By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/ 4789219
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026To make things worse, AI *can't do the jobs* it's replacing: AI is predicated on the premise that monopolies, duopolies and cartels that control the global economy can deliberately worsen their products without suffering economic or regulatory consequences, because they're the only game in town. 4/ 4959235
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026In service to this bubble, AI firms have suborned regional governments into running roughshod over environmental and planning rules in order to build endless acres of data centers, many of which will likely end up casualties of the imminent bubble-pop, never to be switched on or even completed. 5/gizmodo.comTrump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want. 444275
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The fact LLMs don't work (and this is an LLM bubble, not an AI bubble) is just as important as the financial speculation; it's the reason the promises will never be kept LLMs are not ordinary tech, because ordinary tech works, and works cost effectively; in terms of money, time, and resources 171
M "you said what?" B @aintthatspecial.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Then how is it making workers unemployed? Who is doing that work once the workers leave? 310
Béranger Enselme @benselme.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This blog post really gives a sense of the AI madness that has engulfed the world of decision-making, in both private and public sectors. Chatbots don't work, everyone knows it, but no one can say it.ludic.mataroa.blogAI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity 03510