Wrote about that Kansas mess
06.03.2026 17:04
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Wrote about that Kansas mess
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"I don't think this is just a phase." The backlash against U.S. tech dominance is producing real alternatives in some markets
https://restofworld.org/2026/big-tech-backlash-alternatives-upscrolled/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1771891212
Gig workers in Africa have been helping the US military. They had no idea
restofworld.org/2026/gig-wor...
Female founders get 2% of U.S. venture capital. For immigrant women founders, the gap is even harder to close.
https://restofworld.org/2026/immigrant-women-founders-vc/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1771619612
Next week at Rest of World, we're hosting an online event diving into one of tech’s most hyped frontiers.
Humanoid robots: Breakthrough or bubble? ft. Lian Jye Su and @kinlinglo.bsky.social
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Simply love writing "the data suggests" in a report! Like sorry it's the data..... it's not me. The data suggested it :)
Alicia Boyd is responsible for this. She bought a townhouse on Sterling St. after winning a big settlement against her former landlord, and has now dedicated her life to opposing new housing in her neighborhood. Here is a sympathetic comic about it: hyperallergic.com/nyc-housing-...
U.S. politicians’ and their families are buying and selling stocks in foreign companies like TSMC, Alibaba, and Tencent — while serving on committees with the power to influence policies affecting the same companies.
Our report: restofworld.org/2026/us-poli...
One thing I see liberal outlets giving ground on that I feel the need to correct: it’s impossible to “dox” a paid public official
By simply reporting their name, institutional role, and political affiliations
My biggest barrier to spending more time here rather than Twitter is that my algorithm over there fed me a steady diet of women's basketball, animals, pop culture......... how do I get that here
IT workers in the World Trade Centre tower in Bengaluru. Dark windows of an office building.
Kailash Somwanshi, Nikhil’s uncle, at the family temple funded by his Krutrim salary.
Framed photo of Nikhil Somwanshi, an Indian tech worker, sitting on a shelf.
Agara Lake at night, in Bengaluru, where Somwanshi’s body was found.
Burnout, mass layoffs, and a series of suicides: India’s tech sector is breaking down restofworld.org/2026/india-t...
The CEO of a "no censorship" TikTok competitor called UpScrolled says users are flooding the platform after the sale of TikTok in the U.S. restofworld.org/2026/upscrol...
“Always remember, your bosses aren’t in the Philippines. Rain, earthquake, volcano erupting … you still gotta go to work.”
Outsourced workers in the Philippines are being forced to work through natural disasters. Our new story:
restofworld.org/2026/philipp...
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I talked to one of my favorite publications, @restofworld.org, for this piece about AI licensing in India.
restofworld.org/2026/india-a...
There’s a lot of talk about physical AI at #CES and how transformational it will be. We’re beginning to see it at scale in defence, hospitality, healthcare because there is a growing business case, and the technology is now ready. But a vital gap remains: people’s attitudes towards physical AI.
The online gambling industry has exploded in popularity since the pandemic.
Some countries are welcoming the booming business. Other countries — responding to concerns about rising scams, crippling debt and media reports linking gambling losses to suicides — want to ban it.
Data centers were pitched as engines of growth. In many places, they’re now testing power grids, water supplies, and public tolerance
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-data-centers-fallout/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1766775544
How much did Starlink benefit from the close relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump?
Read Rest of World’s new investigative feature:
https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat? https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
but @restofworld.org's latest feature does exactly that — and includes some very hard to reach voices from inside Gaza itself. Please give it a read: restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sk...
Gaza Sky Geeks drew a lot of breathless coverage in the 2010s from all the glossy pubs. Since the war, though, no one has reported on what's really happened to the org --
Japan's automated convenience stores are actually run by workers in the Philippines
restofworld.org/2025/philipp...
South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
Every day AI is inserted in a new, dumb way into the things I regularly use. Why does Google Sheets want me to DESCRIBE MY NEW CELLS? Girl I am just trying to type in a number
We’re thrilled to welcome seasoned media & tech leader Gordon Saft as Rest of World’s next Publisher.
“Silicon Valley’s role in the world is changing,” said founder Sophie Schmidt, “so Rest of World is evolving too.”
