Roundup: Apple in the DoJ’s crosshairs
Read to the end for a comic about a mindless Elon Musk
Read to the end for a comic about a mindless Elon Musk
Read for a roundup of recent critical work on data centers and the resource demands of AI
The platform isn’t a national security threat, but a challenge to Silicon Valley’s dominance
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
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
Interview
An interview with Sebastián Lehuedé about a community in Chile that blocked Google
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for a meme about Vision Pro and the metaverse
Apple
The company’s headset exists to placate investors, not serve users’ needs
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for some anti-computer vibes in an old video game
Tesla
Not even plans for a new car in 2025 can distract from the EV maker's poor future prospects
Artificial Intelligence
The OpenAI CEO expects the most marginalized to pay the price of his ambition
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for a cool tech labor poster from the 1970s
Reading
19 book recommendations to get you through the next few months
Elon Musk
The union-busting CEO wants to blow up labor protections around the world
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for Apple’s new language rules
The newsletter's migration from Substack to Ghost is complete
Weekly roundup
Plus an update on the newsletter and what 2024 holds
Weekly roundup
Plus an update on the newsletter's future
Interview
An interview with John Lopez about AI and the writers' strike
Transport
It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere
Interview
An interview with Nels Anderson