What you missed in May 2025
Chatbots messing with your mind, data center energy use, China’s electricity revolution, and more!
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 ideological rift on the tech right
What a disagreement between Joe Lonsdale and Balaji Srinivasan tells us about the effort to enhance Silicon Valley’s power
Social media must be reined in
Countries are adopting higher age limits, but they need to tackle addictive design practices that target everyone
Will Pope Leo XIV be an ally against AI?
The Catholic Church has a striking clear-eyed critique of artificial intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg wants to you be lonely and miserable
That’s the only way he’ll profit from selling you AI friends
What you missed in April 2025
Brazil’s crackdown on social media, Elon Musk’s war on empathy, how BYD is leaving Tesla in the dust, and more!
Why I’m getting off US tech
At least as much as feasibly possible
Canada’s tech executives aren’t scared of Mark Carney
They bet on the Conservatives, but the Liberals will give them much of what they want anyway
Faltering Conservative support won’t stop Canada’s tech leaders
Canadian tech executives bet on Pierre Poilievre, but Mark Carney still offers the chance to realize parts of their agenda