By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026This is true even in one-on-one encounters: for the Epstein Class, the children raped on his island weren't fully real - certainly not as real as their own children. 16/ 234730
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026It's even more true for the people that billionaires experience as statistical artifacts, such as Jeff Bezos's vast army of drivers and warehouse workers, with their sky-high on-the-job injury rates and the everyday indignity of their piss-bottles. 17/ 133123
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026It gets worse for social media bosses like Zuck, for whom AI's appeal is ending socializing on social media, swapping your mulish friends for pliable chatbots who organize their interactions with you to maximize your usage and thus the number of ads you see: pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/b... 18/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Social media without socializing (19 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 327722
