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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms48@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026
Replying to @Quasit@kolektiva.social
@Quasit@kolektiva.social Saying the words #Marxism, #Communism or #Socialism to e.g. a #Googler is the intellectual equivalent of pouring salt on a slug. They literally can't handle it. I might not agree with all of it, but reading "The #Californian #Ideology " helped put what happened when the project I worked on in the 00s got #VC funding and #shitcanned after the #subprime #mortgage #crisis . A Chinese interest ended up with all the IP assets.
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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 06, 2026
Boosted by Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code but that means it's producing 10,000 more liabilities. AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes 1/
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