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Ah, my favorite reply. Kudos to @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy for anticipating this.

I don't know about you, but I am sick of corporate greed and how it drives the surveillance state. If greedy grocery chains will fire their workers, infringe on your privacy rights, and gouge you on food, then what do we about it?

"Why We’re Banning AI We urgently need to protect human thought and creativity. Our magazine is committing itself to remaining handmade. Ensure every publication you support does the same. Nathan J. Robinson" www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-wer...

US Third Circuit: AI training not fair use after all Anthropic on tenterhooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYp5RCRVTl4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video podcast coming shortly time: 5 min 10 sec

SpaceX to send Nvidia chips ‘somewhere in the universe’ pivoting from space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_TlfIKgL5w&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261008-spacex-to-send-nvidia-chips-somewhere-in-the-universe - podcast time: 5 min 20 sec

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/1w5h0mt/comment/p7ge004/

Pivot to AI is more profitable than OpenAI and Anthropic together please gimme $100b in my IPO it's AI

Excellent stuff from @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy youtu.be/Iur27O732w8

Here's this week's Better Offline: I'm joined by Cal Newport and @adambecker.bsky.social to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI is driven by a religious cult of effective altruists and rationalists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVS... linktr.ee/betteroffline

a bunch of ppl early on their coding journey have asked how I'd approach learning, so I made a video talking about that! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPM9... in summary: don't use AI (it'll hamper learning & prompting isn't a skill), focus on the fundamentals, finish projects!, Python + Rust + JS/TS??

Joined The Times Tech Report to talk about the instability of the AI industry as new Ramp data reveal that the 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic’s revenue come from 1% of their customers, and the deep conversation risk of the AI industry. youtu.be/KChHY1kDOFQ?...

Whole segment is too long for Bluesky but the first three minutes is honestly a highlight reel of my work as an AI critic and it was absolutely incredible.

A ramble video about why I'm done using AI for coding youtu.be/2ZU3j4GQ4K8 I talk about my history with the technology, how it leds to worse software, and the negative impacts on society, the environment, and my mental health.

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

Joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about how 70% of AI revenues are coming from Anthropic and OpenAI, NVIDIA's vendor financing by proxy, and how outside of unprofitable AI labs, there's single-digit billions of dollars of demand for AI compute and software. youtu.be/8GWPjTDPVIM

One of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.

Here's the full second segment I did with Bloomberg last week, talking about the circular AI economy, SpaceX and how AI is a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Gc...

Here's this week's Better Offline - I'm joined by Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, creating a culture of fear that demands workers lie about the benefits of AI to coddle Business Idiots. youtu.be/OrKSaVDu8nM?... linktr.ee/betteroffline

Chrome forces Gemini AI global shortcut onto your Mac Google knows where you’re going today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8XXxY9Cgo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260727-chrome-forces-gemini-ai-global-shortcut-onto-your-mac - podcast time: 4 min 49 sec

I really want to encourage influencers, news folks, pundits who made predictions about this speech to consider not doing that again. People were really scared in advance, needlessly. It's good to work with facts and not fabrications. You aren't predicting anything, you are just guessing.

Apparently I’m on the Drudge Report again?

Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I run through how OpenAl's collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and destroy Larry Ellison's empire. youtu.be/tUb-B10h_qc?... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

I joined the Times Tech Report to talk Oracle’s credit downgrade, how OpenAI poses a material threat to the future of Oracle, Larry Ellison’s wealth, and even the Paramount/WBD deal, and how OpenAI could be the Lehman Brothers of AI. youtu.be/T757udwH45Q?...

Had a great chat with Investor’s Business Daily about the AI bubble, OpenAI, SoftBank, why this is nothing like the dot com bubble, and how big tech has run out of hypergrowth ideas. youtu.be/syJ7kjXfJ-U?...

I believe that letting AI burn will allow for the tech industry to contemplate the mistakes that brought us here. And possibly — maybe — find a path to redemption. Maybe. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

No one needs a smart toaster for fucks sake

Nope youtu.be/sWFs6RrPNTw?...

Joined Ed Elson on Prof G Markets to talk about Meta selling its AI compute capacity, and how it’s a tacit admission that Zuckerberg spent way too much capex on AI. youtu.be/okIHWPwRkms?...

Will be live on CNBC at around 10:15am talking about the AI bubble, OpenAI floating government ownership, AI ROI and more.

The Better Offline Subreddit is so awesome. 122,000 views on a thread about why all the tech guys are so wet. A community visited by 186,000 unique and beautiful angels a week. Zitron Truth Social continues to grow at an alarming pace www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffl...

Today’s free newsletter is about how Silicon Valley — as exemplified by the AI bubble — has abandoned its supposed principles of rationality and meritocracy, and now more closely resembles a cargo cult desperate to recreate bygone eras of growth. www.wheresyoured.at/cargo-culture/

Joined the Times Tech Report to dive into OpenAI's audited financials, AI companies burying costs in sales and marketing, and that the fact we have to debate AI's ROI four years and a trillion plus dollars in is proof that this industry is a bubble. youtu.be/UnLRb-sU-Is?...

Joined Prof G Markets to talk about OpenAI’s financials - and its shocking losses. youtu.be/ytmKYBUfE_8?...

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

Had a great time talking to @chrislhayes.bsky.social for his AI End Game series on MSNow, covering the AI bubble, the SaaSpocalypse, the end of tech's era of hypergrowth, and the underlying economic fragility of data centers and the greater AI industry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mn-...

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

My favorite comment

New Better Offline: I’m joined by @paulkedrosky.com to talk about why nobody can find the ROI of AI, why there won’t be a Dot Com Bubble-style recovery for AI data centers, and how Google’s $80bn share sale shows we’re near the end. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Elections are controlled by the states. A federal registry tramples states' rights. 2.Republicans are undemocratic AF. They want to make it as hard as possible for you to access your right to vote. 3.Come hell or high water, we all vote. They don't want us to vote? Fuck 'em, we're voting.

Tom Homan has said he will get an order to force-feed the Delaney strikers. ICE has been doing this for years. They have a facility in Texas known as the "force-feeding hub". Involuntary force-feeding is torture. It's a human rights violation.

George Bush. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. Joe Biden. They have all allowed the involuntary forced-feeding of immigrants hunger-striking in detention. Mostly under sealed court orders. This is the legacy of Guantanamo Bay. Abolish ICE. Abolish DHS.

Cops are never there to defend your rights against the lawlessness and brutality of ICE. So grateful for indie journalists covering what’s happening. Keep your eyes on Delaney. Be loud in your opposition to injustice.

All eyes need to be on Delaney Hall. To the courageous defenders of democracy and human rights out there protesting: thank you. You embody American values, human rights, and decency in an era when those in power abandon all 3. Thank you. Keep it up. Solidarity from Portland.

Delaney Hall ICE prison in New Jersey is a privately owned/operated immigration detention (prison) with a multi-$B U.S. contract. Immigrants are being held without due process, feed rancid food, severely mistreated and are on a hunger strike, while protesters are being attacked. Do not look away!

If you use Chrome on Windows, reclaim the 4GB of your SSD by creating: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings Type: DWORD Value: 1 Then restart Chrome and a few seconds later it'll delete the enormous, useless, unwanted slop cache.

The Roberts Court, their corruption, destruction of democracy, and overt racism must spurn the People of this nation to reform the Court, pass laws to protect Black Americans' rights...let this be the thing that pushes us to fight for VRA2 and radical reforms. The racists don't get to win this.