Here’s what history teaches us about grand deceptions: they don’t repeat exactly, but they do share a signature—a 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
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 marvel—an impossibly intelligent machine that could beat Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin at […] More
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 planet—and unlike Hiroshima’s survivors, we’re eagerly standing in the blast radius, phones out, ready to let the shockwave vaporize our […] More
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
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
Welcome to the AI endgame, where the tech industry’s most expensive game of musical chairs is about to run out of music—and seats. While Silicon Valley’s philosopher-kings have been busy promising us AGI, immortality, and a new industrial revolution, a small problem has emerged: the money is running out, the hardware is rotting faster than […] More
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
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
In a breathtaking display of technical mastery that would make Alan Turing simultaneously proud and deeply confused, a YouTuber by the name Sammyuri has successfully built ChatGPT using Minecraft redstone circuits. Yes, you read that correctly. While the rest of the world debates whether AI will destroy humanity or save it, one visionary YouTuber has […] More
The Ministry of Artificial Intelligence—formerly known as OpenAI—has 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
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” – a miraculous feat of time-space manipulation that has condensed four years of computer science education into what can only be described as […] More
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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