Arbitrary state power can cut in many directions
What the Anthropic fight says about AI regulation
Fables of the deconstruction of American power
How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian Quinn Slobodian tells Byline Times that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems to be optimised
Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
The MAGA power struggle that could decide the fate of Anthropic
It may not be easy for Anthropic to escape the Trump export ban.
Portents Of Doom
Elon Musk is the world champion of totally implausible projections, and Kim Khan reported on a personal best in SpaceX sees total addressab...
The Machine Already Won. Can Humans band together before it's too late?
The Machine Already Won. Can Humans band together before it's too late?
The Least Agentic People Alive
The arms race of deferring agency and the dark acquiescence to robotic bureaucracy.
People in This Mississippi City Faced Off With Elon Musk. They Lost.
Despite locals’ concerns about noise and possible pollution, Mississippi is allowing Mr. Musk’s company to operate gas turbines there that will help power its chatbot.
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
CEO of Palantir Says AI Will Seize Power Away From College-Educated Women
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said AI would disrupt "humanities trained" and "Democratic voters" who are largely women.
Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people
The OpenAI trial exposed a lot of lies and a yearslong fight for control.
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
