Peter A. McKay
@peteramckay.bsky.social
I publish w3w, a newsletter about emerging tech. Link: https://w3w.news 📬 | Ex-reporter: @wsj.com (mostly pre-Murdoch) 🗞️ @washingtonpost.com (100% pre-Bezos) 🗞️ | Alum: Florida A&M 🐍 | Mets fan ⚾ | Email: peter[at]w3w[dot]media
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Discord is a chat app whose name is literally a synonym for interpersonal conflict. Discuss...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Discord is a chat app whose name is literally a synonym for interpersonal conflict. Discuss...
In the latest #w3w newsletter: Imho the #crypto industry should beware 🍊's constant grifting. It could eventually create a public perception headache for *everyone,* in a way that makes the FTX fallout look like a day at the beach. In the Bahamas, if you will.
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Trump II offers crypto welcome regulatory wins — and big reputational risks
Market watchdogs are working together, IPOs are back, and Polymarket is eyeing a U.S. return. But the First Family's grifting looms large.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In the latest #w3w newsletter: Imho the #crypto industry should beware 🍊's constant grifting. It could eventually create a public perception headache for *everyone,* in a way that makes the FTX fallout look like a day at the beach. In the Bahamas, if you will.
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In the latest #w3w newsletter, I think I just set the world record for most work ever put in by a pair of parentheses. 😹
This edition also amplifies some important takes by others re: perhaps the most burning question in #AI: How will it affect employment?
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This edition also amplifies some important takes by others re: perhaps the most burning question in #AI: How will it affect employment?
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AI's impact on jobs won't be just about the tech
Whether new tools help or harm human workers may depend less on the software itself and more on who's in charge.
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August 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In the latest #w3w newsletter, I think I just set the world record for most work ever put in by a pair of parentheses. 😹
This edition also amplifies some important takes by others re: perhaps the most burning question in #AI: How will it affect employment?
w3wnews.substack.com/p/ais-impact...
This edition also amplifies some important takes by others re: perhaps the most burning question in #AI: How will it affect employment?
w3wnews.substack.com/p/ais-impact...
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ah, very exciting
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
August 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
ah, very exciting
#Startups and public #tech companies alike have been raising money in surprising ways lately.
In: #Crypto treasuries and selling shares to Uncle Sam.
Out (sort of): traditional #VC funding rounds.
For fuller detail, check out the latest #w3w newsletter…
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In: #Crypto treasuries and selling shares to Uncle Sam.
Out (sort of): traditional #VC funding rounds.
For fuller detail, check out the latest #w3w newsletter…
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Tech's money machine is evolving
For better or worse, crypto treasuries and Uncle Sam are transforming Silicon Valley's funding landscape radically.
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August 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
To find the news stories that are truly most important each day, rely more on human-driven curation, not algorithmic sorting. In the latest #w3w newsletter, I re-visit some tips to help news consumers do just that.
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Reminder: Cut the algos from your news diet.
It’s one of the best things we could all do to have better small-d democratic discourse. Here’s how I do it.
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August 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
To find the news stories that are truly most important each day, rely more on human-driven curation, not algorithmic sorting. In the latest #w3w newsletter, I re-visit some tips to help news consumers do just that.
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In the latest #w3w newsletter: The Wall Street Journal reports that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has argued this year against board-level proposals to close or sell the company’s U.S. chip plants. So why does President Trump want him ousted?
Intel CEO unexpectedly faces Trump's ire
Presidential pressure for Lip-Bu Tan's ouster raises fresh questions about national security, manufacturing, and who’s really protecting America’s tech edge
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August 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In the latest #w3w newsletter: The Wall Street Journal reports that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has argued this year against board-level proposals to close or sell the company’s U.S. chip plants. So why does President Trump want him ousted?
In the latest #w3w newsletter: Washington's latest political scandal is indirectly providing insight into how #AI really works.
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Even MAGA's AI bots are conflicted over Epstein
Washington's latest political scandal is indirectly providing insight into how this cutting-edge tech really works.
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July 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
In the latest #w3w newsletter: Washington's latest political scandal is indirectly providing insight into how #AI really works.
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Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
July 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
In the latest #w3w newsletter, we consider the examples of Nvidia in #AI and #Ethereum stakers in #crypto. The common thread: They’re making money off emerging tech without leveraging themselves to the big product breakthroughs most outsiders tend to associate with each category. Hmm…
Emerging tech's toolmakers are winning.
Ethereum stakers and Nvidia's AI-fueled chip sales highlight an old lesson about market booms.
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July 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Congrats everyone, we now have 35% tariffs on Canada for no apparent reason
July 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Congrats everyone, we now have 35% tariffs on Canada for no apparent reason
OK. I'm officially beginning to worry about the #Mets' season. In my defense, I'm kinda belated on this front compared to most fans' panic lately.
But now they just lost both ends of a doubleheader against... BALTIMORE?!?!?! Wtf...
But now they just lost both ends of a doubleheader against... BALTIMORE?!?!?! Wtf...
July 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
OK. I'm officially beginning to worry about the #Mets' season. In my defense, I'm kinda belated on this front compared to most fans' panic lately.
But now they just lost both ends of a doubleheader against... BALTIMORE?!?!?! Wtf...
