Sitemap - 2023 - Disconnect
"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
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.
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: Are we too obsessed with disinformation?
"This is not simply between Israel and Hamas. It's much bigger than that."
Roundup: Twitter's dismal ad revenue
Roundup: Will Amazon be broken up?
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
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
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
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