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in AIThe AGI Con: A 250-Year History of Selling the Same Miracle Over and Over Again
Here’s what history teaches us about grand deceptions: they don’t repeat exactly, but they do share a signatureâa seductive promise of a transformative leap, a new technology so revolutionary it will remake civilization as we know it, backed by charismatic prophets who tell us this time is different! In 1770, it was the Mechanical Turk promising […] More
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The Emperor’s New Algorithm: Why Your “Intelligent” AI Is Just the Mechanical Turk 2.0 with a Filipino Teenager in a Very Expensive Box
In 1770, a Hungarian inventor named Wolfgang von Kempelen unveiled a chess-playing robot (known as the automaton back then) that fooled emperors, statesmen, and the brightest minds of the Enlightenment for 84 years. The Mechanical Turk, as it was called, was a marvelâan impossibly intelligent machine that could beat Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin at […] More
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The Manhattan Project for Your Mind: How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bomb
In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, forcing an empire to its knees in a matter of days. In 2025, Silicon Valley is dropping something far more insidious on the entire planetâand unlike Hiroshima’s survivors, we’re eagerly standing in the blast radius, phones out, ready to let the shockwave vaporize our […] More
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The AI Ethics Course Speedrun: How Silicon Valley Discovered Infinite Irony
In a twist so poetically absurd it could only emerge from the tech industry’s reality distortion field, someone just used an AI browser to blitz through an online course titled “AI Ethics, Responsible Use, and Creativity.” The internet’s response was swift and merciless: “You learned nothing, and the more you delegate your thinking to AI, […] More
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The AI Bubble Is Speedrunning the 1929 Crash Playbook, Complete With Mass Layoffs and Ignored Warnings
On September 5, 1929, financial expert Roger Babson stood before a crowd and declared, “Sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific.” The market dipped 3%, the establishment dismissed it as a “healthy correction,” and two months later the entire economy imploded. On January 20, 2025, a Chinese AI lab called […] More
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The Theranos Playbook Gets an AI Makeover: When “One Test for Everything” Becomes “One Model for Everything”
In 2015, Elizabeth Holmes promised that a single drop of blood from a finger prick could run hundreds of medical tests with revolutionary accuracy, transforming healthcare forever. The technology didn’t work, the results were often fabricated or wildly inaccurate, and investors lost $700 million before Holmes was convicted of fraud. Fast forward to 2025, Sam […] More
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When Your Half-Trillion-Dollar Empire Includes a Delete Button: Elon Musk’s Masterclass in Digital Gaslighting
The world’s first half-trillionaire has a problem. Not a small problem, like “my yacht’s helicopter pad is too small” or “I accidentally bought another social media platform.” No, Elon Musk’s problem is that 2.9 million Tesla vehiclesâequipped with technology marketed as “Full Self-Driving”âare now under federal investigation for committing traffic violations that would get a […] More
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The AI Tulip Mania: How Silicon Valley Reinvented 17th-Century Dutch Financial Stupidity, GPU by GPU
In 1637, a Dutch trader named Jan van Goyen traded his entire house for three tulip bulbs. In 2024, OpenAI traded $10 billion in future revenue, Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, and whatever dignity it had left for the right to hoard Nvidia H100 GPUs ahead of its competitors. If you’re thinking these two scenarios are separated […] More
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That Cringe 2015 MrBeast Video Reveals Everything Wrong With YouTube’s Vanity Metrics Treadmill
In 2015, a teenage MrBeast recorded a message to his future self, obsessing over hitting one million subscribers like a gambler fixated on a slot machine jackpot. The video is unwatchableâa monument to the algorithmic Stockholm syndrome that YouTube has engineered into an entire generation of content creators. MrBeast now sits at 440 million subscribers, […] More
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Social Media Turned the Dunning-Kruger Effect Into a Business Model
Social media promised us the democratization of knowledge. What we got instead was a platform where any confident idiot can lecture the world’s foremost experts on their own inventions and face zero consequences. When someone on X told Grady Boochâthe literal inventor of Unified Modeling Languageâthat he doesn’t know anything about UML, it wasn’t a […] More
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Elon Musk Bought a $44 Billion Megaphone and Programmed It to Only Broadcast Himself
Elon Musk didn’t buy Twitter (now X) to save free speech. He bought it to ensure his speech is the only speech that matters. The algorithm isn’t brokenâit’s working exactly as intended, amplifying Musk-approved narratives while sending criticism into a digital black hole. You can technically post whatever you want on X, but the algorithm […] More
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Reddit: The American Gated Community Masquerading as the Internet’s “Front Page”
In a dazzling display of hypocrisy that would make the Vatican clutch its pearls, Reddit continues to brand itself as the âfront page of the internetâ (now “The Heart of the Internet” – whatever that means!) while operating more like the front gate of a gated American suburb: armed with paranoid moderators, nosy bots, and […] More
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in Social Media
The Algorithm’s’ Greatest Triumph: Monetizing Lewis Hamilton’s Dead Dog
In a stunning display of social media algorithmic efficiency that would make Edward Bernays weep with professional admiration, social media sites have successfully transformed the death of Lewis Hamilton’s dog Roscoe into a perfectly optimized engagement machine. Yes, you read that correctly. In 2025, we’ve reached the evolutionary apex of digital capitalism: the systematic monetization […] More
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If Content is King, then Context is god
Abstract For thirty years, the digital economy ran on a single commandment: ‘Content is King.’ That era is over. The principle that fueled the rise of search engines and the entire attention economy has collapsed under the weight of its own success. The democratization of publishing, supercharged by generative AI, created an information deluge that […] More
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in AIOpenAI Announces Revolutionary New Linkedin Killer Where Robots Interview Robots While Humans Watch Netflix!
