The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 04 October, 2025

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Here we feature the latest Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” Post along with their featured articles. Symfony Station Communiqué – Stardate: ✦ 03 October 2025 ✦ Get the latest from the Symfony Universe and PHP development communities. Explore! Featured Item We made an official announcement this week. Announcing The Programmer’s Fulcrum, our final project Note, I do hope I am still working on it 20 years from now. 😉 Destroying Autocracy – October 02, 2025 Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”. It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. Destroy! Featured Item Cory Doctorow writes: (I just gave) my first-ever speech about AI and I wasn’t sure how it would go over, but thankfully, it went great and sparked a lively Q&A. One of those questions came from a young man who said something like “So, you’re saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that’s going to burst and take the whole economy with it?” I said, “Yes, that’s right.” He said, “OK, but what can we do about that?” The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh