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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Been busy painting as Golden Demon looms… More photos > www.instagram.com/p/DdRz-0hCoT...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026

This includes the best intro to a newsletter yet

The year is 2026, and you are a hyperscaler CEO. You zip up your Patagonia vest, type UPDATE ME ON CALENDOR TOODAY into ChatGPT, and see that you have a meeting with your CFO. They tell you that while they love all those GPUs you’re buying for those data centers that will absolutely get built and totally agree that you should buy more, your company cannot actually afford to buy them at the current pace.

“But we’re one of the single-largest cash-generating companies in the world!” you scream so hard that your horribly-trained Shiba Inu starts chewing on the side of your Aeron chair. “We’ve been doing AI for years! Where is the money?”

The CFO furrows their brow. “Well, that’s the thing. We’re not actually generating that much cash from it, and actually appear to be losing money. Why do we want to buy more GPUs? We still haven’t installed most of the ones we bought-”

You begin to shake uncontrollably. “To. Do. Artificial. Intelligence. What. Is. It. You. Don’t. Understand. Why. More. GPUs. Now.” The Shiba Inu is now tearing into your Eames chair, but you’re too angry to notice.

Your CFO, thankful that there’s a Microsoft Teams window between the two of you, seeks to calm you down, and asks ChatGPT to give them a script to calm you down. “I understand that you didn’t like what I said — and that’s on me. I have a really great solution for you that I think will solve the problem — we’ve got great credit, and we’d be able to raise in all sorts of ways. It’s not just a solution — it’s a strategy.”

You stop shaking. Your idiot Chief Financial Officer had a great idea. You ask ChatGPT to vibe code a dashboard of potential options and it crashes your Chrome browser. “I just ran the numbers. You’re right.” Your CFO smiles as they see your Shiba Inu empty its bladder in the background.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great, a decade of an utterly boring track that they never bothered to give even 1 overtaking place…

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Onion's potential revenue is $31 trillion.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

i think we’re going in a healthy direction

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Heading: “Discussing Movies with Friends”
Three people sit around a table discussing a movie they just saw. The conversation goes:
Blue Person: I think it’s his best work
Yellow Person: Really?
Purple Person: It was pretty good

Panel 2: Heading: “Online Movie Discourse”
Yellow Guy is being dragged to hell by terrifying ghouls. They scream “WE SAW A BOOB AND IT SCARED US”

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

if you approach your interpersonal relationships this way you deserve to die alone

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

‘We’ll pay for a VAT cut on energy bills with the savings from not doing Digital ID’ - Burnham ‘We never costed that policy you fool’ - Starmerites Amazing, this new Labour government didn’t even make it 24 hours before it started fighting among itself.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What AI (LLM) boosters don't understand is that the use cases for LLMs are centered around people who know how to think, how to learn and how to say "I don't know". ChatGPT's public release in late 2022 was carcinogenic to thought

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Looking forward to another, more desperate ‘you stupid plebs need to embrace the future, pleeeeeease!’ from ol’ Clammy Sammy.

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Nice of Andy to kill even the slightest sliver of optimism stone dead right out the gate. Great day for Lockheed Martin and the bond markets though.

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Definitely my most reusable meme…

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It's really tiring that so many excellent writers spent decades pointing out that the boss-class will try to do this, and people just turned their noses up because it was "science fiction"...

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Microplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Politicians with some left wing ideas: dangerous, unserious, not sensible. Comedy bin idiot: very good, hero, potentially the next Zelensky. 👏 Know 👏 the 👏 rules.

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David Michael Pierce @dweeze.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I laughed hard at this, paused to admire it, then laughed hard again

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So will this be Farage taking ‘a break’ so he can go on the grift unencumbered before he inevitably tries to slither back in yet again?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose

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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Obviously it’s immensely satisfying to see pictures of Ronaldo crying, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that he’ll still be crying off camera in the dressing room and possibly in his hotel room and maybe even on the flight home

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The person with the Ronaldo and Lamal poster is a level of 50/50 scarf wanker not previously ever reached.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

genuinely concerned that if AI goes bankrupt I might shrug so hard I dislocate both shoulders

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Describe the economy in a single sentence

Notice on a vending machine saying: "FYI (OUT OF ORDER) (DOES NOT GIVE YOU ICE CREM BUT IT TAKES MONEY"

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What a match that was, everything you want to see from an underdog nation, the fight, the determination! Well done to Ecuador!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Internal mechanism
The True Source of Value
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What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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ASI
ASI
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ASI
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Market
Capitalization
Egg
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value
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Goose
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Shareholder Value = 3 eggs
Goose was not valued
Goose value
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Eggs do not lay eggs
3 → 74
Increase = 71
It was the goose that created value
74 - 3 = 71
Goose value
71
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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Well I hope they enjoyed the holiday and the songs, because they’ve been bloody terrible on the pitch throughout.

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As feared, the decision to hand Clarke a huge extension before this tournament under no pressure gets worse by the game. He’s shown his and his team’s limit in 3 tournaments now, don’t fancy another 4 years of this.

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Such a typical Clarke game, play for a draw, or even the 0-1, come to life too late. And Grant Hanley has no business on a pitch at this level.

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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

WORLD CUP HIGHLIGHT RANKINGS SO FAR 1. Boston/Scotland love-in 2. Scotland winning 3. Ronaldo's misery 4. Memes about Ronaldo's misery 5. The misery of the sort of adult who idolises Ronaldo

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🎃🍁Evie Lyn Devers🍁🎃 @sinebadger.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Every pitch I’ve heard for how AI can make my job more efficient starts like this

Simpsons Clip - Troy McClure selling a horribly inefficient orange juice maker, starting with the false pretence that making orange juice is painful

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onion person @junlper.beer · 08/06/2026

i love how insane everyone is now

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My belief that Charles Leclerc wished for his F1 career with a monkey’s paw continues unchallenged.

static.klipy.com

Monkeys Paw Grabs

ALT: Monkeys Paw Grabs

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I’m in this month’s White Dwarf! 😮

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Absolutely this. There’s no security or certainty at all any more.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The chad Guillermo Del Toro vs the virgin Peter Jackson.

Guillermo Del Toro Would "Rather Die" Than Use Generative AI: "I Am Not Interested"

Sir Peter Jackson: AI should be treated like any other tool

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Almost like continually changing PM’s but not considering any meaningful change to our system just leads to burning through leaders at an ever increasing pace…

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Definitely noticing AI generated adverts starting to turn up on Sky Sports ad breaks. Stand out a mile off. Garbage.

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

That’s for every unskippable YouTube ad I’ve had to suffer through.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/05/2026

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Ever drier times at the Shapiro household.

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Tonight I experienced the Tesco of the future! Got to the till, it says it’s ’no scan’ instead you just put your stuff on the ledge, and a camera captures it, then up pops everything you have, ready to pay. Genuinely impressed by tech for once haha

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

i love it when Ed threatens me with a good time

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Back home from Salute and… I came third in sci-fi vehicle!

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Judging by how often he pops up when I’m trying to watch YouTube, this is very much happening now.

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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Scott B @tsukurupaints.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

He’s going to nuke them isn’t he. Any wave of degenerate gambling bets placed on that yet?

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