By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026The world will be better off when the AI companies are bankrupt and their servers are sold off at ten cents on the dollar - but using those servers to run open models in modest, careful ways won't infect you with their wickedness. 30/ 1605
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026They are not stained with communicable sin. They're just computers. They are *unexceptional*. One way for a technology to be normal is for it to be produced and marketed by an *awful* corporation that wants to do *terrible* things. 31/ 1483
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026This isn't to say that "all tech is dual use, and you have to take the good with the bad." That's the *inevitabilist* argument of vulgar Thatcherites who insist - as Thatcher did - that "there is no alternative," and we have to accept their abuse if we want to reap the benefits of the tech. 32/ 1386
