Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Rather, I think the lesson here is that there are rare pathologies lurking in all of ...

Rather, I think the lesson here is that there are rare pathologies lurking in all of us, vulnerabilities that may never surface - until we come into the presence of a novel stimulus that unlocks them.

There's an analogy here to technology debt: technologically unsophisticated people think of software as a machine that never wears out and has no incremental usage costs (apart from electricity).

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