By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026There's plenty of rent-burdened millennials who abandoned avocado toast and fancy coffee and *still* can't afford a downpayment. 54/ 1600
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026They will tell you, the fact that being born in 1945 made it easy to trip and land on a couple million dollars' worth of real estate wealthy by the time you reached retirement age tells us nothing about how to solve the housing crisis of 2026. 55/ 1713
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026By the same token, continuing to give trillions to AI companies because they experienced early success with theory-free inference at scale tells us nothing about how to solve the *vast* range of problems that theory-free inference at scale sucks at. 56/ 27710
