Future
What if we never live on Mars?
Tech billionaires sell us the dream of realizing sci-fi fantasies, but that distracts us from building a better society on Earth
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for a comic about a mindless Elon Musk
Weekly roundup
Read for a roundup of recent critical work on data centers and the resource demands of AI
Geopolitics
The platform isn’t a national security threat, but a challenge to Silicon Valley’s dominance
Tech billionaires are using faith to solidify their power
A Cruise disaster deflates the robotaxi hype once again
Ursula Le Guin said we must be able to imagine freedom. AI traps us in the past.
After building him up, they need to tear him down
Tech companies want us isolated and constantly staring at screens because it drives profit
Elon Musk is the most prominent face of the effort to protect tech's privilege
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Retailers are dropping physical media as streaming dominates, and that’s a real problem
Read to the end for the latest party Elon Musk killed just by showing up
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
Paris Marx’s journey from tech optimist to committed Luddite
Read to the end for a more evidence of an access journalist’s close ties to tech CEOs
In “Burn Book,” the longtime tech journalist tries to rewrite her story for the post-techlash era
Read to the end for OpenAI saying the quiet part out loud
An interview with Karla Ortiz on how AI image generators are upending the careers of artists
Read to the end for a bad NBA AI reveal
A new strategy is angering fans as Xbox loses the console war and Game Pass fails to take off
Workers and customers get squeezed so investors can make off like bandits
Read to the end for a photo of the only kind of Waymo vehicle I approve of