Paris Marx
Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets.
I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap.
Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.
#tech #lakeontario #canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #digitalsovereignty
Paris Marx
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs.
Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too.
Luckily, I have a guide for that.
https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/
#tech #cdnpoli #cdntech #politics #digitalsovereignty #tariffs
Paris Marx
Libraries remain an essential service — even in the digital age and especially so as generative AI makes information online even less reliable.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Hannah Cyrus and Alison Macrina to discuss how libraries are helping patrons gain a critical view on tech and AI.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/338_librarians_are_helping_the_public_ditch_ai_w_hannah_cyrus__alison_macrina
#tech #library #libraries #books #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #politics
Paris Marx
In the 2010s, we were told new tech would revolutionize transportation.
As BMW faces backlash for sticking a Spider-Man ad on its center console, we can see what it really amounted to: cars that collect vast quantities of data on us and which automakers are desperate to use to push ads on us too.
https://disconnect.blog/bmws-in-car-spider-man-ad-is-a-warning-sign/
#tech #bmw #transportation #transport #cars #driving #spiderman
Paris Marx
Bernie Sanders is leading the charge against data centers, but his AI policy leaves a lot to be desired.
As Sanders follows the hype, AOC is taking a different tack by targeting the real harms of generative AI. We need policy that takes on the reality of AI, not the industry’s exaggerations.
https://disconnect.blog/bernie-sanders-has-ai-policy-all-wrong/
#berniesanders #techindustry #artificialintelligence #politics #aoc #generativeai #openai #claude #anthropic #chatgpt
Paris Marx
After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire?
As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-tired-schtick/
#tech #elonmusk #artificialintelligence #politics #media #journalism
Paris Marx
I'm thrilled to share that my new book #HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. You can preorder it now!
It's an account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and of the incredible efforts of people and movements pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech.
Get your copy and learn more: https://hyperscalebook.com/
#techindustry #techbook #newbook #reading #datacenter #datacenters #generativeai #politics #artificialintelligence
Paris Marx
honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/
Paris Marx
The United States sanctioned Chilean officials who were assessing a proposal to build an undersea cable between Chile and Hong Kong.
It wants to ensure South America data flows through cables owned by US companies, giving it the ability to surveil that data.
https://restofworld.org/2026/chile-china-america-google-cable/
Paris Marx
The gig economy is moving into healthcare and trying to make nurses bid on shifts through apps. It’s madness.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Katie Wells to dig into the threat gig work poses for patients and hospital workers alike. There are already horror stories.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/332_silicon_valley_is_turning_nurses_into_gig_workers_w_katie_j_wells
Paris Marx
A sober take from @ShachiKurl of Angus Reid Institute of how Canadians are not on side with Mark Carney’s enthusiastic approach to AI or data centres.
They aren’t uninformed or illiterate; they simply experience the sides of AI the government prefers not to focus on.
Paris Marx
I love having a prime minister who completely buys into the tech industry’s framing of AI, such that he’s throwing billions of dollars at AI companies and pushing more Canadians into relying on their shitty products.
To him, the core issue is “engagement and adoption,” regardless of the drawbacks.
Paris Marx
Angus Reid data shows 68% of Canadians want heavy regulation of AI, even if it slows development, and would oppose a large data centre planned near their home.
The government is way offside with Canadians on this. Telling them to become “literate” isn’t going to work.
Paris Marx
There’s a growing backlash not just to AI in schools, but to dependence on screens more broadly. It’s about time.
I spoke with @TomMullaney to dig into how AI is making its way into schools and why a more critical perspective is needed.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/330_do_chatbots_really_belong_in_schools_w_tom_mullaney
Paris Marx
ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris.
With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.
Paris Marx
Tim Cook will abdicate his position as Chief Prophet of the Church of Apple.
Having been appointed directly by the Founder, it’s solemn news and a moment of transition for the Church. In this note, the Church reflects on his legacy for the billion faithful.
https://disconnect.blog/on-the-abdication-of-chief-prophet-tim-cook/
Paris Marx
Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.
His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.
https://disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb-sell-em-smarts/
#tech #chatgpt #samaltman #artificialintelligence #generativeai
Paris Marx
Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.”
wow, i love the AI future!
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation
Paris Marx
“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”
Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.
Paris Marx
finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services.
after all the threats from the US and concern about how it will use tech dependence against europe, that plan is on ice.
#tech #europe #finland #elections #politics #digitalsovereignty #amazon
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