But now they just lost both ends of a doubleheader against... BALTIMORE?!?!?! Wtf...
Using the latest #w3w newsletter to do a first-half markets check, focused on #AI, #bitcoin, and other areas of #tech. It’s a day early, admittedly. But better to jump the gun a bit than get to this too late. 🙃
How 2025's tech bull isn't like earlier runs
The first half's gains were fueled by AI and bitcoin — with a big helping of chaos on the side.
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June 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I was today years old when I discovered the Pirates Pierogies, a group of mascots that stage footraces at Pittsburgh's #MLB home games. As a Mets fan, I initially thought they were empanadas tbh, which was puzzling indeed. Too much of an NYC filter, I guess...
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Pirates Mascots | Pittsburgh Pirates
Learn about the Pirate Parrot, Pirates Pierogies, Bucco Brigade and Ball Girls.
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June 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I was today years old when I discovered the Pirates Pierogies, a group of mascots that stage footraces at Pittsburgh's #MLB home games. As a Mets fan, I initially thought they were empanadas tbh, which was puzzling indeed. Too much of an NYC filter, I guess...
www.mlb.com/pirates/fans...
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Dear YouTube algo: I've had enough "brutal" truths already. Could you please send more of the well-documented and constructively presented ones instead?
June 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Dear YouTube algo: I've had enough "brutal" truths already. Could you please send more of the well-documented and constructively presented ones instead?
FYI: A rare sightseeing opportunity for Americans tonight, if you live in AK, MO, ND, MN, SD, WI, ME, ID, or the upper peninsula of Michigan...
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Northern lights may be visible in these 10 US States tonight
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Washington as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere fuels geomagnetic storms with a high-speed solar wind.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
FYI: A rare sightseeing opportunity for Americans tonight, if you live in AK, MO, ND, MN, SD, WI, ME, ID, or the upper peninsula of Michigan...
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This description of teetotaling Gen Zers celebrating an NBA title is just... wow. 🤣
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June 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This description of teetotaling Gen Zers celebrating an NBA title is just... wow. 🤣
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Big updates re: #stablecoins in the latest #w3w newsletter.
Notable that 18 Dems voted with the majority in the Senate's recent passage of the Genius Act by a 68-30 margin. Increasingly, the party seems to be revisiting its harder policy line on #crypto in the Biden era. Hmmm...
Notable that 18 Dems voted with the majority in the Senate's recent passage of the Genius Act by a 68-30 margin. Increasingly, the party seems to be revisiting its harder policy line on #crypto in the Biden era. Hmmm...
Genius Act clears U.S. Senate, underscoring crypto’s political maturation
On an increasingly bipartisan basis, Washington is starting to treat digital assets as finance, not fad.
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June 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Big updates re: #stablecoins in the latest #w3w newsletter.
Notable that 18 Dems voted with the majority in the Senate's recent passage of the Genius Act by a 68-30 margin. Increasingly, the party seems to be revisiting its harder policy line on #crypto in the Biden era. Hmmm...
Notable that 18 Dems voted with the majority in the Senate's recent passage of the Genius Act by a 68-30 margin. Increasingly, the party seems to be revisiting its harder policy line on #crypto in the Biden era. Hmmm...
The potential intersection of #web3 and #AI seems promising. But in fact. real-world implementation has been woefully lagging. Exploring this problem in the latest #w3w newsletter...
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Web3 is losing the battle to decentralize AI.
A blockchain-driven future for AI is still possible. But it's rapidly slipping out of reach as Big Tech pads its lead.
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June 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The potential intersection of #web3 and #AI seems promising. But in fact. real-world implementation has been woefully lagging. Exploring this problem in the latest #w3w newsletter...
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So now Musk and his Twitter mob are suggesting an #impeachment3 for 🍊? How exactly is that supposed to turn out differently from 1 and 2?
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June 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
So now Musk and his Twitter mob are suggesting an #impeachment3 for 🍊? How exactly is that supposed to turn out differently from 1 and 2?
In the latest #w3w newsletter: Circle's IPO filing made it a big week for #stablecoins. Turns out there are serious businesses to be built atop tokens designed to do nothing in dollar terms, and even when USD faces headwinds in conventional forex markets. Hmmm...
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On-chain, the dollar looks immune to U.S. turmoil
Stablecoin issuers are raking in yields, landing venture deals, and moving billions — no Fed intervention required.
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June 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
In the latest #w3w newsletter: Circle's IPO filing made it a big week for #stablecoins. Turns out there are serious businesses to be built atop tokens designed to do nothing in dollar terms, and even when USD faces headwinds in conventional forex markets. Hmmm...
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This post... Yeesh...
Tell me without saying it directly that a lot of people never properly learned to calculate fractions in grade school.
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Tell me without saying it directly that a lot of people never properly learned to calculate fractions in grade school.
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If You’ve Ever Cooked a Modern Pasta Recipe, It’s Happened to You—but You Can Fight Back
It’s amazing how one simple number can become the bane of your cooking existence.
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June 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This post... Yeesh...
Tell me without saying it directly that a lot of people never properly learned to calculate fractions in grade school.
slate.com/life/2025/06...
Tell me without saying it directly that a lot of people never properly learned to calculate fractions in grade school.
slate.com/life/2025/06...