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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3h

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Pivot to AI is more profitable than OpenAI and Anthropic together please gimme $100b in my IPO it's AI

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/09/2026

Here's this week's Better Offline: I'm joined by Cal Newport and @adambecker.bsky.social to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI is driven by a religious cult of effective altruists and rationalists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVS... linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport | Better Offline

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

a bunch of ppl early on their coding journey have asked how I'd approach learning, so I made a video talking about that! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPM9... in summary: don't use AI (it'll hamper learning & prompting isn't a skill), focus on the fundamentals, finish projects!, Python + Rust + JS/TS??

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How I'd learn to code if I started over in the AI era

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/09/2026

Joined The Times Tech Report to talk about the instability of the AI industry as new Ramp data reveal that the 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic’s revenue come from 1% of their customers, and the deep conversation risk of the AI industry. youtu.be/KChHY1kDOFQ?...

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AI Bubble: ‘This is a fake industry’ | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2026

Whole segment is too long for Bluesky but the first three minutes is honestly a highlight reel of my work as an AI critic and it was absolutely incredible.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A ramble video about why I'm done using AI for coding youtu.be/2ZU3j4GQ4K8 I talk about my history with the technology, how it leds to worse software, and the negative impacts on society, the environment, and my mental health.

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I'm done coding with AI

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/08/2026

Joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about how 70% of AI revenues are coming from Anthropic and OpenAI, NVIDIA's vendor financing by proxy, and how outside of unprofitable AI labs, there's single-digit billions of dollars of demand for AI compute and software. youtu.be/8GWPjTDPVIM

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Ed Zitron on CNBC Squawk Box talking NVIDIA, unprofitable AI labs, and the Greater AI Bubble

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/08/2026

One of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/08/2026

Here's the full second segment I did with Bloomberg last week, talking about the circular AI economy, SpaceX and how AI is a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Gc...

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Zitron On Bloomberg on why people are anti-AI, SpaceX and OpenAI’s worrying price cuts

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/07/2026

Here's this week's Better Offline - I'm joined by Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, creating a culture of fear that demands workers lie about the benefits of AI to coddle Business Idiots. youtu.be/OrKSaVDu8nM?... linktr.ee/betteroffline

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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making with Nik Suresh | Better Offline

YouTube video by Better Offline

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Chrome forces Gemini AI global shortcut onto your Mac Google knows where you’re going today www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8XXxY9Cgo… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260727-chrom… - podcast time: 4 min 49 sec

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I really want to encourage influencers, news folks, pundits who made predictions about this speech to consider not doing that again. People were really scared in advance, needlessly. It's good to work with facts and not fabrications. You aren't predicting anything, you are just guessing.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/07/2026

Apparently I’m on the Drudge Report again?

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The Death of History..

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/07/2026

Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I run through how OpenAl's collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and destroy Larry Ellison's empire. youtu.be/tUb-B10h_qc?... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle | Better Offline

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/07/2026

I joined the Times Tech Report to talk Oracle’s credit downgrade, how OpenAI poses a material threat to the future of Oracle, Larry Ellison’s wealth, and even the Paramount/WBD deal, and how OpenAI could be the Lehman Brothers of AI. youtu.be/T757udwH45Q?...

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AI Bubble: Data center equity is getting dumped | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/07/2026

Had a great chat with Investor’s Business Daily about the AI bubble, OpenAI, SoftBank, why this is nothing like the dot com bubble, and how big tech has run out of hypergrowth ideas. youtu.be/syJ7kjXfJ-U?...

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The Bear Case For AI: Ed Zitron

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/07/2026

I believe that letting AI burn will allow for the tech industry to contemplate the mistakes that brought us here. And possibly — maybe — find a path to redemption. Maybe. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

Every major bubble that has ever happened has mostly left the stones of responsibility unturned. The carnage that I fear will follow this era’s collapse will be horrifying, and we must do everything in our power to both thoroughly understand how we got here and make sure it doesn’t happen again, which will involve many hard conversations about our financial system, media ecosystem, and how innovation is invested in, built, bought and sold.

The same goes for the acolytes of this era. There are people who have developed a genuine hostility toward those who do not immediately accept a for-profit entity as their lord and savior. This is a sickness within the tech industry that must be put to an end.

Much of this will be unavoidable, because I think what follows the AI bubble will be a greater revaluation of the tech industry, a necessary reckoning with reality for a Silicon Valley that’s far more beholden to capital than it is human progress. The cults of personality that dominate this industry do not care about you, or me, or anyone other than those they revere and their theoretical placement in their dream of a society dominated by the rich and their chosen cronies.

I refuse to accept their future as an inevitability.

As I said a few weeks ago:

The AI bubble is sold as the future, but actually resembles the death of Silicon Valley. Only a tech industry dominated by symbolic wealth and value creation would ever abide a trillion dollars of waste for a still-theoretical outcome, and only an intellectually-rotten Valley would be so easily-grifted by people like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman.
This era must end, and all failures must be allowed to fail.

Let AI burn.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

No one needs a smart toaster for fucks sake

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/07/2026

Joined Ed Elson on Prof G Markets to talk about Meta selling its AI compute capacity, and how it’s a tacit admission that Zuckerberg spent way too much capex on AI. youtu.be/okIHWPwRkms?...

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Meta Throws In The Towel On AI — What Comes Next?

