By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/06/2026Buying AI at the top of the market is *nuts*. That would be like shopping for Aeron chairs and foosball tables in March 2000. 37/ 1101
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/06/2026If 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/digicoll.lib.berkeley.eduFred Bell, unemployed apple vendor selling apples on the street. 172
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/06/2026(Literally: I bought a "dining room set" of six $1500 Steelcase Leap chairs in the summer of 2000 from a failed dotcom CEO on Van Ness for $25 a piece - still in the original plastic!) 39/ 3151
