Hamish Campbell argues that the tech industry's cycle of adopting new platforms and tools, termed 'tech churn,' prioritizes novelty over solving real problems, leaving fundamental social issues untouc…
AI companies are not paying the real costs of their operations, including copyrighted training data, environmental resources, and social impacts, as they sell services below cost with investor subsidi…
Neoliberal capitalism has shifted public taxes into private payments to corporations, with AI data centers adding hidden electricity surcharges. Billionaires like Elon Musk use private wealth to shape…
Debates over whether digital platforms have created a new economic system called 'technofeudalism' are intensifying, with critics arguing that platform power, behavioral capture, and rent extraction f…
Generative AI tools have dramatically increased content production but not quality, creating noise and clutter while straining systems of review and trust. The technology's ecological cost is catastro…
The European Commission has published its Tech Sovereignty Plan, allocating vast resources to semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, AI, and data centers while giving minimal attention to open source a…
AI scraping did not break the web; the dotcom-era platforms did by hollowing out the open web's social norms of reciprocity and trust over decades, according to an analysis from an open web perspectiv…