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Roundup: Elon Musk caves to Brazil’s Supreme Court
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Politics
Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age
Cyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet
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Roundup: The price of an iPhone
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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
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A critical tech reading list for late 2024
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Roundup: What the OpenAI funding round reveals about tech
Read to the end for a fun Cybertruck documentary
Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg wants to control the next platform—no matter what it is
The Meta CEO’s embrace of open source is nothing more than an opportunistic move
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Roundup: Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter?
Read to the end for one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard
Sam Altman
Sam Altman doesn’t care about you
The OpenAI CEO wants to extend his life by 10 years, but doesn’t care the poor die 15 years earlier than the rich