Tim Wu
@superwuster.bsky.social
Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
Amazing semi-lost letter from Theodore Roosevelt denouncing paid critics of antitrust and "law-defying corporations of immense wealth who ... expect[] others to treat them beyond and above any possible check from law"
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte - Theodore Roosevelt Center
President Roosevelt congratulates Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte for his speech at Chicago, ...
www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Amazing semi-lost letter from Theodore Roosevelt denouncing paid critics of antitrust and "law-defying corporations of immense wealth who ... expect[] others to treat them beyond and above any possible check from law"
Last chance to catch book event in SF this evening -- www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
Tim Wu: The Age of Extraction
Can we reclaim control of our economy to make it work for everyone? What needs to be understood about the big tech platforms before that could even be attempted? Tim Wu has a plan. Wu, a scholar and t...
www.commonwealthclub.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Last chance to catch book event in SF this evening -- www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
Had a great show today on my fave radio show from when I lived in SF -- KQED Forum -- listen here.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Click. Scroll. Surrender. Tim Wu Warns Against The Rise of Big Data in 'The Age of Extraction' | KQED
Airdate: Monday, November 10 at 10 AM Our digital lives are increasingly dominated by a handful of powerful tech platforms. Once promising prosperity and democracy, the internet has instead allowed co...
www.kqed.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Had a great show today on my fave radio show from when I lived in SF -- KQED Forum -- listen here.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
The craziest thing about the Senate D capitulation is that the Trump administration was taking the blame and showing weakness in so many ways, including losing elections. What a time to fold!
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The craziest thing about the Senate D capitulation is that the Trump administration was taking the blame and showing weakness in so many ways, including losing elections. What a time to fold!
In San Francisco and experiencing that feeling when you realize you've been exposed to way too much propaganda. I mean ut has always had bad areas but remains a beautiful and vibrant city to stroll around in.
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In San Francisco and experiencing that feeling when you realize you've been exposed to way too much propaganda. I mean ut has always had bad areas but remains a beautiful and vibrant city to stroll around in.
Eleven years ago Zephyr Teachout and I ran a campaign against Cuomo to uproot the corruption he had brought to New York and his lack of respect for the democratic process. Yesterday was a good day! www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Teachout: Cuomo's economic policy 'boils down to favors'
ALBANY-Appearing for the first time at the Capitol, a pair of law professors unleashed a critique of Governor Andrew Cuomo that will serve as the foundation for their Democratic primary challenge.
www.politico.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Eleven years ago Zephyr Teachout and I ran a campaign against Cuomo to uproot the corruption he had brought to New York and his lack of respect for the democratic process. Yesterday was a good day! www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Reposted by Tim Wu
🎧 New on Winging It: I talk with Prof Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social, author of the new book "The Age of Extraction" — how the Internet went from great promise to an extraction dynamic, what it means for #AI policy, & how to build a fairer digital economy.🤖
Link: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZL5...
Link: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZL5...
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🎧 New on Winging It: I talk with Prof Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social, author of the new book "The Age of Extraction" — how the Internet went from great promise to an extraction dynamic, what it means for #AI policy, & how to build a fairer digital economy.🤖
Link: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZL5...
Link: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZL5...
Wish this was a better photo of Barry Lynn, Lina Khan, myself and Jonathan Kanter but it certainly captures a lot of recent anti-monopoly thinking in one frame
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Wish this was a better photo of Barry Lynn, Lina Khan, myself and Jonathan Kanter but it certainly captures a lot of recent anti-monopoly thinking in one frame
Book tour starting next week -- coming to a city near you (probably)
timwu.net#booktour
timwu.net#booktour
Tim Wu
Tim Wu author page
timwu.net
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Book tour starting next week -- coming to a city near you (probably)
timwu.net#booktour
timwu.net#booktour
The American framers and thinkers of that time were so well versed in Roman history and the dynamics that led republics to perpetual dictatorship -- this generation more likely to think the problem with Caesar is that the buffet is overpriced
www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/...
www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/...
Review | Don’t be duped by the biggest buffet in Las Vegas
Caesars Palace promises a luxury buffet for $107. It still values quantity over quality.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The American framers and thinkers of that time were so well versed in Roman history and the dynamics that led republics to perpetual dictatorship -- this generation more likely to think the problem with Caesar is that the buffet is overpriced
www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/...
www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/...
