Archive - Jon Watson's Death by Tech Newsletter

Hello World (again)

Sep 30, 2023 •

April 2021

Your Death by Tech Subscription

I'm digging my ebb

Apr 7, 2021 •

February 2021

The revolution will be streamed

Also: smart people doing dumb things, and listen to your spinach

Feb 8, 2021 •

Trading generations of goodwill for cash

Also, Google rescues Robinhood from itself, and Facebook tries to look nice.

Feb 1, 2021 •

January 2021

Adobe Flash killed the railroad star...

Also, how many cows is too many cows and Google wins the limbo, going as low as it can go.

Jan 27, 2021 •

Where we’re going, we don’t need gas.

Also: 12,000 slices of toast and radicalized Linux users

Jan 22, 2021 •

Subscription blindness: Not a thing.

Also: cash is a privacy preserving ecosystem and we now know how much violence is too much violence.

Jan 20, 2021 •

Flip up them wipers: no-tech solutions

Also, gerrymandering was invented in the U.S. and tape is your friend

Jan 18, 2021 •

1995 called; they want their T1 line back

Also: censoring the censors and fiery robot car crashes (I hope)

Jan 13, 2021 •

Death by Google

Also: a Canadian COVID vaccine, and disposable returns

Jan 11, 2021 •

Everyone gets their own personal newspaper

Also: schools are hacking iPhones and the U.S. decides what a human life is worth

Jan 8, 2021 •

Pre-Cambrian squirrels are yummy

With few exceptions, the word meat means animal flesh. We’ve been eating meat ever since Grog ran across a smushed pre-Cambrian squirrel and thought…

Jan 7, 2021 •

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