respectfully: Cory Doctorow's definition of "means of computation" is too focused on software and thereby an incomplete approach to addressing the challenges he outlines
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I'm so annoyed that I used this term in an article on a now-shuittered publication before him (which he probably didn't see, to be fair, bc he'd have a better analysis if he had) and he's more famous than me so everyone is gonna run with his framing, lol
@ingrid https://web.archive.org/web/20210422144833/https://thereboot.com/the-infrastructural-power-beneath-the-internet-as-we-know-it/
Control over underlying tech infrastructure determines who benefits from it, raising the prospect of alternative ownership and profit models.
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