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Hard Reset's Top Ten Posts of 2025
X’s Echo Chamber Gets a Reality Check
Who Pays for AI’s Power Hunger?
Instacart’s manipulative AI jacks up the cost of groceries
Introducing the Hard Reset Creator Fellowship
Sam Altman's Disastrous Interview With Jimmy Fallon, an AI Chatbot in the Flesh
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Hard Reset Awards
Live debates are in, but winning them is another story
Deepak Chopra and other self-help "gurus" are now cashing in on AI chatbots
Netflix’s Proposed Warner Bros. Merger Is Ridiculous. Why Aren’t California Politicians Saying So?
The Lawmakers Fighting Your Unconscious Bond with A.I.
Decoding the recent PR plays from OpenAI and Waymo
The David Sacks AI Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight
A Media Scandal for an Age of Unaccountability
"Pig butchering" scams, billions of dollars lost–and how Meta is turning a blind eye
New Court Filings Allege Depraved Internal Communications at Meta and Snapchat
America’s Only AI Protections Are About to Get Bulldozed
Does the AI industry have a culture?
The Ever-Accelerating "Fissuring" of the American Workforce
How Amazon Is Conquering (and Ruining) the Package Delivery Market
The $1 Trillion Question: Who Would Bail Out OpenAI?
Platforms are blocking independent researchers from investigating deepfakes
Roundups on state-level tech and work legislation [July-October 2025]
Google's Craven Bet on Kalshi and Polymarket
“The mask is off”: Amazon is ditching climate commitments for A.I., activists say
Tech workers are defying concentrated power to create their own ecosystems
Announcing the Inaugural Hard Reset Award Nominees. Vote Now!
Sequoia Still Has a Shaun Maguire Problem
Fighting for workers amid the A.I. wave
The crypto libertarians who now love big government
Why Donald Trump Did Crisis PR for Marc Benioff
The Big Tech takeover is not predestined, we really should fight back - Cory Doctorow
The fusing of AI firms and the state is leading to a dangerous concentration of power
Cory Doctorow on the enshittification of tech work
The Professors Suing Trump For Free Speech
Sycophantic AI increases our attitude extremity on issues like gun violence
A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee exodus
Q&A: The Man Whose Model Predicted The Mess We’re In
The nature of work is changing. Taxi drivers were the first to sound the alarm
With Trump’s new H1B policy, tech executives kiss the ring yet again
Q&A: Deep Inside the Mind of an A.I. Doomer
Announcing the Hard Reset Awards: Submit your nominations now
Ex-Meta, Uber policy lead on leaving Big Tech
A Q&A with newspaper publisher — and former tech exec — Steve Grove
Data, A.I., and local news: A conversation with Minnesota Star Tribune publisher Steve Grove
The behind-the-scenes billionaire poised to take over our information ecosystem
We spoke with young people about the eternal “college or trade” question in the current moment
A key moment from Karen Hao's Empire of AI
The environmental costs of data center expansion in the South
The AI chatbot making communities of color sick
Imagining the day when tech finally says no to Trump
Amid the A.I. boom, warning signs are flashing for the labor market
Trump's family makes $5 billion. What does crypto in Pakistan have to do with it?
We spoke with More Perfect Union founder and Bernie advisor Faiz Shakir
Will the unseen labor of the creator economy be replaced by an AI race to the bottom?
The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
At an A.I. event in San Francisco, protesters struck a note of alarm
Hot Girls for Labor Movements?
Roundups on state-level tech and work legislation [March-mid July]
We interviewed A.I. workers about the unseen work that supports the massive industry.
Hard Reset's first in person event! Hot and cold plunge in San Francisco on 8/21
Tech workers are resigning, and not afraid of being blacklisted
Will Big Tech follow public opinion on Gaza?
Machine learning expert: “AI hype” is the true product, to provide cover for social agendas
Another week, another dizzying spate of A.I. news
The human cost of data centers
The Productivity Myth: Behind The Economic Pitch for A.I.
A tech founder on why he wants to live forever
Trump was elected because of inflation. One of his signature policies may threaten to bring it back.
Venture capital-backed AI law firms: malpractice machines or democratizing tools?
Meet the new gig work behind AI, same as the old gig work
Materials Lead at Blue Origin: “we worked like dogs, like slaves”
Deported Australian writer: "I was desperately trying to maintain a sense of self"
One NZ man vs. Pakistani scammers making millions on fake ghostwriting deals
Ex-Tesla manager dishes on the company and his unceremonious dismissal: "They're absolutely hosed."
The calculation an ex-Microsoft engineer made to predict Palestinian deaths
Palantir Workers: Talking to Management Is A Waste of Time.
How one director, against all odds, made a Hollywood movie about labor
Is the future of humans online a 12,800-digit binary code?
Palantir whistleblower: the world is way too complicated to model
Can we crowdfund our way out of tech mafia influence?
Guess which social media platform ranked lowest on protections for LGBTQ users?
Should We Be Reading Less News?
AI is becoming a petulant kindergartner
Cracks are showing in our media infrastructure
Fake earthquake images and "de-laborating" your workforce
All about the 'abundance' agenda — and its right-leaning appeal
An IRS Whistleblower Program That May Be A Front For Targeting Nonprofits
Millions of Chickens Were Culled. Workers Got Sick. Then the Safety Experts Got Cut.
Explosive whistleblower report alleges DOGE data grab at labor agency
Tech Bros Still Can’t Build Cities But Maybe It Doesn’t Matter?
One Step for Women, One Giant Leap for Bezos’ PR
We can put to rest those questions about whether Trump is more supportive of labor unions this time
Who are the lawyers behind the powerful?
The Signal Leak Story Sent Me Back
A Whistleblower's Weight Of Knowing Too Much
Uber Won a PR Innovation Award This Week While Drivers Reported Getting Fired Without Explanation
Interview: A new book on venture capital's impact on workers, with Catherine Bracy
Why Are There So Few Big Tech Comms Whistleblowers?
Nope, Killing People Isn’t Cool
Publishers and Musicians in the UK are finally fighting back against Big Tech