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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026

Computers are stupid, in other words, which means that the people who program them have to have smarts enough for both of them. 21/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026

Unfortunately for our entire species and civilization, the software industry has historically valued skill at writing *efficient* and *reliable* software over writing software that adequately reflects reality. 22/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026

There is an entire genre of lists that illustrate the problem with this; the "falsehoods programmers believe" lists: github.com/kdeldycke/aw... 23/

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