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Big companies are where good ideas go to die. If a big company passes on its employees' cool, disruptive ideas, that's the end of the story for that idea. But even if 100 VCs pass on a startup's cool idea and only one VC funds it, the startup still gets to pursue that idea. In startup land, a good idea gets lots of chances – in a big company, it only gets one.
Pluralistic: Big Tech Disrupted Disruption
Cory Doctorow
AI, as we know it, is a kind of computing, but it’s also a form of knowledge production, a paradigm for social organization and a political project.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
Against the postmodernist suspicion of grand narratives, we need to reassert that, far from being isolated, contingent problems, these are all the effects of a single systemic cause: Capital. We need to begin, as if for the first time, to develop strategies against a Capital which presents itself as ontologically, as well as geographically, ubiquitous.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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