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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026
most economically-viable AI company
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/10/2026
It’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!
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Dr Brian Cox is an absolute gem of a human being, and a wonderful storyteller. His sense of wonder is truly infectious. 🤩
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books
4 panel comic

Panel 1: Orange Guy holds up book and says “I’m gonna read a book”

Panel 2: Orange Guy looks at book cover and says “hmmmmm”

Panel 3: Orange Guy types a query into his phone

Panel 4: Close up on phone screen reveals AI responding with “a chocolate factory is a factory made of chocolate”
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I 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
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026
Outkast’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
I’m sorry Ms Jackson parody comic where instead of “I am for real” it is “I am four eels”
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/08/2026
The 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.
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Just Darling @darling121.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 29/07/2026
CEOs are literally vampires, killing people to enrich themselves
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BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No 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.
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BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yup, that future in which they're dead and won't have to live with the consequences...
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
oh my god

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The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

By Ken Harbaugh
An illustration of a rocket headed from a shadowy female figure toward a soldier whose face is illuminated by the glow of his phone
Illustration by Ann Kiernan
June 21, 2026

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For several months last year, a Ukrainian housewife, 35 and lonely in a marriage that had gone cold, traded WhatsApp messages with a Chechen commander, Achmad, stationed somewhere in Ukraine’s occupied south. They wrote about their days, their disappointments, what they hoped to do when the war ended. She asked about the front. He told her.

“Send me a picture,” she said. “I want to see your life.”

One afternoon, he obliged—a photograph taken inside the barracks, of himself and another soldier grinning for the camera. Behind them, pinned to the wall, was a map of the compound showing the unit’s position.

The housewife did not exist. “She” was a middle-aged officer named Serhiy working for Ukraine’s military-intelligence directorate, part of a concerted effort to draw secrets from the men sent to occupy his country.

“Serhiy was great at flirting,” his commander told me. “Guys in our team started asking him for dating advice.” Shortly after Achmad sent that photograph, the coordinates it revealed were struck by a Ukrainian drone.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When 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.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
evergreen (via the brilliant @smoothdunk2.bsky.social)
a two-panel comic in which elon musk ignores a beautiful life of infinite possibilities in favor of screaming at people online because they do not find him funny
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outstar 🧛 "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"
Two closed coffins of Louis and Lestat from Interview of the Vampire AMC series
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/06/2026
The 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
Current status after less then 24 hours of GitHub Copilot usage (Pro subscription) with the new usage-based billing. I haven't even done any really complex work yet.... I have a feeling l'l be going somewhere else pretty soon. Been using GPT 5.4
today.
Monthly: 21% used • AI Credits: 280
• GitHub
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/05/2026
I think this might be the single most viscerally disgusting act of either of Trump's presidencies. Truly, utterly, vile.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/05/2026
Me, a week ago www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-ex...
Generative Al was purpose-built to grift an economy run by executives and managers who don't actually do any work. Its success has been driven by a remarkable, society-wide ignorance in the management sect, and its continued proliferation is only possible through the media's continued trust and faith in the idea that CEOs are
busy because they're actually doing work.
Yet even a Business Idiot eventually realizes that too much money is being spent, and the first one of these dimwits to cut their token budget will send the rest of them running for the doors.
We should lock them. We should make everybody who obsessed over theoretical ideas about what Al
can or will do ashamed for their intellectual deceit or constant ignorance.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/05/2026
ChatGPT 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.
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Google is its own worst enemy
In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/05/2026
Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
They protected rich pedophiles while retraumatizing victims. Think about that.
Screenshot of a tweet from @alluringmedia sharing testimony from Epstein victim Roza at what appears to be a congressional hearing, quoting her saying "The rich have their names redacted. Mine was not." Roza is shown reading from papers at a hearing table with a nameplate in front of her.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/04/2026
Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...
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The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards
AI 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.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
They 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.
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Deathiel Skelly @saffroncomic.com · 17/04/2026
Note that even this is arguably AI propaganda: It's not that AI sucks ass it's that it's being SABOTAGED!
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Everything is fucking dumb all the time now
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 made a surprising announcement Wednesday that it is pivoting to artificial intelligence.

Shares of the company were up as much as 200% pre-market.
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A photo of Lauren Sanchez Bezos, wife of billionaire Jeff Bezos. She wears a black sweater. A conspicuously large diamond to by on her finger.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
How rich people avoid paying tax (Originally by Instgram user @newmoney.blog)
This image appears to be a satirical illustration about how wealthy individuals can minimize their tax burden. It depicts a scenario where a CEO receives $1 million in salary and has $1 million worth of company stock. The illustration shows the CEO borrowing money against the value of their stock, spending the borrowed money as if it were income, and then claiming they have no income for tax purposes. The text suggests this strategy allows the CEO to pay significantly less in taxes.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This 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.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 09/04/2026
This is catastrophic.
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
What would be a true miracle is if Christians ever shut the fuck up.
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Artificial Taco 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @crunchyfishtaco.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Tfw a Muslim mayor honors a Christian holy day better than the ‘Christian’ president
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Leopards and their spots.
Screenshot of a tweet by Melanie D’Arrigo criticizing a man accused of sexual assault, quoting a post from Aaron Rupar. The quoted tweet shows Donald Trump saying, “We’re gonna have to force ourselves upon them, which we have the right to do.” The image shows Trump seated at a desk in the Oval Office, speaking, with framed photos and flags visible behind him.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
JK 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.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Far-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
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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
He's gone full Kim Jong Twat. 🐢💨
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BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
To loosely quote Eddie Izzard: "Sure, people kill people, but the gun sure as hell helps!"
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BrendanQ @bpq.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Every country should make it harder for its people to kill others, not easier.
Cartoon Strip: Bummer Party
Panel 1: One person asks "What's that?" Another person, holding a piece of paper, responds "It's an optical illusion."
Panel 2: They continue, saying "If you show it to any sane person, they'll see a very straightforward image. But watch - if you show it to a Republican, they'll won't be able to see it.", and show the piece of paper to a third person wearing a red peak cap.
Panel 3: The Republican says "That doesn't look like anything to me.", peering at the paper.
Panel 4: The person reveals the paper, which shows a graph plotting gun ownership and homicide rates in developed countries. The United Stated is in the top right corner (high gun ownership, high homicide rates). Germany, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Canada, Belgium, and France are in the bottom left corner (low gun ownership, low homicide rates).
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tante @tante.cc · 12/03/2026
The 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.
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Off the top of my head, Franchisteining feels appropriate.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Anderson 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 #UrbanTruth
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100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It’s like Kamala Harris said. An unserious man in a very serious position.
Screenshot of an X post by Justin Macmahan criticizing Trump for discussing interior decorating during a press conference on Iran. The quoted post includes Trump describing drapes and a future ballroom. Below is a video still of Trump speaking at a podium in a formal room with gold drapes behind him.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Jack 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
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 23/02/2026
Ryan 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
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