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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/06/2026

If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... 36/

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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/06/2026

Buying AI at the top of the market is *nuts*. That would be like shopping for Aeron chairs and foosball tables in March 2000. 37/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/06/2026

If you just sit tight for a couple months, you'll be able to find bankrupt dotcom entrepreneurs selling these at knock-down prices out front of their former SF office, in the time-honored tradition of ex-millionaires selling apples out of their Rollses: digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/323794 38/

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Fred Bell, unemployed apple vendor selling apples on the street.

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