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The best books, films and TV about AI + tech in 2025

There has to be a way

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

A code red for AI

Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom

A bloody Cyber Monday discount

How to quit Spotify

Lost in the slop layer

Trump and big tech take two more stabs at ending AI democracy

Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI

How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow

What’s really going on with AI and jobs?

Understanding the tech oligarchy and its gilded rage with Jacob Silverman

How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix are fighting AI

How to win followers and influence people (to subscribe to your newsletter)

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Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

AI profiteering is now indistinguishable from trolling

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI

"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix

We're about to find out if Silicon Valley owns Gavin Newsom

The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

The killing of Charlie Kirk and the end of the "global town square"

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

One of the last, best hopes for saving the open web and a free press is dead

A $500 billion tech company's core software product is encouraging child suicide

Ground the choppers

AI Killed My Job: Translators

How California feels about AI

The real winner of the AI boom so far? Big Cloud

GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?

AI disagreements

Automating the mass shooting victim

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against

Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia

How big tech is force-feeding us AI

The struggle over AI in journalism is escalating

The budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI

Don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do

Hundreds of workers mobilize to 'Stop Gen AI' and help each other survive AI automation

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers

A moral crusade against AI takes shape

This is the gentle singularity?

The weaponization of Waymo

Elon Musk's job has already been automated

The "AI jobs apocalypse" is for the bosses

An 'always on' OpenAI device is a massive backlash waiting to happen

OpenAI's desperate quest to become an AI monopoly

Dismantling the Empire of AI with Karen Hao

Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws

Four bad AI futures take root

Did AI kill your job?

The AI jobs crisis is here, now

DOGE's AI-powered Take Your Child to Work Day

How federal workers can organize to stop DOGE

The fury at 'America's Most Powerful'

The original slop: How capitalism degraded art 400 years before AI

The five best Luddite episodes of Black Mirror

Therapists went on a hunger strike to protest 'assembly line' conditions and the automation of mental healthcare

Turning the little screws

Flyover Country

The currents of anti-oligarchy protest and a great tick-tock nonfiction thriller about revolution

This is what AI-generated trade policy looks like

The powerful tech criticism of one of the best Studio Ghibli films

Get your Signal group chats together and get out there

OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself

Deconstructing the new American oligarchy

DOGE's 'AI-first' strategist is now the head of technology at the Department of Labor

OpenAI and Google's dark new campaign to dismantle artists' protections

So the LA Times replaced me with an AI that defends the KKK

Workers know exactly who AI will serve

The mass firing of federal tech workers at 18F is one of DOGE's most overtly political acts yet

The great horror film that predicted our cultish post-truth predicament

AI companies are spamming federal workers' key online hub

What's really behind Elon Musk and DOGE's AI schemes

'AI is in its empire era'

The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back.

The federal tech workers facing down DOGE

Why Meta's bleak 'AI vision' is winning out

Government by Grok

The Critical AI Report, January 2025

The great undermining of the American AI industry

Elon Musk did the Nazi salute on live TV to prove he could

Martin Luther King Jr's prescient criticism of technology and power

The tech oligarchy has been here for years

The fires are everywhere