Critical piece about a new Palantir app ICE is using to determine the “density” of potential people to deport in a given neighborhood. Gives some indications on how ICE is deciding where to act www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

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Remember the metaverse lol www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met... by @edwardongwesojr.com

I cannot get over how good a job the photographer (Maggie Shannon) did! I’ve also already confirmed she’s back for next year, along with a few new guests…

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...

Looking for reliable forecasts for AI & data centers? Forecasts on the Metaverse less than 4 years ago remind us that top consulting & finance firms thrive on hype. McKinsey's 2022 prediction: ~$5T in impact by 2030. Citigroup:: $8T-$13T. Morgan Stanley: $8T in China alone. @edwardongwesojr.com

I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...

Got the CES photo shoot back with @funranium.bsky.social @adamconover.net @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com, so many more photos to come but had to share some

I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...

Here’s the final episode of our CES coverage - an epilogue with Cory Doctorow, @funranium.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Here’s part 8 of this week’s Better Offline coverage of CES, featuring Cory Doctorow, @captain2phones.bsky.social, @cherlynn.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com and @bishonentype.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Here’s part 9 of this week’s Better Offline coverage of CES, featuring Cory Doctorow, @edwardongwesojr.com, @iwriteok.bsky.social, @kylechouinard.bsky.social and @bishonentype.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Here's Part 6 of Better Offline's CES Coverage - I'm joined by @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com @devindra.bsky.social and @mattbinder.bsky.social to talk about how anti-consumer the Consumer Electronics Show has become. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

Here's Part 7 of Better Offline's CES coverage - I'm joined by @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social, @bishonentype.bsky.social, @robpegoraro.com, @iwriteok.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com and @westinlee.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

Better Offline CES 2026: Part Six (Thursday) @edzitron.com @edwardongwesojr.com @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social @mattbinder.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Jan 22 @ 2pm ET: For our first event of 2026, we’re taking a close look at Trump administration AI policy. Join us online as @alondra.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com & @telliotter.bsky.social talk to D&S's Brian J. Chen about the admin’s actions & their consequences. datasociety.net/events/one-y...

Better Offline CES 2026: Part Four @edzitron.com @edwardongwesojr.com @bishonentype.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @adamconover.net @mattbinder.bsky.social @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social @benthepcguy.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Here's ep 4 of this week's Better Offline coverage of CES, featuring @edwardongwesojr.com @bishonentype.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @adamconover.net @mattbinder.bsky.social @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social @benthepcguy.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

Here's part 5 of this week's Better Offline coverage of the Consumer Electronics show, featuring @adamconover.net @edwardongwesojr.com @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social @karissabe.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @advisorator.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

Here's Ep 2 of Better Offline's CES coverage - I'm joined by @niedermeyer.online, @henrytcasey.net, @edwardongwesojr.com and @bishonentype.bsky.social to talk wireless TVs, useless smart glasses, and the big lie of consumer robotics. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

A pleasure as always, and sorry to @edwardongwesojr.com we didn’t talk The Shrouds afterwards, I had to walk to the LVCC to make an appointment

In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts @jathansadowski.com and @edwardongwesojr.com interview @abenanav.bsky.social about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. www.indep.network/first-part-o...

Bari Weiss's Free Press website ran this screed by Matt Taibbi defending his lawsuit against a book author. But the Free Press apparently never reached out to the author. Even though Weiss spiked that 60 Minutes piece for not reaching out to enough Trump officials www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibb...

First day of Better Offline CES wrapped - joined by @edwardongwesojr.com @davidjroth.bsky.social @scottstein.bsky.social @mattbinder.bsky.social @lisaeadicicco.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social, 2.5 hours in total, out...in the next few hours? Subscribe at linktr.ee/betteroffline

Me: I welcome the Newflesh. @edwardongwesojr.com: Internally, I the next Sora model will be called Videodrome.

Césaire evokes the “prodigious mechanization, the mechanization of man; the gigantic rape of everything intimate, undamaged, undefiled that, despoiled as we are, our human spirit has still managed to preserve” in modern life. nacla.org/boomerangs-o... Reading kingsnorth

We've kicked off the Better Offline CES experience here in the Palazzo Hotel, and will begin recording episodes tomorrow. If you're a reporter and want to come on the show (or just enjoy our free drinks and tacos!) please DM me or signal me at ezitron.76. We're here all week.

