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Disconnect's Top 10 of 2023

"The act of writing is not typing"

The Hyperloop was always a scam

"This year for the games industry has been an absolute bloodbath"

Roundup: Alternative tech pasts and futures

Substackers against Nazis

The religion of techno-optimism

Roundup: The EU AI Act has some big holes

Roundup: The real AI threat we must stop

Elon Musk built his own reality. Now it's consuming him.

Roundup: Cruise is doomed

How Sam Altman plays into Microsoft's ambitions

Roundup: Sam Altman is out at OpenAI

Has Elon Musk finally gone too far?

Roundup: What SAG-AFTRA won on AI

Self-driving cars still aren't the future

Roundup: Lock him up

It's time to unionize Tesla

Roundup: Starlink for Gaza?

Roundup: Are we too obsessed with disinformation?

"This is not simply between Israel and Hamas. It's much bigger than that."

Roundup: Elon Musk Unmasked

Roundup: Twitter's dismal ad revenue

Elon Musk is a racist

Roundup: Will Amazon be broken up?

Has Linda Yaccarino lost it?

Roundup: The final days of the writers strike?

A critical tech reading list for the rest of 2023

Roundup: Remembering David Golumbia

Apple wants you to believe it will save your life — and maybe the world

Why the US is struggling to break up Big Tech

Roundup: A tech that might save us?

Roundup: Elon's erratic mood swings

Generative AI closes off a better future

Roundup: They're trying to build a city again

The media's failure on Elon Musk

Roundup: Meta doesn't care about you

Why did Linda Yaccarino join Twitter?

Roundup: Open season on robotaxis

Don't look into the Orb

Roundup: Uber isn't dead yet

The tragedy of Sam Bankman-Fried's plan to buy Nauru

Roundup: The tide is turning on Tesla

The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy

Twitter's days are numbered

Roundup: Will AI really automate jobs?

Roundup: Twitter funds far-right and the human cost of AI

"The digital age is cannibalizing us"

Stopping robotaxis with traffic cones

Roundup: Socialist Elon and decentralized Meta

Threads won’t save us from Twitter

Roundup: Twitter's rate limit has been exceeded

Google and Meta go to war with Canada

AI won't save the world

Roundup: Imploding subs and a billionaire cage match

Roundup: Streamers undercutting writers and CEOs learning from Musk

Why Microsoft wants to upend the video game industry

Roundup: Crypto lawsuits and more Tesla revelations

Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed

Roundup: Elizabeth Holmes is behind bars

Roundup: What's in the Tesla Files?

China hawks are coming for Shein

Roundup: Sam Altman's friendly DC trip and Apple's troubled headset

How Hollywood used the digital transition against workers

Elon Musk thinks he's invincible

Roundup: A new Twitter CEO rises and the metaverse falls

Google wants to take over the web

Roundup: Woz jokes about executing founders

Don't listen to the 'godfather of AI'

The writer's strike is all about tech

Roundup: Blue skies and bad cars

It's time to kill Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal

Roundup: Starship goes boom and the emerald mine is real

Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back

Substack is wrong about moderation

Roundup: Tech criticism and the new Max streaming service

Elon Musk doesn't know what's really happening on Twitter

What the anger over TikTok tells us about US tech policy

What I'm thinking about Substack and Elon Musk after a messy week

The transport system is in crisis. Electric cars won't fix it.

What I'm reading on the AI letter and why Elon Musk's Twitter plans are failing

Twitter's moment of truth has arrived

Roundup: TikTok Isn’t a Speech Issue and Elon Musk is a Grifter

We don't need new tech to fight climate change

Roundup: TikTok bans are about economic power, not security

The Silicon Valley Bank collapse should be a radicalizing moment

Roundup: Don't cry for Silicon Valley Bank

How tech companies reshape the economy

Roundup: AI isn't "democratization" and beware the "next big thing"

Master Plan 3 is a conservative vision for the future

Will Elon Musk's new Master Plan address Tesla's real challenges?

Roundup: Elon Musk's China links and Microsoft's misleading merger arguments

Netflix is bringing back piracy

Meta Verified is a sign of stagnation

Roundup: Chatting with Sydney Bing*, Elon's narcissism, and a warning from Keanu Reeves

Tech was supposed to make cars safer. It didn’t deliver.

Roundup: The reality of ChatGPT, Woz feels "robbed" by Musk, and Microsoft’s merger woes

Elon Musk wants to relive his start-up days. He’s repeating the same mistakes.

ChatGPT sets Google’s AI ambitions free

Roundup: Private space fictions, enclosing podcasts, and what’s old is new again

We Need to Challenge Silicon Valley