By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's *two* things*." 1/ 619360
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026If 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/2026/07/02/c... 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. 1361
Brian DiNunno @bdinunno.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I view this in the analogy of mass transit. You want your main line to high capacity, hyper-efficient, and optimized. But the "last-mile" issue of getting people to their specific destination? That is best as creative chaos to fit specific needs. Code Library vs. AI UI is Subway vs. Bike Share 1141
sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In case this is a useful analogy: mycologists used to think one particular mushroom was fatal to 1/4 of people, but not to everyone else. Then they discovered that it was actually two species of mushrooms that looked almost identical. One of them fatal to humans, one of them not. 0444
dan @djon3s.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Paradox can be the other way too like paradox of super plural statements like “the group co-operated” is true of a group but of a particular member or truth function of its parts there may be no way of determining if the condition or “co-operation” would obtain. Similar with murmurations of birds. 110
jimmy @jimmy.path.pub · 05/07/2026Love the dichotomy. Does using Claude Fable to code review and identity flaws change your point of view on whether AI can help *both* centaurs and reverse centaurs? bsky.app/profile/simo...Simon Willison@simonwillison.netSomewhat humbling to have Claude Fable do a final review of some software that you're about to release and have it then find (and fix) FIVE release blockers, for an estimated (unsubsidized) cost of $149.25 simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/s...simonwillison.netsqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude FableI wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to … 100
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