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This week’s Techtonic episode covered an important topic that I’ll say more about in a moment.
But first I’m excited to show off the new Techtonic website, at techtonic.fm, totally redesigned and rebuilt. Big thanks to Todd Mazierski for programming and design.
Each Techtonic episode n...
Two weeks ago I stood outside the Apple Store on West 14th Street in Manhattan and watched someone dressed as Death destroy an iPhone with a rock.
People were cheering, a band was playing, customers inside the Apple Store were staring, and I was recording. This was the climax of an anti-smartphone protest called “Scathing Hatred of Information Technology and the Passio...
In southwest Memphis sits the Colossus, a giant AI slop factory owned by Elon Musk. Gas-powered turbines at the facility foul the air with “nitrogen oxides and formaldehyde, among other pollutants,” according to CNBC</...
“I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.”
“Yes sir.”
“Are you listening?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Plastics.”
Perhaps the most famous lines from “The Graduate” are followed by one more comment from Mr. McGuire to Dustin Hoffman’s character: “There’s a great future in plastics.”
Mr. McGuire ...
As I wrote in Oligarchs achieving escape velocity (Sep 10, 2025), a handful of plutocrats now exert outsize influence on our economy, politics, and society. The scale of wealth we’re talking about is hard to imagine, but it’s large enough ...
