The Tech Bubble

On the PetroState/ElectroState Global Cold War, the Darién Gap, OpenAI's addiction to wasting capital, the existential risk of deregulating…

Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #9: What I've been reading (9/29/25)

Sep 29 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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Visions of Mustaqbālna

On Saudi Arabia's various fever dreams and their role in our long national nightmare

Sep 24 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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On data centers, criminal conspiracies, our sweaty German-South African-American Antichrist, the next military-industrial complex, and a few…

Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #8: What I've been reading, watching, and listening to (9/21/25)

Sep 22 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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On the Origins of Dune's Butlerian Jihad

Some notes on what should go in our own Orange Catholic Bible.

Sep 19 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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On political violence, domestic & foreign AI, climate change, music, web novels, movies, and more recommendations

Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #7: What I’ve been reading, watching, and listening to (9/14/25).

Sep 15 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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The Silicon Valley Consensus & the "AI Economy"

On techno-optimism in the midst of a tech bubble

Sep 8 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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August 2025

Our Big Beautiful AI Bubble(s), ChatGPT-5, Capitalism, China, ASOIAF fan fiction, and salsa

Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #6: What I’ve been reading, watching, and listening to (8/26/25).

Aug 26 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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Ride-sharing apps are bad, actually

Or why Matthew Yglesias has no clue what he's talking about

Aug 8 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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July 2025

On Epstein, China, AI geopolitics, Gaza, and recommendations

The Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #5 (7/25/25)

Jul 25 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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This Silicon Valley Stuff'll Get You Killed

some notes on ritual sacrifice in the 21st century

Jul 21 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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June 2025

AI, indulgences, and the false promise of salvation

on (some of) the moral externalities in the AI economy

Jun 1 • 

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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 • 

Edward Ongweso Jr

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