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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

I will say it is funny watching OpenAI boast about solving a complex math problem using millions of dollars of compute (and someone else’s work) all while remaining unable to solve the most obvious math problem (how to make their services profitable)

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One name in one language, different in the other @prestobal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's really amazing that with how much hardware has advanced over the last 15 years or so, pretty much all of it has gone into privacy violation endeavors, as opposed to just making shit work better.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/06/2026

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/06/2026

It is also the kind of thing that should genuinely worry AI boosters. Even if you think Masayoshi Son is a complete moron or lunatic, this guy sunk $64 billion into OpenAI, four times what he invested in WeWork. He has the reverse Midas touch, no matter how much he loves golden geese

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/04/2026

Not a single article that ran on this today cited that I had a scoop a week ago lol the sheer disrespect from this industry

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/04/2026

Tech industry really feels like a power keg ready to blow. The WSJ did a whole story about Oracle’s debt and how banks can’t resell it very easily because of the risk. Cursor acquisition isn’t really an acquisition yet. Deepseek 4 drops on a Thursday night. Jensen Huang slightly losing it too.

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Eva Eskelinen @evelmiina.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is the line of division / Terminus Est Severian and Thecla from The Book of the New Sun

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ExOctopus @exoctopus.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The data speaks for itself:

A graph in xkcd style titled 'ADVERTISING REVENUE PROJECTIONS (based on two data points six seconds apart)'. Two red dots sit at the origin representing $0 revenue at Tuesday 10:00:00 AM and $3,000 revenue at Tuesday 10:00:06 AM. A bold blue line labeled 'Best fit line (n=2, R²=1.0)' connects them and rockets upward to $102 BILLION by 2030. The caption reads 'The data speaks for itself'. The line is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/04/2026

Oh you know the code he ships fucking sucks

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/04/2026

Incredible things happening at OpenAI per @theinformation.com. Sam Altman is rushing the company toward IPO despite his CFO’s concerns about compute spend and revenue growth. Now Sam Altman is leaving her out of financial planning for compute. Perfect! www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

The Takeaway
→ OpenAl is committing billions of dollars years in advance to help finance data centers.
→ Friar last year began reporting to the head of applications instead of to Altman.
→ Altman has excluded her from some conversations related to financial plans.
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Those people said Altman has excluded her from some conversations related to the company's financial plans. For instance, in recent months he left Friar out of a conversation about server spending with leaders at one of OpenAl's top investors, one of these people said. Her absence was noticeable and awkward,
given that a previous conversation on the same topic included her, according to an attendee.
A different person who attended a senior-level meeting at OpenAI with Altman earlier this year said it was unusual that Friar was not invited, as it involved a discussion of major financial decisions.

She told some colleagues earlier this year that she didn't believe the company would be ready to go public in 2026, because of the procedural and organizational work needed and the risks from its spending commitments, according to a person who spoke to her. She said she wasn't sure yet whether OpenAI would need to pour so much money into obtaining AI servers in the coming years or whether its revenue growth, which has been slowing, would support the commitments, said the person who spoke to her.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/03/2026

Most of this week I’ve spent trying to find data center campuses of over 100mw that are actually anywhere near being built and the answer is that most are not, and several large projects effectively don’t exist. I’m not sure people understand how few of them are actually indeed construction.

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habakkuk1.bsky.social @habakkuk1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My 1GW datacenter is in Canada, you wouldn’t know it

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/03/2026

This will end up being likely a monologue and part of the intro of this week's premium, but every single person that wrote a "Sora 2 is destroying Hollywood" piece should be apologizing to their audiences and to the entertainment industry for deliberately misleading and scaring people in TV/Cinema

Per The Journal, emphasis mine:

CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.

Oh, okay! The app that CNBC said was “challenging Hollywood” and “freaking out the movie industry” and The Hollywood Report would suggest could somehow challenge Pixar and was Sam Altman successfully “playing Hollywood” and The Ankler said was OpenAI “going to war with Hollywood” as it “shook the industry” and Deadline said made Hollywood “sore” and Boardroom said was in a standoff with Hollywood and the LA Times said was “deepening a battle between Hollywood and OpenAI” and “igniting a firestorm in Hollywood” and Puck said had “Hollywood panicking” and TechnoLlama said was “the end of copyright as we know it” and Slate said was a case of AI "crushing Hollywood as it we’ve known it” is completely dead a little more than five months after everybody claimed it was changing everything.

It’s almost as if everybody making these proclamations was instinctually printing whatever marketing copy had been imagined by the AI labs to promote compute-intensive vaporware, and absolutely nobody is going to apologize to the people working in the entertainment industry for scaring the fuck out of them with ghost stories! Every single person who blindly repeated that Sora existed and was changing everything should be forced to apologize to their readers!

