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Sequoia Still Has a Shaun Maguire Problem
In anticipation of Zohran Mamdani's victory, Hard Reset spoke to 3 signatories of an open letter condemning Maguire's bigoted rhetoric about Muslims and…
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Alex Shultz
Fighting for workers amid the A.I. wave
A weekend among union organizers offered a reminder that clarity and courage still exists on the left — even as the ground shifts beneath workers and…
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Eli Rosenberg
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The crypto libertarians who now love big government
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was pardoned last week. Is crypto yet another pillar of tech that is fusing with the state?
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Ariella Steinhorn
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Why Donald Trump Did Crisis PR for Marc Benioff
Trump credited the Salesforce CEO for his (temporary) about-face on sending troops to SF—a rare admission that POTUS and tech oligarchs are still wary…
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Alex Shultz
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The Big Tech takeover is not predestined, we really should fight back - Cory Doctorow
We spoke with the Enshittification author about the culture shift and power dynamics in the tech workforce, and the urgent need to organize - from…
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Tara McKelvey
Biden endorsed this professor’s ideas to rein in corporate greed. But he ignored them after his election.
How one economist’s campaign to rein in stock buybacks caught Washington's attention — and then got left behind.
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Eli Rosenberg
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The fusing of AI firms and the state is leading to a dangerous concentration of power
A researcher says that we should focus not just on AI-related job loss or LLM models--but on the consolidation of market power between tech firms…
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Ariella Steinhorn
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Cory Doctorow on the enshittification of tech work
Doctorow has been an internet activist for a quarter of a century. He has also invented a word that describes the hyper-commodification of online…
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Tara McKelvey
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The Professors Suing Trump For Free Speech
Labor lawyer Veena Dubal was hoping to spend the next few years researching staffing issues at universities. Instead, she's helping lead a union fight…
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Eli Rosenberg
Sycophantic AI increases our attitude extremity on issues like gun violence
A psychology researcher found that disagreeable and enjoyable AI can be beneficial to circumventing political biases -- but only so long as it's not…
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Ariella Steinhorn
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Tech billionaires, AstroTurfing and a sophisticated information war explains the Bay Area's rightward drift, Dean Preston says
One of the most prominent progressives in the city, the former SF supervisor talks about how the left has lost the messaging game in recent years — but…
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Eli Rosenberg
A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee exodus
Employee resignations from AI coding startup Vercel may signal a changing tide in the tech industry's attitude towards the war in Gaza
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Ariella Steinhorn
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