Bill Janeway
@050343.bsky.social
Venture capitalist emeritus, economist of innovation at Cambridge University
Why is this not on the front page of the New York Times? From Politico:
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why is this not on the front page of the New York Times? From Politico:
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Cory Doctorow offers evidence that the New Deal lives in the Digital Era and offers a model for Coop/Municipal ownership of digital infrastructure: pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/w...
Pluralistic: When your ISP pays you (03 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Cory Doctorow offers evidence that the New Deal lives in the Digital Era and offers a model for Coop/Municipal ownership of digital infrastructure: pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/w...
Ian Harnett in today’s FT; “The AI capex endgame is approaching” : “My perspective on technology bubbles has been shaped by five themes that emerged from William Janeway’s book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy.
October 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Ian Harnett in today’s FT; “The AI capex endgame is approaching” : “My perspective on technology bubbles has been shaped by five themes that emerged from William Janeway’s book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy.
Andrew Odlyzko, mathematician/historian, explains how crypto exemplifies the “post-truth” world:
www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc...
www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc...
www-users.cse.umn.edu
September 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Andrew Odlyzko, mathematician/historian, explains how crypto exemplifies the “post-truth” world:
www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc...
www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc...
Where is Jamie Dimon? Where is Larry Fink: www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/b...
Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers | CNN Business
President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political purposes.”
www.cnn.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Where is Jamie Dimon? Where is Larry Fink: www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/b...
Someone should tell Trump about what happened to Oscar Wilde when he sued the Marquis of Queensbury for defamation.
July 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Someone should tell Trump about what happened to Oscar Wilde when he sued the Marquis of Queensbury for defamation.
Important post today by @pkrugman.bsky.social on the NYC mayoralty primary:
substack.com/app-link/pos...
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Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness
Will he be a good mayor? Nobody knows. But the hysteria is revealing.
substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Important post today by @pkrugman.bsky.social on the NYC mayoralty primary:
substack.com/app-link/pos...
substack.com/app-link/pos...
@pkrugman.bsky.social is so right: “The point is that both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt….Musk’s only mistake was in underestimating the depths of Trump’s lack of principles, imagining that he was the kind of corrupt politician who stays bought”
June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
@pkrugman.bsky.social is so right: “The point is that both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt….Musk’s only mistake was in underestimating the depths of Trump’s lack of principles, imagining that he was the kind of corrupt politician who stays bought”
2/ The Trump/Musk Administration is working effectively to do the same for China in so 31 weeks
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...
The latest blow is to the NSF:
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...
The latest blow is to the NSF:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
2/ The Trump/Musk Administration is working effectively to do the same for China in so 31 weeks
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...
The latest blow is to the NSF:
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...
The latest blow is to the NSF:
www.science.org/content/arti...
1/ In 1914, Germany was the global leader in science and at the technological frontier in such key domains as chemical and electrical engineering. It took 31 years - assisted by losing 2 world wars, hyperinflation, Hitler’s expulsion of Jewish scientists - to pass leadership to the US.
April 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
1/ In 1914, Germany was the global leader in science and at the technological frontier in such key domains as chemical and electrical engineering. It took 31 years - assisted by losing 2 world wars, hyperinflation, Hitler’s expulsion of Jewish scientists - to pass leadership to the US.
This is what you need to know about the US research ecosystem…and the Trump/Musk effort to destroy it:
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...
April 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is what you need to know about the US research ecosystem…and the Trump/Musk effort to destroy it:
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...
www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...
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NB that this letter ups the costs to Columbia if it does fold.
“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.” 🔥 🔥
This is exactly the response universities need to be giving across the board.
This is exactly the response universities need to be giving across the board.
April 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
NB that this letter ups the costs to Columbia if it does fold.
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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
Cory Booker made history. Now it's our turn.
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Cory Booker made history. Now it's our turn.
A call to action.
open.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Cory Booker made history. Now it's our turn.
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
No longer surprising. Get her daily letter directly
Looks like Mark Zuckerberg is censoring Heather Cox Richardson kottke.org/25/04/004655...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is remov...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is removing her posts. Her two most recent posts, both critical of the Trump r
kottke.org
April 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
No longer surprising. Get her daily letter directly
RFKJr.’s strategy for saving Social Security: reduce the life expectancy of Americans.
April 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
RFKJr.’s strategy for saving Social Security: reduce the life expectancy of Americans.
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Listen: maybe I'm wrong and this is just the worst software deployment of my career, not actually a conspiracy against democracy.
Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.
Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.
March 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Listen: maybe I'm wrong and this is just the worst software deployment of my career, not actually a conspiracy against democracy.
Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.
Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.
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In fairness, there are a bunch of highly prominent libertarian Fedsoc people putting their names to this, expressing a general left-right consensus on free speech and universities. It would be nice to see Columbia university leadership pushing back instead of rolling over
A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole
We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
www.nybooks.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In fairness, there are a bunch of highly prominent libertarian Fedsoc people putting their names to this, expressing a general left-right consensus on free speech and universities. It would be nice to see Columbia university leadership pushing back instead of rolling over
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Despite the somewhat confusing title, the body of this post is anything but confusing. It should be called "Understanding DOGE through the lense of AI Preppers." It makes so much sense of the enormous gamble Musk is taking with DOGE and the risks that come with it.
Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE?
There's magical thinking about the magical thinking
www.programmablemutter.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Despite the somewhat confusing title, the body of this post is anything but confusing. It should be called "Understanding DOGE through the lense of AI Preppers." It makes so much sense of the enormous gamble Musk is taking with DOGE and the risks that come with it.
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Standing with Hinton, standing with science.
Please @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7, links enclosed.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Please @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7, links enclosed.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Hinton vs Musk
Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
open.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Standing with Hinton, standing with science.
Please @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7, links enclosed.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Please @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7, links enclosed.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...