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Inside: It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/02/limited-monopoly/
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It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked: Careful what you wish for.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116334612940112223
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* Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media https://www.usermag.co/p/dopamine-is-not-why-kids-love-social
* THIS IS WHAT CORPORATE CAPTURE LOOKS LIKE! https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2026-03/REPORT_CORPORATE CAPTURE.pdf
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#10yrsago Embroidered toast https://www.behance.net/gallery/31502957/Everyday-bread#
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#5yrsago AT&T will lay off thousands more https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/31/vaccine-for-the-global-south/#we-dont-have-to-care
#1yrago Private-sector Trumpism https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/31/madison-square-garden/#autocrats-of-trade
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Yesterday's threads: Trumpismo vs minilateralism; and more!
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I'm also on Bluesky. Read today's thread there at:
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) (@doctorow.pluralistic.net)
Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778 1/