Behind every major AI breakthrough and million-dollar funding round, there's an undercurrent of pure absurdity running through tech culture. As 2025 winds down, the year's biggest accomplishments are finally sharing headlines with something equally important: the weirdest, dumbest, most baffling moments the industry produced. When the entire internet goes down or TikTok gets sold, these stories get buried. But they're what really define how the tech world actually works.
The tech industry moves at such a ridiculous pace that we barely have time to process the genuinely important stuff before something completely unhinged demands attention. We've watched as the tech elite tied themselves to government power, AI companies battled for dominance, and robotaxis finally showed up in real cities. Those are the stories that supposedly matter. But then you realize that while everyone's focused on the future, the present is absolutely chaotic.
Take the case of Mark Zuckerberg versus Mark Zuckerberg. A bankruptcy lawyer from Indiana with the misfortune of sharing a name with Meta's CEO spent years trying to run a legitimate legal business. He'd buy Facebook ads like any small business owner, but Facebook kept nuking his account for "impersonation." The irony is suffocating. Here's a guy literally just trying to use his own name in his own profession, and the platform owned by the other Mark Zuckerberg keeps shutting him down. He even created a website called iammarkzuckerberg.com to explain to potential clients that, no, he's not a prank caller. "My life sometimes feels like the Michael Jordan ESPN commercial," he wrote, "where a regular person's name causes constant mixups." Meta's lawyers are probably still too busy dealing with antitrust cases to sort this out.
Then there's Soham Parekh, who managed something genuinely impressive in a completely wrong way. This engineer figured out how to get hired by multiple startups simultaneously - we're talking 3 to 4 at the same time. When Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi exposed him on X, it turned out Parekh wasn't alone in any startup he joined. Three other founders reached out to Doshi that same day to confirm they were currently paying Parekh as well. Here's where it gets weird: the tech community basically split into two camps. One side saw him as a scammer exploiting startups. The other side? They saw a legend. Chris Bakke, founder of the job platform Laskie, suggested Parekh should start an interview prep company. "He's clearly one of the greatest interviewers of all time," he wrote. Parekh admitted guilt, but the whole thing still doesn't quite add up - if he was trying to maximize cash fast, why did he keep taking equity in companies he knew would fire him within weeks?
