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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026

If you want to piss me off, it's easy: just breezily assert that our tech regulation problems are the result of the fast pace of technological change racing ahead of the plodding speed of governmental action: pluralistic.net/2026/04/22/u... 1/

A busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/s... 2/

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Umbrarchist @umbrarchist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ask two or more AIs when PhD economists should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in cars. Can economists figure out how The ECONOMY does or should work? Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile. aicon We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto! bsky.app/profile/umbr...

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Who decides how we Think about "The ECONOMY"? Double entry accounting is 700 years old. It could have been mandatory in high schools since 1950. Is geometry or trigonometry more useful? When have politicians, educators or economists discussed that? What is the NET Domestic Product?

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Anna R. Dudley @annardudley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Florida went the other way… just passed a bill letting data center developers keep utility and water plans secret for a year. Same logic as surveillance pricing… hide the inputs that set the price. SB 1746 to ban it on the grocery side died in committee. Tracie Davis filed.

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Mike Leech @mandomike.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

well if electors want that Super PAC money for their reelection campaigns they won't do anything to piss off tech bros with surveilance pricing laws .

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