Episode 27, the Trinity of Trinity's Or three cube, the 27 club,

don't want admittance there. Famous people who've died of 27 include Kurt Cobain,

Amy Winehouse, and Jimmy Hendrix, the number of letters in the Spanish alphabet.

Well, be in the needle. I'm on podcast pitches. Go, go, go.

Welcome to the 27th episode of the Proff G show. In today's episode, we speak with Yael,

Eisenstadt Yael, is a visiting fellow at Cornell Tech's digital life initiative, true

story, eye-todd at Cornell Tech, for a semester when they had a floor on the Google campus.

And that was fairly underwhelmed. Cornell had this enormous opportunity, incredible positioning,

a third university, Roosevelt Island, support of the mayor, a lot of funding, a lot of Cornell

alumni stepped up. What went wrong? They held on to the same model of kind of lame, tenured

professors. And I think the faculty there is fairly, fairly underwhelming. I'm sure I'm

going to grab shit for that. And I find that their tech offering is somewhat anemic and that

they are not commanding the space. They occupy there, a little competitive, competitive

juices flowing, but I was actually very excited about Cornell Tech and think they have underwhelmed.

Anyways, anyways, today's episode, we're talking to Yael. She works on technology effects

on civil discourse and democracy. She previously served as the elections integrity head for political

ads at Facebook. Okay, get this, elections integrity Facebook. Not words you find in the

same sentence office. She's also a former CIA officer and White House advisor. We discussed

the damaging role Facebook plays in our elections and the online threats to our democracy.

She also has worked at Exxon and was an advisor to the White House. In some, in some, it should

just say on our Wikipedia profile, total badass. She's also having a bit of a moment. She

gave a TED Talk and went viral. And it's just in general a very thoughtful person. And something

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