The foreseeable and foreseen consequences of bad technopolicy are all around us, but in the eternal *now* of a politics utterly devoid of object permanence, no one is allowed to remember what happened the last time we did something stupid, *especially* not when we're on the verge of doing that same stupid thing again, *only worse*:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/#calea
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Cory Doctorow
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