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Joe Duncan
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janskudlarek.bsky.social
Elon Musk radikalisiert momentan die englische Öffentlichkeit mit rechtsradikalen Botschaften. Extreme politische Inhalte werden von einem rechten Algorithmus gezielt gepusht, andere werden unterdrückt.

Deshalb: X gehört reguliert und Musks Einfluss eingeschränkt - international!
ottoenglish.bsky.social Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24d
X is designed to radicalise people.

The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.

Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
joemduncan.bsky.social
"We’re living through a strange cultural reversal in which eroticism—that infamous, age-old, reliable conduit for human pleasure, imagination, and the beautifully chaotic, ungovernable side of being human—has been quietly evacuated from everyday life through alarmless emergency exits."
What Happened to the Erotic?
A philosophical essay on the great restructuring of eroticism
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
joemduncan.bsky.social
“The coming Slopocalypse will be the moment when the environment of the Internet can no longer support human intention. In other words, it’ll be the point when our incentives are so misaligned with powerful corporations and the technologies they provide that we can no longer accomplish what we want”
The Coming AI Slopocalypse
How AI is turning the open web into a toxic waste dump of averaged-out everything—and what we can do about it.
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
joemduncan.bsky.social
Matthew absolutely NAILED the magnificent Simone Weil in this episode. For any others who love Weil, this is definitely worth a listen.
September 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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freikampf.bsky.social
Denkt dran: Der Klassenkampf ist noch nicht vorbei!
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
joemduncan.bsky.social
@edzitron.com might find it interesting that the AI-skeptic view is kinda sorta slowly going mainstream:

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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edzitron.com
This is one of the greatest screenshots anyone has ever sent me
A screenshot of the New York Times hardfork podcast TikTok about the ai bubble where someone has posted the smiling man
September 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
joemduncan.bsky.social
I’m old enough to remember when companies charged you more (time or money), it meant you got an upgraded product. Now the opposite is the norm. Duolingo’s switch from hearts to energy gives you less product for your time/money. It also makes no sense—less time on the app equals less ad revenue.
How Duolingo’s New Energy System Is Failing Its Users
Last week, I was scrolling through my morning tech news when a headline from The Verge caught my attention: “Duolingo is replacing hearts…
medium.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
joemduncan.bsky.social
I feel like an alien walking around with one of these antiques everywhere I go, while everyone else buries their faces in glowing screens.
Open book, Paradise Lost by John Milton.
September 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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danielkubiak.bsky.social
Ich höre immer wieder, Social Media ist gefährlich für Kinder. Als Vater von Kids (10 und 17) sage ich ja, stimmt. Man sollte sie begleiten, sich selbst Expertise aneigenen etc. Als Sohn und Bekannter von Boomern, muss ich aber sagen. Social Media ist hier noch viel gefährlicher. Die dürfen wählen.
September 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
joemduncan.bsky.social
More low-tempo than my usual Medium story, but here’s my argument for preserving culture in the high-tech age based on Shakespeare’s tumultuous history.
The Case for Preserving Culture
What the turbulent history of Shakespeare tells us about our pressing need to preserve culture
medium.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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derekberes.bsky.social
The brain worm is still working its magic.
August 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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edzitron.com
Next time somebody asks me "what if I'm wrong" I'm just going to start asking "what if I'm right?"
August 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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edzitron.com
The AI bubble is bursting, and the things that will accelerate the collapse are NVIDIA's growth slowing, the death of AI startup funding, the collapse of a major AI startup, big tech turning on AI, and a collapse of neoclouds like CoreWeave.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-bubble-20...
NVIDIA's Growth Slows: As discussed in the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, NVIDIA is the weak point in the Magnificent Seven (which collectively account for 35% of the value of the US stock market) specifically because of its success (19% of the Magnificent Seven's value) and value, which is driven entirely by its ability to sell more and more GPUs every single quarter. It is inevitable that its growth slows, and once it does, the AI story crumbles with it. Perhaps it has a down quarter then an up quarter — but that's three long months to make the markets happy. I will add that there's a chance the bubble reinflates a touch if NVIDIA crushes earnings. Or maybe the market doesn't care? We'll find out at the end of next week. AI Funding Will Start Drying Up, And AI Companies Are The Most Funding-Dependent Companies of All Time: As The Information wrote last week, the "dry powder" (available capital to invest in totality) has dropped, and venture capitalist Jon Sakoda of Decibel Partners believes that "...if VCs keep investing at today's clip, the industry would run out of money in six quarters." Removing OpenAI and Anthropic, the party will continue until 2028...but we all know those are the companies that are getting the money. One of the major AI companies will collapse: OpenAI and Anthropic both burn billions of dollars a year, and have shown no interest in stopping doing so, with Altman doing his best Lord Farquaad impression and saying that OpenAI is "willing to run at a loss" as long as it takes to get...somewhere. For the bubble to burst, one of these companies has to die, and I will explain how this might happen. In both of these cases, going public will be nigh-on impossible, and even if successful will expose what I believe to be their rotten economics. Big Tech Will Turn On AI: Meta's AI hiring freeze isn't enough: Meta, Google, Amazon or Microsoft needs to bring an end to their capex burn, and they need to be definitive that it's A) happening and B) that it's happening, at least in part, because they have "built enough" or "exceeded the opportunity in AI." These companies are barely making $35 billion in revenue from AI in 2025, and I doubt that revenue is increasing. Another part of this: The Markets Make Big Tech Put Up Or Shut Up: At no point have the markets really interrogated the revenue from AI. I can imagine some weird fucking games happening here. Microsoft, the only member of the Magnificent Seven outside of NVIDIA willing to talk about AI revenue, stopped reporting AI revenue in January, when it was at $13 billion "annualized" (so a little over $1 billion in revenue a month). One has to wonder if this means revenue is flat or falling, as annualized is monthx12. I can also see a scenario where these companies start putting out obtuse "AI-enabled" revenue stats. I do not think this works, and if it does, it only puts off the inevitable, because they cannot avoid the capex crunch that's coming. This particular scenario is one that will happen in pieces. AI Startups Will Start Dying: As I've discussed previously, AI companies are currently raising at suicidal valuations that make it impossible for them to ever sell or go public. CoreWeave Will Die: AI data center developer CoreWeave is a time bomb, burdened with, to quote analyst Gil Luria of DA Davidson, "deteriorating operating income." It’s also a critical partner to OpenAI, providing compute as part of an $11.9 billion five-year-long contract, despite the fact that it's unclear if it has even come close to finishing its data center development in Denton, Texas. This has to be done by October, in part because that's when OpenAI is due to pay Coreweave, and in part because that's when it has to start paying back its massive, multi-billion …
August 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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edzitron.com
Premium newsletter: My 14.5k word piece, "AI Bubble 2027" - extrapolations of what may happen in the next 18 months, conditions that might accelerate a collapse, and how OpenAI and Anthropic overstate user numbers and revenues while hiding their awful burnrates.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-bubble-20...
AI Bubble 2027
Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer An MIT study found that 95% of organizations are getting "zero return" from generative AI, seemingly every major outlet is now writing ...
www.wheresyoured.at
August 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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denistrubetskoy.bsky.social
Tja, eine weitere schreckliche Nacht hier in Kyjiw gewesen. Und leider ist es noch nicht vorbei mit den Drohnen. Bisher mindestens acht Tote.
August 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
joemduncan.bsky.social
“Flow state” sounds like a characteristic of the exhaust on your car. First the industrial world and now the machine world subtly shapes the language we use in ways that constantly try—intentionally or not—to remove us, the humans, from it.
joemduncan.bsky.social Joe Duncan @joemduncan.bsky.social · Aug 25
Maybe it’s me, but “flow state” sounds way more boring than “rhythmic, orgiastic, Dionysian ecstasy,” but of course, we have to operationalize everything these days and try to strip the human vivacious from it all.
August 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
joemduncan.bsky.social
Maybe it’s me, but “flow state” sounds way more boring than “rhythmic, orgiastic, Dionysian ecstasy,” but of course, we have to operationalize everything these days and try to strip the human vivacious from it all.
August 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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edzitron.com
One thing I think people need to get used to is that not everything works out the way it did in the past and, indeed, new things are going to burst forth from this chaos that can be energising and, I believe, lead to better things. And at the very least we may see some smarmy perverts proven wrong
August 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Watching @edzitron.com make excellent points on Newcomer. He shows the AI-market faithful for what it is—a religion:
Ed Zitron Hater’s Guide to Generative AI
YouTube video by Newcomer
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August 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Fascists have to cancel public broadcasting, but Sunny Days and neighborhoods are forever.

