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"MBAs loathe employees. Any employees. They despise you. AI promises the one thing MBAs want more than anything — firing people — so they’re all-in. That it doesn’t work does not matter."
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The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake
Both of these statements are true: Across the whole US economy, there’s not really a visible effect of AI on hiring and job mix; Some sectors are absolutely devastated directly by AI. But als…
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January 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
"MBAs loathe employees. Any employees. They despise you. AI promises the one thing MBAs want more than anything — firing people — so they’re all-in. That it doesn’t work does not matter."
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This is entirely fixable with more AI and better prompts.
AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist
'Our AI has messed up completely’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU5... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260130-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 48 sec
'Our AI has messed up completely’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU5... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260130-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 48 sec
January 31, 2026 at 11:35 AM
This is entirely fixable with more AI and better prompts.
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I do think the correct response to right-wing arguments going forward is "whatever you say, Epstein"
February 2, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I do think the correct response to right-wing arguments going forward is "whatever you say, Epstein"
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Yegge was a one hit wonder and has been living large off the royalties. It wasn’t even a good hit.
What happens when a once-respected engineer lets the brainworms take the wheel and the accelerator:
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Another great piece by @davidgerard.co.uk who you should definitely follow. #aifraud
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Another great piece by @davidgerard.co.uk who you should definitely follow. #aifraud
Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam
Steve Yegge is a renowned software developer. He’s done this for thirty-odd years. Senior engineer at Amazon then Google, blogger on the art of programming. Yegge was highly regarded. Then he got h…
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January 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Yegge was a one hit wonder and has been living large off the royalties. It wasn’t even a good hit.
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Seeing these Epstein transcripts go by is like a precursor to people vanishing into the AI solipsism loop.
A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses.
And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".
A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses.
And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".
know this is not something that could happen either in general or at least in the next few years but I would genuinely love it if a journalist could sit down with some of the powerful people who interacted with Epstein - even anonymously - so they could explain what they got out of the relationship
February 2, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Seeing these Epstein transcripts go by is like a precursor to people vanishing into the AI solipsism loop.
A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses.
And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".
A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses.
And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".
this is Kim Crawley's new book, Technofascism Survival Guide, which is kickstarting. if you have money, throw some at it! Kickstarter ends 12 Feb.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
followup to her previous book, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
followup to her previous book, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World
Technofascism Survival Guide
Technofascism is here. From the Black Panthers to Anonymous to Julian Assange, what can we learn and how can we resist?
www.kickstarter.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM
this is Kim Crawley's new book, Technofascism Survival Guide, which is kickstarting. if you have money, throw some at it! Kickstarter ends 12 Feb.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
followup to her previous book, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
followup to her previous book, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World
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Thinking about this a lot especially given how much people really just don't know about scientific fields' histories and how much the present is shaped by the past
3. the obsession with denying and rewriting history, pretending AI only appeared in the last 3 years or that it has no history before the last few decades, etc.
(Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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(Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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![3.3 Ahistoricism and the AI hype cycles
When I started writing about science decades ago [...] I edited an article in which [a computer scientist] predicted that AI would soon replace experts in law, medicine, finance
and other professions. That was in 1984.
John Horgan (2020, n.p.)
When we engage with the public, we notice people think that AI, as a field or a technology, appeared
on the scene in the last three years. And they experience confusion and even dissonance when they
discover the field and the technologies have existed for decades, if not centuries or even millennia
(Bloomfield 1987; Boden 2006; Bogost 2025; Guest 2025; Hamilton 1998; Mayor 2018). Such ahistoricism facilitates “the AI-hype cycles that have long been fuelled by extravagant claims that substitute
fiction for science.” (Heffernan 2025, n.p. Duarte et al. 2024). We have been here before, both with entanglements of AI and statistics with industry corrupting our academic processes, and with so-called
AI summers: hype cycles that pivot from funding booms to complete busts and cessation of research
(Bassett and Roberts 2023; Boden 2006; Law 2024; Lighthill et al. 1973; Merchant 2023; Olazaran
1996; Perez 2002; P. Smith and L. Smith 2024; Thornhill 2025).
