Sev @weaselbotaur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Back then it was all subsidized by the cold war but it touched the physical world. The tech industry by contrast is by now almost fully parasitic. Most of it is to serve ads to pay for services that are cheap to provide now. 110
Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There was a set of people who understood that this was the research that the market would never support on its own, and yet whose value could be immense, and were content to leverage the fact. Without this wind at their backs, though, unrestrained finance runs unchecked, until, well. Here we are. 010