The Ministry of Artificial Intelligenceâformerly known as OpenAIâhas announced its latest innovation in human optimization: a LinkedIn competitor that promises to revolutionize the hiring process by removing the most inefficient element from recruitment: actual humans making actual recruitment decisions. According to Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s newly minted CEO of Applications (a title that sounds suspiciously like […] More
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The Last Browser War: Google’s Pyrrhic Victory in the Age of Conversational Computing
Recently, Google announced with considerable fanfare that it had successfully defended its right to maintain control of the Chrome browser against Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust proceedings. The victory was hailed by tech journalists as a triumph of innovation over regulation, a vindication of Google’s stewardship of the internet’s primary gateway, and a blow against […] More
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Down the .COM Rabbit Hole: A Mad Hatter’s Guide to Digital Real Estate in an AI Wonderland
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her, frantically typing on a laptop and muttering, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late for the .ai domain auction! The […] More
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The Merchant of Cloud: How Amazon Accidentally Taught Silicon Valley to Print Money
What fools these mortals be! For in the year of our digital lord two thousand and thirteen, when the world still believed that “the cloud” was merely where rain came from, there emerged from the primordial soup of Seattle’s coffee-stained ambition a leviathan that would reshape the very foundations of technological commerce. Amazon Web Services, […] More
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The Great SEO Famine: A Tale of Two Internets
It was the best of search engine algorithms, it was the worst of them. In the hallowed halls of Boston’s most prestigious SEO cathedral, Semrush headquarters, the ghosts of Google’s PageRank past wandered through empty cubicles like digital Marley’s chains, rattling with the weight of a thousand unpaid invoices and discontinued features. The year 2024 […] More
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The Great Software Developer Compression: How Silicon Valley Accidentally Speedrun Themselves Into Extinction
In the grand tradition of technological innovation solving problems that didn’t exist while creating catastrophes that definitely do, the software engineering profession has undergone what historians will undoubtedly call “The Great Compression” â a miraculous feat of time-space manipulation that has condensed four years of computer science education into what can only be described as […] More
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The Curious Case of the Self-Regulating AI Industry: How Silicon Valley Convinced Everyone That Foxes Make Excellent Henhouse Guards
The facts of the case, when laid bare, present a puzzle so elementary that even the most novice investigator of corporate behavior should find the solution immediately apparent. Yet somehow, an entire industry has managed to convince regulators, politicians, and the public that the very companies racing to deploy potentially dangerous artificial intelligence systems are […] More
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Elon Musk Discovers Revolutionary New AI Marketing Strategy: Complaining About Everyone Else While Screaming About His Own Product
Down the rabbit hole of social media self-promotion, where logic goes to die and billionaires tweet in circles, Elon Musk has stumbled upon a marketing strategy so brilliantly contradictory that it would make the Mad Hatter applaud while simultaneously filing a patent infringement lawsuit. In a world where artificial intelligence has become the new gold […] More
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OpenAI Announces Revolutionary New Mission: “Artificial General Intelligence for Some Humans, Miniature American Flags for Others”
In a stunning display of corporate transparency that would make Winston Smith weep with joy, OpenAI has quietly clarified its mission statement. No longer content with the vague promise of “ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,” the company has embraced a more nuanced approach: “ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits the humans who can […] More
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Adobe Somehow Missed the Most Obvious Money-Printing Opportunity in Tech History: Dreamweaver as the Ultimate Vibe Coding Platform
Down the rabbit hole of corporate strategy blunders, where logic goes to die and billion-dollar opportunities slip through the fingers of companies who specialize in turning simple creative tools into subscription-based torture devices, we find perhaps the most bewildering oversight in Silicon Valley history. Adobeâthe same Adobe that convinced designers to pay monthly rent for […] More
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Peter Thiel Discovers Revolutionary Investment Strategy: Say One Thing, Do the Opposite, Profit Enormously
The most successful investors of our time have perfected a technique so elegant in its simplicity that it would make Machiavelli weep with admiration. They have learned to weaponize wisdom itself, transforming genuine insights into strategic misdirection that serves their interests while leaving followers to stumble through markets armed with advice that was never meant […] More
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Down the Rabbit Hole: How AI Companies Discovered That Their Revolutionary Technology Only Works When Users Are Psychic
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her laptop, having nothing to do. Once or twice she had peeped into the AI chatbot her company had purchased for $20,000 per month, but it had no pictures or conversations worth havingâ”And what is the use of artificial intelligence,” thought Alice, “without pictures or […] More
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A Tale of Two Millimeters: How Apple Discovered That Customers Were Holding Their Phones Wrong (They Were Too Thick)
It was the best of times for Apple shareholders, it was the worst of times for anyone who actually wanted their iPhone to survive a gentle breeze. In the gleaming towers of Cupertino, where the air is thick with the scent of liquid courage and premium pricing strategies, a revolution was brewing. Not the kind […] More
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