Hard Reset

Hard Reset is a media publication for people who want to understand how technology really works — not just the products, but the people and power shaping it.

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Ya because they aren’t building them near wealthy neighborhoods

[cold 🥑 @coldhealing]

This feels like a poster you would find inside an abandoned high school as worldbuilding in a post-apocalyptic video game

[Hard Reset @HardResetMedia]

😬😬😬 this is terrifying

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” This evil hallucination software shouldn’t be anywhere near kids

[Hard Reset @HardResetMedia]

?😂

[The Verge @verge]

Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious https://t.co/0WQ1qLPbNn

[Hard Reset @HardResetMedia]

For more on AI companies leeching money off of schools check out our reporting on substack: https://t.co/AqDvrtdgJN

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Public schools spend $700 billion a year. Tech companies, private equity, and Wall Street all want a cut.

They get it through revolving-door relationships with school administrators, and kids pay the price. We dug into it.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: We brought @AOC to deep red Georgia to talk data centers.

We found a data center rebellion, with people willing to radically shift their politics.

One conservative voter said: "If there's a chance that anything can be done, I feel like she's gonna be the one to do it."

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Public schools spend $700 billion a year. Tech companies, private equity, and Wall Street all want a cut.

They get it through revolving-door relationships with school administrators, and kids pay the price. We dug into it.

[Hard Reset @HardResetMedia]

If the path to profitability for these AI companies is to convince businesses to replace their workers with chatbots... but the chatbots suck at their jobs... and they are just as if not more expensive than human labor... how does this work? Where is the revenue gonna come from?

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Great breakdown from @rkuttnerwrites on all the ways the market could choke, starting first and foremost with a possible reckoning for the AI business model. Regardless of its utility, it may be a simple case of too many costs and not enough revenues.
https://t.co/S39gMqZ2tZ

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Several states including California and New York are preparing a lawsuit to block Warner Brothers' $110 billion sale to Paramount, Reuters reports.

[Hard Reset @HardResetMedia]

@Raskulrob @jimstewartson truth

[American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties]

Workers of all levels across entertainment and media are worried the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger will crush their industry — and for good reason.

We've already seen how over-consolidation leads to mass layoffs, canceled shows, and more.

Paramount-WBD would be no different.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Yesterday, the government published its ‘AI Adoption Plan’ for the creative industries.

Somewhat incredibly, it says we should be pushing AI adoption before the government resolves the issues around copyright.

This would be great for the AI industry, and terrible for creatives.

Important for people to know what the government is pushing here. Short thread on its contents ⬇️

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[Hard Reset @HardResetMedia]

Amidst the rise of Uber and Lyft, San Francisco cab drivers organized too late.

Now, tech workers across the UC system are trying to avoid that same mistake.

Read the guest post on Hard Reset: https://t.co/3e8fao65l4

[Jacob Ward @byjacobward]

AI is being blamed for massive layoffs at companies like Amazon and Dow — but a new study shows something more unsettling is happening. Companies aren’t cutting jobs because AI can already do the work. They’re cutting jobs because they believe it will someday. That belief is

[Hard Reset @HardResetMedia]

This is now the biggest tech union in the country.

Read our reporting here:
https://t.co/3e8fao65l4

[Kalani o Māui @MauiBoyMacro]

“The bargain essentially is, “I will become even more unimaginably rich while you pay more for electricity, your air is polluted and you lose your job.” Then they profess shock and blame Chinese interference when Americans don’t want to take them up on the deal.” 👇🏼

https://t.co/b3aJvVaz6U

[American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties]

If Paramount acquires Warner Bros. it will be a disaster— from mass layoffs, to fewer productions, to theatre closures and more.

That's why we hosted a town hall in LA to highlight the concerns and stories of those who would be most impacted by this merger.

The highlights👇

[Jacob Ward @byjacobward]

Explosive internal documents from Meta, Google, YouTube, and TikTok are being made public as part of major lawsuits. What they reveal is damning: these companies knew exactly how much harm their platforms were causing kids — and they prioritized "total teen time spent" anyway. I

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Make no mistake: The US government will socialize the immense costs of subprime AI. They will force us all to eat the losses, while the perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history abscond to private islands. Be ready, because a deliberate rug-pull is the plan.