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