Blood in the Machine

The revolt against Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ is part of a growing storm

New fronts are opening up in the opposition to big tech. The anti-data center movement is rolling, AI is unpopular as ever, and now, a widespread backlash to Meta’s new A

Charting the rise of tech fascism

Going back decades, there’s been a faction in Silicon Valley whose chief interest was not coding, consumer technology or even business, but power. In some ways, the story

The State of the AI Bubble with Ed Zitron

There are fresh signs that the AI bubble is wobbling. Again. In recent weeks, a much-vaunted AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, run by Valley wunderkind Leopo

What is an 'Elon Musk'?

Elon Musk is not the richest man in the world merely because he’s good at selling cars or rockets at a profitable margin. That might have sufficed for richest men in the

Xbox workers speak out about layoffs, AI, and how big tech brought a crisis to gaming

On July 6th, Microsoft announced that it was laying off 4,800 workers, largely from its Xbox gaming division. It’s now sadly routine in the tech industry; thousands of jo

The Luddites take New York

The year has been marked by the rise of open, widespread, and increasingly spirited backlash to AI, data centers, and big tech. As such, the stage was well set for the Su

How and why to de-Google your life

While Google seems dead set on making their users hate their product, the courts in Europe are taking issue with their anti-competitive business practices. Meanwhile, the

The AI industry is pouring hundreds of millions into US elections

The tech lobby spent $27 million on a single Congressional election in New York. OpenAI-backed Leading the Future spent $8 million on ads attacking Alex Bores, who vowed

How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow

Does Cory Doctorow even need an introduction at this point? If you spend any amount of time at all online, then you’ve encountered his work, his ideas, his words. But the

Understanding the tech oligarchy and its gilded rage with Jacob Silverman

Happy Halloween all. I got into the spirit by catching up with the horror flicks I’d been sleeping on (28 Years Later was surprisingly good) and, more importantly, chatti

Dismantling the Empire of AI with Karen Hao

Years before OpenAI became a household name, Karen Hao was one of the very first journalists to gain access to the company. What she saw when she did unsettled her. Despi