The Slop Society
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as
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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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Thank You
Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)
Thanks so much to everybody that has supported
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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve
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Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’
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Lost In The Future
Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay
I haven't wanted to write much in the last week.
Seemingly every
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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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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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