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Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

Very glad to see this coverage of Chris Smalls being brutalized by Israel in @newrepublic.com.

newrepublic.com/post/198550/...

Now Anthropic is strongly considering weekly limits on Claude Code. Users making it clear they won't accept this or pay more than $200 a month. I am confident this happens because as my analysis suggests they are losing tons of money on each user!
www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode...

Drives me mad they didn’t do this, MAD, can you imagine not only a remaster but maybe even 2 versions where one features that unfinished second half and another…finishes it?!?!

we love xenogears don’t we folks, love it so much we made this mech from the game our logo (and gave if the hammer of ludd)

On Epstein, China, AI geopolitics, Gaza, and recommendations The Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #5 (7/25/25)

It’s been a while since I did a roundup! Essays on: Epstein & his intellectual enablers, China’s tech supremacy & critical minerals strategy, AI & automation hype, Gulf Vision plans & compute infrastructure, Israel’s starvation campaign in Gaza, and more thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-epstein...

it is a testament to the low quality of the people of this administration that gabbard does not stand out as especially delusional

Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’ We finally have a real definition of the elusive "AGI."

Reminder that the people who spend all day, everyday promising/warning of "superintelligence" still can't define it. Open AI's *best* definition is "whatever makes us $100 billion." Such a joke.

gizmodo.com/leaked-docum...

really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.

god is good

This Silicon Valley Stuff'll Get You Killed some notes on ritual sacrifice in the 21st century

wrote about Silicon Valley’s plot against everything thetechbubble.substack.com/p/this-silic...

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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

This Silicon Valley Stuff'll Get You Killed some notes on ritual sacrifice in the 21st century

wrote about Silicon Valley’s plot against everything thetechbubble.substack.com/p/this-silic...

an incomprehensible map of america covered in lines and arrows

Laughing so hard at this ChatGPT "Agent" that immediately fails at the first task, second try takes 21 minutes and results in a vague plan for a wedding and what suits to buy. A PRE PLANNED example of an itinerary for visiting every MLB stadium leads to this image
www.youtube.com/live/1jn_Rpb...

Once again time to re-read Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, and think about AI (in the words of @edwardongwesojr.com ) as tinder for "burning away what little remains of the New Deal"

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.

Here's what I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from the 2,000 phone calls.

the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective

the thing about elon musk’s new party is at least ross perot had a kind of charisma about him. watching elon speak is physically painful.

Very excited to return to Vegas next year for another week in Sodom, promises to be even more fun somehow

Better Offline's CES 2026 show will be a six-day-long onslaught, two 2 hour episodes a day with a finale on Saturday, featuring the return of @davidjroth.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, as well as new fourth mic comedian @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social. Returning is bartender @funranium.bsky.social

A sign I need to publish my essay on ChatGPT & post-literacy soon

YouTube video by tiffanyferg ChatGPT: the death of critical thinking? 👀 | Internet Analysis

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You just got cited twice (favorably) in a new video from Tiff Ferguson on AI and ChatGPT

youtu.be/2YF2I25KmTU?...

Zohran Mamdani: Some New Yorkers Say They Can Imagine Him With A Big Cape And Devil Horns

Zohran Mamdani: Some New Yorkers Say They Can Imagine Him With A Big Cape And Devil Horns

very well said from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

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The current Panic World episode with @edwardongwesojr.com on how everything turned to gambling is very worth listening to.
https://pocketcasts.com/podcasts/54d84a80-d828-013c-5cfe-0acc26574db2/8dd51267-787e-425d-91f2-84758e60bff7

How America Failed the Unhoused Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor.

It's hard to express what this review by @libbycwatson.com means to me — not just for its praise ("an incredible feat… the 21st-century equivalent of The Jungle") but for how precisely it captures the heart of my book: a system that cruelly exploits people's labor while denying them everything else.

one reason for this is how few US newsrooms are willing to interview and hire immigrant and international journalists due to legal costs for work visas, and how often non-white immigrant perspectives are considered 'bias' instead of expertise

"So long as you can convince people that it’s worth externalizing the moral costs (onto everyone else) and eschewing accountability (for harms visited on everyone else), then you can maximize returns, wealth, and power."

Brilliant essay on AI, the myth of its natural inevitability and the snake oil of salvation that we have to reject.

Great convo with @edwardongwesojr.com. Should we let the people who ruined public services and infrastructures in order to make their privatized versions of these seem good and indispensable be... in charge of stuff? Probably not lol.