By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/06/2026Rather, I think the lesson here is that there are rare pathologies lurking in all of us, vulnerabilities that may never surface - until we come into the presence of a novel stimulus that unlocks them. 7/ 17710
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/06/2026There's an analogy here to technology debt: technologically unsophisticated people think of software as a machine that never wears out and has no incremental usage costs (apart from electricity). 8/ 1486
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/06/2026In this framing, software is the perfect asset, one that never depreciates. But the reality is that software is a liability, not an asset: pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1... 9/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1403
