Tim Wu

Professor at Columbia
Contributing opinion writer at the N.Y. Times
Author of THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (2025), the ATTENTION MERCHANTS and other books.

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

I know Mr. Yglesias makes his living out of being annoying and offensive; nonethless I'm annoyed and offended by his implication that more Asians attending Ivy league schools will mean they will become "less culturally and culturally prestigious" (his words)

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I do wonder if the Ivy League will become less socially and culturally prestigious as it becomes more Stuyvesant than Dalton.

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

@haroldfeld Very on brand

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

New York’s passage of a child protective Chatbot law is a major achievement — the States are unquestionably the only political entities that actually doing what 90% of the population wants. Credit to Senator Gonzales and others for getting this done
https://t.co/ickfO3chLB

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

At a workshop today fascism was described as a type of response to market failure. A collapsing market makes workers sense of their own value decrease in a market system. The fascist regime offers both an emotional antidote by proclaiming the affected classes’s racial superiority (and also blaming a scapegoat class) and then also an economic antidote in the form of aggressive full employment programs, such as preparing for warfare.

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

The age of jokes about grand juries and ham sandwiches is over - turns out the Fifth Amendment was precient

https://t.co/iCbb2czOe6

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

The Nov 2025 Award Agreement for Musk at Tesla: “in the event of a Change in Control, the Operational Milestones shall be disregarded.” The Space X acquition, in other words, unlocks the Tesla award (or parts of it) without actually needing to hit any targets https://t.co/nOVVDkwvxs

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

Here is a very casual sidestep of the Supreme Court cases and at some level an entire statute making it clear that the Rule of Reason doesn't to Section 3 cases

[Daniel Hanley @danielahanley]

The FTC and states received a victory in their antitrust lawsuit against Syngenta. But the victory is problematic. The court erroneously states that the liability test under Sec 3 of the Clayton Act is the rule of reason. It is not, and violates SCOTUS's holding in Tampa Electric

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

Friend pointed out that if Telsa and SpaceX do merge, it would likely satisfy the "change in control" clause in Musk's comp agreement with TSLA, meaning he gets the payoff without meeting the operational targets.

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

The Democratic Party's former theme song

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

There are these occasional moments where America feels completely normal https://t.co/iAqNU4N0uz

[Samuel Levine @saalevine]

New Yorkers can soon say goodbye to AI customer service doom loops 👋

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

Taking the Amtrak train from Philly to New York right now and the price is for some reason a very reasonable $15. It feels like the 90s

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

In 2006 Wikipedia had more traffic than Facebook. In an alternative history, in whihc Facebook might have decided to make itself a non-profit foundation, how are things different?

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

This is based on data from the Federal Reserve -- the tiny sliver represents 50% of the population.

[Nidhi Hegde @nhegde]

The Onion is perfection.

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

@DominicVillaSC @OrinKerr @ANNVYSHINSKY He went by “Gus” ..

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Each state's most overrated thing

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

US Tech industry's coziness & alignment with Trump WH has the side effect of making countries not want to adopt American technology if they can avoid it. In other words, it surrenders soft power. Elon Musk is making the risks very clear https://t.co/GkVMelsfbK

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

Billionaire seeking Trump pardon
https://t.co/OF8AoKxbDi

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

The newish anti-Canada tariffs likely to be struck down https://t.co/iOgEW6lctE