www.conspirituality.net/episodes/271-the-miseducation-of-prageru
271: The Miseducation of PragerU — Conspirituality
Founded in 2009 as a right-wing alternative to reality, PragerU is a sprawling, well-funded network that teaches kids to hate DEI, love paying taxes, and recognize that the Bible offers the only salva...
www.conspirituality.net
August 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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punkey.org
I mean, they are singing from the same sheet of music in a way - shareholders. If the big whale shareholders have decided LLMs are over, CEOs will change their tune very quickly.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 21
Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now
Community Salaries Reviews Jobs For Business v Tech Industry • 1h Amazon • EL TRUMP Something very strange is going on There is a seemingly coordinated effort to FLIP FLOP on Al. All of the execs who were hyping Al to death just a few weeks ago are now claiming that Al is a bubble, that AGI is nowhere near, and that Al will have a much smaller impact than anticipated. > Altman called it a bubble > Eric Schmidt said that AGI is basically bullshit > Matt Garman (AWS CEO) downplayed its impact WHY the sudden narrative switch? WHO gave the orders? I swear, it's like they're all part of some cult. They all embrace the same talking points all at once, and abandon them all at once.
August 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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edzitron.com
Here's part 2 of this week's two-part episode of Better Offline. I walk you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta’s AI capex - and how this will harm both our economy and markets.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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August 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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bennjordan.bsky.social
I'd love to live in a country where law enforcement views prolific child sex traffickers as a higher priority than your gardener.
August 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
joemduncan.bsky.social
"You’re not training for the fucking Olympics, Carol, you’re training for…what exactly? Oh, right, another fucking Tuesday. You do the same six things every single day in a slightly different order and pretend it’s freedom."
Can "Life Coaching" Please Go Away Yet?
The boring-ass-life industrial complex
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM