By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026As the pioneering cybernetician Stafford Beer famously wrote, "the purpose of a system is what it does." If your bureaucracy is more concerned with fighting fraud than delivering service, then it isn't a service delivery system at all - it's a service *denial* system. 32/ 322369
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026As Farrell writes, the people of Twopp can tell you how this ends - in a war of giant robots in which we are all collateral damage. 33/ 1310
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026(Brief postscript: Farrell is a font of science fictional analogies to modern policy issues. This weekend in the *FT*, he and Dan Wang published an excellent editorial on the relevance of the paranoid, claustrophobic fiction of Philip K Dick to our present political reality:) archive.is/2YT4k eof/archive.isWelcome to nginxIf you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required. 1392