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Edward Ongweso Jr

@edwardongwesojr.com
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writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com

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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 12/12/2025
Writing about various aspects of the AI bubble that we should pay more attention to in 2026. Part One is on AI geopolitics: attempts to replace the petrodollar system with a "technodollar" system, Sovereign AI, exporting inference to the gulf, and more thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 17/11/2025
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 17/11/2025
Wrote about digitally cloning your loved ones, immortality, death cults, and Silicon Valley. Plus: an old essay on Russian Cosmism and its perversion by today’s accelerationists. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 19/09/2025
wrote a little about the inspiration for Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad (Samuel Butler and his novel EREHWON), as well as Luddism & democratic governance thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 26/08/2025
recommendation roundup: essays on arguing with AI boosters, weaponized interdependence of hyperscale data centers, capital moats in the AI sector, techno-feudalism, China's nuclear strategy, Apple in China, AI psychosis as a normal Silicon Valley outcome, new books, Japanese city pop, and more
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 27/07/2025
we love xenogears don’t we folks, love it so much we made this mech from the game our logo (and gave if the hammer of ludd)
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/06/2025
Next few essays were originally one, think of them as playful attempts to use religious ideas to talk about AI. the first is loosely using Luther’s criticism of excessive indulgences to talk about the delusions, distractions, and speculative gambits obscuring gen AI’s real cost
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 31/03/2025
Do any of OpenAI's marketing stunts matter? What are the real use cases for AI? Is AI and AI art fascist? Or are they springing out of a larger fascist project? thetechbubble.substack.com/p/does-opena...
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 27/03/2025
Wrote about more of Uber's bastard spawn, Fairwork's recent survey of the US gig economy, and how algorithmic overseers are deployed to break down legal obstacles to digital labor platform's first profits thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 25/03/2025
Wanna see my cats?
Two Russian blues, Anansi and Gobi, holding each other with one’s head tucked into the other’s shoulder Two Russian blues, Anansi and Gobi, holding paws
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 18/01/2025
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 12/01/2025
lmaooo LET HIM COOK
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 07/01/2025
🙏🏿
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
A real shame that startups who take money from the apartheid factory are facing such unjust limits on their IP
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
depends on what you’re doing fam! if you’re making sure Palantir gets government contracts, it’s a bit deeper than being a civil servant in empire. what are you doing in and outside of work?
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
always gonna be a writer! There are a lot of mediums I would like to explore (fiction, screen, theatre, art, etc.) but I can’t really see myself not being a writer even if I took up some other profession
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
cause there are a lot of benefits to hurting people within our system which encourages and rewards pathological behavior! Chomsky has a little rant in his Moyers interview about this youtu.be/Oh_Zk6Da9fU?...
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
👍🏿👍🏿
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
your best bet is to start with this book, which among other things fleshes out the role rumor and whisper networks had in sustaining and preserving revolutionary ideas and resistance—and in shaping counter-reaction
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
this is the subject of one of my upcoming AI series essays, it’ll be on infrastructure: what services compose the supply/demand chain of the major gAI firms from chips & data centers to government & corporate & consumer services. So let’s just say there’s a market for infrastructure of some sort
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
New York City is the capital of every state
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
Don’t think I’ve seen any beyond the first when I was a child? Now if you ask me about Rush Hour, the answer is 1 without a doubt
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
Now check out: Du Bois’ biography of Brown, MIDNIGHT RISING, and FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN, three more great books about/touching on him. The GOOD LORD BIRD book and tv adaptation are wonderful, Hawke plays him brilliantly and I’m obsessed w each monologue of his
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
The Seraphim in John C Wright’s COUNT TO ESCHATON sequence are probably the largest ones in sci-fi and some of my fav. These are galactic superclusters that span tens or hundreds of thousands of giant & dwarf galaxies, crafting and enacting plans that take billions or trillions of years to commence.
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
short term: sure. crypto prices will go up & crackdowns will intensify, crypto is a stop gap. But one long term the concern is that crypto is volatile and regularly crashes while internet censorship & sex worker purges are consistently successful, leaving them with increasingly less
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
Nature as an asset + ReFi bullshit will exponentially proliferate, defense tech steering will continue and intensify, crypto+AI policy written by VC cartel, the big Q is the same Q every year though: how long can the tech asset bubble continue & what will get crushed/built with this misallocation
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
Get a job at a major tech firm that’s doing evil shit and figure out a plan to maximize disruption of it internally
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
STAR MAKER & LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon GOLDEN AGE by John C Wright XENOGENESIS by Octavia Butler DHALGREN by Samuel R Delaney BOOK OF THE NEW SUN by Gene Wolfe ICE by Anna Kavan THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula Le Guin WHO WE ARE ABOUT TO by Joanna Russ STAR OF THE UNBORN by Franz Werl
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
IMPERIAL SAN FRANCISCO by Grey Berchin PALO ALTO by Malcolm Harris THE MYTH OF THE MACHINE by Lewis Mumford CARCERAL CAPITALISM by Jackie Wang BLOOD IN THE MACHINE by Brian Merchant
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
LIGHTBRINGER is the best book in the series. It has my favorite fights, strongest characterization, genuine plot twists I didn’t anticipate, lovely prose and pacing, everything I enjoyed turned up to ten and the flaws wiped away. GOLDEN SON is a close second. DARK AGE/MORNING STAR is third for me.
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
There are plenty of people doing great work. Students and media workers organizing against the genocide in Gaza. Tech workers doing the same. Striking laborers fighting for dignified working conditions. There can always be more ofc, I personally would love to see more outright sabotage, but SOON!
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
GNX easily, but honorable mention to Blue Lips & Chromakopia which were PHENOMENAL
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
ya I’m working on a few: fiction: far future humanity gives birth to a god that tries to end history non fiction: defense of capitalism from technofeudalism/surveillance cap theses + something short and sweet on Uber
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
easily Yi Qi, easily. this guy is as close to dragons as we will get without Elon’s grandchildren genetically engineering some
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
All the time. The minimal level of critical inquiry demands it: why would you assume an innovation system built on Cold War logic by reactionaries & market fundamentalists to raid public coffers and subvert public interest would EVER work for you? Why shouldn’t that be sabotaged or undermined?
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
everyone says Japan but more and more people are telling me CHINA, I’m hoping to visit both next year so CHECK BACK NEXT XMAS
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
This year I wrote about the history of insulin with my partner who is a type 1 diabetic. my favorite piece by far and also spurred a collaboration which will bear fruit in the coming months with more essays from us on health+tech :) thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
sure
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
LIGHTBRINGER by Pierce Brown LESSONS IN BIRD WATCHING by Hony Watson (came out last year but I read it this year) THE BRUTALIST might edge out to be my favorite movie of the year but I just saw it last night so we’ll see SHOGUN was my favorite show
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
been trying to platinum Persona 5 Royal, might dip back into God of War 2 to also platinum it, but not really enjoying anything right now though so if you have suggestions let them rip
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 24/12/2024
$0.00 brother
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 23/12/2024
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 12/12/2024
All the tech critics responding to Casey Newton
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 11/12/2024
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 09/12/2024
say it ain’t so
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 08/12/2024
Amazing. It’s time write a manifesto, threaten to strike again unless it’s published, then strike again anyways sweetie
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 15/11/2024
Make sure to say something along these lines to your favorite venture capitalist or tech shill today
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 14/11/2024
me and my little guy (Anansi)
A Russian blue cat staring pensively into nothing
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 14/11/2024
type shit I was on the other week
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/07/2023
say hi to my little guy Anansi
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