This Industry Is Completely Ridiculous. Let’s Hope It Stays That Way.

OK. Let’s take a step back from all the recent tech news, look at it with fresh eyes — and try not to burst into slightly hysterical laughter.

In Japan, some half-billion dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency vanished from a site founded to trade Magic: The Gathering cards. In New Zealand, the world’s greatest Call of Duty player has launched a political party to revenge himself on those who had him arrested and seized his sports cars. In Britain, the secret service is busy collecting and watching homegrown porn.

Here in Silicon Valley, mighty Apple just revealed that a flagrant, basic programming error gutted the security of all its devices for years. Google, “more wood behind fewer arrows” Google, now has its own navy, to go with its air force and robot army. Meanwhile, down Sand Hill Road, venture capitalists are gravely concerned that the tech startups they’re investing in just aren’t crazy enough:

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