By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026I don't doubt that there are sincere believers in the AI technofascist coalition, but that does *not* preclude the possibility that they share their boardrooms and executive rows with cynics. 1181
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026For cynics, this is all a shuck, a scare-story to convince the rubes that their modestly useful utility software is really a nascent "superintelligence" and thus capable of replacing all their workers, which means they should fire all those workers and start sending their salaries to AI companies. 1214
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026This is an example of one of those "incoherent fascist bundles." Remember how Mike Pence (a misogynist Christofascist) was happy to share the White House with Trump (a godless pedophile rapist)? 2285