To understand how industry tries to influence independent research for their benefit, we can look
to past examples of entanglement of industry and statistics. Ronald A. Fisher, a eugenicist and “the
founder of modern statistics” (Rao 1992), having been paid by the tobacco industry, claimed that because ‘correlation is not causation’ that therefore ‘smoking does not cause lung cancer’ (Fisher 1958;
Stolley 1991). The parallel between tobacco and technology does not end here: “both industries’ increased funding of academia was as a reaction to increasingly unfavourable public opinion and an increased threat of legislation.” (Mohamed Abdalla and Moustafa Abdalla 2021, p. 2; also see Knoester
et al. 2025) The histories of eugenics, statistics, comput…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreie4dme35ovxs6t4ekrdosziqnikttmmef63imkpxqh2fdlybzccoa@jpeg)
February 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Thinking about this a lot especially given how much people really just don't know about scientific fields' histories and how much the present is shaped by the past
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Please fill out this consultation on the "earned settlement" immigration proposals in the UK, which would see many people waiting 20 or 30 years for settled status in the UK and even then having "no recourse to public funds" despite working and paying tax. migrantsrights.org.uk/2026/01/29/e...
Call to Allies: Complete the ‘Earned Settlement’ Consultation - Migrants' Rights Network
New 'earned settlement' proposals left members of our Network feeling incredibly distressed. We're calling on allies to respond.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Please fill out this consultation on the "earned settlement" immigration proposals in the UK, which would see many people waiting 20 or 30 years for settled status in the UK and even then having "no recourse to public funds" despite working and paying tax. migrantsrights.org.uk/2026/01/29/e...
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JEFFREY EPSTEIN INVENTED LOOT BOXES.
February 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
JEFFREY EPSTEIN INVENTED LOOT BOXES.
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Adverts should be banned.
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Adverts should be banned.
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Certify your content AI-free if you estimate it's 90% not AI-generated! ha ha wut
Letting the AI guys be in charge of AI control would be uh *not good*, and like oil companies with carbon emissions they are really gonna want to get themselves put in charge of it
Letting the AI guys be in charge of AI control would be uh *not good*, and like oil companies with carbon emissions they are really gonna want to get themselves put in charge of it
February 2, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Certify your content AI-free if you estimate it's 90% not AI-generated! ha ha wut
Letting the AI guys be in charge of AI control would be uh *not good*, and like oil companies with carbon emissions they are really gonna want to get themselves put in charge of it
Letting the AI guys be in charge of AI control would be uh *not good*, and like oil companies with carbon emissions they are really gonna want to get themselves put in charge of it
Help needed: I'm writing a commissioned piece on getting business insurance for AI issues. Are you an expert I could quote on the topic? Do you know one? Please forward this around! Email is [email protected]. Thank you!
February 2, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Help needed: I'm writing a commissioned piece on getting business insurance for AI issues. Are you an expert I could quote on the topic? Do you know one? Please forward this around! Email is [email protected]. Thank you!
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let me strongly recommend Sandifer's writings on comics, which are as dense and fascinating and crazy as an Alan Moore script.
Today on Eruditorum Press, a massive post in every sense as Last War in Albion reaches From Hell. Make yourself a fresh pot of tea and settle in with it; this one’s a wild ride.
Chapter Three: The Ordering and Reordering of Data (From Hell)
CW: This post contains multiple graphic images, including Figure 1834, a photograph of a violently dismembered body.
Previously in Last War in Albion: Alan Moore took a big payday cranking out goofy...
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February 1, 2026 at 4:40 AM
let me strongly recommend Sandifer's writings on comics, which are as dense and fascinating and crazy as an Alan Moore script.
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almost never seen 'pert' used forgivably.
Mario Batali: "whip until the meringue forms pert little peaks"
FBI: "check his hard drive, boys"
Mario Batali: "whip until the meringue forms pert little peaks"
FBI: "check his hard drive, boys"
February 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
almost never seen 'pert' used forgivably.
Mario Batali: "whip until the meringue forms pert little peaks"
FBI: "check his hard drive, boys"
Mario Batali: "whip until the meringue forms pert little peaks"
FBI: "check his hard drive, boys"
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I feel like 'pert' is also usually a red flag, and not just in the context of breasts.
i would love never reading the word "nubile" in an article written by a man ever again
February 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I feel like 'pert' is also usually a red flag, and not just in the context of breasts.
