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AI, indulgences, and the false promise of salvation
on (some of) the moral externalities in the AI economy
Jun 1
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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April 2025
DNA's real value: advertising, authoritarianism, apartheid
Or how to re-legitimize "natural" hierarchies and their politics
Apr 8
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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March 2025
Does OpenAI's latest marketing stunt matter?
On distractions, intentions, aesthetics, and fascism.
Mar 31
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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Uber's Bastards II
On the proliferation of algorithmic overseers in the on-demand service industry.
Mar 27
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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A dance with death, science fiction I won't describe, a weird Welsh bookseller, techo-fascism, and a lot of jazz
The Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #4 (03/12/25)
Mar 12
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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A dance with death, science fiction I won't describe, a weird Welsh bookseller, techo-fascism, and a lot of jazz
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The Silicon Valley Consensus & AI Capex (Part 1)
On overbuilding AI infrastructure and its energy supply
Mar 3
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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January 2025
Uber's Bastards
On the ride-hail model and the gig economy's metastasis.
Jan 30
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King: Whitewashing a Legacy of Dissent
For MLK Day + Trump inauguration, here is the first essay I ever put online—published 11 years ago.
Jan 21
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King: Whitewashing a Legacy of Dissent
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Trapped in the Maw of a Stillborn God
Vegas as a laboratory for surveillance and social control, the explosion of gambling as a sign of a degenerate culture seized by despair, AI delusions…
Jan 20
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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We All Live in the Firestorm: Infinite Crisis and the LA Wildfires
Jathan Sadowski on the ecological, financial, social, and political crises competing to swallow us whole.
Jan 17
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Jathan Sadowski
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December 2024
Luigi, insurance tech, China, AI, plus some more sci-fi and music recommendations
A roundup of I'm reading, watching, and listening to.
Dec 12, 2024
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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Luigi, insurance tech, China, AI, plus some more sci-fi and music recommendations
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The phony comforts of useful idiots
On Casey Newton and the shallowness of anti-skepticism.
Dec 8, 2024
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Edward Ongweso Jr
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