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2026 35

  1. Hyperscale has arrived
  2. Hyperscale is out in two weeks!
  3. The media has the AI threat all wrong
  4. Red flags at the start of Apple’s John Ternus era
  5. Hyperscale is longlisted for an FT award!
  6. BMW’s in-car Spider-Man ad is a warning sign
  7. Bernie Sanders has AI policy all wrong
  8. A more wholesome algorithm?
  9. Elon Musk’s tired schtick
  10. Global dependence on US tech was always the plan
  11. A critical tech reading list for summer 2026
  12. The seductive nature of ride-hailing apps
  13. Why I wrote Hyperscale
  14. Data centers are forcing up computer prices
  15. AI opposition isn’t the product of a lack of “literacy”
  16. Social media policy is evolving beyond age limits
  17. Information overload
  18. In limbo
  19. Google is its own worst enemy
  20. Is it time to start using Linux?
  21. On the abdication of Chief Prophet Tim Cook
  22. Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future
  23. Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts
  24. A critical tech reading list for spring 2026
  25. Did I mention I’m writing a new book?
  26. It’s time to stop posting on X
  27. Iran attacks reinforce need to reduce US dependence
  28. Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview
  29. Using an iPod in 2026?
  30. X shows why stricter tech regulation is necessary
  31. Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
  32. A critical tech reading list for winter 2026
  33. Elon Musk’s X must be banned
  34. What does 2026 have in store?
  35. The United States is a rogue state

2025 60

  1. We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech
  2. Join our year-end livestream!
  3. Netflix can’t be allowed to buy Warner Discovery
  4. What you missed in November 2025
  5. A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
  6. What you missed in October 2025
  7. Generative AI is a societal disaster
  8. A critical tech reading list for fall 2025
  9. What you missed in September 2025
  10. Social media causes more harm than good
  11. iPhone Air is Apple’s latest gimmick
  12. What you missed in August 2025
  13. Ghosting Substack
  14. Become a subscriber →
  15. World leaders must stop appeasing Donald Trump
  16. My first book is out in paperback!
  17. Wading through the social media haze
  18. I drove some Chinese cars. Here’s what I thought.
  19. What you missed in July 2025
  20. Mark Carney is going “elbows down” against Big Tech
  21. I’ve had it with Microsoft
  22. Getting off US tech: a guide
  23. Why Canada needs to build a public cloud
  24. Better founders won’t fix Silicon Valley
  25. A critical tech reading list for summer 2025
  26. What you missed in June 2025
  27. Mark Carney caves to Trump and the tech industry
  28. Why should the US decide who can have certain tech?
  29. Getting off US tech is no easy task
  30. I’m writing a new book!
  31. Elon Musk’s reputation must be beyond rehabilitation
  32. What you missed in May 2025
  33. The ideological rift on the tech right
  34. Social media must be reined in
  35. Will Pope Leo XIV be an ally against AI?
  36. Mark Zuckerberg wants to you be lonely and miserable
  37. What you missed in April 2025
  38. Why I’m getting off US tech
  39. Canada’s tech executives aren’t scared of Mark Carney
  40. Faltering Conservative support won’t stop Canada’s tech leaders
  41. A critical tech reading list for spring 2025
  42. What you missed in March 2025
  43. DOGE is going global. It needs to be stopped.
  44. Elon Musk is running Tesla into the ground
  45. The United States has gone rogue. There must be consequences.
  46. What you missed in February 2025
  47. Celebrating two years of Disconnect
  48. Silicon Valley is enlisting Trump in its war against higher taxes
  49. JD Vance champions tech imperialism in Europe
  50. How Elon Musk plans to upend NASA
  51. What you missed in January 2025
  52. We need an international alliance against the US and its tech industry
  53. DeepSeek shows the US failure to contain Chinese tech
  54. Elon Musk is a fascist
  55. A critical tech reading list for early 2025
  56. The MAGAfication of Mark Zuckerberg
  57. New year, new Disconnect
  58. Reading lists
  59. Translate an article!
  60. The conservative-tech alliance is coming to Canada

