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
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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AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
How to stop a data center
An interview with Sebastián Lehuedé about a community in Chile that blocked Google
Roundup: The trouble facing Apple
Read to the end for a meme about Vision Pro and the metaverse
Apple's Vision Pro lacks any real vision
The company’s headset exists to placate investors, not serve users’ needs
Roundup: Can Taylor Swift stop AI-generated abuse?
Read to the end for some anti-computer vibes in an old video game
Tesla's challenges just keep growing
Not even plans for a new car in 2025 can distract from the EV maker's poor future prospects
Sam Altman's self-serving vision of the future
The OpenAI CEO expects the most marginalized to pay the price of his ambition
Roundup: The Vision Pro PR machine
Read to the end for a cool tech labor poster from the 1970s