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OM @om.co · 6d

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 8d

Om I think you’d enjoy Stephanie’s blog, as I do. 😀

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Climb to the Stars

Stephanie Booth's online ramblings

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OM @om.co · 8d

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Jordan Novet @jordannovet.bsky.social · 9d

"I came here in an Uber this morning and asked the guy what street we were on. He had no clue. He said, 'I just follow it.'" -Rodney Brooks to @om.co crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/i...

iRobot Founder: Don’t Believe The (AI & Robotics) Hype!

Rodney Brooks, co-founder of three robotic companies and an AI guru has a pragmatic and honest opinions about the state of AI and Robotics. An interview!

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OM @om.co · 9d

This is technically the longest piece we have published on @crazystupidtech.com thus far. It is long because @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social is an interesting guy and I can wait to go for round two!

crazystupidtech.com @crazystupidtech.com · 9d

Are you in the mood for a 6000-word interview about AI, Robotics, and get a lowdown on the hype and reality of the two of the hottest tech trends? Well, we have you covered in this chat with @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social (Also, please sign up for our newsletter) crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/i...

iRobot Founder: Don’t Believe The (AI & Robotics) Hype!

Rodney Brooks, co-founder of three robotic companies and an AI guru has a pragmatic and honest opinions about the state of AI and Robotics. An interview!

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Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 15d

LLMs mean that no one has to write anything they don't care about, but they also mean that "writing anything" will get equated with "not caring" for most people. (If you really cared, you would video yourself talking about it on your phone.)

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OM @om.co · 15d

It took Apple to come up with a worthy follow-up to one of its best-ever phones — the iPhone X. The iPhone Air is a surprise, and it is at its peak Apple in more ways than one. My early impressions of a phone I didn’t need, want, or care about. om.co/2025/09/22/g...

Go Out & Get Some Air

Over the weekend, I got a surprise package from the folks at Apple: a review unit of the iPhone Air. I don’t tend to get smitten by something so quickly, but the “Air” is really u…

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27d

This feels like an egregious missed opportunity. @katie-drummond.bsky.social your team has been doing so much good work lately, but there's not a single person in this lineup who's written a line of code, let alone critiqued an AI system or that knows about the half-century of AI prior to LLMs...

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OM @om.co · 28d

I couldn’t help myself and decided to do a post-game analysis of the iPhone 17 launch event — and I am impressed by some stuff. I explain in this piece, which went as a newsletter to my readers. om.co/2025/09/10/t...

The iPhone 17 Event: Less Awe, More Unsexy & That’s A Good Thing

As you know, for the first time since the iPhone era began, I didn’t attend the iPhone launch event. I am gutted that I didn’t get to see the new iPhone 17 devices in person. Still, …

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OM @om.co · 28d

Congratulations to @techmeme.com founder @gaberivera.bsky.social for celebrating two decades as “conversation” king of tech. My partner in writing adventures, @fvogelstein.bsky.social has a great story about tech.memorandum on @crazystupidtech.com crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...

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OM @om.co · Sep 7

Well, I couldn't help myself. I can't do video or podcasts. They take a lot of effort. But I love to write. So I started a newsletter devoted to what else -- but pens. Here is the first edition describing why I started this newsletter. omlovespens.com/2025/09/06/w...

Lessons Learned from a Pen Show: A Journey of Friendship

Join my journey through the world of fountain pens, friendship, and creativity. Discover the joy of pen collecting and writing in my newsletter.

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jcal7.bsky.social @jcal7.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Venture is dead." I've heard this same prediction in every tech wave Web 1.0, crypto, and now AI. The argument is AI's capital efficiency makes VC obsolete.

I believe the opposite. AI won't just save venture; it will restore value to the entire startup economy.
trueventures.com/blog/the-tra...

The Tragedy of the Common: How AI Will Restore Value to Startup Equity

We support and empower extraordinary founders from all walks of life.

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · Aug 20

The five things that were necessary before you could have podcasting:

Blogging.
HTTP.
RSS.
MP3.
iPod.

