted not with flat-screens and smart systems but with antique furniture and paintings. She's single and just out of her 20s, but doesn't go for the Tinder-driven dating scene. "I like love stories," she says, "and Tinder isn't conducive to that." Fortunately for her investors, Palacios brings plenty of cutting-edge thinking to Aventones - Spanish slang for hitchhiking - one of Latin America's most successful transit startups.
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Why Silicon Valley has only a trickle of water startups

Why Silicon Valley has only a trickle of water startups

Silicon Valley Business Journal — With 58.1 percent of California parched by what the state calls “exceptional drought” conditions, you might think that the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who claim to be hungry to solve big problems would be all over it. Hardly.
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Pioneer's Kuro Killing - A Tipping Point in the Plasma Era - NYTimes.com

Pioneer's Kuro Killing - A Tipping Point in the Plasma Era - NYTimes.com

The New York Times — The end of the Pioneer Kuro line of TVs represented a true tipping point in the TV industry, one preceded by long-gestating momentum from opposing forces. The recession and LCDs tipped over plasmas for good, and the slope downward will be quite steep, and fast. Last week, Pioneer announced it was killing off its critically acclaimed TV business by March 2010 and will concentrate on car and audio/visual systems. It was a dramatic fall for a company that just one year ago had CES abuzz with its newest plasma TV, the so-called "Ultimate Black" Kuro.
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Meet the Tax Pros Helping Sex Workers

Meet the Tax Pros Helping Sex Workers

Yahoo — Lori St. Kitts longs to give her clients the most satisfying form of release. Some of her sessions run for weeks, with vigorous back-and-forth. Her weapon of choice? Discipline, used to bring clients to the edge until they've met her strict goals. Kitts, 47, is the perfect person for the job - which, you guessed it, is as a tax pro. Oh, yeah: She also happens to be a webcam dominatrix and an unlikely voice in the fight against sex worker discrimination. St.
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Japan's Pachinko-Powered Gambling Problem

Japan's Pachinko-Powered Gambling Problem

OZY — Walk down any Japanese street and, amid the rush of people and cars, you can usually hear a very particular thump and clang. Gaming parlor machines. And more often than not, the patrons are playing pachinko - pulling tiny levers of what look like upside-down pinball machines spewing teensy silver pellets. The balls are exchanged for gifts that are swapped across the street for cash. And the Japanese are addicted. According to the nation's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, of Japan's adult population suffers from pathological gambling, much of it pachinko playing. In Korea, that figure is just 0.5 percent, says Keith S.
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The Heist That Broke Pinochet's Back

The Heist That Broke Pinochet's Back

OZY — The alarm blared at the state bank in the northern town of Chuquicamata, Chile, on March 9, 1981, prompting police to check the vault. They found it slightly ajar but nothing missing, so they locked it back up and went home. But by the time they returned the next morning, $1.1 million had vanished, along with bank guard Guillermo Martínez and cashier Sergio Yáñez. A three-month nationwide hunt ensued, until early June, when Chile's regime unexpectedly announced that the suspects' dismembered bodies had been found in the Atacama Desert. Officials blamed the murders on corrupt secret police and promised that justice would be served.
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Where Millennials Are Really Living

Where Millennials Are Really Living

OZY — Richard Ruiz is going back to work this week after a nine-month leave from his grocery-packing job, thanks to a herniated disk. He's used the downtime to work on his new home with his wife. New hardwood floors, new yellow walls; they knocked down one of the walls in the bedroom to open up the living room, rep laced the dishwasher and added cabinetry. Their place even has a creamy white coat of paint ... and a literal white picket fence skirting its front facade Hard work. Mature work. Especially for two 20-year-olds, who have made a choice almost no one their age makes: homeownership.
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The Little-Known Enemy of 911 Calls

The Little-Known Enemy of 911 Calls

OZY — If you're dialing 911 for a medical emergency, you're not going to care how the ambulance gets to your door - you just want it to arrive quickly, and for rescuers to work together and diagnose correctly. It's no surprise that some cities are faster, more efficient and overall better than others in doing this. The real shocker is less about mortality and more about data. According to University of Washington professor of emergency medicine Mickey Eisenberg: Only of U.S. medical emergency systems report performance data. So what, right? Just as long as that aforementioned ambulance shows up?
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Wearing the Cure

Wearing the Cure

Silicon Valley Business Journal — Sometime in the near future, a wearable device will track every part of human physiology, every intake and output, and provide people with plans to optimize their lives for long-term health. The only question is whether you will use one device that tracks many health data points, or many devices that each do one thing really well. Judging by recent start-up funding, most are betting on multiples.
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'WolfCop': The Charmingly Lame, Unlikely Netflix Hit

'WolfCop': The Charmingly Lame, Unlikely Netflix Hit

OZY — Lou Garou is the laziest, crappiest cop in the made-up Canadian town of Woodhaven. One night, after investigating a disturbance on the edge of town, he wakes up with a pentagram on his chest and a heightened sense of smell. He later transforms into a werewolf, has weird sex in a clearly fake jail cell, and finds himself the target of an occult jig where werewolvesare sacrificed to strengthen the powers of magical lizard people. But this is not a midnight Skinemax throwaway. Actually, it's a cult hit on Netflix. The great screenwriter William Goldman once said that in Hollywood, nobody knows anything about what works and what doesn't.
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