AI dangles the possibility of wiring that toy steering wheel directly into the drive-train, so that the company's products go directly from the boss's imagination to the public without the boss having to ask people who know how to *do things* to execute their cockamamie schemes:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism
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Cory Doctorow
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