Cyrus Farivar 📰🖖🏽🚴🏼🏕️

"suh-ROOS" / سیروس‌ / Senior Writer, Forbes / author, HABEAS DATA (2018) / cfarivar@forbes.com / +1-341-758-0888 (Signal/WA) // VP, Oakland Triathlon Club

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2024-10-09 01:01:53

I'm so excited to share with you a screening of an amazing indie film, IN THE DIRT (2023), which I'm hosting on Oct 20 2024 at 6pm in Oakland!
We will be raising money for mountain bikers in the Navajo Nation and raffling off a ton of awesome prizes!
Join us!
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2024-09-16 16:13:13

I spent the last couple weeks digging into the WILD world of people selling spells (as in, witchcraft!) on Etsy -- which it officially banned nearly a decade ago.
Either Etsy is either really bad at content moderation, or it's not even trying.
Still, anyone want to buy a "trillionaire spell" It's only $19.20! 😂
Anyway, @forbes subscribers get my story for free:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/09/15/witchcraft-is-big-business-on-etsy/

2024-08-28 20:36:36

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Charged With Multiple Crimes In France (by @npub1mse…3vec)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/08/28/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-charged-with-multiple-crimes-in-france/

2024-08-12 12:25:13

Etsy Promised To End Sales Of Porn And Sex Toys. It's Not Going Well. (by @npub1mse…3vec)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/08/12/etsy-promised-to-end-sales-of-porn-and-sex-toys-its-not-going-well/

2024-07-29 18:02:39

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@npub1mjj…h2pr Literally any cyclist who has even ridden on an American street could tell you the same thing 🙂

2024-07-29 18:02:39

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@npub1mjj…h2pr Literally any cyclist who has even ridden on an American street could tell you the same thing 🙂

2024-07-29 17:39:09

"I’m a cyclist too. Bike lanes are for gentrifiers who can’t ride. Bet you can’t make it to the lawrence hall of sciences."
is maybe the dumbest hot take -- a Facebook comment directed at me -- that I've ever seen.

2024-07-24 16:37:40

"So this VC cabal is trading against the basic principles of America — not merely against personal freedom, but democracy itself — in the hopes of profit."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

2024-07-23 12:29:31

Target Employees Hate Its New AI Chatbot (by @npub1mse…3vec)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/07/23/target-employees-hate-its-new-ai-chatbot/

2024-06-26 14:21:23

Walmart Is Finally Capitalizing On Amazon And Temu’s China Playbook (by @npub1mse…3vec)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/06/26/walmart-is-finally-capitalizing-on-amazon-and-temus-china-playbook/

2024-06-25 21:19:29

In journalism, we would call this burying the lede.
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2024-06-11 21:03:06

General Motors Injects $850 Million Into Robotaxi Arm Cruise After Devastating Accident (by @npub1mse…3vec)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/06/11/general-motors-injects-850-million-into-robotaxi-arm-cruise-after-devastating-accident/

2024-05-22 23:13:19

20 years ago last month (April 2004, I published my undergraduate academic thesis at UC Berkeley, on the history of the Internet in Senegal, which became the basis of part of my first book (2011): THE INTERNET OF ELSEWHERE.
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~cfarivar/senegal/thesis_final.html

2024-05-21 15:01:53

You’re Buying So Much From Temu And Shein The Air Cargo Industry Can’t Keep Up (by @npub1mse…3vec)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/05/21/youre-buying-so-much-from-temu-and-shein-the-air-cargo-industry-cant-keep-up/?sh=3abbf93643ef

2024-05-15 18:04:29

This piece by my good friend Richard Morgan, a Palestinian-British journalist, is gut-wrenching.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/nakba-day-israel-palestine-gaza-war-displacement.html?via=rss

2023-09-15 14:35:45

Wildfire crisis: Federal firefighters could quit en masse if Congress allows a massive pay cut
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/firefighters-pay-cut-18365367.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral via @npub1lt7…suff

2023-09-13 17:28:07

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@npub1ulm…hweg When's a good time to talk to you by phone about this? 341-758-0888 // cfarivar@forbes.com

2023-08-31 15:59:22

Since April 2022, SFFD has noted 74 "disruptive" incidents with autonomous vehicles.
On Aug 14, just days after CPUC let AVs expand service, an AV delayed an ambulance from leaving a traffic accident scene. But Cruise denies it caused delay.
My latest:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/08/30/cruise-robotaxis-waymo-san-francisco-firefighters/?utm_source=for_you_1
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2023-08-30 18:06:46

Last year, I wrote a story for @npub1ly8…ux8t about a crowdfunded startup called Arvizon, which raised millions. (Arvizon still hasn't delivered.)
Now, Indiegogo has been refunding small amounts of money to backers, "which were not yet disbursed to the campaign owner."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2022/05/12/crowdfunded-dashcam-startup-fails-to-deliver-promised-product-three-years-later/

2023-08-16 12:11:41

Startups Think They Can Beat Wildfires, But Insurance Companies Aren’t Buying It Yet (by @npub1mse…3vec)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/08/16/startups-think-they-can-beat-wildfires-but-insurance-companies-arent-buying-it-yet/?sh=59feca517f6f

2023-07-31 21:17:36

"There’s a clear trend of women struggling more than men to get raises, and Forbes routinely underpaying women who’ve stayed with the company for several years."
https://www.forbesunion.org/2023-pay-equity-study