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The Slop Society

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Published: January 17, 2025 19:47

In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than…

Thank You

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Published: December 24, 2024 00:33

Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive) Thanks so much to everybody that has supported me in the last year. This newsletter started as a way for me to process the complex feelings I have about the technology…

Never Forgive Them

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Published: December 16, 2024 17:06

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest&

Godot Isn't Making it

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Published: December 3, 2024 20:55

Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title.What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What

Lost In The Future

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Published: November 13, 2024 13:31

Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - ParaguayI haven't wanted to write much in the last week.Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what…

The Cult of Microsoft

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Published: November 1, 2024 19:29

At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how…

Requiem for Raghavan

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Published: October 21, 2024 18:35

Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist." An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn&

You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars

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Published: October 14, 2024 19:29

You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist. First, you never get paid much, but you will get free records from the record company.[There’s] fuckin’ nothin' about you that is

OpenAI Is A Bad Business

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Published: October 2, 2024 17:16

OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way.…

The Other Bubble

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Published: September 26, 2024 18:06

Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up  capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom.In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year,…