2024 68

  1. Roundup: The system is crashing
  2. Dismissing critics has “real and dangerous” consequences
  3. Roundup: The US’s war on Chinese tech has consequences
  4. Elon Musk is sending DOGE after high-speed rail
  5. Why we must reclaim digital sovereignty
  6. Roundup: What’s going on in Romania?
  7. Roundup: The return of self-driving hype
  8. Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy
  9. Roundup: Has Bluesky’s moment arrived?
  10. What we get wrong about the supposed threat of Chinese EVs
  11. Roundup: Some fiction after a grim week
  12. Shame on the Elon enablers
  13. How Amazon threatens Canada’s post office
  14. Roundup: Targeting platforms’ addictive design
  15. Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI
  16. Roundup: Elon Musk’s Russian connection
  17. Gates-washing the future
  18. Roundup: What will happen to Elon Musk after the election?
  19. Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI
  20. Roundup: Elon Musk’s dream of robot slaves isn’t coming soon
  21. Elon Musk’s Cybercab recycles a decade of broken promises
  22. Roundup: Uber is cutting workers’ wages globally
  23. Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction
  24. Roundup: Is the tech antitrust era waning?
  25. Roundup: Elon Musk caves to Brazil’s Supreme Court
  26. Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age
  27. Roundup: The price of an iPhone
  28. Smartphone innovation is dead, and that’s fine
  29. Roundup: Will generative AI have many long-term benefits?
  30. Pavel Durov and Elon Musk are not free speech champions
  31. A critical tech reading list for late 2024
  32. Roundup: What the OpenAI funding round reveals about tech
  33. Zuckerberg wants to control the next platform—no matter what it is
  34. Roundup: Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter?
  35. Sam Altman doesn’t care about you
  36. Roundup: Eric Schmidt says the quiet part out loud
  37. What comes after the AI crash?
  38. Roundup: Don't buy the "Zuckessance"
  39. The Google monopoly ruling won’t save the internet
  40. Roundup: How tech is trying to shape the Kamala Harris agenda
  41. Peter Thiel’s influence over a network of Lord of the Rings-inspired companies
  42. Roundup: Elon Musk is a terrible person
  43. Elon Musk doesn't care about kids. He cares about demographics.
  44. Roundup: NYT's SpaceX stenography
  45. Silicon Valley’s dangerous plan for a second Trump term
  46. Roundup: Elon Musk endorses Donald Trump
  47. Roundup: The data workers whose labor powers AI
  48. Generative AI is a climate disaster
  49. Roundup: Uber's war on workers' rights continues
  50. Amazon's disastrous plan to emulate Temu
  51. Roundup: OpenAI says some artistic jobs shouldn’t exist
  52. Roundup: Elon gets the green light to loot Tesla
  53. Silicon Valley’s unlikely ally to defend generative AI
  54. Apple hopes AI will make you buy a new iPhone
  55. Roundup: Is this peak AI hype?
  56. Roundup: Elon Musk’s naive plan to end global water shortages
  57. Kara Swisher's story about Sam Altman is falling apart
  58. Roundup: Pronatalists who defend hitting kids
  59. Scarlett Johansson can’t escape tech exploitation
  60. Roundup: Apple wants to hike iPhone prices again
  61. Phil Spencer isn’t your friend
  62. Embrace the splinternet
  63. Elon Musk is elevating the global extreme right
  64. The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
  65. How I became a tech critic
  66. Microsoft’s Xbox dilemma
  67. How to stop a data center
  68. Sam Altman's self-serving vision of the future

