By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026That's when a startup's highest purpose is to be absorbed by a giant, sclerotic incumbent that mothballs its products and assigns its engineers to work on incremental maintenance (or worse, enshittification) for its dominant offerings. 21/ 1171
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026Big Tech's pirates turned admirals, free to "disrupt" the weak and poor, while enjoying the legal entitlement to destroy anyone who dared to disrupt *them*. 22/ 1141
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026They embodied Frank Wilhoit's definition of conservativism: a class that the law that "protects but does bind" alongside a class that the law "binds but does not protect": pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/w... 23/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Post-political (09 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2192
