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
Paris Marx
Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.
In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you that I’ve been regularly updating for months.
Paris Marx
OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.
One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.
https://disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-anti-human-worldview/
#tech #openai #genai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #samaltman #cdnpoli #canada
Paris Marx
OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge.
The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.
Paris Marx
“Paris Marx has offered a guide for how people can get off U.S. tech, highlighting the challenges while supporting individual effort. Doing so should be a national ambition, especially as we consider the risk of the U.S. blocking access to tech.”
my guide: https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/
Paris Marx
“Do we want a technology that normalizes and amplifies deception? That transforms privacy into a commodity? A society where a techno-oligarch can interfere, as one of them did yesterday, in the mobile phones of millions of citizens to tell them lies?” the prime minister asked last week. “The answer must be a clear no, and we will not give in.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-sanchez-fight-against-tech-billionaires-musk-durov-personal/
Paris Marx
The European Commission told TikTok to “change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems. The demand follows the Commission's declaration that TikTok’s design is addictive to users.”
Now do the same for the US services!
https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
Paris Marx
got a shoutout in @restofworld for my guide to help you get off US tech!
article: https://restofworld.org/2026/big-tech-backlash-alternatives-upscrolled/
my guide: https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/
Paris Marx
When Elon Musk rolled back Grok safeguards, he enabled millions of people to be victimized. Shamefully, governments did little to protect their citizens.
The X deepfake scandal shows why we need far stricter social media regulation as a stepping stone to new platforms — not just higher age limits.
https://disconnect.blog/x-shows-why-stricter-tech-regulation-is-necessary/
#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #twitter #grok #deepfake #ai #generativeai
Paris Marx
When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
https://disconnect.blog/escaping-the-trap-of-us-tech-dependence/
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