This week in the Disconnect Roundup, I’m thinking about whether it’s feasible to ditch my smartphone. Plus, the usual recommended reads, labor updates, and other news you might have missed. disconnect.blog/roundup-should…

🇺🇸 rules-based order

Two leading *Israeli* Holocaust scholars 👇🏽👇🏽

This is so scary! China is building homes people can actually afford to live in 😱

No, seriously, Uber is deciding what driver gets what job based on their weight, whether they ever missed a payment, what political associations they have.

Algorithmic wage discrimination should be made illegal before it becomes the dominant business model.

When Oxfam asked Colin Jost's wife Scarlett Johansson to cut ties with SodaStream over their factory in an illegal West Bank settlement, she stepped down from her role as an Oxfam ambassador instead.

We’re faced with such brazen depravity. Absolutely shameless moral bankruptcy.

Silicon Valley technocrats like Bill Gates are going to boil this planet if we let this line of thinking on climate change continue to shape our response to it.

It tells us nothing needs to change as long as we believe in their tech fantasies, then it will be too late anyway.

As ever, Paris is essential on tech and its place in society

Apple’s Vision Pro is a bad product with an even worse vision for the future of computation.

New sales numbers prove it’s a failure, but more than that it shows the idea of tech’s inevitability is a myth. We can stop tech that doesn’t serve us. disconnect.blog/the-vision-pro…

Building on what I was saying in this piece, Bloomberg reports:

“One [Apple Store] employee says they haven’t seen one Vision Pro purchase in weeks and that the number of returns equaled the device’s sales in the first month that it was available.”

bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

I seem to recall Colin Jost gushing over Biden being a “decent man” last night

white people will really slaughter your whole family and think they’re more civilized than you because they did it with their pinkies up

Palestinian released from Israeli prison describes beatings, sexual abuse and torture haaretz.com/israel-news/tw….

This week in the Disconnect Roundup, I’m thinking about whether it’s feasible to ditch my smartphone. Plus, the usual recommended reads, labor updates, and other news you might have missed. disconnect.blog/roundup-should…

How is this thing THIS bad, Jesus. Over 100 Palestinian journalists killed and you give an award to an IDF reservist correspondent.

Anthony Housefather is a despicable man who will call for violence against peaceful demonstrators and erode the democratic rights of Canadians to defend the genocide being carried out by the Israeli apartheid state.

If the Liberal Party had any morals, they’d eject him for it.

This guy is so close to understanding something.

I see your AI doomerism and raise you Toby Keith praising Mao Zedong