passive third-person blame deflection Stop saying "robots are coming for your job"; start saying "Your boss wants to replace you with a robot" Cory Doctorow
even if you're paying for the product you're still the product DRM and terms-of-service have ended true ownership, turning us into "tenants of our own devices" Cory Doctorow
slow ai The Training Commission: an email newsletter from the future, after a civil war and digital blackout Cory Doctorow
slow ais Merger: a science-fiction short about corporations as literal (as well as figurative) AIs Cory Doctorow
the end of the world v the end of capitalism Ted Chiang: Elon Musk's fear of runaway AI is a projection of his repressed terror of runaway corporations Cory Doctorow
economists as court astrologers to selfish assholes The copay assumes the 99% treat healthcare like spiteful buffet gorgers Cory Doctorow
infinite haystacks don't have more needles Trump's spy agencies say AI vendors will sell them needle-detection tools for infinite haystacks Cory Doctorow
owe my soul to the company store Across America, employers are using noncompetes to claim ownership of employees' skills Cory Doctorow
transhuman immortal artificial life-forms Giving companies more money (loans, tax-breaks) only increases investor payouts, not expansion Cory Doctorow
skynet ascendant After the precariat, the unnecessariat: the humans who are superfluous to corporations Cory Doctorow
