By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026Giving people the tools to produce their own software is always going to make tools - vernacular, idiosyncratic, homespun - that are more suited to their own hands and minds than anything a technologist working on their behalf could make. 17/ 1211
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026The ancient dictum of "nothing about us without us" - born in 16th century Poland and taken up by the modern disability rights movement - asserts the right of people to control their own living conditions, and also the unique capacity of people to understand their own needs. 18/ 2403
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026You know what's even better than being *consulted* on the design of the technology you use? Having *direct control* over that technology! 19 1252
