Greg Wilson: How We Got Here. A primer on the creation of money, monopolies, corporations and the works. Less didactic and an easier read is his more recent article, When the Model Is the Harm. Cory Doctorow: The world has moved on. Whereby “moved on” means left to entropy, with systems holding entropy back destroy by, well, see above. Relies heavily on Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, making Doctorow’s post the first reference to the gunslinger on this blog since 2014. Aidan Walker: Cuck Internet Theory. I was less interested in the meme Walker discusses — having abandoned most social media this is the first time I saw photos of “a cuck chair” in that particular context — than in the phrase he used near the end when he inevitably turned to AI: the permanent underclass. The “permanent” part never sat well with me, because it goes against the entirety of the human history which time and again has shown us that members of “the underclass” are very capable indeed of carrying pitchforks…
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