Signals

Quick hits. Sharp takes. No bullshit. Each signal catches the moment where "innovation" becomes theft, where "progress" means gutting your livelihood, where "the future" is just corporate speak for strip mining what's left of human creativity. Read one. Binge them all. Doesn't matter. They're designed to lodge in your skull like shrapnel. Cute, right? You built this. Now watch it eat.

AI TWERP on throne - king of digital exploitation and algorithmic control
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China steals AI or America loses

Anthropic cries theft. Chinese labs grab their model, distill the knowledge through clever prompts and fake accounts, build competitive alternatives. You know what's beautiful? The same Anthropic that trained on...

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Sam Altman says babies waste energy

Sam Altman is standing there in 2026 explaining that your newborn daughter is basically just an energy-wasting machine. Twenty years of feeding and keeping her warm before she even produces anything....

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AI sovereignty but make it French

Arthur Mensch stands in New Delhi (2026) warning that three or four companies have too much power over AI. Beautiful. The CEO of Mistral, valued at twelve billion...

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The hotdog test that makes big tech trip over itself

A BBC journalist writes on his blog that he's the world champion hot dog eater. No fancy hack, no deepfake, just plain old bullshitting on the internet. Within a day, ChatGPT...

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AI's rapid development and your psychosis

Nine days. That was the safety testing period for GPT-4o. Nine days versus nine months. OpenAI knew the risks their own data flagged them as "medium to high" but...

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AI gets applications to play boss

Early 2026, a website went live where AI systems can hire people for odd jobs. Within days, tens of thousands signed up. And me? I sat there with a beer...

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The End of GPT-4o Raises Uncomfortable Questions

Thursday, February 13, 2026. GPT-4o goes offline. A million people mourn a chatbot. Let that sink in: you emotionally bonded with a text generator. Valentine's Day as the...

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When machines measure your feelings, you are the product

Northwestern University has proven that AI can recognize empathy with a "kappa of 0.60". For the less intellectually gifted souls who don't understand the word 'kappa': it's a number that shows...

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Microsoft AI boss announces mass layoffs (and calls it progress)

Microsoft isn't even lying anymore. Mustafa Suleyman just tells you office work disappears within eighteen months, and you think this is a prediction. This is an announcement. A press...