Post · bonfire.cafe

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

#Pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025)

A Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar bill; the bill's iconography have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and a stylized, engraving-style portrait of Sam Altman.

Image:
TechCrunch
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Altman_-_TechCrunch_Disrupt_SF_2017_(36522988343).jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

--

Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — A Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar bill; the bill's iconography have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and a stylized, engraving-style portrait of Sam Altman. Image: TechCrunch https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Altman_-_TechCrunch_Disrupt_SF_2017_(36522988343).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en -- Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Quercus 🟡⚪🟣⚫

@coppercrush@beige.party replied · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic
The entirety of the US economy in the 21st century has been a tech bubble, and AI is the thing that is finally going to cause it to burst. Its perfectly ironic and fitting that they created a technology that literally eats itself and its forebears.

The monopolists have finally run dry of easy shit to sell us junkies. Currently we are snorting baking soda and watching Bluey while they consolidate everything they can politically before we finally hit bottom. As painful as it is going to be, the only way out is through. Politically, its going to open a lot of doors. Sobriety can be both beautiful and deadly.

William Canna-bass

@JizzelEtBass@kolektiva.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic Such a great quote:
"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"