Reposted by BrendanQEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026most economically-viable AI company 241260221
Reposted by BrendanQEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/10/2026It’s good - ideal, even! - for your CFO to pull you aside and tell you repeatedly about the dire financial consequences of the potential failure of your $200 billion AI capex gamble that you recently admitted you made without knowing why you were doing it. You don’t learn this in business school! 32968108
BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Dr Brian Cox is an absolute gem of a human being, and a wonderful storyteller. His sense of wonder is truly infectious. 🤩 000
Reposted by BrendanQSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books 5674072181
Reposted by BrendanQMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I keep harping on this but AI “writers” and “artists“ keep showing what unserious tourists they are. People who actually create agonize over adverbs and color palettes and metaphors and gesture. AI people can’t even be bothered to skim their own book once 932811013
Reposted by BrendanQMicah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026Outkast’s Ms Jackson just came on at the gym and I will never in my life be able to hear that song without thinking about this comic 3245711026
Reposted by BrendanQGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/08/2026The business of "A.i." is based on a lack of consent. The corporations pushing it don't ask if anyone wants it; they force it on us. They use it to surveil. They offer it to creeps to create nudes of others without permission. It's a business run by creeps with the ethics of creeps. 125372
Reposted by BrendanQSena Bryer @senabryer.com · 29/07/2026CEOs are literally vampires, killing people to enrich themselves 7384120
BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026No you're not, Sam. All you have is algorithmic word/pixel prediction. And a broken business model. And gullible idiots blinded by greed. And a promise to benefit humanity as hollow as the above. 010
BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Yup, that future in which they're dead and won't have to live with the consequences... 000
Reposted by BrendanQAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026. 236168207550
Reposted by BrendanQshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/05/2026evergreen (via the brilliant @smoothdunk2.bsky.social) 122967596
Reposted by BrendanQoutstar 🧛 "professional vampire simp" @outstar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026"ppst. Louis. ppssst" "Lestat I want to sleep" "how many brujah does it take to change a lightbulb" "Lestat, please" "BRUJAH NEVER CHANGED ANYTHING, LOUIS" "Lestat I swear to God" 1012334
Reposted by BrendanQEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/06/2026The move to token-based billing is going to be really rough on a lot of people in AI in a way I’m not sure the industry is prepared for 36815122
Reposted by BrendanQJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/05/2026I think this might be the single most viscerally disgusting act of either of Trump's presidencies. Truly, utterly, vile. 17498110
Reposted by BrendanQEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/05/2026Me, a week ago www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-ex... 17930239
Reposted by BrendanQParis Marx @parismarx.com · 20/05/2026ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.disconnect.blogGoogle is its own worst enemyIn its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too 221561524
Reposted by BrendanQIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/05/2026Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now 6548701475
Reposted by BrendanQGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/05/2026They protected rich pedophiles while retraumatizing victims. Think about that. 441995558
Reposted by BrendanQJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/04/2026Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...wired.comThe Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit CardsAI agents may soon be buying your stuff for you. The FIDO Alliance has teamed up with Google and Mastercard to try to ensure that shopping in the near future isn't a complete disaster. 742928784
Reposted by BrendanQMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026They have more money than they could spend in 100 lifetimes and they're still terrified of losing any of it. This is scared loser shit. It's pathetic. I just ordered takeout that will cost me more of my net worth than any tax would cost these fuckers. That makes me braver than all of them combined. 231494346
Reposted by BrendanQDeathiel Skelly @saffroncomic.com · 17/04/2026Note that even this is arguably AI propaganda: It's not that AI sucks ass it's that it's being SABOTAGED! 132
Reposted by BrendanQPhillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Everything is fucking dumb all the time now 883479531
Reposted by BrendanQMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/... 15496583141
Reposted by BrendanQInformation is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 05/03/2025How rich people avoid paying tax (Originally by Instgram user @newmoney.blog) 23715
Reposted by BrendanQChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This is just so corrupt on every conceivable level. There is no excusing it. These people are The Shittiest Gangsters and we need to throw them in jail for the rest of their lives. 622722490
Reposted by BrendanQFuturism @futurism.com · 09/04/2026This is catastrophic.trib.alAnalysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human CivilizationA new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time. 11745332025
Reposted by BrendanQA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026What would be a true miracle is if Christians ever shut the fuck up. 10666103
Reposted by BrendanQArtificial Taco 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @crunchyfishtaco.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Tfw a Muslim mayor honors a Christian holy day better than the ‘Christian’ president 212721467
Reposted by BrendanQGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Leopards and their spots. 402139467
Reposted by BrendanQKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/03/2026JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia. 154113542898
Reposted by BrendanQJoni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Far-right tech oligarchs have the most pathetic ideology. They hate minorities, except when they are coding for them. They want no taxes, no rules, and absolutely no democracy. There is no grand vision for society, just raw greed and a relentless pursuit of personal interests 869110003557
Reposted by BrendanQTollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026He's gone full Kim Jong Twat. 🐢💨 15267498
BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 26/03/2026To loosely quote Eddie Izzard: "Sure, people kill people, but the gun sure as hell helps!" 000
BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Every country should make it harder for its people to kill others, not easier. 100
Reposted by BrendanQtante @tante.cc · 12/03/2026The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain. 12063612557
Reposted by BrendanQCommander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Off the top of my head, Franchisteining feels appropriate. 24568112
Reposted by BrendanQUrban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruthcbsnews.com100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say 231387531
Reposted by BrendanQGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/03/2026It’s like Kamala Harris said. An unserious man in a very serious position. 431586280
Reposted by BrendanQAditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is 372559571
Reposted by BrendanQDiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 23/02/2026Ryan Coogler's ‘X-FILES’ series has greenlit for a pilot at Hulu • Coogler will write & direct the pilot • Danielle Deadwyler will officially star • Follows 2 vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division 291199197