People will laugh at this Andreessen take, but it is possibly the single most representative expression of the Silicon Valley ideas that got us here.

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hmmmm yes. what a perfect time in the world to celebrate columbia and its institutional traditions

obsessed with this nytimes lede from 2009

The misuse of "damning evidence" here would be funny if it weren't absolutely going to justify the harm of more students

Best anecdote in “Careless People” so far is Zuckerberg telling Sarah Wynn-Williams that Andrew Jackson was the greatest American president because he “got stuff done”

i really need a return to this aesthetic in tech coverage this year

Also wild to see how many influencers from the network I mapped in 2018 are still thriving / growing their audiences, from Ben Shapiro and Joe rogan to Jordan Peterson and Candace Owens

Our number one “visionary” jumping on the Gamergate train eleven years late

My post-election coping mechanism largely involves going into the wayback machine and looking at early right-wing disinfo web pages to see what insights I can glean lol

People in the 90s really needed to come up with some better dreams

This is extremely niche, but it's wild to me that when I just googled "The Reuther Memo" - a historical document from a labor leader advocating for broadcast regulators to take down far-right radio shows - the second result that comes back is a Mencius Moldbug blog post from 2011