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The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech
The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech
Hello premium subscribers! Today I have the first guest post I've ever commissioned (read: paid) on Where's Your Ed At - Nik Suresh, one of the greatest living business and tech writers, best-known for his piece I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again, probably my favourite piece
·wheresyoured.at·
The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech
Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
Leaders from both major political parties have been working to bring back manufacturing. But American manufacturers say they are struggling to fill the manufacturing jobs we already have.
·npr.org·
Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
Fascism For First Time Founders
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…
·techdirt.com·
Fascism For First Time Founders
The Underlying Tension Behind Stephen Colbert’s Exit
The Underlying Tension Behind Stephen Colbert’s Exit
The decision to shut down Stephen Colbert’s long-running late-night show suggests it might be time to work around the studios for our comedic commentary.
·tedium.co·
The Underlying Tension Behind Stephen Colbert’s Exit
Space Nazis: socially and economically disadvantaged.
Space Nazis: socially and economically disadvantaged.
Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion: Elon Musk's health tech company Neuralink labeled itself a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration, shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion. [..] Neuralink's filing, dated April 24, would have reached the SBA at a time when
·jwz.org·
Space Nazis: socially and economically disadvantaged.
Silent Partners - Lombardi-style Network Visualizer
Silent Partners - Lombardi-style Network Visualizer
Create network visualizations in the tradition of Mark Lombardi. A tool for exploring the covert relationships between individuals and corporations.
·silentpartners.app·
Silent Partners - Lombardi-style Network Visualizer
The Enshittification of American Power
The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
·wired.com·
The Enshittification of American Power
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.
·propublica.org·
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
On Wealth Taxes
On Wealth Taxes
Why the Kleptocratic Nightmare Made Me Reconsider Elizabeth Warren
·notesfromthecircus.com·
On Wealth Taxes
(1966) The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program
(1966) The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program
Explore the Black Panther Party’s original 1966 Ten‑Point Program by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale. Full text, historical context & key themes.
·blackpast.org·
(1966) The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program
Who Goes MAGA?
Who Goes MAGA?
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such …
·techdirt.com·
Who Goes MAGA?
When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.
·thebulwark.com·
When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis
Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back in September 2024 I wrote about
·wheresyoured.at·
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis