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
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: Targeting platforms’ addictive design
Read to the end for a fun jab at Mark Zuckerberg’s Halloween costume
Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI
He may have made important contributions to artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean he knows where it’s going
Roundup: Elon Musk’s Russian connection
Read to the end for another AI CEO making ridiculous energy demands
Gates-washing the future
A new Netflix series continues the effort to launder Bill Gates’ reputation
Roundup: What will happen to Elon Musk after the election?
Read to the end for a cool guide for new Bluesky users
Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI
Eric Schmidt is the latest tech executive to claim AI must be built regardless of the climate cost
Roundup: Elon Musk’s dream of robot slaves isn’t coming soon
Read to the end for a new crypto-libertarian conspiracy theory
Elon Musk’s Cybercab recycles a decade of broken promises
Bold promises may no longer be enough for an extremist CEO who can’t deliver