By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/04/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/d... #Pluralistic 1/ 3249
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/04/2026EU ready to cave to Trump on tech: Surrendermonkeys ahoy. bsky.app/profile/doct... 2/By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.netCrises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment. 1/ 131
Æðelwułf @iamdarkink.bsky.social · 04/04/2026If I were Europe, I would take millions (you sure as shit don't need billions) of Euros and fund a research project to build a set of open extensions to FreeBSD or Linux (but FreeBSD is probably more manageable) to turn any rack of any servers into an easily managed micro cloud. 110