Roundup: Some fiction after a grim week
Read to the end for a fascinating video a certain orange guy’s social media use
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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Shame on the Elon enablers
Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him
How Amazon threatens Canada’s post office
Amazon’s low-wage, non-union model is a threat to key public institutions and their unionized workers
Roundup: Targeting platforms’ addictive design
Read to the end for a fun jab at Mark Zuckerberg’s Halloween costume
Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI
He may have made important contributions to artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean he knows where it’s going
Roundup: Elon Musk’s Russian connection
Read to the end for another AI CEO making ridiculous energy demands
Gates-washing the future
A new Netflix series continues the effort to launder Bill Gates’ reputation
Roundup: What will happen to Elon Musk after the election?
Read to the end for a cool guide for new Bluesky users
Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI
Eric Schmidt is the latest tech executive to claim AI must be built regardless of the climate cost