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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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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
100% trash
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I promise
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Womp womp
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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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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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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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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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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 · 05/01/2025
Ohhh right
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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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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Why thank you bb!
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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
Also idk but Sandra Boynton better be a billionaire
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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 · 14/12/2024
Will check
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New kettle who this
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hi!!!!!
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In that vein, I have yet to spend enough time with rush
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
That record is just …. So good
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Lotta good Metallica in there too
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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
Ahahahha
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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
Before after
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Proof of box
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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
No that’s a ravioli
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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 · 27/11/2024
Making me hungry goddamn
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Idk shit is expensive these days!!
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I have purchased @leolaporte.me’s son’s cookbook
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Alex @alexwilhelm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I mean I can drop 7 on one near my house here Idk if I’m in a bubble or not
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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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