The Cult of Microsoft
Soundtrack: EL-P - Flyentology
At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social
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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.
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Requiem for Raghavan
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief
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You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars
You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know,
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OpenAI Is A Bad Business
OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some
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The Other Bubble
Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free
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The Subprime AI Crisis
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation
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Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies
The latest episode of my podcast Better Offline is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s leading voice on monopoly
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Monopoly Money
Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened.
On
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Burst Damage
Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam
I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of
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How Does OpenAI Survive?
Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to
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Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu
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CrowdStruck
Soundtrack: EL-P - Tasmanian Pain Coaster (feat. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Cedric Bixler-Zavala)
When I first began writing this newsletter, I
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