By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026AI is even worse than vagina-rocks, of course. When the bubble bursts, when the 7 AI companies that make up 35% of the S&P 500 tank, when a third of the US market is vaporized overnight, governments will reflexively turn to austerity, the go-to response for financial crisis. 34/ 333167
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026Austerity is fascism's best recruiter: pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/a... When the AI bubble bursts, defective chatbots that replaced skilled workers will disappear, leaving us scrambling to get that work done after the workers who understood it have retrained, retired, or exited the workforce. 35/ 231760
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 5675183
Tina Belmont @tinabelmont.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I wonder if a bursting of the AI bubble actually means the sudden and complete abandonment of AI, tho? I mean, it's possible that all of these data centers can't afford to be run on what AI actually earns and they literally shut down. But if they hang on, they can be a lasting drain & poison... 100