Today is my first day at The Washington Post. I'm thrilled!

(Also, I might be running late for work already. Oops.)

I've been re-reading a bunch of amazing technology-related journalism from my new colleagues. I'll tweet some today.

In reverse chronological order: With @nitashatiku's charastic blend of nuance and imagination, this was a great piece about the lightning fast maturation of AI image creation and what it might mean for us.
washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

I knew WeWork was a ridiculous, profligate company but the sofa details in The Cult of We broke me, @eliotwb & @maureenmfarrell Also, my God, how many times can someone say something untrue in public?

Remember when it was a very big deal that Apple's market cap hit $1 trillion? That was 2018. Now:

Apple $2.2 trillion
Microsoft: $1.9 trillion
Amazon: $1.8 trillion
Alphabet: $1.6 trillion
Facebook: $940 billion Words failed me to explain the BANANAS status of the Big Five.

Tech giants aren't making bonkers dollars in spite of the pandemic. They have grown stronger *because* of the pandemic.

It’s both logical and slightly nuts.

nytimes.com/2021/04/29/tec…

In today's On Tech:

The House antitrust report on Big Tech is thorough, unafraid to propose sweeping policy fixes and also...kinda overly broad.

When you have an antitrust hammer, everything looks like antitrust nail? nytimes.com/2020/10/07/tec… But look, rewind back a few years.

I would not have believed that there would be (mostly) bipartisan agreement that four of America's most successful companies got that way by breaking the rules, and the status quo must change.

This is a big deal.

Agreeing with 75% of the pages counts as bipartisan in 2020, yes? nytimes.com/2020/10/06/tec… I'm genuinely struck by the fury in these pages at what the House members saw as arrogant, evasive behavior by the tech companies.

They are MAD.

In today's On Tech, I write about YouTube's power of the purse.

Because YouTube shares ad sales with video creators, it has a stick that Facebook and other social media (mostly) don't. It can turn off the money spigot for people who abuse the rules. nytimes.com/2020/07/06/tec… Usually we think about the business models of internet companies that make them more toxic.

But this revenue sharing feature in YouTube gives some disincentive to toxic videos. Remember the great Logan Paul demonetization of 2018?

I think... The entire method of governing the internet's biggest spaces is evolving in front of our eyes.

https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1239703497479614466

See also:

https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1239699644046696450?s=19

I have only read the related party section in the WeWork IPO filing so far, and I am not kidding that it is THE MOST BANANAS THING I HAVE EVER READ. I'm old enough to remember when private company CEOs refraining from doing interviews when their companies were preparing for an IPO.

axios.com/wework-disclos…

A Republican member of Congress is now arguing against breaking up tech companies, which in 2019 Washington feels very weird. I assume the words "Tik Tok" will be uttered many many times at today's antitrust hearing.

Not a great sign in Domo's IPO filing: Company has $72 million in cash, and an annual cash burn of ~$150 million. sec.gov/Archives/edgar… Surprise! Another young tech company with superpowered voting stock for its founder.