By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026Trump's second term has resulted in a rapid, unscheduled, mid-air disassembly of the American empire. 8/ 19119
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026As Baldur Bjarnason writes, under Trump, America "first turned on their trading partners, then their allies in Europe, and then they delivered one of this century’s biggest economic and energy crises to their allies in Asia": www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old... 9/baldurbjarnason.comThe old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be bornWriting at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland 35923
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026The line comes from an excellent post entitled "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born," about the impact of Trump's de-Americanization of the world on the US tech industry, and thus the world's relationship to tech more broadly. 10/ 1340
stoopcat @stoopcat.bsky.social · 16/05/2026and that doesn't even count what he's done to his own country! 010
