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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

The only thing Peter Thiel hates more than the Antichrist (spoiler, he's just talking about Greta Thunberg) is "wasteful competition": www.youtube.com/shorts/WmRC_...

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Peter Thiel: Competition is a waste of time. Do not compete.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

When an industry that is eating itself alive through "hyperscaling" demands that the government bless a conspiracy to halt competition and ban open source alternatives, you should be suspicious.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

When that industry is pursuing a venture that's lost more money than any other venture in history, you should be *very* suspicious, especially when its "rogue AI hacking" story turns out to be a story about how a hacking tool did *exactly what it was designed to do*: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...

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Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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