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Johnny
@doctorvenkman.com
Laid off IT guy, freelance writer, hosting and posting at Culture Dumpster, bylines for Hard Drive & The Hard Times.

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I just got laid off from my IT support job of almost five years. Idk what comes next but if you want to support my creative endeavors and my family now that I am without a job I will love you forever.
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Writing stories and hanging out on the internet
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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imagining this as a post that was supposed to come from an alt and it’s very funny
Mr Cuban,

I just wanted to quickly thank you. My husband has XXXX cancer, a rare gastrointestinal cancer. We are between insurance right now and when we went to pick it up we were informed it was $29,000. We were able to get it from CostPlus for $990. Thank you for saving my husband's life.
December 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I am Not Afraid to say “MERRY CHRISTMAS” - Share if Your Brave Enough to say It
December 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Emotionally Distant Family Spends Holidays Watching Touching Family Dramas Together https://theonion.com/emotionally-distant-family-spends-holidays-watching-tou-1819566264/
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.
Opinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"I did not hit her, I did NAHT. Oh hi Grimace!"
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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December 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I can’t properly convey what it means to have words I wrote on my favorite video game website. Unreal.

Also can’t believe I was still asked to write a list after ending the Lion King segment while @tolkoto.com was on the brink of defeating Scar.
Johnny Amizich (@doctorvenkman.com) freelancer at Hard Drive and HOST of the podcast Culture Dumpster provided his Top 8 Games of 2025.

Damn, y'all remember we had to play Lion King for the SNES earlier this year???
giantbomb.com/articles/joh...
Johnny Amizich's Top of 2025 | Giant Bomb
Johnny Amizich's Top 8 Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year extravaganza.
giantbomb.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Look Ma! I made it onto @giantbomb.bsky.social!
December 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Marco has been enjoying some delicious nose clams
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I was rewarded with @theonion.com gift wrap for waiting until the last minute to wrap my wife’s Christmas presents.
December 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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As someone who was there when they dismantled the bitch ass John C Calhoun statue and watched people cheer and chant for weeks for it to be taken down. I can only imagine how crazy people are gonna go when they take down all the Trump bullshit in 3 years.
December 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Please enjoy our replacement segment, “Gee, Ain’t America Grand?” With Lee Greenwood and Scott Baio, w/ a special appearance by Kid Rock!
An Editor’s Note From Hard Drive:
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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It is wild to me that Sonic fans managed to figure out that **NONE** of Tommy Tallarico's music for "Sonic and the Black Knight" is original (it's all sourced from PSX's "Black Dawn" and PC's "Adenix" respectively) **AND** managed to figure out that one of those songs was straight up stolen lol
December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Tomorrow! Starting at 3pm EST we are doing a 2 day charity marathon: Jingle Hells. We'll be raising money, like we have at the end of every year, for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention matched up to the first $250 from me personally to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (Contd)
December 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Blue Owl - the company that's basically responsible for organizing EVERY major multi-billion dollar data center deal - couldn't raise $10bn to fund Oracle's Michigan data center. If they can't get banks interested, the party is over.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Finally, NVIDIA's AI GPU sales are quietly collapsing, with the majority - 61% in its latest quarter - of revenue coming from four customers. Over the last 3 quarters, smaller customer revenue has collapsed from $25.89bn to $12.9bn.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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bari weiss going to see the epstein files and ask bill clinton to do a town hall about what love means to him
December 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM