Dear Sam,
On vendor-financed delusions, circular capital, the $100 billion retreat nobody wants to name, and what it means that the CFO of the world's most important AI project doesn't bother with the money flywheel.
Big Tech
32 posts
The Zombie Singularity of Intelligence Without Understanding
W05 - TV's "Person of Interest" warned us about AI without wisdom. Silicon Valley's response? Scale the zombies, optimize the pattern-matching, and call it progress. We're teaching machines to play chess while forgetting why some pieces shouldn't be sacrificed.
Dear Dario,
You preached AI ethics from your personal blog while selling Anthropic's independence to Amazon. Now your 'Constitutional AI' sits on Bezos's property, paying rent."
The Amnesia Machine
W52 - Before the internet, erasing history required burning books. Now, Silicon Valley's memory merchants have perfected something far more powerful: curated forgetting. Their algorithms don't just bury inconvenient truths—they replace them with carefully selected distractions.
Architecture Over Scale
W49 - When Google validated my AI thesis, I didn't celebrate. I shrugged. While they wrote 50-page theories, I'd already built the solution—in $75 cow tags. They're just arriving at the starting line as I cross the finish. Being right too early feels exactly like being wrong. Until it doesn't.
When Two's Company, Three's a Revolution
W46 - When U.S. sanctions cut off Huawei from advanced chips, they didn't just restrict—they revolutionized. In 2025, blocked from optimizing binary computers, China's tech giant unveiled something radical: the first commercial three-state processor, upending 80 years of computing.
Power in the Background
W45 - While tech giants wage PR battles over AI, Amazon is quietly building its neural substrate in Indiana cornfields. The real power isn't in the models—it's in who owns the ground they stand on. And we've seen this movie before.
Silicon Valley Is Building a $600 Billion Casino With Chips That Expire in Three Years
W43 - Tech giants are spending $600 billion to generate $40 billion in revenue—lighting $15 on fire for every $1 earned. The only innovation? Building the first bubble where the infrastructure rots faster than the business models that justify it.
The Hard Truths About Our Technological Moment
Five Silicon Valley 'visionaries' walk into a bar, each convinced they're revolutionizing the future. Meanwhile, AI evolves faster than ethics, institutions crumble, and engineers forgot physics exists. Welcome to our delightfully doomed moment.
Digital Supersaturation of Why Everything is About to Crystallize
W34 - Every human attention pattern has been mapped & algorithmically exploited. Every business model decomposed into trackable APIs. Platforms promised infinite growth but now operate like supersaturated solutions—stable-looking but fundamentally unstable. One disturbance crystallizes everything.
When Intelligence Becomes Its Own Enemy
W25 - You know that hollow feeling after three hours of phone scrolling? Eyes burning, neck aching, weirdly anxious about crises you can't solve but can't remember learning anything useful? That's your intelligence being strip-mined in real time.
The Startup States of America
W24 - Your vote might count, but your voice is being algorithmized out of existence. We're not seeing democratic backsliding—we're witnessing startup methodology applied to governance itself, replacing democratic coordination with corporate management systems.
The Art of Productive Theft: Steve Jobs' Real Genius
W22 - Ever wondered if Steve Jobs' greatest innovation was... stealing? From his "borrowed" mouse to the iPhone's inspiration, discover how the maestro of tech didn't create—he curated. His genius wasn't invention, but the art of productive theft. 🍎
How Apple and Companion AI Killed Privacy Without Anyone Noticing
W10 - While you fought over encryption, Big Tech pulled off the greatest surveillance sleight-of-hand. Your iPhone isn't just watching—it's redefining privacy itself. And Apple, once privacy's champion, just became its greatest threat.
Not Just Another Essay About DeepSeek—The Ransomware Edition
W05 - 2024: Silicon Valley unleashes AI ransomware on a global scale. Your creativity is the target. The ransom? Your future. Pay to protect your own ideas, or watch AI replicate them endlessly. Welcome to the digital protection racket, where innovation comes at a price.
From Likes to Leaves—When Trust Became the Ultimate Unfriend
W02 - Meta's fact-checking fiasco triggers digital exodus, shattering platform theory. As users flee en masse, we witness the first "collective flight response" in social media history. Is trust the ultimate currency in our digital social contract?
No One Leaves a Good Company: An OpenAI Story
W51 - OpenAI's fall from grace isn't just corporate drama—it's a chilling preview of how every ethical AI governance attempt could unravel. As we race towards AGI, are we dismantling the very safeguards meant to protect us?
