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Heather Wetzler

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Carl Quintanilla

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The “Jenga Tower” economy is some pretty vivid framing.

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November 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM

Heather Wetzler

@heatherwetzler.bsky.social

Living near the Palisades, I can tell you the air quality is still not right, if I was of a certain age I would definitely move, but at this point it doesn't matter for me

WIRED @wired.com · Sep 27

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare. www.wired.com/story/the-la...

The LA Fires Spewed Out Toxic Nanoparticles. He Made It His Mission to Trace Them

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare.

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September 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM

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Poncho McFloofy

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Everybody should take a burner phone when visiting the US. Also, do not take work laptops or any electronic devices with memory. Just buy the tech you need in the US if you must visit.

August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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Flex Luthor

@drakobangz.bsky.social

As a PM who’s worked at 3 VC backed companies this is 100% correct. It’s not about the product it’s about the narrative.

I’ve worked places that championed themselves as innovative market disrupters upending the entire (insert word) industry.

In reality it’s just like a web app barely working

February 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Dave Karpf

@davekarpf.bsky.social

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM