Just when we thought America’s spiraling descent into tech-fueled corporate surveillance dystopia couldn’t get any more gallows-hilarious, 2023 came along to prove us wrong. Even setting aside the explosive rise of artificial intelligence into every internet corridor, it’s still remarkable how many incredibly dumb battles were lost when surveying the tech fails of the past year. On the social media front, we glimpsed a new kind of tech-focused Sinophobia from Congress members during hearings on TikTok. We also witnessed billionaires get into online slap-fights that were so pathetic they made the early-90s forum flame-wars look like United Nations debates. But...