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Inside: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane; and more!

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A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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It's also true that, as @pluralistic and Ed Zitron have said, Micro$oft and the rest of Big Tech are frantically building the world's heaviest airplane using AI balsa wood because they collectively will "need to make $2 trillion in brand new revenue, specifically from AI by 2030", which is simply not possible. (wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-en…)

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"and that workers' only real source of power isn't ephemeral scarcity, it's durable solidarity"... excellent point!
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