By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/07/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/03/r... #Pluralistic 1/ 3264
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/07/2026CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code: With great abstraction comes great power comes great responsibility comes great loss of fidelity. bsky.app/profile/did:... 2/By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.netIn the mid-1970s, my dad - then a budding computer scientist, subsequently a math teacher - brought home my first computer: the CARDiac, a Turing-complete, all-cardboard *papercraft* computer that you could write and execute programs on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboa... 1/ 120
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/07/2026Hey look at this * Crime Pays: The Egg Bandits Made 1,000 Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays... * Digital elbows up betakit.com/digital-elbo... * Stochastic wage suppression on gig platforms/how to organize against it arxiv.org/abs/2604.15962 3/ 162
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