By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026It's easy to understand if we're all non-player characters - if that's true, then the metaverse is surely our native habitat. 19/ 11418
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026For Zuck, people aren't co-equals with needs that are as real and important as his own. For Zuck, people are problems to be solved. He embodies Terry Pratchett's maxim (voiced by Granny Weatherwax) that "sin is when you treat people like things." 20/ 328242
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Nowhere is this sin more on display than in Zuck's relationship to the social connections that bind together the users of his platforms. 21/ 11185
sebathue @sebathue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What'w with all the PTerry quotes on Bluesky all of a sudden? Can't say I don't like it, mind you. 000
Frank van Puffelen @puf.io · 06/08/2026I read Pratchett in a different order, so know this one as voiced by Tiffany Aching: > Evil begins when you treat people as things. ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight 🥏🌎❤️ 021
