Edward Ongweso Jr
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
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Wrote about digitally cloning your loved ones, immortality, death cults, and Silicon Valley. Plus: an old essay on Russian Cosmism and its perversion by today’s accelerationists.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about digitally cloning your loved ones, immortality, death cults, and Silicon Valley. Plus: an old essay on Russian Cosmism and its perversion by today’s accelerationists.
thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
wrote a little about the inspiration for Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad (Samuel Butler and his novel EREHWON), as well as Luddism & democratic governance
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September 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
wrote a little about the inspiration for Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad (Samuel Butler and his novel EREHWON), as well as Luddism & democratic governance
thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...
thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...
recommendation roundup: essays on arguing with AI boosters, weaponized interdependence of hyperscale data centers, capital moats in the AI sector, techno-feudalism, China's nuclear strategy, Apple in China, AI psychosis as a normal Silicon Valley outcome, new books, Japanese city pop, and more
August 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
recommendation roundup: essays on arguing with AI boosters, weaponized interdependence of hyperscale data centers, capital moats in the AI sector, techno-feudalism, China's nuclear strategy, Apple in China, AI psychosis as a normal Silicon Valley outcome, new books, Japanese city pop, and more
we love xenogears don’t we folks, love it so much we made this mech from the game our logo (and gave if the hammer of ludd)
July 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
we love xenogears don’t we folks, love it so much we made this mech from the game our logo (and gave if the hammer of ludd)
Next few essays were originally one, think of them as playful attempts to use religious ideas to talk about AI. the first is loosely using Luther’s criticism of excessive indulgences to talk about the delusions, distractions, and speculative gambits obscuring gen AI’s real cost
June 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Next few essays were originally one, think of them as playful attempts to use religious ideas to talk about AI. the first is loosely using Luther’s criticism of excessive indulgences to talk about the delusions, distractions, and speculative gambits obscuring gen AI’s real cost
Do any of OpenAI's marketing stunts matter? What are the real use cases for AI? Is AI and AI art fascist? Or are they springing out of a larger fascist project? thetechbubble.substack.com/p/does-opena...
March 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Do any of OpenAI's marketing stunts matter? What are the real use cases for AI? Is AI and AI art fascist? Or are they springing out of a larger fascist project? thetechbubble.substack.com/p/does-opena...
Wrote about more of Uber's bastard spawn, Fairwork's recent survey of the US gig economy, and how algorithmic overseers are deployed to break down legal obstacles to digital labor platform's first profits thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...
March 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Wrote about more of Uber's bastard spawn, Fairwork's recent survey of the US gig economy, and how algorithmic overseers are deployed to break down legal obstacles to digital labor platform's first profits thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...
Wanna see my cats?
March 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Wanna see my cats?
lmaooo LET HIM COOK
January 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
lmaooo LET HIM COOK
A real shame that startups who take money from the apartheid factory are facing such unjust limits on their IP
December 24, 2024 at 11:18 PM
A real shame that startups who take money from the apartheid factory are facing such unjust limits on their IP
depends on what you’re doing fam! if you’re making sure Palantir gets government contracts, it’s a bit deeper than being a civil servant in empire. what are you doing in and outside of work?
December 24, 2024 at 11:16 PM
depends on what you’re doing fam! if you’re making sure Palantir gets government contracts, it’s a bit deeper than being a civil servant in empire. what are you doing in and outside of work?
always gonna be a writer! There are a lot of mediums I would like to explore (fiction, screen, theatre, art, etc.) but I can’t really see myself not being a writer even if I took up some other profession
December 24, 2024 at 11:13 PM
always gonna be a writer! There are a lot of mediums I would like to explore (fiction, screen, theatre, art, etc.) but I can’t really see myself not being a writer even if I took up some other profession
cause there are a lot of benefits to hurting people within our system which encourages and rewards pathological behavior! Chomsky has a little rant in his Moyers interview about this youtu.be/Oh_Zk6Da9fU?...
December 24, 2024 at 11:11 PM
cause there are a lot of benefits to hurting people within our system which encourages and rewards pathological behavior! Chomsky has a little rant in his Moyers interview about this youtu.be/Oh_Zk6Da9fU?...
your best bet is to start with this book, which among other things fleshes out the role rumor and whisper networks had in sustaining and preserving revolutionary ideas and resistance—and in shaping counter-reaction
December 24, 2024 at 10:55 PM
your best bet is to start with this book, which among other things fleshes out the role rumor and whisper networks had in sustaining and preserving revolutionary ideas and resistance—and in shaping counter-reaction
this is the subject of one of my upcoming AI series essays, it’ll be on infrastructure: what services compose the supply/demand chain of the major gAI firms from chips & data centers to government & corporate & consumer services. So let’s just say there’s a market for infrastructure of some sort
December 24, 2024 at 10:46 PM
this is the subject of one of my upcoming AI series essays, it’ll be on infrastructure: what services compose the supply/demand chain of the major gAI firms from chips & data centers to government & corporate & consumer services. So let’s just say there’s a market for infrastructure of some sort
New York City is the capital of every state
December 24, 2024 at 10:35 PM
New York City is the capital of every state
Don’t think I’ve seen any beyond the first when I was a child? Now if you ask me about Rush Hour, the answer is 1 without a doubt
December 24, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Don’t think I’ve seen any beyond the first when I was a child? Now if you ask me about Rush Hour, the answer is 1 without a doubt
Now check out: Du Bois’ biography of Brown, MIDNIGHT RISING, and FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN, three more great books about/touching on him. The GOOD LORD BIRD book and tv adaptation are wonderful, Hawke plays him brilliantly and I’m obsessed w each monologue of his
December 24, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Now check out: Du Bois’ biography of Brown, MIDNIGHT RISING, and FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN, three more great books about/touching on him. The GOOD LORD BIRD book and tv adaptation are wonderful, Hawke plays him brilliantly and I’m obsessed w each monologue of his
The Seraphim in John C Wright’s COUNT TO ESCHATON sequence are probably the largest ones in sci-fi and some of my fav. These are galactic superclusters that span tens or hundreds of thousands of giant & dwarf galaxies, crafting and enacting plans that take billions or trillions of years to commence.
December 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
The Seraphim in John C Wright’s COUNT TO ESCHATON sequence are probably the largest ones in sci-fi and some of my fav. These are galactic superclusters that span tens or hundreds of thousands of giant & dwarf galaxies, crafting and enacting plans that take billions or trillions of years to commence.
short term: sure. crypto prices will go up & crackdowns will intensify, crypto is a stop gap. But one long term the concern is that crypto is volatile and regularly crashes while internet censorship & sex worker purges are consistently successful, leaving them with increasingly less
December 24, 2024 at 9:51 PM
short term: sure. crypto prices will go up & crackdowns will intensify, crypto is a stop gap. But one long term the concern is that crypto is volatile and regularly crashes while internet censorship & sex worker purges are consistently successful, leaving them with increasingly less
Nature as an asset + ReFi bullshit will exponentially proliferate, defense tech steering will continue and intensify, crypto+AI policy written by VC cartel, the big Q is the same Q every year though: how long can the tech asset bubble continue & what will get crushed/built with this misallocation
December 24, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Nature as an asset + ReFi bullshit will exponentially proliferate, defense tech steering will continue and intensify, crypto+AI policy written by VC cartel, the big Q is the same Q every year though: how long can the tech asset bubble continue & what will get crushed/built with this misallocation