The Home Depot Revolution: Amazon's Unconventional Path to Chip Innovation
W48 - Amazon's AI revolution isn't in a high-tech lab—it's in a bland office with Home Depot parts. While Silicon Valley polishes its crystal palaces, Amazon engineers are rewriting the innovation playbook, one drill press at a time.
The Strategic Manifesto: Anthropic's Calculated Move in the AI Race
W45 - Anthropic's AI manifesto: A masterclass in corporate chess or a genuine ethical stand? Unpack the strategic brilliance and ethical quandaries as we dissect the gap between lofty rhetoric and controversial partnerships. The AI race is on—but at what cost?
The Architecture of Invisibility: Privacy in the Age of Ultra-Wideband Surveillance
W30 - In the heart of Silicon Valley, a revolution in surveillance unfolds—not with a bang, but with the silent pulse of invisible waves. The architecture of our digital future is being built, one smartphone at a time, and privacy may be its first casualty.
The Dangerous Delusion of Digital Spatial Intelligence: Silicon Valley's Trillion-Dollar Mistake
W28 - Silicon Valley's trillion-dollar spatial computing gamble rests on a dangerous delusion: digitally replicating human spatial intelligence. This fallacy risks billions and decades of progress. We're not just chasing a mirage; we're driving the future of human-computer interaction off a cliff.
Crowdstrike: Authorization Not Recognized
W19 - In the quantum-AI labyrinth, firewalls crumble like ancient ruins. Yet authorization remains the Gordian knot tying our digital selves to cyberspace. As we race towards SSI and graph-powered identity, remember: even in zero-trust, someone still holds the keys.
Decoding AI: Why Transparent Models Matter in the Age of Machine Learning
W18 - As AI and ML technologies evolve, their transformative power hinges on transparency and trust. By unraveling complex models and ensuring interpretability, we align advanced computational methods with human values, paving the way for an ethically responsible AI future.
Tech Titans Exposed for Profiting from Our Personal Secrets
W17 - Discover how Big Tech uses our digital footprints to craft precise profiles and profit from our personal data, raising urgent questions about privacy and the ethical use of technology.
An Apple a Day Keeps the Privacy Away
W11 - Beyond the era of the iPhone, Apple constructs the foundation for a pioneering journey, laying the groundwork for a future that promises to redefine our interaction with technology in profound and unexpected ways.
The Lone Star State Transforms into a Tech Powerhouse
W04 - Much like a small town becoming a Hollywood hotspot, Texas has drawn in major players, redefined its local economy, and positioned itself at the forefront of future chip manufacturing. Discover the factors that propelled Texas from modest beginnings to the core of American chip production.
Meta Doubles Down on AGI
Meta's commitment to artificial general intelligence (AGI) opens up a world of possibilities for technological innovation. However, it is crucial to examine the implications of Meta's vast collection of behavioral data on Facebook users.
Apple’s Privacy: Stretching Across An Ultra-Wideband
A Theory in Utilizing Anonymized Point Clouds 🔮 Privacy, a valuable but often elusive commodity in our digital era, receives front-and-center attention due to increasingly alarming data breaches and tracking concerns. Tech giants face escalating pressure to innovate and protect user data more rigorously. At the forefront of these developers is...
Truth or Deception? The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Authenticity
Navigating the Challenges of Misinformation with C2PA 🔮 "Predicting the future isn’t magic. It’s artificial intelligence.” — David Waters The Rise of Misinformation In an era where information is readily accessible, the spread of misinformation has become rampant. The democratization of information on the internet has allowed both reliable...
The AI Powerhouses: Amazon, Microsoft, and the Battle for AI Supremacy
The plot of technological progression is being redrawn by Amazon and Microsoft, two tech giants deepening their stakes in Anthropic and OpenAI respectively. Fueled by more than strategic intent, these moves are inaugurating a new era in artificial intelligence (AI) and signaling the start of a struggle for dominance. Billionaires’...
Amazon’s AI Adventures: The Potential Consequences for Financial Creditors in the FTX Market
Splash in the AI Pool 🔮 Amazon is known for defying the status quo, evidenced by its recent alliance with leading AI research firm, Anthropic. This echo-inducing leap into artificial intelligence could have significant implications for the financial sector, most notably for FTX creditors, who are lenders within the Financial Technology...
Apple's Resilience in an Unpredictable Market
Is Apple Losing Their Grip? 🔮 Apple, a longtime tech giant, has had an impact on the stock market. This changed in 2022, however, when revenue, profits, and free cash flow all declined, leaving investors concerned about the company's future. With a recession looming, investors wonder if Apple can...