The world ended in 1999
What we are observing is the decay of democracy into its evil twin… technocracy.| Consciousness of Sheep
What we are observing is the decay of democracy into its evil twin… technocracy.| Consciousness of Sheep
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already. I want my fucking tech industry back. Maybe you think I sound insane, but technology means a lot to me. It’s the way that I speak to most of| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Windows 10 support ends in October, and the company is telling millions of users their machines can’t support Windows 11. That’s simply not true.| Technical.ly
Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a weekly Friday column where I go over the most meaningful news and give my views, which I guess is what you’d expect. Anyway, it’s $7 a month or $70 a| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Toasted Frontega Chicken sandwich, no sliced tomatoes. There's that feeling again, why are my teeth clenched? And a cup of Mac & Cheese. I remember getting locked out of my online loan servicing account a few years ago, that sucked. And a regular Dr Pepper. How long have my hands been shaking?| Scott Smitelli
A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI skepticism," framing those who would criticize generative AI as "having fun," damning them as "hyper-fixated on the things [AI] can't do." I am not going to focus too hard on this blog, in| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
"Spoiler: It's capitalism. It's always capitalism." On real readers, critical thinking, poetry experiments, LinkedIn slop, and Public Humanities.| As in guillotine...
Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world — watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized Rot Economy seemingly tarnishes every corner of our digital lives. My core frustration isn't just how shitty things have gotten, but how said shittiness| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created" on both Instagram and Facebook, the| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
I've been using the Kagi search engine for a bit over a year now, and while it's not fundamentally changed my life, it has made me reflect and think about some things, mainly where the internet has gone, where it was, and what we've lost along the way. It's safe to say that most of us spend most of our waking hours doing something with the internet…| pdx.su
Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive) Thanks so much to everybody that has supported me in the last year. This newsletter started as a way for me to process the complex feelings I have about the technology industry, and still remains, in a way,| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
