By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026The *actual* dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles. 19/ 4411109
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026We *could* do "AI cancer research" by producing tools that automate gnarly multivariant analysis problems for cancer researchers. 20/ 327933
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026But what we're *actually* doing is defunding cancer research (especially any research into "systemic" cancer because studying systemic things is "woke") to free up fiscal space so we can build data-centers and make Musk into a trillionaire. 21/ 437772
A IPC @ayqueverguenza.bsky.social · 18/06/2026And actually neuronal networks and machine learning have already been in use since for drug research since the late 1990s, but for whatever the reason there's been no hype about this like, ever, possibly because unlike LLMs, they were not making billionaires richer. 061
