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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can reliably convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that *can't* do your job: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 73/

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Pluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

Most visibly, it's an era of towns despoiled by data centers people hate, by governments operating in extreme secrecy, who silence and even arrest citizens for demanding a legitimate process to deciding whether they will have power, water, land and peace: www.404media.co/city-that-ar... 74/

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City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Meetings for 'Public Safety'

A small town in Kansas took its city meetings virtual and ended public comment after city leaders received a wave of death threats.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

An economist would tell you that there's an equilibrium being sought here: between the cost of bribing a town council to ram through data center approvals, the cost of building a more modest and palatable data center, and the cost of mollifying public critics. 75/

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