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Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies

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Published: August 28, 2024 04:12

The latest episode of my podcast Better Offline is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s leading voice on monopoly and antitrust matters, and a thoughtful and prolific writer. You can find Matt on Twitter here, and his newsletter here.It was a…

Monopoly Money

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Published: August 12, 2024 20:18

Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened.On Monday, a Federal Judge delivered a crushing ruling in the multi-year-long antitrust case filed against Google by the Department of…

Burst Damage

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Published: August 5, 2024 17:39

Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon AmsterdamI have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the…

How Does OpenAI Survive?

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Published: July 29, 2024 16:03

Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of…

Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu

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Published: July 24, 2024 16:12

Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you can insert an RSS feed.Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the…

CrowdStruck

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Published: July 19, 2024 20:29

Soundtrack: EL-P - Tasmanian Pain Coaster (feat. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Cedric Bixler-Zavala)When I first began writing this newsletter, I didn't really have a goal, or a "theme," or anything that could neatly characterize what I was going to write about…

Put Up Or Shut Up

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Published: July 16, 2024 20:26

I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their intentions and the power of AI. I get it. Everybody wants

Pop Culture

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Published: July 8, 2024 17:12

A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. And yes, that sound you hear is the slow deflation of

The Shareholder Supremacy

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Published: July 1, 2024 17:09

I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly…

Let Tim Cook

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Published: June 17, 2024 16:41

Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next version of the iPhone’s software) in a presentation that FastCompany called “uninspired,” Futurism called “boring,” and Axios claimed “failed to excite…