The Year in Tech w/ Jathan Sadowski & Brian Merchant
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The Year in Tech
Jathan Sadowski & Brian Merchant
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Jathan Sadowski and Brian Merchant to reflect on the year in tech, discuss the worst people in Silicon Valley, and share what they’ll be keeping an eye on in 2026.
Guest
Jathan Sadowski is the author of The Mechanic and the Luddite, co-host of This Machine Kills, and a Senior Lecturer at Monash University. Brian Merchant is the author of Blood in the Machine and writes a newsletter of the same name.
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Links
- Visit Francesca Bria’s useful Authoritarian Stack
- Trump signs an executive order to keep states from implementing their own AI legislation
- The Trump administration is gutting the Department of Education, climate science programs, and public health
- Disney and OpenAI have reached a billion dollar deal
- Bernie Sanders calls for a moratorium on AI data centre construction