iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026

These people yearn to follow Steve Jobs's injunction to "make a dent in the universe" and they are being chased out of Silicon Valley by ICE chuds who want to send them to Salvadoran slave-labor camps. There's plenty of talent and capital for the taking. 54/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026

The real hard part isn't writing or running the code - it's extracting the data, replacing the firmware, and bridging new systems - like post-American social media platforms - into the existing ones. 55/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026

This part is hard because every country in the world has agreed to a trade deal with America wherein they agreed to make it illegal to reverse-engineer US tech exports, in exchange for tariff-free access to US markets. 56/

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scanit.bsky.social @scanit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I did decades of work wiping and loading massive numbers of systems, basically taking them down to the barebones and building them back up, as both performance and security were compromised. It can be done in huge environments in less than 2-3 years, a complete overhaul.

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