By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026They were constrained by their shareholders, which meant that the blast-radius of Steve Jobs's worst ideas (like treating his otherwise curable cancer with green juice) were confined to his own person. 33/ 1261
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026Today, Apple and Google are run by bloodless business sociopaths who go to enormous lengths to project an air of sober adulthood. 34/ 1232
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026And yet, these people - who would never be caught dead bow-hunting their own livestock or climbing into an MMA cage - have steered their companies into Facebook's quadrant on our enshittification 2x2. 35/ 1180
