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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/09/temporarily-embarrassed-founders/

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A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red.


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A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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gregg r
gregg r
@grheavyroller@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic It's also true that, as @pluralistic and Ed Zitron have said, Micro$oft and the rest of Big Tech are frantically building the world's heaviest airplane using AI balsa wood because they collectively will "need to make $2 trillion in brand new revenue, specifically from AI by 2030", which is simply not possible. (https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/)

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oscarfalcon
oscarfalcon
@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic

"and that workers' only real source of power isn't ephemeral scarcity, it's durable solidarity"... excellent point!

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html

and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937

I hope you can make it!

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Join us for a great event with Cory Doctorow as we hear about his bestselling book: Enshittification.

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