I cannot express the sheer amount of panic that spread through every single part of the entertainment industry as a result of these specious, poorly-founded mythologies spread by people that didn’t give enough of a shit to understand what was actually going on. Sora 2 was always an act of desperation - an attempt to create a marketing cycle to prop up a tool that burned as much as $15 million a day that most o…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/03/2026

Generative AI subscriptions are sold at a subsidy because the companies in question know that if they charged their actual costs nobody would pay. LLMs lack the efficacy or defined outcomes that makes software valuable, and if that wasn't the case, AI labs wouldn't need subscriptions at all.

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Alter Aight @alteraight.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Its not enough that these dorks have to ruin everything with their slop. You also have to see these fucking 25 page novellas on why you're not allowed to make fun of them for being addicted to the slop machine.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/03/2026

I’m telling ya man…the whole thing’s fucked. Got BDCs leveraged up six times their bullshit worth made up of loans to SaaS companies you’ve never heard of bought while everyone was fucked up on hopium in 2021…private credit’s dying and people don’t even see how bad it is yet. They don’t wanna…

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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Anthropic doing the grim-reaper-down-the-hallway meme on various sectors whilst also announcing their second large scale hacking incident is the height of the hype being detached from reality.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/02/2026

one thing that drives me insane about modern platforms is how many default to "3 months" or "1 year" instead of showing the actual date of a post, very frustrating

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Obligatory

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/02/2026

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

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Stevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Screenshot of a tweet "(Spotting a stranger at the gym) You can’t do it. It’s too heavy. It’s impossible"

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 07/01/2026

“WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest traces the last five years from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either.

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The year of technoligarchy

In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/01/2026

AI glasses are vaporware that will create masses of e-waste and in most cases barely function. An alarming amount of this show is LLM wrappers. I was here when Kickstarter and Indiegogo was big - this is magnitudes more deceptive and misleading, and the CTA should be ashamed.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/12/2025

TIME magazine is owned by Marc Benioff, owner of Salesforce, who literally ran an AI agents puff piece about his ow company in the magazine. I’m unsurprised he thinks a bunch of grifters are person of the year, he thinks they’re cool

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/12/2025

Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI" woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...

You're not a dumbass.

You're not a dumbass fucking dork who wastes money on insane bullshit.

MAKE ED ZITRON GO AWAY I DON'T LIKE WHERE MY MIND IS GOING

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 24/11/2025

Thanks! Thanks so much! Thanks for reaching out! Can't wait to connect! Can't wait to hear more! Looking forward to our conversation! Looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know! Let me know if this works for you! Let me know if this works for your schedule! Let me know when you're available!

The dad from Coraline, sitting at his computer and looking like the most tired and disheveled person who has ever existed.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/11/2025

The only way to not let being a hater destroy you is to be very sentimental and loving of those closest to you, there must be balance or otherwise you’re just The Tech Bastard

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Google AI overviews nearly sent me driving to the wrong airport terminal (and nearly caused me to pay twice for parking). Honestly fuck everything about this.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The New York Times has now hired Grok to cover the Mamdani campaign.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/07/2025

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Growing older is realizing everything he said was right

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Aracelerii 🏳️‍⚧️ @aracelerii.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

we're gonna be so woke, you may even get tired of wokeness! and you'll say "please, please, it's too much wokeness! we can't take it anymore! mx president, it's too much!" and i'll say "no it isn't! we have to keep being woke, we have to be more woke! we're gonna be more woke!"

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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

which is why its unequivocally the best Star Wars, because fuck “great men”

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/06/2025

This box does nothing.

Checked check box: Remember me on this device

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Notice how Super Mario and all his supposed “enemies” are happy to get together and go go-kart racing? Wake up. It’s all kayfabe

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 03/06/2025

i've never gotten into short form video or chatgpt and im so hyped to eventually be one of the last remaining people with attention span and analytical skills, i think it's really going to increase my value to enterprising warlords during the water wars

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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy pride to u pimps

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Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

abercrombie and fitch 'pride mid rise jorts' which are literally just jorts with a rainbow tag inside the pant.

abercrombie & fitch 'pride long sleeved striped button up shirt' that is...a green and white striped shirt. hello am I going crazy.

beige terrycloth shorts from target. nothing about them indicates pride except that they are listed as such on the website.

levi's 'pride icon' skirt which is literally just a short dark denim skirt. nothing to indicate 'pride' except that there is one image of a male model wearing it which technically you could do with any item of clothing but go off I guess

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/05/2025

This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead

If AI companies can take these handy, quasi-reliable text predictors and turn them into an economic revolution, fine. But that seems so far off in the future that Amodei’s warnings feel more like an ad than a PSA. It’s on them to show their work: Show us how AI could be so destructive and how Anthropic can fix it — rather than just shouting about the risks.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Star Wars Andor makes me really hungry for a return to that era of super politic high concept scifi of the 70s that we don’t see as much of in movies nowadays as it got mostly focused spectacled due to, ironically, Star Wars.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 29/05/2025

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

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