Pioneering video game designer Bill Budge, who spotted this graffiti in Oakland, said he's "never seen this kind of hate" in 33 years. Image via Twitter.

In a new Q&A with the Wall Street Journal, Marc Andreessen argues that skeptics who predict the second coming of the dotcom bubble "just don't know what they're talking about." This time around, he says, it's all about building a franchise, baby.

Bryan Goldberg, the CEO of Bustle and intellectual equivalent of a large wet sponge, just published his latest treatise about people who are not him. He calls it "satire." The rest of the internet calls it defiantly dumb, insulting garbage.

Balaji Srinivasan, Stanford lecturer and newest addition to the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital all-star team, does not want to live near you. He believes he and his Silicon Valley vanguard deserve their own place—literally, a separate society. Now, the crazy is crazier: meet the "Inverse Amish."

Hamish McKenszie, who provided the occasional sign of life in an otherwise algae-clogged editorial pro-corporate dead zone, has left PandoDaily for a PR gig at Tesla Motors, multiple sources tell me (and his LinkedIn confirms). Leaving Pando to join an actual startup—Sarah Lacy must be weeping with pride.

Snapchat issued a statement about the security breach that exposed 4.6 million accounts. The company promised better privacy protection with the next update, but apparently brogramming means never having to say you're sorry.

On Bloomberg West today, Christopher Soghoian, a former privacy advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, said that after its recent security breach Snapchat better lawyer up because a federal investigation and class action lawsuits are undoubtedly coming its way.

Workers in Silicon Valley "bring almost double the amount of money that their counterparts nationwide earn each week," according to new federal data.

Overpaid manbaby technologist Robert Scoble, famous for unapologetically wearing a face-mounted camera into public bathrooms, has outdone himself: as evidence that Google's face computers will be a hit, he recorded himself talking to a crew of eager high school girls.

Nature abhors a vacuum, Silicon Valley abhors even the most minute attempt at criticism. So when Quartz's Christopher Mims wrote "2013 was a lost year for tech," gallant techies took offense. Charging at the fore was TechCrunch alum and VC MG Siegler, who has really had it up to here with reporters thinking critically:

The last time we asked Tinder about its apparent brand-synergy-third-base-score with FOX, it clammed up. Now it's pretty obvious: Tinder users are being matched up with characters from "The Mindy Project," which means the speed dating app is the newest conquest of noxious native advertising.

After being basically kicked off of the internet by Google, Andreessen Horowitz's $15 million golden child, is as popular in the new year as it was in the summer of 2011.

Fresh off of being hacked, Snapchat's logo makes an appearance at the Rose Bowl, in honor of the university that birthed it. Technically, guys, it shouldn't have eyes or a mouth, which were removed due to the startup's ongoing legal battle.

While everyone was drunk last night, hackers published the user names and private phone numbers ("private") of 4.6 million Snapchat profiles. This comes directly after the startup, valued for its privacy, ignored the exact security hole that made this possible.

The best laid schemes of Facebook cofounders often go awry. Chris Hughes had hoped a $2 million home in largely working class Ulster County—not to mention his facility with those game-changing ways of social media—would help his husband Sean Eldridge win a Congressional seat. But according to Eldridge's fundraising emails, the latest attempt to capitalize on his campaign's "incredible momentum" has garnered fewer than 150 online donations in three days.

Dear Diary/God/All Y'all Makers out there. PHEW. What a year! It has been full of blessings, Washi tape, pretzels with googly eyes on them, Velcro™, 3D printed spheres (put 'em on a bowl!) and doilies used for various things the Lord did not intend them for. But we reached the end, and have so much to be grateful for, so let's peep all the memories we "made" together. ;)

Paul Graham, a man with great empathy for the misunderstood, has written an essay to explain statements he gave The Information about the gender gap in tech.

We are only a day or so away from New Year's Eve, the biggest Uber car fare backlash since the last Uber car fare backlash. Rather than listening to frustrated customers and, say, capping "surge pricing" at 6x or so, Uber's anti-regulation superhero CEO Travis Kalanick has some tips on when not to use Uber.

The kumbaya sound of the "sharing economy" hums right by the fact that the irresistible middlemen who make it easy to find a place to stay or a cab at your fingertips do so for a hefty profit. And when profit and public infrastructure like housing and transportation collide, regulators are bound to follow.