Edward Ongweso Jr
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writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
AI data centers drink enormous amounts of water and electricity and create very few permanent jobs. Full panel out now: Clara Mattei with @edwardongwesojr.com, Brad Carson, Rep. Amanda Clinton, Cheyenna Morgan, Kyle Schmidt.
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Funny how no one calls this "overcapacity" @katemac.bsky.social @aldasky.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com US Data Center capex boom of many trillions over a decade + global dominance at about 80% of global AI investments is analagous to China's enormous Green boom + 70-80% global dominance.
1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...
Taylor Swift has trapped all of the NYPD underneath the sewers of Madison Square Garden and detonated all of the bridges leading out of Manhattan. The fire rises.
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Since idea of everyday joes sharing in AI profits is in news now, I thought I'd share this thoughtful, well-informed and at-times hilarious analysis of OpenAI's 'industrial' policy approach from @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com which pokes all the holes. As usual I learned and laughed.
453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy
We do a deep dive into OpenAI’s new report “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First” and pick apart their extensive set of proposals for building an “Open Economy” and "
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re-upping because @edwardongwesojr.com said more crisply (to @jathansadowski.com on TMK) > My growing fear is actually the bubble is not going to burst... equity stakes might be a way [to] manage... a bail out, makes [AI co's] systemically important institutions that are treated as too big to fail.
461. The Book of Ludd — This Machine Kills
“Welcome to the Church of Ludd, it’s nice to see you join our congregation. Please pick up a pamphlet as you walk in, which explains how to set up your religious exemption from using AI at your workpl...
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ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 10mo agostate power already props up this project called AI. in the us and uk, politicians work around the clock to make sure that everything from permitting for datacenters to copyright/intellectual property regimes twist and bend to make a nurturing environment for AI.
1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
Predictions (Volume 1): From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony
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i'm so embarrassed that i'm just now listening to the TMK episode about anti-data center organizing (and about eco-modernism) but it's a really good episode so far overcast.fm/+AAg6yFF4Vp4
455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club — This Machine Kills
We deconstruct the confused arguments – from the left – against moratoriums for data centres. These positions set up a false dichotomy between either pausing or governing technology, they start from t...
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NEW:Stranded countries are far more dangerous than "stranded assets" of pvt oil companies. It's Western navel gazing to only focus on latter & not powerful National Oil Companies Ep 2 of Polycrisis DRAMA KINGS @katemac.bsky.social & I chat about UAE shock OPEC exit Listen here: pod.link/1884213852
"AI threatens to enclose what’s left of our threadbare epistemic commons — the bottom-level online communication where people still figure out what they think, together," @edwardongwesojr.com writes. www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...
Directing the Herd
Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.
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Karp’s book came out after @bentarnoff.com and I had already started writing ours. Reading it we were like “oh this is Muskism.” The interesting thing, as @lioneltrolling.bsky.social pointed out, is that it was written with the assumption of an incoming Harris administration.
Futurism@futurism.com · 4mo agoThis is "comic book" levels of villainy.
From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways. Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇
Big Tech Is Powering Israel's AI War Machine
From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.
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For @thedriftmag.com I wrote about social control, digital infrastructure, and what passes for a public sphere in our society www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...
Directing the Herd
Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.
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In Issue 17’s Dispatches section, @tarpley.bsky.social, Noelle Bodick, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, @meganmarz.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social examine the public sphere. www.thedriftmag.com/a-nicely-sit...
A Nicely Situated Ideal
Dispatches on the Public Sphere
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@edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com had great discussion semi related to this on the most receNT TMK. All the AI company “solutions” are bullshit.
onion person@junlper.beer · 4mo agothe primary reason no one trusts the pro-ai stance of “tech always replaces jobs, move on to the next job” is because ai is promising to replace jobs people who get laid off typically turn to, for example, uber driving. there’s zero welfare state in the US. what’s there to do?
A detailed, line-by-line critique of OpenAI’s objectives is laid out by @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com in this week’s episode of @thismachinekills.bsky.social 3/
453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy
Podcast Episode · This Machine Kills · April 15 · 1h 41m
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International Affiliation of Writers Guilds@iawg.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe “right to AI” is already popping up in global policy discussions. How about a “right of refusal” instead? 2/
Q: Are there certain kinds of civilians targets like schools or hospitals that are off limits? TRUMP: I don't want to tell you that. We have a plan where every bridge and power plant in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night
inspired by a recent visit to SF and a Matthew Yglesias essay I recently read about how SF isn't a megacity because of housing policy, I wrote about why that's a very superficial analysis at best! www.thetechbubble.info/p/one-billio...
One Billion Buildings
The case for thinking bigger (about why we don't have megacities)
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“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
The main goal of Silicon Valley appears to be finding an ethical way to have a slave
The Hollywood executive dream that AI will revolutionize how movies are made or that they can lean on user generated AI slop to drive costs down is not going to work and is already a disaster www.404media.co/disneys-open...
Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Save Hollywood
It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
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How bad is it? Well. Qatar Energy just announced they may have to declare Force Majeure on long-term contracts **FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS**. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mol...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago@katemac.bsky.social & I on risky Gas boom 2025: "LNG tankers can get blocked from the Bab al-Mandab to the Panama Canal; petrostates and buyers should think twice about locking in new investments and infrastructure. All that is liquid can melt into air."...or it turns out BOMBED into air.
The author reminds us we should not celebrate the death of the metaverse, but learn from it. I share the feeling, but knowing that projects like this one sometimes don't end up poisoning our day-by-day lives feels a little bit good to me.
Edward Ongweso Jr@edwardongwesojr.com · 7mo agoI wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...
“The free market that Silicon Valley champions depends…on the least free capital in the world. Kingdoms & gangs, bound in a compact of association, dividing the plunder according to an agreed convention, infesting the earth until nothing is left (or until someone abandons the compact).”
Edward Ongweso Jr@edwardongwesojr.com · 5mo agowrote about the petrodollar & Gulf sovereign capital, AI-powered warfare & the AI buildout, the Compute Axis & St. Augustine's City of God, Pax Silica & America's sabotage of the imperial architecture underwriting its technological supremacy
Read @edwardongwesojr.com on “the attempt to shift Pax Americana’s oil diplomacy to Pax Silica’s silicon statecraft—from hydrocarbons & Treasuries to GPUs & data centers & AI models & the kill chains they power” www.thetechbubble.info/p/how-much-a...
How Much a Dollar Cost?
The AI Bubble in 2026 (2/4)
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wrote about the petrodollar & Gulf sovereign capital, AI-powered warfare & the AI buildout, the Compute Axis & St. Augustine's City of God, Pax Silica & America's sabotage of the imperial architecture underwriting its technological supremacy
How Much a Dollar Cost?
The AI Bubble in 2026 (2/4)
thetechbubble.info
In this episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, @jathansadowski.com and @edwardongwesojr.com interview @abenanav.bsky.social about his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. www.indep.network/this-machine...
This Machine Kills Podcast Interview With Aaron Benanav On His Multi-criterial Socialism Proposal – Part 2
In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the specific details of his proposal for a multi-criterial…
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