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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Cory Doctorow
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