By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Surveillance vs guillotines; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/t... #Pluralistic 1/ 35420
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? bsky.app/profile/doct... 2/By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.netIn the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/ 140
Emily @empressfukuda.bsky.social · 11/08/2026thanks for the thread on surveillance vs. guillotines, if I inherited money I would build the largest guillotines anyone has ever seen!! I'd be a benevolent billionaire. 😄😄 000
toutopia.bsky.social @toutopia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026In my book club we just read The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, ... I was surprised you didn't mention in your book this debate going on in AI between LLM (Big Data/Small Mission) and Big Mission/Small Data (see Guardian on Song-Chun Zhu 16 Sep 25) I thought your book was great.theguardian.com‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for ChinaIn 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race 000
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