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submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Now we know for sure that the AI revolution is as big as the internet revilution. Mary Meeker has weighed in. Missed these from her. www.bondcap.com/report/pdf/T...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting take re NYT: Goog should break itself up cuz it’s a conglomerate. But we all know where this is going: Settlement a la Msft 23 yrs ago. To preserve competition in AI, it needs to happen sooner than later. crazystupidtech.com/2025/05/11/d... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

We’re at an inflection point in tech same as when the iPhone launched 18 years ago.And now we have our first full expression of that shift.I don't know if the $6.5 billion partnership between Jony Ive and Sam Altman will work.But it won't be boring. From @om.co at CrazyStupidTech. bit.ly/3SOuTrX

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

First @airbnb announces a strategy I laid out for them exactly 5 years ago. And then Facebook attorney calls me a "Failed Blogger." And Max is now HBOMax! Definitely qualifies for a weird Wednesday hashtag. Right?

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

One of the reasons Meta will always undermine Om, despite the fact that Om is a legend in tech journalism, is because he simply told the truth about Andreessen’s endorsement of colonialism in India being a reprehensible thing for a Facebook board member to do. And Meta enabled genocide.

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

Boy, is Meta desperate or what? Om Malik is a pioneer in tech media entrepreneurship and I wrote some freelance pieces for Vanity Fair a decade ago. You’d think their high priced lawyers were smarter. www.theverge.com/politics/666...

submitted 36 days ago • 32 comments

Google's an unrepentant and illegal monopolist. So courts should show no mercy and break it up. Right? Not to me. I think DOJ et al should settle the lawsuits ASAP. crazystupidtech.com/2025/05/11/d...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Google's an unrepentant and illegal monopolist. So courts should show no mercy and break it up. Right? Not to me. I think DOJ et al should settle the lawsuits ASAP. crazystupidtech.com/2025/05/11/d...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is a fabulous piece. Seminal. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Working with Chris Krebs and getting to know his wife Emily and their family has been one of the great honors of my life. The attack against their family should be condemned by all. I have written a post about what is happening to them here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alexst...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

Horrible.The fact that they cloak it as a fight against antisemitism makes it 10x disgusting and terrifying. I’m a Jew with Holocaust survivors as parents and in-laws. This is nothing to celebrate or even to say “at least they aren’t after me.” They are, just not yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Dear customer, Someone probably stole all your healthcare data to sell you targeted advertising. We fixed it, but we’re not going to do anything else because we don’t have to. Oh, your rates are going up again. That is all.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Am I the only one who thinks Trump et al are trading ahead of all this info, making billions, knowing his justice and sec won’t dare blow the whistle? www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc...

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

Would probably be cheaper for Apple to move its hq to Canada, Europe or Shenzhen than to onshore its production the way Trump wants. If tariffs stay on for months and make Apple a sacrificial lamb of the trade wars, I suspect Cook will make sure Trump knows that. www.404media.co/a-us-made-ip...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Patrick Hsu got his PhD at 21. Most of his training was in CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang’s lab. In 2021 he co-founded Arc to speed up how ideas become reality in biology. At just 31 he has a lot to say about the future of digital bio and research in the Trump era. crazystupidtech.com/archive/a-bi...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

S&P 500 is down 16% since Feb 18. Six weeks ago. I’m sure Trump will find a way to blame Biden or Powell or someone else for this. Or crazier - he’ll just kill the IRS and say “There, I just gave you all a 25% raise. You people need to say “thank you” more often.”The American kool-aid acid test.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

We’re obsessed with Trump as Hitler. But this morning I wondered if Trump 2.0 is more like Mao’s Cultural Revolution-systematic government destruction of all society’s pillars in the name of “rebuilding.” Sadly, like then, the builders will emigrate and America First will fast become America Last.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Elon spent about $20m in Wisconsin and lost.But here’s what’s scary:It’s literally pocket change to him.For most that’s like giving $15 to $60-6/1000 of 1% of his net worth.Musk can do this again and again and again.His $330b net worth makes him the 13th largest bank in the US.Shouldn’t we fix this?

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Why do we have a zillion social media accounts that don’t talk to each other? We have one phone number. One address book. A work and home email. Why not one social media identity we can use everywhere and move anywhere without starting over? Bluesky has answers. crazystupidtech.com/archive/blue...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

1/7 I know Trump et al is in full “ kill the messenger” mode over Signalgate. So maybe it’s time to state the obvious: Jeff Goldberg and the Atlantic are actually delivering a master class on why professional journalism exists.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

China now controls 40% of all vehicle manufacturing and is overtaking Tesla in electrics. Ford thinks we are unlikely to out invent it so we should copy. But the US wants tariffs on our partners Canada and Mexico? Here’s @om on cars for CrazyStupidTech crazystupidtech.com/archive/chin...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

My friend/partner @om.co has hoped for a generation that the tech behind smart home lightbulbs and other IoT gadgets would some day get good enough to be useful.Not anymore.He’s begun wondering if the whole industry isn’t really just a giant scam. crazystupidtech.com/archive/the-...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Some scary Elon math: 1/100 of 1 percent is considered pocket change - about $25-$100 for many of us. For him that’s $34 million. That’s enough to tip any election anywhere in the country. He can do it again and again and not even notice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to see how this goes anywhere, though i’d like it to. Trump has said many times he wants out of NATO, that the Europeans are pussies, and that he could care less if Putin takes E. Europe back. Europe groveling before Trump might be worse than just breaking with the US now. on.ft.com/3QDR0R3

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Next foreign policy shoes to drop: China takes Taiwan. China replaces USAID in the developing world. Trump will tout his friendship with Xi and do nothing. Then China and Europe will discuss how to replace the dollar as the reserve currency. AmericaFirst will quickly mean AmericaLast.

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

Super interesting Pandora’s box here.If our data has value that’s measurable enough to put on a balance sheet,will we soon be able to agree on what determines value within and across societies?Will we soon be able to sell our data like artists sell music catalogs? Hmm restofworld.org/2025/chinese...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Love this piece and this new newsletter from @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. “I instituted DEI programs at Cloudera (not just because it’s right) but because I'm a rapacious capitalist who saw (and still sees) it as a competitive advantage to do so. “ not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/wh/?ref=not-...

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Some of you have asked us “Can you be more specific about where you’re going with CrazyStupidTech? What are you going to focus on this year and why?“ Here’s a start: crazystupidtech.com/archive/what...

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments