Mike Fulk
@mikefulk.bsky.social
Fulk IT - https://www.youtube.com/@Fulk-it/podcasts
Ad conterendum inimicos tuos. Vide eos pellendos coram te, et audi lamentationes mulierum eorum.
Currently, watching the AI bubble about to burst. Fulk It! Check my little podcast out.
Ad conterendum inimicos tuos. Vide eos pellendos coram te, et audi lamentationes mulierum eorum.
Currently, watching the AI bubble about to burst. Fulk It! Check my little podcast out.
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Episode 18: Fake Reels proliferation and the AI story collapse
YouTube video by Mike Fulk
youtu.be
Have you seen a fake reel? One of these fake videos going around and showing up on your timeline someplace? I discuss another one I received and then tie that into the mythical story of AI and what happens when that story collapses. Season 2 continues!
youtu.be/iT1TiaLSy7s
youtu.be/iT1TiaLSy7s
Have you seen a fake reel? One of these fake videos going around and showing up on your timeline someplace? I discuss another one I received and then tie that into the mythical story of AI and what happens when that story collapses. Season 2 continues!
youtu.be/iT1TiaLSy7s
youtu.be/iT1TiaLSy7s
Episode 18: Fake Reels proliferation and the AI story collapse
YouTube video by Mike Fulk
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Have you seen a fake reel? One of these fake videos going around and showing up on your timeline someplace? I discuss another one I received and then tie that into the mythical story of AI and what happens when that story collapses. Season 2 continues!
youtu.be/iT1TiaLSy7s
youtu.be/iT1TiaLSy7s
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Bigotry can be overcome. And literature can help, by forcing people to imagine what injustice feels like. Art, argues Sir Salman Rushdie in an interview with The Economist, “can re-read the world”
Salman Rushdie: stabbed 15 times but still laughing
A long-persecuted author on humour, charlatans and death
econ.st
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Bigotry can be overcome. And literature can help, by forcing people to imagine what injustice feels like. Art, argues Sir Salman Rushdie in an interview with The Economist, “can re-read the world”
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Breaking news: Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner who is considered one of the pioneers of modern AI, has told associates he will leave the Silicon Valley group in the coming months. on.ft.com/4ozjBGl
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Breaking news: Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner who is considered one of the pioneers of modern AI, has told associates he will leave the Silicon Valley group in the coming months. on.ft.com/4ozjBGl
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Looking to investigate vessel movements from sanctioned ports? You can find out about Ollie's free-to-use 'Ship Detection Tool' here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
Peering Beyond the Clouds: A Guide to Bellingcat’s Ship Detection Tool - bellingcat
The Ship Detection Tool is a satellite imaging resource that uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery to identify ships in port, at anchor or at sea.
www.bellingcat.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Looking to investigate vessel movements from sanctioned ports? You can find out about Ollie's free-to-use 'Ship Detection Tool' here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
Trump, nearly 80, stricken with dementia and having multiple recent strokes, broke Schumer easily, proving once again that Democrats are weak, pathetic, cowards. All of this less than a week after liberal voters turned out in droves to support them.
TRUMP: GOP ‘BROKE’ SCHUMER IN SHUTDOWN STANDOFF President Donald Trump told Fox News that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer “thought he could break the Republicans, but the Republicans broke him.” As Congress prepared to vote to end the government shutdown, Trump said the
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Trump, nearly 80, stricken with dementia and having multiple recent strokes, broke Schumer easily, proving once again that Democrats are weak, pathetic, cowards. All of this less than a week after liberal voters turned out in droves to support them.
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The US is moving ahead with plans to withdraw troops from NATO's eastern flank. Affected countries include Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia. www.kyivpost.com/post/63332
US to Trim Forces in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia Starting Next Month After Romania Move
Washington notifies capitals of “marginal” force recalibration, prompting fears over its commitment. Veteran diplomat calls plan a “mistake,” warning against sending “the wrong signal” to Moscow.
www.kyivpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The US is moving ahead with plans to withdraw troops from NATO's eastern flank. Affected countries include Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia. www.kyivpost.com/post/63332
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Analysis | Yes, Democrats won last Tuesday's elections by double digits. However, they did not win them by triple digits. The time had come to cave to Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Analysis | Yes, Democrats won last Tuesday's elections by double digits. However, they did not win them by triple digits. The time had come to cave to Trump.
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Nothing says land of the free more than this.
Thousands of flights have been grounded as the government shutdown impacts airport staffing. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that could get worse over Thanksgiving.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warns a 'substantial' number of Americans won't be able to travel for Thanksgiving
Thousands of flights have been grounded as the government shutdown impacts airport staffing. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that could get worse over Thanksgiving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nothing says land of the free more than this.
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An “opera and truffles rager .. at the same time as his administration was asking the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps to millions.” 🤡
@thedailybeast.bsky.social
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November 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
An “opera and truffles rager .. at the same time as his administration was asking the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps to millions.” 🤡
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Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year. Targeted zero -click attack could steal all of a phone’s data and activate camera or mic. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year
Targeted attack could steal all of a phone’s data and activate camera or mic.
arstechnica.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year. Targeted zero -click attack could steal all of a phone’s data and activate camera or mic. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Agreed, brilliant. Save this and send to everyone you can, really.
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Agreed, brilliant. Save this and send to everyone you can, really.
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Something I've really noticed among institutional "responses" to generative technologies is that "DO NOT USE THIS TOOL, IT'S COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE" is fudamentally erased from any possibility of ever being an option
Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"
Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Something I've really noticed among institutional "responses" to generative technologies is that "DO NOT USE THIS TOOL, IT'S COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE" is fudamentally erased from any possibility of ever being an option
Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"
Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"
Garbage. There is absolutely no point in writing an end of year review if you have AI do it and don't double check every word of it. If you do double check every word why use it? If your mgr uses it to produce feedback you've taken people out of the loop entirely, why do them at all???
A Meta product leader shared how staff use the Metamate AI bot for performance reviews, relying on AI to streamline feedback and document analysis.
Meta's internal ChatGPT-style bot is helping employees with performance reviews
A Meta product leader shared how staff use the Metamate AI bot for performance reviews, relying on AI to streamline feedback and document analysis.
www.businessinsider.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Garbage. There is absolutely no point in writing an end of year review if you have AI do it and don't double check every word of it. If you do double check every word why use it? If your mgr uses it to produce feedback you've taken people out of the loop entirely, why do them at all???
We greatly outnumber them.
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We greatly outnumber them.
This financing scheme won’t end well.
The subprime mortgage crisis of 2006-2008.
Except this time, it’s commercial mortgage-backed securities used to finance an estimated $7 trillion in AI datacenter buildouts by 2030.
Except this time, it’s commercial mortgage-backed securities used to finance an estimated $7 trillion in AI datacenter buildouts by 2030.
Debt Has Entered the A.I. Boom
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This financing scheme won’t end well.
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Vince Gilligan on AI:
“AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires.”
“AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires.”
Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn on What ‘Pluribus’ Is Really About, Why Hollywood ‘Needs More Heroes’ and How Silicon Valley Has ‘F—ed Up the World’
Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn unpack the first two episodes of 'Pluribus' and slam AI: 'Silicon Valley' has 'f---ed up the world.'
variety.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Vince Gilligan on AI:
“AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires.”
“AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires.”
Me too.
I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Me too.
Especially since this time around the AI overlords are massive tool bags. Douche nozzles extraordinaire.
I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout
people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago
people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Especially since this time around the AI overlords are massive tool bags. Douche nozzles extraordinaire.
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Sweden's public health chief and its own COVID commission admit that the strategy in March-April 2020 was a mistake! It's wild to have two random Americans with no subject matter expertise circle back and be like, 'this was good, actually.'
Gosh, it feels like such a long time ago, but as far as I remember, Sweden (we) had a significant higher death rate in care homes, that other countries. Something went terribly wrong there. Sometime in spring 2020 most venues were closed, schools open, but most people worked from home.
June 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Sweden's public health chief and its own COVID commission admit that the strategy in March-April 2020 was a mistake! It's wild to have two random Americans with no subject matter expertise circle back and be like, 'this was good, actually.'
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November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare.”
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The shattering of faith in America’s goodness is the hardest part to watch.
A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests
The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The shattering of faith in America’s goodness is the hardest part to watch.
Right now on Facebook, there are probably 50 accounts all chiming in on the comment section, saying "but what about Arctic sea ice that's increasing".
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
Antarctic glacier's alarming retreat is the fastest ever seen
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
www.newscientist.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Right now on Facebook, there are probably 50 accounts all chiming in on the comment section, saying "but what about Arctic sea ice that's increasing".