By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026It would be pretty amazing if you couldn't find people who'd extol the virtues of this arrangement. 15/ 1611
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026But when AI companies try to raise the price of those $100 bills to, say, $20 apiece, those ecstatic customers fly into a rage and start loudly proclaiming that AI is so inefficient that they will lose money on this arrangement: www.msn.com/en-us/money/... 16/msn.comMSN 2847
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026Now, it shouldn't fall to me, a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, to point out that capitalist enterprises require profits to be sustainable. You can't keep a business afloat by selling $100 bills for $5, nor for $20. 17/ 31042
🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Not sure that's the right link: It's just CEOs salivating about firing lots of people. Something more like this? www.theverge.com/transportati...theverge.comUber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’There’s no clear connection between AI usage and productivity. 020
