The conservative-tech alliance is coming to Canada

Shopify executives want to emulate the right-wing project of their Silicon Valley peers | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 3 months ago

Roundup: The system is crashing

Read to the end for a surprising tirade against Elon Musk | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 4 months ago

Dismissing critics has “real and dangerous” consequences

Casey Newton’s diatribe against AI skeptics illustrates a broader issue in tech journalism | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 4 months ago

Roundup: The US’s war on Chinese tech has consequences

Read to the end for a little song about a certain health insurance story | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 4 months ago

Elon Musk is sending DOGE after high-speed rail

Donald Trump’s “first buddy” is using his position to revive personal vendettas | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 4 months ago

Why we must reclaim digital sovereignty

A new white paper envisions a radically different technological future | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 4 months ago

Roundup: What’s going on in Romania?

Read to the end for the revival of Elon Musk’s war on California high-speed rail | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 4 months ago

Roundup: The return of self-driving hype

Read to the end for a graph of Elon Musk’s real-time mental decline | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 4 months ago

Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy

Brands know Musk has influence with Donald Trump and want to make sure he doesn’t use it against them | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 4 months ago

Roundup: Has Bluesky’s moment arrived?

Read to the end for another Cybertruck fail | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

What we get wrong about the supposed threat of Chinese EVs

Recent comments by Ford CEO Jim Farley give a more honest picture of why Chinese EV makers are leading | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

Roundup: Some fiction after a grim week

Read to the end for a fascinating video a certain orange guy’s social media use | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

Shame on the Elon enablers

Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

How Amazon threatens Canada’s post office

Amazon’s low-wage, non-union model is a threat to key public institutions and their unionized workers | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

Roundup: Targeting platforms’ addictive design

Read to the end for a fun jab at Mark Zuckerberg’s Halloween costume | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI

He may have made important contributions to artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean he knows where it’s going | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

Roundup: Elon Musk’s Russian connection

Read to the end for another AI CEO making ridiculous energy demands | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

Gates-washing the future

A new Netflix series continues the effort to launder Bill Gates’ reputation | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

Roundup: What will happen to Elon Musk after the election?

Read to the end for a cool guide for new Bluesky users | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 5 months ago

Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI

Eric Schmidt is the latest tech executive to claim AI must be built regardless of the climate cost | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 6 months ago

Roundup: Elon Musk’s dream of robot slaves isn’t coming soon

Read to the end for a new crypto-libertarian conspiracy theory | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 6 months ago

Elon Musk’s Cybercab recycles a decade of broken promises

Bold promises may no longer be enough for an extremist CEO who can’t deliver | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 6 months ago

Roundup: Uber is cutting workers’ wages globally

Read to the end for one of the worst photos of Elon Musk I’ve ever seen | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 6 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction

Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the future instead of the present | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 6 months ago

Roundup: Is the tech antitrust era waning?

Read to the end for tech’s new synonym for eugenics | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 6 months ago

Roundup: Elon Musk caves to Brazil’s Supreme Court

Read to the end for the backlash against NEOM influencers | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 6 months ago

Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age

Cyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Roundup: The price of an iPhone

Read to the end for a very special PS5 | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Smartphone innovation is dead, and that’s fine

Stop blaming a lack of competition for a product that’s simply done meaningfully evolving | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Roundup: Will generative AI have many long-term benefits?

Read to the end for a fun Clippy meme! | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Pavel Durov and Elon Musk are not free speech champions

The actions against Telegram and Twitter/X are about sovereignty, not speech | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

A critical tech reading list for late 2024

Ten book recommendations to get you through the final months of the year | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Roundup: What the OpenAI funding round reveals about tech

Read to the end for a fun Cybertruck documentary | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Zuckerberg wants to control the next platform—no matter what it is

The Meta CEO’s embrace of open source is nothing more than an opportunistic move | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Roundup: Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter?

Read to the end for one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Sam Altman doesn’t care about you

The OpenAI CEO wants to extend his life by 10 years, but doesn’t care the poor die 15 years earlier than the rich | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 7 months ago

Roundup: Eric Schmidt says the quiet part out loud

Read to the end for a disastrous Peter Thiel interview | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 8 months ago

What comes after the AI crash?

The end of the boom won’t end generative AI’s harms | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 8 months ago

Roundup: Don't buy the "Zuckessance"

Read to the end for a forthcoming tech book you might like | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 8 months ago

The Google monopoly ruling won’t save the internet

More competition won’t be enough to dismantle Silicon Valley’s power | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 8 months ago

Roundup: How tech is trying to shape the Kamala Harris agenda

Read to the end for some insight on the supply chains behind Amazon | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 8 months ago

Peter Thiel’s influence over a network of Lord of the Rings-inspired companies

The tech billionaire can’t stop naming companies after Tolkien’s fantasy world | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 8 months ago

Roundup: Elon Musk is a terrible person

Read to the end for Donald Trump’s appearance at the Bitcoin conference | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 8 months ago

Elon Musk doesn't care about kids. He cares about demographics.

The billionaire CEO told Jordan Peterson his trans daughter is “dead” to him because she can no longer reproduce | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 8 months ago

Roundup: NYT's SpaceX stenography

Read to the end for a furry ally in the Luddite resistance | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 9 months ago

Silicon Valley’s dangerous plan for a second Trump term

The Little Tech Agenda was crafted to defend the power of tech billionaires | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 9 months ago

Roundup: Elon Musk endorses Donald Trump

Read to the end for an old graphic making fun of Steve Jobs’ ideology of the Mac | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 9 months ago

Roundup: The data workers whose labor powers AI

Read to the end for a video to share with your friends to understand AI | Continue reading


@disconnect.blog | 9 months ago