NY Times essay adapted from my new book, "The Age of Extraction." Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
Opinion | Big Tech’s Predatory Platform Model Doesn’t Have to Be Our Future
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
NY Times essay adapted from my new book, "The Age of Extraction." Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
If you are around Oxford (UK) I'm giving a talk at the law school this Thursday at 12 at the IECL seminar room. Topic is: "The Servile State revisited" -- it is reconsideration of distributism as an alternative to brutal capitalism and communism. Open to public
October 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
If you are around Oxford (UK) I'm giving a talk at the law school this Thursday at 12 at the IECL seminar room. Topic is: "The Servile State revisited" -- it is reconsideration of distributism as an alternative to brutal capitalism and communism. Open to public
I used to work in the NY AG's office. The federal indictment of Letitia James is disgusting and embarrassing. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I used to work in the NY AG's office. The federal indictment of Letitia James is disgusting and embarrassing. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Las Vegas is a microcosm of the broader US economy. Mergers have led to duopoly/oligopoly. A corporate extraction imperative leads to price hikes where hotels / casinos to target big spenders. Short-term profit but longterm cost to the broader ecosystem
nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
What’s Wrong With Las Vegas?
nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Las Vegas is a microcosm of the broader US economy. Mergers have led to duopoly/oligopoly. A corporate extraction imperative leads to price hikes where hotels / casinos to target big spenders. Short-term profit but longterm cost to the broader ecosystem
nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
Business has long depended on emotional attachment as strategy to create switching costs. (E.g., Cadillac). Seems utterly obvious that despite their ethical commitments, the intentional engineering of AIs to generate human emotional attachment will soon be mainstream.
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Business has long depended on emotional attachment as strategy to create switching costs. (E.g., Cadillac). Seems utterly obvious that despite their ethical commitments, the intentional engineering of AIs to generate human emotional attachment will soon be mainstream.
If the shutdown yields nothing, when health insurance premiums soar as projected, who do Republicans think Americans will blame? Obama?
October 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If the shutdown yields nothing, when health insurance premiums soar as projected, who do Republicans think Americans will blame? Obama?
Finalized my 2025 book tour!
Coming through New York, DC, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Oxford and Cambridge. Click here for details:
timwu.net#booktour
Coming through New York, DC, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Oxford and Cambridge. Click here for details:
timwu.net#booktour
October 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Finalized my 2025 book tour!
Coming through New York, DC, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Oxford and Cambridge. Click here for details:
timwu.net#booktour
Coming through New York, DC, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Oxford and Cambridge. Click here for details:
timwu.net#booktour
For my new book, THE AGE OF EXTRACTION, here is the UK cover and the USA cover. Curious which people prefer.
October 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
For my new book, THE AGE OF EXTRACTION, here is the UK cover and the USA cover. Curious which people prefer.
From last week's meeting of winning progressive campaigns in UK/Canada/Australia
- Left-leaning parties need tap into national pride, specifically concerning healthcare or threats to economic wellbeing;
- Focus on affordability and economics essential; must resist distractions.
- Left-leaning parties need tap into national pride, specifically concerning healthcare or threats to economic wellbeing;
- Focus on affordability and economics essential; must resist distractions.
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
From last week's meeting of winning progressive campaigns in UK/Canada/Australia
- Left-leaning parties need tap into national pride, specifically concerning healthcare or threats to economic wellbeing;
- Focus on affordability and economics essential; must resist distractions.
- Left-leaning parties need tap into national pride, specifically concerning healthcare or threats to economic wellbeing;
- Focus on affordability and economics essential; must resist distractions.
It is weird and not healthy to begin every day wondering:
"What outrageous thing will the U.S. government do today? Will it be unethical, unconstitutional, or all of the above?"
"What outrageous thing will the U.S. government do today? Will it be unethical, unconstitutional, or all of the above?"
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It is weird and not healthy to begin every day wondering:
"What outrageous thing will the U.S. government do today? Will it be unethical, unconstitutional, or all of the above?"
"What outrageous thing will the U.S. government do today? Will it be unethical, unconstitutional, or all of the above?"
The lack of any real Republican objection to the open and explicit abuse of the DoJ to target a political enemy is terrifying
September 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The lack of any real Republican objection to the open and explicit abuse of the DoJ to target a political enemy is terrifying
Here in London listening to the PMs of England, Canada, Iceland and Australia gives a real sense of hope
September 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Here in London listening to the PMs of England, Canada, Iceland and Australia gives a real sense of hope
The Extraction Imperative: that the highest purpose of business lies not in creating value but finding novel ways to take more money and intangible assets from everyone else; i.e., achieving full use of every iota of market power.
September 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Extraction Imperative: that the highest purpose of business lies not in creating value but finding novel ways to take more money and intangible assets from everyone else; i.e., achieving full use of every iota of market power.
Pick your poison in this debate: absolutist gun rights advocates or haters of transgender people?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Conservatives defend transgender rights — to bear arms
Conservatives protest a Justice Department idea to bar transgender people from gun ownership.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Pick your poison in this debate: absolutist gun rights advocates or haters of transgender people?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Google remedy order is a paradox. Says "Google cannot use the same anticompetitive playbook for its GenAI products that it used for Search." But it then says payments for default placement are fine? The government should appeal the remedy order.
September 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Google remedy order is a paradox. Says "Google cannot use the same anticompetitive playbook for its GenAI products that it used for Search." But it then says payments for default placement are fine? The government should appeal the remedy order.