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JA Jake Orlowitz

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

May 26, 2026 · 6 min read · 1,724 claps #wikipedia #politics #technology

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CO Cory Doctorow

The long game

Breaking up Big Tech is a long-run project.

Nov 20, 2025 · 8 min read · 1,369 claps #big-tech #meta #trust-busting

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

Something Weird Is Happening in the Software Industry

Small businesses are building more software themselves. Strangely, large organisations are becoming the better AI clients

May 16, 2026 · 8 min read · 980 claps paywalled #ai #software-development #startup

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CO Cory Doctorow

How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech

Their common enemies are Trump and his tech giants.

Jul 07, 2026 · 8 min read · 964 claps #trust-busting #marshall-plan #big-tech

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HE Heejae Jeong · Pentaflow (formerly PowerPT)

K-Startups in Silicon Valley

An interview with Korean startups at Silicon Valley’s most unique accelerator program.

Aug 08, 2022 · 4 min read · 900 claps #acceleration #silicon-valley #korean-startups

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JO Joe Procopio · Entrepreneurship Handbook

The Flaws in “Mass Layoffs For AI” Are Beyond Obvious Now

I’m going to take apart the tech industry’s “fire-all-the-humans-and-replace-them-with-AI” strategy point by point

Jun 08, 2026 · 6 min read · 871 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #business

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SO Souvik Ganguly

How the PayPal Mafia Runs the Tech Industry

First and foremost, the PayPal mafia is not what you think it is. It’s a nickname that they’ve been given. “Basically, we were thrown out…

Jan 11, 2022 · 8 min read · 800 claps #paypal #paypal-mafia #elon-musk

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IS iswarya writes · Transformation Desk

Quantum Just Killed the Trillion-Dollar Data Center Bet

A D-Wave computer solved in minutes what would take the world’s fastest supercomputer a million years. It ran on 12 kilowatts. And big tech…

Jun 05, 2026 · 3 min read · 779 claps paywalled #quantum-computing #ai-data-center #energy

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JO Joe Procopio · Entrepreneurship Handbook

Mass Layoffs Are Reshaping the Tech Industry — Which Side Will You Take?

When an industry collectively fires a million employees, expect some radical change and maybe a schism or two

Jun 22, 2026 · 6 min read · 633 claps paywalled #technology #work #business

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AB Abhishek Agarwal · Level Up Coding

Anthropic Is Now Paying Elon Musk $1.25 Billion a Month to Stay Alive

⚡ Originally published on my Substack — read the canonical version here. I publish daily AI + Big Tech hot takes there, short and sharp…

May 22, 2026 · 6 min read · 526 claps paywalled #anthropic-claude #ai #elon-musk

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TW Twenty Billion Neurons · Fit Yourself Club

2 fit-tech trends are leading us towards interactive AI fitness trainers

This blog post is an issue from Embodied AI, a bi-weekly newsletter of the latest news, technology, and trends behind AI avatars, virtual…

Jul 25, 2019 · 6 min read · 518 claps #fitness #artificial-intelligence #fintech

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OZ Oz · The Tech Notes

The AWS Era is Officially Dead(And The July Mega-Outage Just Broke The Cloud)

Why the tech industry is waking up from the centralized cloud delusion, escaping vendor lock-in, and bringing workloads back to earth.

Jul 03, 2026 · 4 min read · 358 claps paywalled #technology #software-development #software-engineering

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OL Oliver Foster

The 3 Phrases That Will Get You Fired in Big Tech

My article is open to everyone; non-member readers can click this link to read the full text.

Dec 24, 2025 · 5 min read · 356 claps paywalled #company-culture #coding #programming

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

LSD: The Most Suppressed Cognitive Tool in American History

A molecule that rewired Silicon Valley, dissolved addiction, and inspired the Beatles was criminalized because it worked too well.

Jul 06, 2026 · 27 min read · 356 claps paywalled #psychedelics #science #psychology

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KC K. Cook & Cats, Co. · ReelRank News

‘Stealing Isn’t Innovation,’ says a group of more than 700 artists

ScarJo, JGL and a confederation of artists I love (plus one I don’t) take on Big Tech and AI

Jan 26, 2026 · 6 min read · 323 claps #ai #scarlett-johansson #movie-news

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CO Cory Doctorow · OneZero

Jam To-Day

Liberating Big Tech’s hostages on day one

Nov 14, 2021 · 6 min read · 323 claps #big-tech #interoperability #antitrust

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JO Joe Procopio · Entrepreneurship Handbook

The “New Hiring Normal” in the Tech Industry is About to Become a Crisis

Tech Companies Are Hiring Way Too Slowly and It’s Starting to Cost Them

Jul 15, 2026 · 5 min read · 316 claps paywalled #technology #business #work

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CO Cory Doctorow · OneZero

Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability

How to shift power away from big tech and back to communities and individuals

Sep 23, 2021 · 3 min read · 278 claps paywalled #big-tech #interoperability #regulation

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SH Shubhransh Rai · Wall Street Gradient

Silicon Valley Has A New Buzzword: The Permanent Underclass

And the people saying it loudest are the ones actively building it.

Jun 05, 2026 · 4 min read · 230 claps paywalled #elon-musk #sam-altman #ai

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ON Onix-Team

5 Key Tech Trends and Their Impact on Real Estate

The modern world bogged down in the COVID-19 quarantine restrictions took advantage of the technology. Technological advances have covered…

Apr 16, 2021 · 9 min read · 181 claps #real-estate #real-estate-industry #vr-in-real-estate