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
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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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.
Roundup: TikTok Isn’t a Speech Issue and Elon Musk is a Grifter
Stay tuned to the end for some penguin photos!
We don't need new tech to fight climate change
Tech fantasies are a distraction, not a solution to the crisis
Roundup: TikTok bans are about economic power, not security
Stay to the end for a reflection on the inequity of entrepreneurship
The Silicon Valley Bank collapse should be a radicalizing moment
It’s time to take down the venture capitalists who fuel the tech that makes our lives worse
Roundup: Don't cry for Silicon Valley Bank
Plus, stay tuned for a video on why anyone can be a former Twitter employee