AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.
Why is Naomi Klein Funding Substack’s Hate Machine?
Writers of good conscience should not be building new media companies on the back of a platform that opportunistically coddles white supremacy.
The Lies They're Telling Towns And Tribes About The Benefits Of AI Data Centers
Unregulated AI data centers will not, surprisingly, turn your struggling rural West Virginia town into a modern techno-Utopia.
The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us
The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.
Musk Tries To Bribe Memphis So They'll Overlook His AI Data Centers Are Killing Black Toddlers
Elon Musk's business decisions routinely leave minority populations lodged squarely under his white supremacist bootheel.
Midterm Media Bedwetting Over 'Socialism' Has Truly Begun
The extraction class media will spend all summer and fall telling you that very ordinary and popular public interest reforms are the very worst form of extremism.
It's The Corruption, Stupid
A generational opportunity to bridge the digital divide was hijacked by Republicans and converted into a giant slush fund for the country's richest technofascists.
Big Tech: AI Data Center Opposition Is An UnAmerican Criminal Conspiracy
The wheels are in motion to frame legitimate backlash to extractive and racist technofascism as radical, dangerous, unAmerican criminality.
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster
Once again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person.
Trust Fund Media Brunchlords Can Only Fail Upward
The only thing likely to save us from billionaire domination of media is the incompetence of the brunchlords and nepobabies failing ever-upward.
Selling You The End Of The World
AI sci-fi doomsday scenarios exist to misrepresent what modern software is capable of, and spook lawmakers into embracing terrible laws, written by rich and terrible men, that will free them from oversight, ethics, and accountability.
Would You Just Look At This Shit
Even if you put AI ethics and tech's support of fascism aside (which you shouldn't), the quality control at major tech companies has become an embarrassing and dangerous mess as they try to justify years of hype.
Privacy-Eroding Corruption Is Literally Killing U.S. Troops
The U.S. lacks privacy protections because it's too corrupt to function, but the consolidated press is too broken to make that clear to anyone.
Jeff Bezos Is Afraid Of What Comes Next
What comes after authoritarianism and the golden age of corruption? Billionaires are desperate to abuse their control of mass media to convince you it's anything other than good faith, popular, progressive reform.