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I help host This Week in Startups and write Cautious Optimism! @alex over on twitter

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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 11/02/2026
Turns out — yes. @alexwilhelm.bsky.social pointed out that people could take cash instead of SpaceX stock. www.cautiousoptimism.news/a-crypto-coo...
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A crypto cooldown - Cautious Optimism
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power. Modestly upbeat. Wednesday. I just donated blood. I hate needles, but I am a universal donor, so I did it anyway. I share this ...
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Another fantastic, must-listen episode of TWiT (This Week in Tech), with my friends @leolaporte.me, @harrymccracken.com, and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social! Such a smart, knowledgeable, charming crew! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoPY...
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Tiny Steering Wheel - Unpacking Google’s Antitrust Ruling & AI’s Impact
YouTube video by This Week in Tech
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Amy Widdowson @amynw.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
grateful for @alexwilhelm.bsky.social's writing, both in tone and content, more than ever. www.cautiousoptimism.news/p/so-that-wa...
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Tim De Chant @dechant.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Congrats to @alexwilhelm.bsky.social on one year of Cautious Optimism, his can't miss newsletter covering tech and economics. www.cautiousoptimism.news
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Cautious Optimism | Alex Wilhelm | Substack
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power. Modestly upbeat. Click to read Cautious Optimism, by Alex Wilhelm, a Substack publication.
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The hbo app, or max app whatever, on Roku fucking sucks
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Michael Selvidge @selviano.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
oh boy @alexwilhelm.bsky.social really brought the heat today in his newsletter 🔥🔥🔥
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Oh god, the VCs have discovered Christianity
And toodles, 2024
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Protection money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Companies Are Scrambling to Fund Trump's Inauguration. He's Keeping Track
Donald Trump is expected to raise more money than ever for his second inauguration in January. He’s keeping tabs on who’s donating — and who hasn’t.
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Who are Melissa and Doug and how did they corner the child toy market
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Rhode Island tis a silly place
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This goes hard
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New kettle who this
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Man being sick (spouse and I) with two tiny children all weekend is a lot
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Fucking 23 degrees Fahrenheit this morning it’s bullshit
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Brian @brian215.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
┻┳| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| _ ┻┳| •.•) Go Birds ┳┻|⊂ノ ┻┳
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Mauve?????
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 27/11/2024
Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | Musk admits X throttles links as ‘news influencers’ take over
Hard times for the humble hyperlink and those who depend on it.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Quick, everyone. Form a protective circle around Betteridge's Law of headlines www.thetimes.com/article/6c2c...
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Will Elon Musk give Nigel Farage $100m to make him PM?
The Tesla boss, who used his immense fortune to help Donald Trump’s campaign, is turning his attention to Britain
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/11/2024
I agreed to this thing from edge. I have no idea what I agreed to! But I agreed to it. Also they just hit you with a OneDrive ad for good measure
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/11/2024
I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this." Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 29/11/2024
Sequoia nears first Asia-Pacific deal since regional split
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Sequoia nears first Asia-Pacific deal since regional split
Sequoia is closing in on making its first deal in India and the broader Asia Pacific region since its split with former partners, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The investor, one of the world’s largest venture capital firms, is in…
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Taking a break from your relatives
Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown sucks on her vape while seated outside wearing a turtleneck and a green parka. The closed caption reads [VAPES SOULFULLY]
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy thanksgiving we’re installing the new tv idk why today but we are
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Running a small business is so hard
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alaskanjackson @alaskanjacksons.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Via @alexwilhelm.bsky.social https:// if you have to ask its a religion open.substack.com/pub/alexwrites/p/is-that-a-stock-or-a-religion
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Is that a stock or a religion?
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power.
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our holiday cards are gonna bang this year
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I have purchased @leolaporte.me’s son’s cookbook
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 26/11/2024
Is this the worst hack in U.S. history? 🤔 @leolaporte.me, Patrick Beja, @wesley83.bsky.social, and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social tackle the hack, SCOTUS on broadband, Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy, and Zuck’s age-verification plan. 🎧 twit.tv/shows/this-w...
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All the Hotdogs in the World | TWiT.TV
In this episode of This Week in Tech, the panel tackles the 'biggest hack in US history,' the future of AI, and the role of government in tech. From the Chinese hack's
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Mexico is Texas’s biggest trade partner.
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What’s the most money it makes sense to spend on a croissant
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau.

The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 24/11/2024
Sources: Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to invest as much as $600M in Tether for about a 5% stake in the past year; Cantor holds most of Tether's $134B in assets (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Good breakdown on the latest Frame here www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/s...
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Samsung The Frame 2024 QLED Review (QN43LS03DAFXZA, QN50LS03DAFXZA, QN55LS03DAFXZA, QN65LS03DAFXZA, QN75LS03DAFXZA, QN85LS03DAFXZA)
The Samsung The Frame 2024 QLED is part of Samsung's Lifestyle TV lineup. Like its predecessors, it has a unique design that's meant to look more like a wall-mou...
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Ok: we’re thinking about getting a Samsung frame - anyone have any good/bad experiences with them?
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Wrote a lot this week. Here’s one of ‘em www.cautiousoptimism.news/p/nvidia-and...
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Nvidia and the AI scaling wall, and what founder mode really is
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ukraine shouldn’t be defending itself with ‘one hand tied behind its back’, says UK Defence Committee chair Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi www.channel4.com/news/ukraine...
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Ukraine shouldn’t be defending itself with ‘one hand tied behind its back’, says UK Defence Committee chair
The Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi chairs the Defence Committee, he joined us from Westminster.
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I really need to start standing at my standing desk
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Ate this earlier and it was amazing
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’” because “some people think it makes us look like Nazis”
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Let’s go Gotham!
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Vegan peeps - we have some plant based friends. Is it possible to make good vegan pancakes? We want to have a brunch type thing if that makes sense
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Pupdate
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This cookbook goes hard shoutout Caroline
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Work from home gang: what are you doing for lunches lately I need to tidy up my diet a lot
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 13/11/2024
Almost all of this year’s top 40 startups at Station F use AI
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Almost all of this year’s top 40 startups at Station F use AI
Every year, more than 1,000 startups join Station F, the iconic startup campus in Paris. As it can be hard to sift through 1,000 startup descriptions, Station F selects the 40 most promising startups and shares a list of what it calls the “Future 40”. The…
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Pls get Amy on the zoox list so I can visit and ride the forbidden toaster on wheels
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Gonna read this but it already hits home from the skeet
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
My oldest daughter has discovered that there is a moon. And if you are 22 months old that’s Big Damn News.
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Also I just realized Substack links arent verboten here nice
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