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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

This proposition gets even sweeter if the CEO of the AI company is in bed with financial regulators and stock exchanges, and can force your financial advisor to buy his worthless AI stock with "little people's" retirement savings: fortune.com/2026/06/13/s... 25/

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You can ignore AI giants like SpaceX, but your 401(k) won't | Fortune

Nasdaq changed its rules to allow some huge companies to join its Nasdaq 100 index after just 15 trading days.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

A bet that bosses will fire workers and replace them with AI is a *good* wager. Bosses are absolute suckers for this scam. 26/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

Bosses *hate* the fact that they can't turn their plans into action without first having a series of ego-shattering confrontations with workers who actually know how to do things, who insist that those plans are illegal, stupid, impossible or will kill people: pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/n... 27/

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Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Andrew Crompton @andrewcrompton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’ve worked in some very large businesses and the gullibility of CEOs for shiny new tech toys is bottomless. So much money wasted and so many lives ruined by the kind of overconfident mediocrities that the public school system turns out.

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