Roundup: What’s going on in Romania?
Read to the end for the revival of Elon Musk’s war on California high-speed rail
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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Roundup: The return of self-driving hype
Read to the end for a graph of Elon Musk’s real-time mental decline
Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy
Brands know Musk has influence with Donald Trump and want to make sure he doesn’t use it against them
Roundup: Has Bluesky’s moment arrived?
Read to the end for another Cybertruck fail
What we get wrong about the supposed threat of Chinese EVs
Recent comments by Ford CEO Jim Farley give a more honest picture of why Chinese EV makers are leading
Roundup: Some fiction after a grim week
Read to the end for a fascinating video a certain orange guy’s social media use
Shame on the Elon enablers
Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him
How Amazon threatens Canada’s post office
Amazon’s low-wage, non-union model is a threat to key public institutions and their unionized workers
Roundup: Targeting platforms’ addictive design
Read to the end for a fun jab at Mark Zuckerberg’s Halloween costume