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Ahahahhahahahah. No comment.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/cursor-lies-about-vibe-coding-a-web-browser-with-ai/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/cursor-lies-about-vibe-coding-a-web-browser-with-ai/
Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI
Here’s an awesome tweet from Michael Truell, CEO of Anysphere, who make vibe code editor Cursor: [Twitter, archive] We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor. It ran uninterrupted for one week. It’s 3M+ lines of code across thousands of files. The rendering engine is from-scratch in Rust with HTML parsing, CSS cascade, layout, text […]
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January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Ahahahhahahahah. No comment.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/cursor-lies-about-vibe-coding-a-web-browser-with-ai/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/cursor-lies-about-vibe-coding-a-web-browser-with-ai/
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The thing that stood out to me about moltbook and the discourse around it was how some people who are otherwise critical about AI and also sound systems thinkers even let themselves be wow’d by it because people have a hard time not reading purposive intelligence into emergent behavior
I was thinking, a really good question to ask students to see if they understand how LLMs work would be to ask them how the “emergent consciousness” of Moltbook is possible. Because it’s utterly explicable, even predictable, if you understand what the technology does.
Shocker: Moltbook is insecure and left users’ API keys exposed, allowing anyone to take over any account
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
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February 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
The thing that stood out to me about moltbook and the discourse around it was how some people who are otherwise critical about AI and also sound systems thinkers even let themselves be wow’d by it because people have a hard time not reading purposive intelligence into emergent behavior
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Happens more often than one would think, it seems...
"Peter Steinberger did a successful startup a few years ago called PSPDFKit, now called Nutrient. He did nothing for a few years. Then Steinberger got his spark back! Yeah, he came down with a case of AI."
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"Peter Steinberger did a successful startup a few years ago called PSPDFKit, now called Nutrient. He did nothing for a few years. Then Steinberger got his spark back! Yeah, he came down with a case of AI."
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Moltbot/Clawdbot: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work
The hot new AI personal assistant is Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot — until Anthropic sent them an angry message about trademarks. [Moltbot] You give Moltbot full access to your digital life — your cha…
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January 29, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Happens more often than one would think, it seems...
"Peter Steinberger did a successful startup a few years ago called PSPDFKit, now called Nutrient. He did nothing for a few years. Then Steinberger got his spark back! Yeah, he came down with a case of AI."
-- pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/28/m...
"Peter Steinberger did a successful startup a few years ago called PSPDFKit, now called Nutrient. He did nothing for a few years. Then Steinberger got his spark back! Yeah, he came down with a case of AI."
-- pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/28/m...
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“The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake – Pivot to AI”
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
> That darker reality is that the economy is already screwed.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
> That darker reality is that the economy is already screwed.
The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake
Both of these statements are true: Across the whole US economy, there’s not really a visible effect of AI on hiring and job mix; Some sectors are absolutely devastated directly by AI. But als…
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January 30, 2026 at 9:57 AM
“The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake – Pivot to AI”
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
> That darker reality is that the economy is already screwed.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
> That darker reality is that the economy is already screwed.
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WIth everything else you kind of forget that the president of the united states is a crypto scammer
May 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WIth everything else you kind of forget that the president of the united states is a crypto scammer
is this an op by private prison companies
February 1, 2026 at 7:32 PM
is this an op by private prison companies
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An important moment in the history of somethingawful is that the man who started gamergate posted his screed there first, and they immediately rejected it, deleted it, and banned him.
February 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
An important moment in the history of somethingawful is that the man who started gamergate posted his screed there first, and they immediately rejected it, deleted it, and banned him.
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Seeing it all laid out with serious grown-up legal documents, that prove everything all the way down to online chat and video games becoming bad, and just, like, every single opinion I've ever had about things being worse than they used to be turning out to be provable truths with origins
February 1, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Seeing it all laid out with serious grown-up legal documents, that prove everything all the way down to online chat and video games becoming bad, and just, like, every single opinion I've ever had about things being worse than they used to be turning out to be provable truths with origins
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Like we all KNEW it was one thing, we've all been saying that the current rise of fascism is the same thing as gamergate is the same thing as this-and-that and it all goes back to when one awful dork got mad about underage anime porn being banned from somethingawful so he started 4chan, we KNEW,
BUT
BUT
February 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Like we all KNEW it was one thing, we've all been saying that the current rise of fascism is the same thing as gamergate is the same thing as this-and-that and it all goes back to when one awful dork got mad about underage anime porn being banned from somethingawful so he started 4chan, we KNEW,
BUT
BUT