iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/04/2026

You could nuke the whole financial system and not take a dime out of most workers' pockets: finance.yahoo.com/news/955-sav... 8/

finance.yahoo.com

$955 saved for retirement? Millions are in that boat.

The typical American worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, according to a new report from the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS).

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/04/2026

No, the thing that has me *terrified* about AI is that when it craters and takes the economy with it, that we will respond the same way we have during every financial crisis of the 21st century: with austerity, and austerity breeds *fascism*. 9/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/04/2026

There's a direct line from every K-shaped recovery to every strong-man who's currently sending masked gunmen into the streets. 10/

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Mike Hutchinson @hutchymon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Don't forget the bailouts of those poor, victimized techbros. Remember Enron. Remember the mortgage crisis. It is of utmost importance that the wealthy be bailed out every time they overleverage themselves

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

And while all this is going on, we'll be a lot dumber. AI makes us much, much dumber. The first AI cohort graduating from universities around the world will be the dumbest ever. Politicians will be dumber; voters will be dumber; organisations will be dumber; media will be dumber. There's that too.

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