Cory Doctorow on Nostr: By attacking the beams, the villains of the series have all but snuffed out that ...

By attacking the beams, the villains of the series have all but snuffed out that force, and so *the world has moved on.*

When I read that email and the invocation of the *Dark Tower*, I was immediately struck by how apt this comparison is. Because, as I've written many times, there were *always* enshittifiers who would have plundered your data and money and treated you with naked contempt:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/object-permanence/#picks-and-shovels

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