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☆ Magician with fork-bending world record says Dean Phillips consultant paid him to make fake audio of Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

In an interview with NBC News, Paul Carpenter said he was hired to create the audio by Steve Kramer, a campaign specialist recently paid over $100,000 by long shot Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips' campaign. Around the time of their collaboration, in January, Federal Election Commission records show that Phillips' campaign paid Kramer $112,353 for "NEW YORK BALLOT ACCESS 2ND PAYMENT" and more than $17,000 for similar work in Pennsylvania. AdvertisementDespite having paid Kramer for campaign services, Phillips' campaign press secretary, Katie Dolan, said the trailing campaign did not ask for the Biden audio to be produced. Phillips' campaign didn't appear to receive much of a boost — if any — from the fraudulent robocall scam. After weeks of campaigning, Biden trounced him in New Hampshire's Democratic primary via a write-in campaign.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The tributes that poured in following Wayne Kramer's death last week came from musicians praising the MC5 guitarist's contributions to rock music, as well as from prison reform advocates who extolled his legacy of bringing music to incarcerated people. “Working with inmates was cathartic for him because music had saved his life when he was inside,” Heath said this week. Kramer eventually delivered testimony before a joint committee on the arts, along with actor Tim Robbins and others. “Wayne just gave this moving speech about how important it was to have music and arts in prisons,” said Bowers, who's now a mentor at the William James Association Prison Arts Project. The state provided $1 million in 2014, and the prison arts budget has since been increased to $8 million, he said.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against the Machine, has died at age 75. Kramer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, according to Jason Heath, a close friend and executive director of Kramer's nonprofit Jail Guitar Doors. "Brother Wayne Kramer was the best man I’ve ever known," Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello wrote on Instagram Friday. The MC5 was more radical politically than most of its peers, and otherwise louder and more daring. Kramer would lead various incarnations of the MC5 over the following decades, and perform with Was (Not Was) among other groups.

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☆ The return of dad fashion matches how Americans feel about the economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Dad fashion is trending again. AdvertisementSo why did those evolve into dad fashion? All of that might explain why dad fashion is once again dominant. Dad fashion seems to show up when consumers are feeling wary — not the worst they've felt, but certainly not the best. These so-called "core cultures" arose on platforms like Tumblr, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok, in which young fashion consumers are eager to chop up fashion trends into subcultures and become devotees.

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☆ From 'wrong shoe theory' to Kramercore: Why Gen Z wants their fashion to be sustainable — and ugly
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Gen Z fashion trends are sustainable, intentional, and just a little bit silly and ugly. "Wrong shoe theory" and Kramercore are part of a reaction to economic and climate turmoil. It's called "wrong shoe theory," and it's yet another Gen Z fashion moment that might seem counterintuitive at first. At the same time, as with many of the challenges that Gen Z encounters, there's an eye toward sustainability and looming climate doom. It's no wonder, then, that Gen Z is embracing another similarly kitschy and thriftable aesthetic: Kramercore.

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☆ A top-1% fund manager over the past 5 years shares his strategy for finding mispriced assets to earn income with less volatility — and the 5 top places he's investing now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Fidelity's Adam Kramer has overseen one of the top multi-asset income funds of the past five years. Here are five asset classes he's targeting right now in this uncertain environment. The composition of the fund is weighted toward whichever asset classes are improperly priced by the market at a given time. An equally compelling aspect of the Fidelity Multi-Asset Income Fund is its ability to protect against losses and hedge against volatility. This year, convertible bonds have rebounded dramatically and are the best-performing class within fixed income, Kramer said.

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☆ $7 billion startup Carta has been embroiled in multiple lawsuits with former employees. Allegations in legal documents depict a CEO who can be retaliatory and volatile.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Carta, a Silicon Valley darling valued at more than $7 billion, has been embroiled in multiple lawsuits with former employees that named Henry Ward, its CEO and cofounder. Meanwhile, the company is separately suing Jerry Talton, the chief technology officer whom it fired and who was deposed as a witness in the Kramer case. Carta alleges he made secret recordings of company executives and shared them with former female employees who were in legal disputes with the company. And now that the Kramer case has been settled, the complaints from other employees included in the lawsuit may never see the light of day. Lawyers for Talton are expected to file an answer to the company's lawsuit by March 15.

☆ Who are Larry Kramer and Andreas Paepcke — the two people who paid part of Sam Bankman-Fried's bail?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

They are Larry Kramer and Andreas Paepcke, both of whom have ties to Stanford, where SBF's parents work. On Wednesday, unsealed court records identified the FTX founder's bail guarantors as Larry Kramer, a former dean of Stanford Law School, and Andreas Paepcke, a senior research scientist at Stanford. A screenshot of Larry Kramer's bio on a Stanford Law School web page shows that he's emeritus dean of the institution. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1984, according to his Stanford Law bio page. On his personal page, Paepcke listed hobbies including "piano studies and simple composition, worrying, and poetry."

☆ Exclusive: Carta settles lawsuit with former female executive who claimed gender discrimination and illegal retaliation
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Carta, facing allegations of discrimination and retaliation, had been scheduled to go to court in February. A lawsuit brought by former Vice President of Growth Emily Kramer alleging gender discrimination and illegal retaliation was settled on February 6 in California Superior Court, according to a court filing. While the Kramer case has now been settled, Carta is still involved in other legal disputes and facing complaints of gender discrimination. Carta's "No assholes policy"According to the lawsuit, Kramer was recruited by Carta CEO and co-founder Henry Ward in 2018 to serve as Carta's head of marketing. As part of her job, Kramer led the company's high-profile campaign to raise awareness about the gender equity gap in Silicon Valley.

☆ Exclusive: 3 of Carta's top executives filed complaints about gender discrimination and retaliation in a matter of months
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Three former employees filed complaints alleging gender discrimination at Carta. In a statement she told Insider that she was not fired and did not leave the company due to any gender discrimination issues. "I do not feel that I experienced any gender discrimination or any unfair or sexist treatment during my employment at Carta," she said in the statement. Shortly after Johnson's firing, Carta's chief technology officer, Jerry Talton, filed a complaint with Carta's board expressing concerns about her termination and about larger issues of gender discrimination and retaliation at the company. Carta's internal investigationFollowing Talton's complaint, Carta hired the white-shoe law firm Paul, Weiss to investigate the claims, a person familiar with the matter said.

☆ Microsoft quietly laid off under 1,000 employees in teams across the company, from Xbox to government tech
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft laid off employees across the company, with a person familiar saying it affected under 1,000 jobs. Microsoft in July said it planned to lay off less than 1% of its 180,000-person workforce. Microsoft laid off employees in teams across the company, according to affected employees who spoke to Insider. This week's layoffs affect less than 1,000 employees, according to a person familiar with the matter. Zach Kramer, who runs Microsoft's Mission Engineering team, in an email viewed by Insider notified employees that the group would be "deprioritizing work already underway."

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