I Will Never Respect A Website
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Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan — Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants In what The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz and Ronan Farrow called a “tense call” after his brief ouster from…
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Since the beginning of 2023, big tech has spent over $814 billion in capital expenditures, with a large portion of that going towards meeting the demands of AI companies like…
The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here
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We have a global intelligence crisis, in that a lot of people are being really fucking stupid. As I discussed in this week’s free piece , alleged financial analyst Citrini…
AI Is Really Weird
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News: OpenAI CFO Doesn't Believe Company Ready For IPO, Unsure Revenue Will Support Commitments
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I’m turning 40 in a month or so, and at 40 years young, I’m old enough to remember as far back as December 11 2025, when Disney and OpenAI “reached an agreement” to “bring beloved…
The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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Why Are We Still Doing This?
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Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan — Black Bubblegum To understand the AI bubble, you need to understand the context in which it sits, and that larger context is the end of the…
The Beginning Of History
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In May 2021, Dario Amodei and a crew of other former OpenAI researchers formed Anthropic and dedicated themselves to building the single-most-annoying Large Language Model company…
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Soundtrack — Soundgarden — Blow Up The Outside World A lot of people try to rationalize the AI bubble by digging up the past. Billions of dollars of waste are justified by saying…
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I hear from a lot of people that are filled with bilious fury about the tech industry, but few companies have pissed off the world more than Adobe. As the foremost monopolist in…
On NVIDIA and Analyslop
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The AI Bubble Is An Information War
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