"It's easy to understand why some programmers love their AI assistants and others loathe them: the former group get to decide how and when they use AI tools, while the latter has AI forced upon them by bosses who hope to fire their colleagues and increase their workload. [...] Formally, the first group are "centaurs" (people assisted by machines) and the latter are "reverse-centaurs" (people conscripted into assisting machines):"

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

without paywall here : https://web.archive.org/web/20250807175732/https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/

Denmark is planning to remove the 25 percent value-added tax on books to fight the "reading crisis" happening. Great idea!

Original article here https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/world/europe/denmark-books-tax-reading.html