YouTube video by Prof G Markets

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/07/2026

Will be live on CNBC at around 10:15am talking about the AI bubble, OpenAI floating government ownership, AI ROI and more.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/06/2026

The Better Offline Subreddit is so awesome. 122,000 views on a thread about why all the tech guys are so wet. A community visited by 186,000 unique and beautiful angels a week. Zitron Truth Social continues to grow at an alarming pace www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffl...

Why *do* they all look so ... moist?
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Musk, Altman, Thiel.
They all look like they've been dragged out of a pond by someone who has vaporub smeared under their nose.
They look like the early stages of the senator in X-Men who turns into a water balloon. Is it drug sweats? Do they just fundamentally misunderstand how to moisturize? Are they beginning to slough
off their human shells to reveal the chittering madness underneath?
I don't understand and I hate it

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/06/2026

Today’s free newsletter is about how Silicon Valley — as exemplified by the AI bubble — has abandoned its supposed principles of rationality and meritocracy, and now more closely resembles a cargo cult desperate to recreate bygone eras of growth. www.wheresyoured.at/cargo-culture/

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Cargo Culture

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/06/2026

Joined the Times Tech Report to dive into OpenAI's audited financials, AI companies burying costs in sales and marketing, and that the fact we have to debate AI's ROI four years and a trillion plus dollars in is proof that this industry is a bubble. youtu.be/UnLRb-sU-Is?...

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Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/06/2026

Joined Prof G Markets to talk about OpenAI’s financials - and its shocking losses. youtu.be/ytmKYBUfE_8?...

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OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

YouTube video by Prof G Markets

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/06/2026

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

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Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/06/2026

Had a great time talking to @chrislhayes.bsky.social for his AI End Game series on MSNow, covering the AI bubble, the SaaSpocalypse, the end of tech's era of hypergrowth, and the underlying economic fragility of data centers and the greater AI industry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mn-...

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Is the AI Boom About to COLLAPSE?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/06/2026

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

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Anthopic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed Zitron

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/06/2026

My favorite comment

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our boy on his best behavior

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/06/2026

New Better Offline: I’m joined by @paulkedrosky.com to talk about why nobody can find the ROI of AI, why there won’t be a Dot Com Bubble-style recovery for AI data centers, and how Google’s $80bn share sale shows we’re near the end. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · June 3 · 47m

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Elections are controlled by the states. A federal registry tramples states' rights. 2.Republicans are undemocratic AF. They want to make it as hard as possible for you to access your right to vote. 3.Come hell or high water, we all vote. They don't want us to vote? Fuck 'em, we're voting.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Tom Homan has said he will get an order to force-feed the Delaney strikers. ICE has been doing this for years. They have a facility in Texas known as the "force-feeding hub". Involuntary force-feeding is torture. It's a human rights violation.

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ICE is about to do something horrific to the Delaney Hunger Strikers

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

George Bush. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. Joe Biden. They have all allowed the involuntary forced-feeding of immigrants hunger-striking in detention. Mostly under sealed court orders. This is the legacy of Guantanamo Bay. Abolish ICE. Abolish DHS.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Cops are never there to defend your rights against the lawlessness and brutality of ICE. So grateful for indie journalists covering what’s happening. Keep your eyes on Delaney. Be loud in your opposition to injustice.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

All eyes need to be on Delaney Hall. To the courageous defenders of democracy and human rights out there protesting: thank you. You embody American values, human rights, and decency in an era when those in power abandon all 3. Thank you. Keep it up. Solidarity from Portland.

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If you watch ONE story from America today, let it be this one.

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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Delaney Hall ICE prison in New Jersey is a privately owned/operated immigration detention (prison) with a multi-$B U.S. contract. Immigrants are being held without due process, feed rancid food, severely mistreated and are on a hunger strike, while protesters are being attacked. Do not look away!

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The Big Meowski @catovitch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If you use Chrome on Windows, reclaim the 4GB of your SSD by creating: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings Type: DWORD Value: 1 Then restart Chrome and a few seconds later it'll delete the enormous, useless, unwanted slop cache.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Roberts Court, their corruption, destruction of democracy, and overt racism must spurn the People of this nation to reform the Court, pass laws to protect Black Americans' rights...let this be the thing that pushes us to fight for VRA2 and radical reforms. The racists don't get to win this.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 01/05/2026

#Degoogled Photos? Yes, it's possible. ✅🏞️ The Big Tech does not need to scan & have access to your pictures & videos 👉 use a Google Photos alternative instead. Find out which open source photo storage we'd recommend: tuta.com/blog/google-... #GooglePhotos #DeGoogle

Google Photos app icon with a red cross in the corner and an arrow pointing to better DeGoogled photo apps: Zeitkapsl, Immich, and Ente Photos.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I fucking called this immediately. First thing I said when I heard the news was that he'd use this to push for his Führerbunker.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

For calling out yet another right wing conspiracy theory that has been taken up by grifty creators on the Left, I’ve been called a heartless bitch, told I don’t care if scientists die, accused of being part of the huge cover-up of foreign govts murdering our “UFO scientists.” How was your morning?

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11 scientists have gone missing or perished?? What's going on??

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

lol same face

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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

An actual post by the sitting President of the United States. 🤬

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I posted this vid about scams + propaganda on social media that target older Americans, and my comments are full of Boomers who are really mad at me. Looking at how propaganda targets Boomers and what policies we need to protect society is not "boomer bashing". The fragility is wild. I'm so tired.

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AI Slop is like Cocomelon for Boomers and Gen X? Oh, no, it's way worse.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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