By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026Long after the AI bubble bursts, we'll be dealing with its catastrophic carbon emissions. The Second Law of Thermodynamics isn't up for debate. Once we sink enough therms into the sea, we are losing the ice-caps. 37/ 237361
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026AI is an ordinary technology, but the AI bubble *is* extraordinary: extraordinarily toxic and extraordinarily dangerous. 38/ 234549
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026The source of that danger is financiers, and they are motivated by a mix of solipsism and a belief in *other people's* solipsism. For them, the most exciting investment hypothesis is that "hell is other people": locusmag.com/feature/comm... 39/locusmag.comCommentary: Cory Doctorow: Hell Is Other People“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the ‘burning marl.’ Old wives’ tales! There’s… 525421
James Leonard @thecavepainter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ai is a weapon and always has been. I know becus3e I was attacked with it 15 years ago =/ 100
