cory doctorow on tech laws and tariffs
on Democracy Now
Too Bad About the Internet (with Anil Dash)
Where did the Internet go wrong, and how do we fix it? To find out more, we talk to entrepreneur and activist Anil Dash about the alternate history of technology.…
Getting off US tech is no easy task
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the effort
Bell Telephone Magazine Spring 1966
I've become a little obsessed with this Bell Telephone Magazine from the spring of 1966 that I accidentally stumbled upon when I was looking for pictures of telephone lines on…
a video about the destructive construction of a Meta data center in Georgia
Meta visited Beverly, the woman we featured whose water pipes have been corroded.
The positive results that get published tend to be overly optimistic about AI’s potential
To be clear, AI can drive scientific breakthroughs. My concern is about their magnitude and frequency. Has AI really shown enough potential to justify such a massive shift in talent,…
SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music
Artists are furious at the platform's sneaky tactics.
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By Cory Doctorow
Why new tech only feels good for a short time
The Hedonic Treadmill The psychological phenomenon known as the hedonic treadmill has been well documented since at least the 1970s. The concept refers to how humans tend to revert to…