By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026But there are plenty of people who weren't (and aren't) playing iterated games - people who are even more unhinged, more reckless, more short-termist than the maniacs who filled the world with nuclear weapons. 25/ 11275
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026These people don't necessarily care if civilization or even the human race persists if they can't get their way. The thought of *them* running around with "weapons of mass destruction" ratcheted up the half-century of stark nuclear terror that had preceded the USSR's collapse to new heights. 26/ 213717
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026Which brings me to the post-Trump internet. Trump isn't the first president to figure out that the internet could be weaponized for geopolitical ends. 27/ 11173
