Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back
Elon Musk is the most prominent face of the effort to protect tech's privilege
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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Substack is wrong about moderation
Notes will challenge its right-wing framing of free speech
Roundup: Tech criticism and the new Max streaming service
Stay to the end to see someone making a miniature writer's room
Elon Musk doesn't know what's really happening on Twitter
What the BBC interview tells us about Musk and Twitter
What the anger over TikTok tells us about US tech policy
The US will protect its tech monopolies at all cost
What I'm thinking about Substack and Elon Musk after a messy week
Read to the end for why billionaires like Bill Gates are not like the rest of us
The transport system is in crisis. Electric cars won't fix it.
Emissions are a big problem, but so are safety and affordability
What I'm reading on the AI letter and why Elon Musk's Twitter plans are failing
Read to the end of the roundup to hear Matt Damon's excuse for the Crypto.com ad
Twitter's moment of truth has arrived
As Elon Musk removes the legacy blue checks, he needs more people to subscribe. It isn't happening.