Tech entrepreneurs cool on the country as locals protest against rising costs and gentrification.
Portugal’s digital nomad bubble | Hacker News
I know a few non-crypto entrepreneurs who came here for the NHR (non habitual resident scheme - the scheme mentioned in the article which allowed for the 20% tax cap on foreign income).
The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s warning of an AI bubble highlights a deeper economic problem: capitalism is producing more capital than it can profitably invest.
'We're in a Bubble'
A lot of people have been saying we’re in a tech bubble for quite some time. Someday they’ll be right, but in the meantime, I thought it'd be fun to look back at some articles from the last 10...
The Benefits of Bubbles
We are in an AI Bubble: the big question is if this bubble will be worth it for the physical infrastructure and coordinated innovation that result?
Beyond Digital Exhaust: Reclaiming Agency in the Context Economy - A MozFest Discussion on Personal Context Infrastructure and the Future of AI
At this year's MozFest in Barcelona, we convened an urgent conversation about what may be the defining struggle of our digital future: who will control the vast
The lifecycle of a tech bubble
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
AdVenture Capitalist
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Cyber-Marx: Cycles and circuits of struggle in high technology capitalism - Nick Dyer-Witheford
The complete text of Nick Dyer-Witheford's 1999 book, which provides an analysis of information-age capitalism and the movements currently dissolving it. In PDF format.
How The Bitcoin Bubble Will Pop (COIN-OLD-DEFUNCT-112452) | Seeking Alpha
Bitcoin is called a bubble frequently. As a Bitcoin enthusiast, I have decided to venture to the dark side and discuss the catalysts I see as potentially...
How digital nomads have reshaped cities around the world
“Work from anywhere” was a pandemic-era dream. Two years later, this is the reality.
Is the online advertising bubble finally starting to pop?
I started calling online advertising a bubble in 2008. I made “The Advertising Bubble” a chapter in The Intention Economy in 2012. I’ve been unpacking what I figure ought to be ob…
Twitter-Alternative W Social will keine linke Bubble sein
Jetzt geht W Social an den Start. Die europäische X-Konkurrentin verspricht ein Netz ohne Musk-Einfluss, ohne Bots – und will bewusst keine «linke Bubble» werden.
+KAOS: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism
At the end of the 20th century, hacking was bleeding edge. When the ideas, practices and pranks of this experimental niche of technophiles attracted the attention of a handful of activists in Italy, they understood that information and communication were what would give shape and voice to social, political, and cultural processes in the near future. +KAOS is a cut and paste of interviews, like a documentary film transposed on paper. It describes the peculiar relationship between hacktivism and activism, in Italy and beyond, highlighting the importance of maintaining digital infrastructures. While this may not sound as glamorous as sneaking into a server and leaking data, it is a fundamental topic: not even the most emblematic group of hacktivists can operate without the services of radical server collectives. Autistici/Inventati (https://www.autistici.org - https://www.inventati.org)
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence. Will that burst the bubble?
Tepito: A Neighborhood Governs Itself
A dispatch from Mexico City's legendary barrio reveals how true innovation—from sound-system message networks to black-market tech adaptation—happens far beyond Silicon Valley. Filmmaker and technologist Violeta Ayala explores how self-governance, resistance, and raw intensity shape the future of technology and human connection.
CYBER-COMMUNISM by Richard Barbrook | Imaginary Futures
‘…is the impact of the …information revolution on capitalism not the ultimate exemplification of… Marx’s thesis that: “at a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces come into conflict with the existing relations of production…”? …does the prospect of the… “global village” not signal the end of market relations… at least in the sphere of digitalised information?’ (Zizek 1998: 33-4)