Elaine Atwell
@elaineatwell.bsky.social
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What could happen when the AI bubble bursts - The Dart
Crisis creates opportunity, and when the AI bubble bursts, there will be a chance for a reckoning for tech-driven capitalism.
www.thedart.co
i’ve read a lot of smart predictions about what happens when the AI bubble bursts, but they all left me dissatisfied.
i wanted something that captured what *could* happen, if we use this crisis as an opportunity.
www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...
i wanted something that captured what *could* happen, if we use this crisis as an opportunity.
www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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happy holiday season to my favorite bit of corporate copy: the imaginary conversation on the back of the bailey’s bottle.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
happy holiday season to my favorite bit of corporate copy: the imaginary conversation on the back of the bailey’s bottle.
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For my american comrades visiting their old parents this weekend
I cracked the code. Told my boomer dad that having motion smoothing on his TV 'makes it work twice as hard' and will 'wear it out faster' and now hes obsessed with making sure its off.
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
For my american comrades visiting their old parents this weekend
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"If you keep Orshansky’s logic—if you maintain her principle that poverty could be defined by the inverse of food’s budget share—but update the food share to reflect today’s reality, the multiplier is no longer three.
"It becomes sixteen."
"It becomes sixteen."
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"If you keep Orshansky’s logic—if you maintain her principle that poverty could be defined by the inverse of food’s budget share—but update the food share to reflect today’s reality, the multiplier is no longer three.
"It becomes sixteen."
"It becomes sixteen."
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
i reacted to this like a toddler playing peekaboo
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
i reacted to this like a toddler playing peekaboo
my review of ghost of yotei is that it’s an improvement over tsushima, which was pretty but overrated. stellar performances, good writing, rather shallow world interactions. my most damning criticism is that the romantic plot stayed subtext when it ABSOLUTELY could and should have been maintext.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
my review of ghost of yotei is that it’s an improvement over tsushima, which was pretty but overrated. stellar performances, good writing, rather shallow world interactions. my most damning criticism is that the romantic plot stayed subtext when it ABSOLUTELY could and should have been maintext.
y’all are about to make me mute “Star Wars.” and this, on the verge of the holiday season!
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
y’all are about to make me mute “Star Wars.” and this, on the verge of the holiday season!
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
i’m struck by how hard rogan is working to steelman him. he’s not really jumping on the “lmao a vulgar robot” schtick; he keeps saying “and it’s going to get better, right?” i think rogan can anticipate his own audience’s ick with musk in this moment and is trying to keep them on side.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
i’m struck by how hard rogan is working to steelman him. he’s not really jumping on the “lmao a vulgar robot” schtick; he keeps saying “and it’s going to get better, right?” i think rogan can anticipate his own audience’s ick with musk in this moment and is trying to keep them on side.
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The feeling I felt watching was familiar but I couldn't place it for a few minutes....then I realised....I felt the way I feel when I'm at a party and Cards Against Humanity comes out.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The feeling I felt watching was familiar but I couldn't place it for a few minutes....then I realised....I felt the way I feel when I'm at a party and Cards Against Humanity comes out.
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How To Have a Good Tiime or Like Really Make People Laugh at a Party
--by An Expert at Having a Good Time or Like Really Making People Laugh at Parties
--by An Expert at Having a Good Time or Like Really Making People Laugh at Parties
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How To Have a Good Tiime or Like Really Make People Laugh at a Party
--by An Expert at Having a Good Time or Like Really Making People Laugh at Parties
--by An Expert at Having a Good Time or Like Really Making People Laugh at Parties
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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A fine little article, like a modern-day Book of Isaiah.
Or maybe Jeremiah.
Look, I'm saying that it's angry, and apocalyptic, and is intensely immanentizing the eschaton.
Or maybe Jeremiah.
Look, I'm saying that it's angry, and apocalyptic, and is intensely immanentizing the eschaton.
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A fine little article, like a modern-day Book of Isaiah.
Or maybe Jeremiah.
Look, I'm saying that it's angry, and apocalyptic, and is intensely immanentizing the eschaton.
Or maybe Jeremiah.
Look, I'm saying that it's angry, and apocalyptic, and is intensely immanentizing the eschaton.
genuinely the world would be a better place right now if journalists did this.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
genuinely the world would be a better place right now if journalists did this.
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
“look, i don’t know who this ‘sue’ broad is, but whatever she said, i didn’t do it.” - andrew cuomo in the exact same situation
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“look, i don’t know who this ‘sue’ broad is, but whatever she said, i didn’t do it.” - andrew cuomo in the exact same situation
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”AI has been done to us these last three years, and when it collapses, its architects can’t be allowed to cheerfully walk away from the rubble. There must be a reckoning.”
i’ve read a lot of smart predictions about what happens when the AI bubble bursts, but they all left me dissatisfied.
i wanted something that captured what *could* happen, if we use this crisis as an opportunity.
www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...
i wanted something that captured what *could* happen, if we use this crisis as an opportunity.
www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...
What could happen when the AI bubble bursts - The Dart
Crisis creates opportunity, and when the AI bubble bursts, there will be a chance for a reckoning for tech-driven capitalism.
www.thedart.co
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
”AI has been done to us these last three years, and when it collapses, its architects can’t be allowed to cheerfully walk away from the rubble. There must be a reckoning.”
wicked for good does not measure up to the first one but i did have the joyous experience of sitting next to two teenage girls who i can confidently say are jonathan bailey’s BIGGEST FANS. when he said “you’re beautiful” they collapsed into ecstatic giggles for like 30 full seconds. bless them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
wicked for good does not measure up to the first one but i did have the joyous experience of sitting next to two teenage girls who i can confidently say are jonathan bailey’s BIGGEST FANS. when he said “you’re beautiful” they collapsed into ecstatic giggles for like 30 full seconds. bless them.
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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Elon Musk > Shakespeare
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Elon Musk > Shakespeare