Sep 26, 2026, 6:26 PM📝 Become worthless (to tech companies) #ai #tech #politics #uspol
Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to your interests, why not return that hostility?
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-worthless-to-tech-companies
@cory I absolutely love that idea in principle, but what about in practice? Particularly if a certain tech company is the only one that provides something that a non-technical person needs not everyone wants to learn how to program or even how to use a computer for that matter. I used to think that everyone needed to either learn to use a computer, or be left behind, but what if it is true that older brains aren’t actually capable of learning something new? or is that just a myth, too?
Sep 26, 2026, 6:31 PMIn practice you could be tied to one service or two or three or whatever the case may be, but not *all* of them. It's a question of providing less when you can while acknowledging that isn't always the case.
@cory Yes Cory. Rage against the dying of the light.
Writing null into text fields always puts a smile on my face, and name at company dot com has been a throw away email for me for a long time.
I too think about how to help nontechnical people see some of these issues frequently. I appreciate your outreach to others and sharing ideas on a rebellious loyal opposition.
Sep 27, 2026, 4:18 PMIt gives me some small pleasure to push back — I do like the idea of writing null into fields, I hadn't tried that before. I've been a big proponent of getting my family on adblockers, off Google services, running NextDNS on their network and on and on. Chip away as much as you can wherever you can.