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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.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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misik.bsky.social
Worüber wir mal reden müssen: die autoritären Reflexe bei Linken und Pseudo-Linken, die nicht zuletzt den Gegnern in die Hände spielen. Meine Zackzack-Kolumne: zackzack.at/2025/06/21/d...
Die autoritäre Linke - zackzack.at
Warum die Linke für Freiheit, Großzügigkeit und Freundlichkeit in ihren eigenen Milieus kämpfen muss.
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June 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social
Zuckerberg's superyacht "Launchpad", worth $300 million, is 387 feet long. That's a football field-plus. It has its own support yacht that accompanies it everywhere, the $30 million "Wingman".

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April 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
December 8, 2024 at 2:18 PM