Boom, bubble, bust, boom. We remember the internet bubble like it was yesterday. This mania is too similar for our comfort. Too much spending. Too much leverage. Too many crazy deals. China. That’s the latest from … crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/b...

Everyone has an opinion about the govt shutdown, Obamacare subsidy cuts and Medicaid cuts on healthcare, esp ER care. Except, few pundits have ever worked in an ER. This writer has been an ER doc for three decades. Maybe we should listen to him stead of politicians. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Are you in the mood for a 6000-word interview about AI, Robotics, and get a lowdown on the hype and reality of the two of the hottest tech trends? Well, we have you covered in this chat with @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social (Also, please sign up for our newsletter) crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/i...

Means that $100 to someone worth $1 million is $50 million to Elon. Let that sink in. www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu...

Whether you know a lot or nothing about Silicon Valley, this is a must read piece by my friend and former Wired bud Steven levy @stevenjayl. He has seen the evolution of tech from its beginnings. He knows everyone. Few have as powerful a lens. It’s just seminal. www.wired.com/story/silico...

Can someone explain why a traditional network tv broadcast license - and therefore the opinion of the FCC - is remotely meaningful in a world where virtually zero content is consumed that way and where virtually zero eyeballs consume it that way? Is there truly no workaround to this 80 yr old tech?

There was no “ideology,” leftist or otherwise. What if he was just a kid in love, who saw a man spreading hatred that endangered the person he loved. And he broke.

If I’m NYT I actually countersue for harassment.Trump knows this is a ridiculous lawsuit.But he also knows that after the coverage sane washes it, he has an extra tool to hammer the NYT credibility, esp if courts don’t dismiss immediately.They must. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

September's Reading & Meeting features Yeva Johnson, Brandy Collins, Audrey Ferber and Nate Olivarez-Giles reading from their works in progress. Emcee Christl Rikka-Perkins will lead a Q&A about their work and writing process.

Techmeme turns 20 today. This is a @techmeme.com appreciation post. In a time of personalized feeds, fragmented audiences and endless noise, an old-school, hand-curated (with input from algorithms) landing page that collates the day's most noteworthy tech news is a godsend. www.techmeme.com

I get that Trump’s cuts killed the new decal program. Disagree w it. But why does that mean existing ev owners get hammered re car pool lanes? Doesn’t cost state a dime to let them continue and there are half a million of them. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I am @fvogelstein and I approve this message. Heh

I wasn’t the first Techmeme reader, but pretty close. I saw it for the first time sometime in late 2005 or early 2006. Been hooked ever since. Perhaps the lesson here is that “Change is good. But more often than not, less is more. “

A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Unbelievable that the @gaberivera.bsky.social has been doing @techmeme.com for 20 years. When I started Metacurity, I told Gabe I was going to model it on Techmeme, and he said Go for it. Great shout-out to Gabe from @fvogelstein.bsky.social crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...

Should be called the “Whites only in America” case. I’m the kid of immigrants. This makes me sick to my stomach. If this stands after full argument, it’ll be up there w Korematsu and Dred Scott in the worst of all time for SCOTUS. Astonishing. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

If i’m OpeAI, i’m about to team up with Microsoft to offer publishers $$ to crawl their sites in exchange for blocking Google’s crawlers. These are two cos who have wanted to kick Google for years, and now, for a little $$, would get to hammer them. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

If you were a kid in high school right now paying attention the national affairs, starting to think about making your own way in the world as an adult, how could you avoid concluding that the only people who tell the truth are suckers. That’s just really scary. I really hope I’m wrong about that.

Spent 90mins w @eastdakota.com. He’s trying to force Google,then rest of AI oligarchs to pay publishers to crawl content.Would revolutionize the web.I bet he succeeds.Cloudflare has mucho leverage.Atrust cops have Google on the ropes.Latest from Crazy Stupid Tech. crazystupidtech.com/2025/08/30/c...

Realized something depressing this am.I haven’t read a single story about the shootings in Minneapolis.My brain no longer registers mass shootings as news, but as something we Americans have decided is just part of everyday life. Every other approach I’ve taken to this issue has failed. Thoughts?

Mike Semel wanted to be a journalist so he could cover sports - the Knicks, I think. He finally gets his wish. Few deserve it more. www.nytco.com/press/mike-s...

Crazy. Even if Harvard settles, what’s to stop Trump from later reneging or cutting research to all universities as new policy. Then Harvard has taken it up the ass for nothing. Only way this works is if money promised is in escrow somehow. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

I am not a New Yorker. But have seen a lot of political aspirants over the decades. Mamdani has "it."

A five alarm fire is sweeping through digital publishing.Search engine referral traffic is imploding cuz of AI chatbots.Goog created this world 27 yrs ago. Now it and pubs are scrambling. A solution: Online tollbooths. Tollbit was first. It won’t be the last. crazystupidtech.com/2025/06/22/w... .

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Favorite sign of the day

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...

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...

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

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?

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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?

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...

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.

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...

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-...

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...