2023 2

  1. How Sam Altman plays into Microsoft's ambitions
  2. Why Microsoft wants to upend the video game industry

2022 1

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

Undated 135

  1. AI hype is over. AI exhaustion is setting in.
  2. Roundup: Apple delivers an insult to life itself
  3. A critical tech reading list for mid-2024
  4. Roundup: How bias can creep into tech coverage
  5. Roundup: Should we ditch smartphones?
  6. The Vision Pro is a big flop
  7. Hollywood is reviving its war on piracy
  8. Roundup: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover team
  9. Elon Musk is using Twitter to defend Brazil’s fascists
  10. Roundup: Elon meets Javier
  11. Tesla is in serious trouble
  12. Roundup: How is the media still doing this?
  13. Roundup: Sam Bankman-Fraud
  14. What if we never live on Mars?
  15. Roundup: Apple in the DoJ’s crosshairs
  16. Roundup: Smashing Teslas with stone heads
  17. Why is it so hard to buy a Blu-ray?
  18. Roundup: Tech worker opposition to AI
  19. The digital revolution has failed
  20. Roundup: Apple Car is (finally) dead
  21. Kara Swisher’s Reality Distortion Field
  22. Roundup: Some tidbits about New Zealand
  23. How artists are fighting generative AI
  24. Roundup: Peter Thiel wants a new frontier
  25. The high cost of Uber’s small profit
  26. Roundup: Feeding the world to computers
  27. AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.
  28. Roundup: The trouble facing Apple
  29. Apple's Vision Pro lacks any real vision
  30. Roundup: Can Taylor Swift stop AI-generated abuse?
  31. Tesla's challenges just keep growing
  32. Roundup: The Vision Pro PR machine
  33. A critical tech reading list for early 2024
  34. Elon Musk just escalated his war on workers
  35. Roundup: A new year won't halt Elon's fall
  36. Welcome to the new Disconnect
  37. Roundup: Tesla's terrible month
  38. Disconnect's Top 10 of 2023
  39. It's time to unionize Tesla
  40. Master Plan 3 is a conservative vision for the future
  41. "The act of writing is not typing"
  42. The Hyperloop was always a scam
  43. "This year for the games industry has been an absolute bloodbath"
  44. Roundup: Alternative tech pasts and futures
  45. Substackers against Nazis
  46. The religion of techno-optimism
  47. Roundup: The EU AI Act has some big holes
  48. Roundup: The real AI threat we must stop
  49. Elon Musk built his own reality. Now it's consuming him.
  50. Roundup: Cruise is doomed
  51. Roundup: Sam Altman is out at OpenAI
  52. Has Elon Musk finally gone too far?
  53. Roundup: What SAG-AFTRA won on AI
  54. Self-driving cars still aren't the future
  55. Roundup: Lock him up
  56. Roundup: Starlink for Gaza?
  57. Roundup: Are we too obsessed with disinformation?
  58. "This is not simply between Israel and Hamas. It's much bigger than that."
  59. Roundup: Elon Musk Unmasked
  60. Roundup: Twitter's dismal ad revenue
  61. Elon Musk is a racist
  62. Roundup: Will Amazon be broken up?
  63. Has Linda Yaccarino lost it?
  64. Roundup: The final days of the writers strike?
  65. A critical tech reading list for the rest of 2023
  66. Roundup: Remembering David Golumbia
  67. Apple wants you to believe it will save your life — and maybe the world
  68. Why the US is struggling to break up Big Tech
  69. Roundup: A tech that might save us?
  70. Roundup: Elon's erratic mood swings
  71. Generative AI closes off a better future
  72. Roundup: They're trying to build a city again
  73. The media's failure on Elon Musk
  74. Roundup: Meta doesn't care about you
  75. Why did Linda Yaccarino join Twitter?
  76. Roundup: Open season on robotaxis
  77. Don't look into the Orb
  78. Roundup: Uber isn't dead yet
  79. The tragedy of Sam Bankman-Fried's plan to buy Nauru
  80. Roundup: The tide is turning on Tesla
  81. The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy
  82. Twitter's days are numbered
  83. Roundup: Will AI really automate jobs?
  84. Roundup: Twitter funds far-right and the human cost of AI
  85. "The digital age is cannibalizing us"
  86. Stopping robotaxis with traffic cones
  87. Roundup: Socialist Elon and decentralized Meta
  88. Threads won’t save us from Twitter
  89. Roundup: Twitter's rate limit has been exceeded
  90. Google and Meta go to war with Canada
  91. AI won't save the world
  92. Roundup: Imploding subs and a billionaire cage match
  93. Roundup: Streamers undercutting writers and CEOs learning from Musk
  94. Roundup: Crypto lawsuits and more Tesla revelations
  95. Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed
  96. Roundup: Elizabeth Holmes is behind bars
  97. Roundup: What's in the Tesla Files?
  98. China hawks are coming for Shein
  99. Roundup: Sam Altman's friendly DC trip and Apple's troubled headset
  100. How Hollywood used the digital transition against workers
  101. Elon Musk thinks he's invincible
  102. Roundup: A new Twitter CEO rises and the metaverse falls
  103. Google wants to take over the web
  104. Roundup: Woz jokes about executing founders
  105. Don't listen to the 'godfather of AI'
  106. The writer's strike is all about tech
  107. Roundup: Blue skies and bad cars
  108. It's time to kill Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal
  109. Roundup: Starship goes boom and the emerald mine is real
  110. Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back
  111. Substack is wrong about moderation
  112. Roundup: Tech criticism and the new Max streaming service
  113. Elon Musk doesn't know what's really happening on Twitter
  114. What the anger over TikTok tells us about US tech policy
  115. What I'm thinking about Substack and Elon Musk after a messy week
  116. The transport system is in crisis. Electric cars won't fix it.
  117. What I'm reading on the AI letter and why Elon Musk's Twitter plans are failing
  118. Twitter's moment of truth has arrived
  119. Roundup: TikTok Isn’t a Speech Issue and Elon Musk is a Grifter
  120. We don't need new tech to fight climate change
  121. Roundup: TikTok bans are about economic power, not security
  122. The Silicon Valley Bank collapse should be a radicalizing moment
  123. Roundup: Don't cry for Silicon Valley Bank
  124. How tech companies reshape the economy
  125. Roundup: AI isn't "democratization" and beware the "next big thing"
  126. Will Elon Musk's new Master Plan address Tesla's real challenges?
  127. Roundup: Elon Musk's China links and Microsoft's misleading merger arguments
  128. Netflix is bringing back piracy
  129. Meta Verified is a sign of stagnation
  130. Roundup: Chatting with Sydney Bing*, Elon's narcissism, and a warning from Keanu Reeves
  131. Tech was supposed to make cars safer. It didn’t deliver.
  132. Roundup: The reality of ChatGPT, Woz feels "robbed" by Musk, and Microsoft’s merger woes
  133. Elon Musk wants to relive his start-up days. He’s repeating the same mistakes.
  134. ChatGPT sets Google’s AI ambitions free
  135. We Need to Challenge Silicon Valley