It's pretty simple, but this confluence eludes most tech people and journalists. scripting.com

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OM @om.co · Aug 19

Hey any one seen any screenshots of this Slack message from
Sam Altman to his team. Lot of chatter about this. Just curious. Or maybe the old reporter in me wants to see before believing 🤪 www.perplexity.ai/discover/tec...

Perplexity

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 18

SoftBank buying a factory from Foxconn is a real rat king of "companies that have called things off in the past"

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will operate a US factory owned by SoftBank Group Corp., setting up what’s in the running to be the first manufacturing site in the Japanese company’s $500 billion Stargate venture with OpenAI and Oracle Corp.
SoftBank is acquiring Hon Hai’s electric-vehicle plant in Ohio but the Taiwanese company will continue to run the complex after turning it into an AI server production plant, Hon Hai Chairman Young Liu said, confirming a Bloomberg News report. SoftBank will supply manufacturing gear to the factory, and a joint venture between the two companies will make AI data center-related equipment, Liu said.
SoftBank is scouting a number of potential data center sites to serve as a flagship for Stargate, weighing their access to water, power and telecom networks. Hon Hai’s participation represents a boon for SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s ambition to be at the center of surging investment in artificial intelligence hardware. Hon Hai — known also as Foxconn — assembles Apple Inc. iPhones and Nvidia Corp. servers.

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OM @om.co · Aug 17

Am I the only one who finds this report pretty much worthless. What is the actual number of glasses shipped by Meta? That is the real number. Not some bullshit “percentage growth.”

Techmeme @techmeme.com · Aug 16

Global smart glasses shipments grew 110% YoY in H1; Meta's share of the market rose to 73%; AI smart glasses accounted for 78% of shipments, up from 46% YoY (Counterpoint Research)

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · Aug 8

Links to the full conversation:

Spotify -
open.spotify.com/episode/1Qk...

Apple podcasts -
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/...

YouTube -
youtu.be/s8Bnd-5p0oA

Dan Romero & Varun Srinivasan (Co-founders of Farcaster)

In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, the co-founders of Farcaster. Farcaster is a social app and protocol that is...

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OM @om.co · Aug 6

I was watching this excellent conversation between Stripe co-founder John Collison and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, where the latter eloquently outlines non-financial reasons as to why the software sector is getting (and will keep getting) disrupted by AI. om.co/2025/08/06/w...

Why AI Disrupts Software First

A few days ago, when decoding Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s memo to his company about layoffs and artificial intelligence, I said that “this is not just about Microsof…

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Christopher Michel @christophermichel.com · Aug 6

Om Malik

Om Malik carries with him the quiet gravity of someone who has seen the world change and helped shape its direction. He is one of my oldest friends, someone I’ve known for more than twenty years. We have stood together on icy runways in Svalbard and watched the blue light stretch…

Om Malik

Om Malik carries with him the quiet gravity of someone who has seen the world change and helped shape its direction. He is one of my oldest friends, someone I’ve known for more than twenty years. We have stood together on icy runways in Svalbard and watched the blue light stretch endlessly across Greenland. In those places, conversation slows and the essential rises to the surface.

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Pete Marcus @petemarcus.bsky.social · Aug 4

A brief history of the attention economy (via @om.co)

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OM @om.co · Aug 3

All this talk about Substack (including a wonderful piece by @gruber.foo ) prompted me to ask a few questions and try to answer the Why of Substack. om.co/2025/08/03/t...

The Why of Substack

Not for the first time, the newsletter platform Substack is coming under criticism for hosting and now (accidentally) promoting Nazi content. Today, John Gruber of Daring Fireball is leading this c…

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · Aug 3

A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Aug 3

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

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OM @om.co · Aug 2

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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · Aug 1

An incisive and on-point read by @om.co om.co/2025/07/30/d...

Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta (aka the company formerly known as Facebook), has published a memorandum about “superintelligence” and what it will mean not only for his co…

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