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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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What you missed in October 2025
More turmoil at Xbox, ICE’s social media surveillance, and Google and Amazon’s Israeli collaboration
Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
A critical tech reading list for fall 2025
9 books to consider for the rest of the year
What you missed in September 2025
Plus a little note on digital rights
Social media causes more harm than good
We need to stop falling for anti-regulation hysteria if we’re to get control of digital harms
iPhone Air is Apple’s latest gimmick
The thin iPhone is teeing up a foldable phone likely to come next year
What you missed in August 2025
Plus, a recap of what you missed in August 2025
Ghosting Substack
After 9 months on Substack, Disconnect is back on Ghost. Paris explains why the migration was necessary.