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Roundup: Feeding the world to computers
Read to the end for a photo of the only kind of Waymo vehicle I approve of
Paris Marx is a tech critic who writes Disconnect. He’s also the host of Tech Won’t Save Us and the author of “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation.”
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for a photo of the only kind of Waymo vehicle I approve of
Artificial Intelligence
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
Interview
An interview with Sebastián Lehuedé about a community in Chile that blocked Google
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Read to the end for a meme about Vision Pro and the metaverse
Apple
The company’s headset exists to placate investors, not serve users’ needs
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Read to the end for some anti-computer vibes in an old video game
Tesla
Not even plans for a new car in 2025 can distract from the EV maker's poor future prospects
Artificial Intelligence
The OpenAI CEO expects the most marginalized to pay the price of his ambition
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Read to the end for a cool tech labor poster from the 1970s
Reading
19 book recommendations to get you through the next few months
Elon Musk
The union-busting CEO wants to blow up labor protections around the world
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Read to the end for Apple’s new language rules
The newsletter's migration from Substack to Ghost is complete
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Plus an update on the newsletter and what 2024 holds
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Plus an update on the newsletter's future
Interview
An interview with John Lopez about AI and the writers' strike