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
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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
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
Weekly roundup
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
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
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Uber is cutting workers’ wages globally
Read to the end for one of the worst photos of Elon Musk I’ve ever seen
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction
Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the future instead of the present
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Is the tech antitrust era waning?
Read to the end for tech’s new synonym for eugenics
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Roundup: Elon Musk caves to Brazil’s Supreme Court
Read to the end for the backlash against NEOM influencers
Politics
Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age
Cyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet
Weekly roundup
Roundup: The price of an iPhone
Read to the end for a very special PS5
Apple
Smartphone innovation is dead, and that’s fine
Stop blaming a lack of competition for a product that’s simply done meaningfully evolving
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Roundup: Will generative AI have many long-term benefits?
Read to the end for a fun Clippy meme!
Elon Musk
Pavel Durov and Elon Musk are not free speech champions
The actions against Telegram and Twitter/X are about sovereignty, not speech
Reading
A critical tech reading list for late 2024
Ten book recommendations to get you through the final months of the year