Roundup: Elon meets Javier
Read to the end for a one-of-a-kind Cybertruck
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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Tesla is in serious trouble
Elon Musk spent years pushing self-driving fantasies, now that’s all the company has left
Roundup: How is the media still doing this?
Read to the end for an update on the road safety crisis in the US
Elon Musk is elevating the global extreme right
The billionaire wants to advance his political program while preserving his power and wealth
Roundup: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Read to the end for a fun game about New York Times headlines
What if we never live on Mars?
Tech billionaires sell us the dream of realizing sci-fi fantasies, but that distracts us from building a better society on Earth
Roundup: Apple in the DoJ’s crosshairs
Read to the end for a comic about a mindless Elon Musk
Roundup: Smashing Teslas with stone heads
Read for a roundup of recent critical work on data centers and the resource demands of AI
The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
The platform isn’t a national security threat, but a challenge to Silicon Valley’s dominance