By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026Doubling down on AI to overcome its increasingly obvious limitations is like doubling down on building post-war suburbs to fix today's housing market. 57/ 1968
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026It's possible to achieve impressive feats because you're smart and hard working and *also* because you were in the right place at the right time. Historical contingency produced the AI bubble, and it is producing the conditions for that bubble to pop. eof/ 312910
Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026AI can't access the global-emotional system, so it can't understand Humans understand reality intuitively, relationally, but the brain hides reality from itself across a language barrier (of emotions, based on self-trust) An epiphany is an act of self-trust, a burst of love building a story path 100
MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I am very curious your take on #MadeByGoogle26 www.youtube.com/live/c84y9gA... " Google reveals who is hosting #Pixel11launch event #TrevorNoah and other guests " www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixe... bsky.app/profile/math...youtube.comMade by Google '26YouTube video by Made by GoogleMathiasTCK.bsky.social@mathiastck.bsky.socialHey, I was searching for reactions to: #MadeByGoogle26 www.youtube.com/live/c84y9gA... Google reveals who is hosting #Pixel11launch event #TrevorNoah and other guests www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixe...youtube.comMade by Google '26YouTube video by Made by Google 101
scanit.bsky.social @scanit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Cory, do our tech bro leaders push Datacenters and 'big iron' scale approach to AI so hard--despite China already proving such scale is not necessary--bc they need/want processing power to process mass surveillance scans and to feed their crypto cash addiction? Their insistence feels mad to me. 250
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