Roundup: Apple in the DoJ’s crosshairs
Read to the end for a comic about a mindless Elon Musk
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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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
Why is it so hard to buy a Blu-ray?
Retailers are dropping physical media as streaming dominates, and that’s a real problem
Roundup: Tech worker opposition to AI
Read to the end for the latest party Elon Musk killed just by showing up
The digital revolution has failed
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
How I became a tech critic
Paris Marx’s journey from tech optimist to committed Luddite
Roundup: Apple Car is (finally) dead
Read to the end for a more evidence of an access journalist’s close ties to tech CEOs
Kara Swisher’s Reality Distortion Field
In “Burn Book,” the longtime tech journalist tries to rewrite her story for the post-techlash era