Monday we've got me, @edwardongwesojr.com, @scottstein.bsky.social, @lisaeadicicco.bsky.social, @mattbinder.bsky.social, and the incredible @davidjroth.bsky.social. First ep is out Tuesday at 12AM ET! Please subscribe here: linktr.ee/betteroffline

some of the things I enjoyed in 2025: erotic thrillers & their deconstruction, Cronenberg’s romantic side, a song about a Pornomime that's now about generative AI chatbots imitating intimacy, High Hotep rap, YouTube book reviewers, and my own writing thetechbubble.substack.com/p/some-of-wh...

My most listened to podcasts for the year @dailyzeitgeist.bsky.social w/ @jackob1.bsky.social + @milesofgray.bsky.social It Could Happen Here w/ @coolzonemedia.bsky.social This Machine Kills w/ @edwardongwesojr.com + @jathansadowski.com The Film Reroll @kindafunnyvids.bsky.social Gamescast

Some ~personal news~

It’s been a wild year — and we need to break it down! Join @parismarx.com, @jathansadowski.com, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, and @edwardongwesojr.com tomorrow at 3pm PT / 6pm ET / 11pm GMT for a livestream to wrap up the year in tech. Become a Patreon supporter to join us: patreon.com/techwontsaveus

Eight days ago I said one of the signs the bubble was bursting was if data center REITs like Fermi were in trouble. Yesterday Fermi had a $150m tenant pull out and its stock dropped 40%. All roads lead to The Smiling Man! sherwood.news/markets/ferm... www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...

Writing about various aspects of the AI bubble that we should pay more attention to in 2026. Part One is on AI geopolitics: attempts to replace the petrodollar system with a "technodollar" system, Sovereign AI, exporting inference to the gulf, and more thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...

Writing about various aspects of the AI bubble that we should pay more attention to in 2026. Part One is on AI geopolitics: attempts to replace the petrodollar system with a "technodollar" system, Sovereign AI, exporting inference to the gulf, and more thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...

I wrote about Kalshi, prediction markets, and the vision of total financialization by turning every opinion into a tradable assets www.fastcompany.com/91457404/kal...

Premium newsletter: The much-demanded 16k word guide to how the AI bubble might actually burst, starting with the collapse of data center debt financing, the end of venture capital funding for AI, OpenAI's death, and how NVIDIA's AI GPU era might come to an end. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...

ICYMI, my latest video with @bcmerchant.bsky.social in which I discuss Israel, surveillance, the luddites, the AI jobs crisis, Dune's butlerian jihad, and resisting the big tech agenda. Also reference the work of @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @edwardongwesojr.com @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

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one thing worth observing here is that so many of these pundits aren't earnestly trying to understand what happened in the world as much as they are shadowboxing with people they don't like on the internet. stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...

Fascinating stuff (and yeah, obligatory note that AI is a stupid label, this isn't an LLM etc) But once again, this is also about substituting mere prediction for explanation. Understanding is overhead to capital, predictions are all it cares about. Capital is trying to get rid of science

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

on NYC bond markets, Zohran’s tech policy, the AI bubble’s growing debt component, the Gulf’s vision for compute, venture capital in the UK, Epstein’s role in global politics, performative China envy, Pynchon’s defense of the Luddites, and more thetechbubble.substack.com/p/sewer-soci...

Here is the syllabus for the Information & Human Rights course that I taught at @pratt.edu this fall: rebeccawilliams.info/info-619-inf... Many thanks to @edwardongwesojr.com, @samanthahinds.bsky.social, & the lawyers not on Bluesky for being guest speakers & for everyone we read!

I love the abstraction of the "AI" bubble popping. But the very probable effects haunt me. Desire to Pop

My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site. danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...

In the new TMK, we chat with @beccamonteleone.bsky.social about her new book—the Double Bind of Disability—on the politics of disability, technology, and the production of knowledge/power over people's bodies. Becca lays out how to think (critically) about disability. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...