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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 March 2025
Masayoshi Son’s legacy, the false promise of abundance, who is free software for, and much more!
DOGE is going global. It needs to be stopped.
The extreme right is organizing for a new austerity campaign modeled on Elon Musk’s destructive efforts
Elon Musk is running Tesla into the ground
His far-right politics aren’t the automaker’s only problem
The United States has gone rogue. There must be consequences.
Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war
What you missed in February 2025
Uber’s financials, Apple’s India strategy, wider DOGE chaos, and much more
Celebrating two years of Disconnect
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Silicon Valley is enlisting Trump in its war against higher taxes
Trump wants to stop digital services taxes and a global minimum corporate tax rate
JD Vance champions tech imperialism in Europe
The European Union needs to defend its sovereignty and end its dependence on US tech monopolies