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2025-10-07

🤔 What's really behind the call to "learn to build on the ideas of others" broadcasted by Microsoft? We should be cautious, especially given its past history of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy it's used for dominance in the past.

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A symbolic digital art scene showing a lone figure made of light sitting at a computer in a dark office at night. The person’s screen glows brightly as dozens of illuminated light bulbs rise from their head toward the city skyline outside the window, representing ideas and creativity. Surrounding them in the shadows are many silhouetted figures reaching out, each holding a single light bulb toward the glowing individual, as if trying to take or harvest their ideas. Outside the window, tall skyscrapers display a glowing logo that reads “FAANG,” suggesting the major tech corporations. The contrast between the bright ideas and the dark figures creates a powerful metaphor for how corporations and crowds draw value from individual creators’ work, turning personal innovation into collective profit. The room clocks and office details reinforce the sense of relentless productivity and unseen labour in the tech world.

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