
We’ve used capital expenditures (CAPEX) to separate the clouds from the clowns for over a decade. Clouds consume copious CAPEX. Clowns confabulate. It is time for another inspection tour of Clown City (previous visits: 2018, 2020, 2022). Once a bustling stop on the cloud-washing promotional circuit, Clown City is now but a shadow of its…

Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. No newsletter next week. But I hope to get the Clown Week update out before that. News Tik Tok’s Call to Arms: Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers, Registered and Unregistered Foreign Agents Unite!…