The Era Of The Business Idiot

“CEO said a thing!”

A blistering guide to what lazy journalism too often looks like

The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology

"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.

An AI CEO finally said something honest

24K votes, 828 comments. Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about AI right now. His most recent take: “everyone's talking…

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

More Everything Forever

This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

A Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘theft of unprecedented proportions.’

In court documents unredacted Thursday, lawyers for the NYT in its copyright infringement case against Microsoft and OpenAI cited Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, saying that “millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions… almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.” The Orlando Sentinel, which is also part of the suit, reports a Microsoft filing “framed Hecht as someone on the payroll to play a contrarian.”

Microsoft, I forgive you!

Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No more Gates plotting monopoly schemes for world …

Take it from the insiders: Silicon Valley is eating your soul | John Harris

Former Google and Facebook executives are sounding the alarm about the pervasive power of tech, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

Opinion | Twitter Has an Old Media Problem. Here’s a Solution. (Published 2016)

The company has become an indispensable news source for millions but as a business, it needs a white knight to swoop in.

Former Reddit CEO: Content Moderation Teams Don’t Care About Your Politics, They Just Want You To Stop Being A Jerk

Last week, about the same time I posted by giant post on all the things that Elon Musk didn’t understand about content moderation, former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong posted a really long, but comp…

What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs (Published 2014)

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.