By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026If you give workers instructions that reveal your ignorance, they might roll their eyes at you and make you feel bad about yourself. Even if they restrain themselves in the moment, they might make fun of you in the break-room later. 31117
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver's seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel. 214921
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026AI is sold as a way to wire the toy steering wheel directly into the corporation's drive-train: pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/f... Seen in this light, bosses' insistence that workers use AI makes perfect sense.pluralistic.netPluralistic: A world without people (05 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1844
Sean Hayes @saltybiscuit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Well, you could be the kind of boss who says to workers, hey, you’re the experts here, help me solve this problem. And other fantasies. 000
