The Tech Bubble

Some of What I Enjoyed in 2025

Commentary, music, movies, television, books

Jan 2 • Edward Ongweso Jr

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December 2025

The AI Bubble in 2026 (1/4)

Part 1: On the coming geopolitics of the compute stack, or Our New Imperial Strategy

Dec 12, 2025 • Edward Ongweso Jr

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November 2025

Sewer Socialism, Cloud Debt, China Envy, Thomas Pynchon's Luddism, and the Epstein Class

Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #10: What I've been reading (11/28/25)

Nov 28, 2025 • Edward Ongweso Jr

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Silicon Valley Can Befoul Anything, Even Death

On our tech sector's insistence on perverting all that it touches.

Nov 17, 2025 • Edward Ongweso Jr

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September 2025

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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • Edward Ongweso Jr

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