Steve Mack

The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through. A review of Balaji Srinivasan's book, The Network State.

So good - tech/crypto bro idiocy laid bare: open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Pure satirical genius.

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

My son just “borrowed” all the My Bloody Valentine records I own. I’m giving myself an A in parenting today.

Cover of Hamilton Bohannon’s first album, “Stop and Go”

Picked this up for nothing a few days ago. I always thought of Bohannon as a disco cat, but this is some seminal early 70s funk!

I grew up on V3! It’s part of how I learned to speak Japanese.

Ladies and gentlemen, the incredible Braly Sangster:

Not always, but amazing when she goes into beast mode!

Happy to report rock is alive and well in Seattle. Ladies and gentlemen - I present Bexley!

cranberries with oranges *and* almonds? Hm. Sounds like a challeger to Mamma Stamberg's relish we make every year.

To those still wondering why we lost a close election and what group Dems might have reached better, I say this: All this handwringing ignores the fact that more people voted for the convicted felon, sexual assaulter and insurrectionist.

Our problems run deep. Half the voters made an INSANE choice.