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Fine, tech is gonna ruin the world—but keep your Soylent-stained fingers off my precious literature! Something new from me in @mcsweeneys.net. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lit...

Yes but why is Mitch so absurdly well hung?

“When they invited me to the Nazi Party, all I heard was the word ‘party’ and I accepted. I was as surprised as anyone when all that other stuff came out!”

Sam Altman immediately trying to work out how to get ChatGPT banned

Never thought I'd see Bernie helping out Amodei, Altman, Zuckerberg, and every other billionaire who pushes the "AI is oh-so smart" narrative to juice their valuations.

Cash-22 | noun A situation in which a startup founder must do unspeakable things to secure necessary funding. Usage: “Our CEO was in a Cash-22 at the Peter Thiel pitch event, and now he’s a mere shell of a man.”

So proud of my first @mcsweeneys.net piece! 🥹

Writing can be frustrating and exhausting, and sometimes it can feel like flying. Being able to articulate what I mean in words all the time has made me smarter and happier too. Writing a lot is deeply important and will change your life. Even if you think it sucks! It probably does at first!

if you could drop your poop into an AI and have it turn it back into nutritious and delicious food, and you could eat that food, would you eat it?

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"I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff."

Yeah and this worked especially well on CEOs and execs who haven't done any real work in years: "Holy hell, this AI just wrote a funny haiku! I can definitely replace the entire Keeping My Company Afloat Team with it."

I want to get "trust the vision of the poets" tatooed onto my god-damn forehead. www.sfwa.org/2025/12/23/i... from @lizjbradley.bsky.social

"Enjoy it while it lasts, Jensen! The bells tolleth for thee."

Ben Folds Five is the type of quirky-ass Emersonian shit that could only be popular in the 90s

ZIWE: Which is your favorite feature of ChatGPT - the people killing themselves or the plagiarism? ALTMAN: I, uh, I, well, I wouldn’t, ZIWE: How much money do you have in your wallet?

I dream of aging like an italian man whose blood is 50% amaro, 50% olive oil, and 50% cigar smoke

There's a sickness out there.

@edzitron.com, mind if I name my new punk band Patagonia Apes?

Be ungovernable

Fuck yeah this AI bubble has gotta burst any day now

Poop Co says Fart Inc shares are work $69 billion each

Over under on this being some AI thing?

KOKO: Chatgpt, good chatgpt, vibe code app ME: No Koko the app doesn't work, it won't function KOKO: Gorilla code, gorilla engineer ME: Koko the app doesn't even load on mobile KOKO: jealousy cynic

i'm no genius but it seems like doing things that most people like is a good way to win things where the goal is to get the most people to like you nice work, nyc!

my shorts algo is cooked

No this is very normal. Remember when Steve Jobs would take the stage and dramatically give birth to a new iPhone?

For some reason the overlapping AC split systems got me the most

No seriously editors would reject most of current reality as "implausible" and "uncreative"

Ezra Klein is the end result of people not understanding that The West Wing was just a TV show

Hell fuckin yeah

I wrote this after mainlining too much @edzitron.com www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

My rage knows no bounds.

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The biggest problem for the big AI players is their complete and utter well-poisoning: they announce their dogpiss products are ready for primetime, people use them as if they're perfect, the products shit the bed — and then people just don't trust it ever again. It is very funny, though.