an allegation put forth by a former employee at silicon valley start-up upload vr of sexual harassment and gender discrimination and just a whole bunch of really awful behavior by the two co-founders [and other men] at the company shocked the emerging neo-vr movement possibly more than oculus’ co-founder palmer luckey’s supporting of donald trump’s presidential campaign last year.

drax discusses the matter of systemic discrimination of women [not only in the tech sector] and some ideas how to grow past the “boys club” culture which is seemingly omnipresent in  many industries [yes, not only at FOX news…] with guest Patty Rangel, long time Second Life resident, artist and thinker:

read on folks:

• our guest patty rangel:

• some more context on the upload case:

• and the full complaint by head of social media elizabeth scott as pdf here!
• the unedited youtube vid of the conversation:

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