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Newsletter: I want my damn tech industry back. I'm sick of these sociopathic and directionless freaks wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on AI and ruining products in search of perpetual growth.
It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
Never Forget What They've Done
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance
Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already.
I want my fucking tech industry back.
Maybe you think I sound insane, bu...
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June 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Newsletter: I want my damn tech industry back. I'm sick of these sociopathic and directionless freaks wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on AI and ruining products in search of perpetual growth.
It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
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Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
June 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
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A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.
March 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.
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Democrats stop being terrified of being called a socialist challenge.
They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”
They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”
Every elected Democrat will acknowledge that the GOP has held an overwhelming media advantage since at least Obama. Somehow they fail to make the connection that everyone who's weathered a competitive election was *successfully* painted as trans Stalin gay married to Pelosi, and they won anyway
March 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Democrats stop being terrified of being called a socialist challenge.
They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”
They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”
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"Rolling Stone, WIRED, Teen Vogue, and your favorite tech blog leading the charge against fascism while your parents' Very Serious Papers of Record dig their own graves" sounds like cringe Millennial fan fiction from the Livejournal of someone whose parents banned them from using Limewire, and yet,
I've been a fan of Mike/Techdirt for years - he championed a lot of the adaptive stuff we were doing with NIN in the 2000s against the grain of the industry (embracing torrents, Creative Commons, pay-what-you-want albums, etc).
Great to see Techdirt firmly meeting the moment. Hopefully more follow.
Great to see Techdirt firmly meeting the moment. Hopefully more follow.
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
March 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"Rolling Stone, WIRED, Teen Vogue, and your favorite tech blog leading the charge against fascism while your parents' Very Serious Papers of Record dig their own graves" sounds like cringe Millennial fan fiction from the Livejournal of someone whose parents banned them from using Limewire, and yet,
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I, for one, welcome our new Weird Leftist Dad overlords.
March 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I, for one, welcome our new Weird Leftist Dad overlords.
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did the goddamn president seriously fuck up the local us army corps of engineers shitposting and memes page that i loved. is there anything he won't ruin
March 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
did the goddamn president seriously fuck up the local us army corps of engineers shitposting and memes page that i loved. is there anything he won't ruin
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The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites.
Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.
Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.
March 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites.
Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.
Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.
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my father, retired white engineer who has lived in oklahoma 45 years: “they should deport the son of a bitch to south africa and then south africa should bury him under a prison”, in case you wondered what the medicare set thinks
March 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
my father, retired white engineer who has lived in oklahoma 45 years: “they should deport the son of a bitch to south africa and then south africa should bury him under a prison”, in case you wondered what the medicare set thinks
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I am begging of people: if you see a post that has a lot of replies, *please* at least try to glance down at the replies to see if 75% of the replies are already the *exact* same joke you already made. Please.
March 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I am begging of people: if you see a post that has a lot of replies, *please* at least try to glance down at the replies to see if 75% of the replies are already the *exact* same joke you already made. Please.
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Rahm Emanuel saying he’s a predator so trans people shouldn’t have rights is a pretty clear distillation of the issue. Cishet men are sexual predators but they have all the power, while trans people have the least power, so trans people must be blamed for and punished for the crimes of cishet men
March 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rahm Emanuel saying he’s a predator so trans people shouldn’t have rights is a pretty clear distillation of the issue. Cishet men are sexual predators but they have all the power, while trans people have the least power, so trans people must be blamed for and punished for the crimes of cishet men
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I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
March 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
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You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to
March 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
>Chortles in pets.com<
I hope the entire Super Bowl is artificial intelligence ads. It's going to feel like the world is ending. Entire commercial breaks of commercials for companies promising to do both everything and nothing all at once. The disassociation bowl
February 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
>Chortles in pets.com<
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Was on NPR's onthemedia.bsky.social with Brooke Gladstone talking about generative AI. I believe I am the first person to refer to Sam Altman as a nasty little man on the radio
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Brooke Talks AI With Ed Zitron
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 01/29/2025 · 44m
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January 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Was on NPR's onthemedia.bsky.social with Brooke Gladstone talking about generative AI. I believe I am the first person to refer to Sam Altman as a nasty little man on the radio
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OpenAI: China stole our tech!!
Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place
OpenAI: 😡
Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place
OpenAI: 😡
January 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
OpenAI: China stole our tech!!
Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place
OpenAI: 😡
Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place
OpenAI: 😡
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*raises hand
Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
How come we've left it to Teen Vogue and Rolling Stone to bring all the real heat lately, while the OpEd pages of the NYT and WaPo and half the regulars in pubs like The Atlantic have gone so far as to practically join the bad guys?
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
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January 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*raises hand
Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
Hot take: a new follower following 2000 is ok. Following 200k is a block-and-report.
January 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hot take: a new follower following 2000 is ok. Following 200k is a block-and-report.
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I survived because the dumpster fire within me burned brighter than the dumpster fire around me
December 31, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I survived because the dumpster fire within me burned brighter than the dumpster fire around me
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Imagine if we still had a robust, efficient passenger rail network instead of dismantling it. Then maybe we wouldn’t be stuck choosing between soul-crushing traffic and TSA lines, both miserable, one deadly. We had it, we tore it down, and now we’re paying the price.
November 27, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Imagine if we still had a robust, efficient passenger rail network instead of dismantling it. Then maybe we wouldn’t be stuck choosing between soul-crushing traffic and TSA lines, both miserable, one deadly. We had it, we tore it down, and now we’re paying the price.
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so they removed the barriers because the barriers were working
I’ve never forgotten that Mass Ave had good bike infrastructure that got removed because drivers were slamming into barriers (instead of striking bicycles) at such speeds that people kept rolling their cars: www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/19/m...
City removes bike protection, citing safety for drivers - The Boston Globe
The city quickly removed barriers that were installed to improve dangerous cycling conditions.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
so they removed the barriers because the barriers were working