Patreon Preview 222. Weird That All These Canaries of Tech Capitalism Keep Dying

Published: Jan. 8, 2023, 3:31 a.m.

b'We do a postmortem on 2022, the year of Web3, talking about the goofs and grifts, speed and scale, crashes and canaries, with our major takeaway and theme being that just as FTX is not anomalous for Web3, nor is Web3 anomalous for Silicon Valley. It is, instead, a product and paragon of the structural conditions and systemic imperatives that define how the political economy of technology operates within capitalism.\\n\\nStuff we reference\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 In 2022, web3 went just great https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/in-2022-web3-went-just-great\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Web3 grift leaderboard https://web3isgoinggreat.com/charts/top\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Imprinting the economy: The structural power of venture capital https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X221136559\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 MicroStrategy Hit Lowest Since 2020 After Bitcoin Sale https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-29/microstrategy-mstr-hits-lowest-since-2020-after-bitcoin-sale-announcement?srnd=technology-vp\\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nGrab TMK gear: https://www.bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)'