Good monday morning welcome to squawk squawk im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla and julia. Were in the final stretch of 2020 were focused on two big ipos, airbnb and doordash. Airbnb is bouncing back strong doordash saw demands surge both of those companies seeing encouraging demand for shares and to define the future of the gig and sharing economies. Leslie picker has the latest on the ipo process. Its important to underscore the rarety of this level of issuance in a single week. Excluding spacs, were expecting to see more than 7 billion worth of ipos this week. Since the start of 2014, only three other weeks have surpassed that kind of volume. Most recently, in mid september there was, if you remember, there was a big week of software debuts unity, jay frog went public. The only week thats saw greater issuance was in may of 2019 when uber went public and then september 2014 when alibaba went public what is different this time, though, is that the billions of dollars in new stock is c
Our first speaker is joanne mcneil, author of lurking, the inaugural winner of the art foundations art writing award for an emerging writer, resident at ivy, Logan Nonfiction Program fellow and instructor. Our next speaker will be sorry. Hang on. Sorry. I had the video open on my computer and sending my own words back to me. It was very confusing. Our second speaker will be Charlton Mcilwain, author of black software, the internet and Racial Justice. The vice provost of faculty engagement at New York University and professor of Media Communication at nyu steinberg school, our final speaker is author of the new laws of robotics, Robert Citino from the Yale Information Society project. So take it away, joann. Im happy to be on this panel with two others i really appreciate and a topic im sure we have so much to say about. There is something of a history. There are many things to look at and representative of missed opportunities. I wanted to focus on ten or 12 years ago, the time of the
To cast her ballot, was told, sorry, you cant do that. Youve already voted by mail. In seven counties democratleaning counties, if they received your ballot in advance, its illegal to open those ballots until election day, the mailin ballots. But somehow they were determining which ballots were not accurate, which was not properly done and telling voters to fix them. And, again lou the Trump Campaign today also telling us that their Main Objective is for states not to certify fraudulent results. You would think that that would be transparently obvious and an Immediate Response on the part of election boards, but it is not. One of the campaigns legal challenges heads today a detroit judge tomorrow in which the campaign demands certification of detroit s vote be halted altogether and an entire audit be done on detroits entire vote. And today a judge in arizona is hearing now another of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges. The campaign claiming poll workers in Maricopa County wrong lu re
Sorry, you cant do that. Youve already voted by mail. In seven counties democratleaning counties, if they received your ballot in advance, its illegal to open those ballots until election day, the mailin ballots. But somehow they were determining which ballots were not accurate, which was not properly done and telling voters to fix them. And, again lou the Trump Campaign today also telling us that their Main Objective is for states not to certify fraudulent results. You would think that that would be transparently obvious and an Immediate Response on the part of election boards, but it is not. One of the campaigns legal challenges heads today a detroit judge tomorrow in which the campaign demands certification of detroit s vote be halted altogether and an entire audit be done on detroits entire vote. And today a judge in arizona is hearing now another of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges. The campaign claiming poll workers in Maricopa County wrong lu rejected votes wrongly rejected
Sorry, you cant do that. Youve already voted by mail. In seven counties democratleaning counties, if they received your ballot in advance, its illegal to open those ballots until election day, the mailin ballots. But somehow they were determining which ballots were not accurate, which was not properly done and telling voters to fix them. And, again lou the Trump Campaign today also telling us that their Main Objective is for states not to certify fraudulent results. You would think that that would be transparently obvious and an Immediate Response on the part of election boards, but it is not. One of the campaigns legal challenges heads today a detroit judge tomorrow in which the campaign demands certification of detroit s vote be halted altogether and an entire audit be done on detroits entire vote. And today a judge in arizona is hearing now another of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges. The campaign claiming poll workers in Maricopa County wrong lu rejected votes wrongly rejected