By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026Write a critical AI book, and you become everyone's confessor for their AI sins. People in my life keep telling me about their guilty AI pleasures, in search of an explanation, absolution or condemnation: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 1/ 4306123
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/06/29/a... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 17412
Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026We asked Gemini to express the cost of the prompt in terms of liquified children. The answer was horrifying and hilarious and poignant. I still want to know the real answer, though. How many children does a prompt cost? 020
MovingTrainMedia @movingtrainmedia.bsky.social · 29/06/2026How long before "Googled" becomes shorthand for "fucked it up to enrich themselves"? "I enjoyed BSKY at first, but they Googled it." "I used to enjoy going to the amusement park, but I haven't been back since they Googled it." "Since they Googled A24, I've begun calling them AI24." 140
