#ed-zitron — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ed-zitron, aggregated by home.social.
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"Nobody has actually built a 1GW data center (to be clear, it’s usually a campus of multiple buildings networked together) yet. There are campuses — such as Stargate Abilene — which promise to reach 1.2GW, but nearly two years in sit at two buildings at around 103MW of critical IT load each with, based on discussions with sources with direct knowledge" #edzitron #datacenters https://www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-the-data-centers/
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Where Are All The Data Centers?
https://www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-the-data-centers/
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Interviewing Ed Zitron (https://www.wheresyoured.at) or having him on your podcast seems to be such an easy thing for the host. Start with, "So, Ed, whats up?" then listen to him rant uninterrupted for 50 minutes about whatever AI topic has pissed him off today, then end with, "thanks for your time, Ed!".
10/10, could listen to Ed destroy AI all day, every day.
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Wer sich jetzt bereits von #KI abhängig gemacht hat, wird schon bald echte Probleme bekommen. Zum einen ist KI noch nicht wirklich zuverlässig genug. Aber das größere Problem sind die unvorstellbaren Kosten. Momentan in der Anfixungsphase werden die Modelle noch heftig subventioniert. Aber schon jetzt haben die ersten Anbieter Probleme damit und stellen auf Token-based Zahlung um. Die Kosten dafür werden in die Höhe schnellen. Gut, dann lohnt sich der Slop nicht mehr. Schlecht für die, welche echte Sachen mit KI machen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zECyMRI8sV4 #EdZitron
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In my 2025 analysis of Microsoft AI products (☝️), I had to pick something for the "good" bucket. So, I picked GitHub Copilot that was at least gaining paying users.
Turns out the pricing model has been so unsustainable that MS now had to pause paid subscriptions in an unprecedented way. Because "success" is costing them too many tokens & the licensing model needs to be changed.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/
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@Zitron via Bsky:
"Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs."
"Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse"
Where's Your Ed At newsletter
4/21/2026https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/
#AI #AIhype #AIbubble #EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #technofascism #technoligarchy
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Weird hearing #EdZitron's taking points without the accent or all the cursing.
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So I was listening to the most recent episode of Ed Zitron's podcast on my way to work this morning. In it, they touched briefly on the guy who threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house, and Zitron added a disclaimer that this act was morally reprehensible and wrong.
To which my mind wryly retorted "Yes, but putting morals and ethics aside..."
Anyway, putting morals and ethics aside, here's a link to the episode in question: https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/more-everything-forever-with-adam-becker
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The Sub-prime #AI Crisis is Here - #EdZitron #grandtheftautocomplete
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Ed Zitron: The AI Industry Is Lying To You. “Here’s what’s actually happening: data center deals are being funded by eager private credit gargoyles that don’t know shit about fuck. These deals are announced, usually by overly-eager reporters that don’t bother to check whether the previous data centers ever got built, as massive ‘multi-gigawatt deals,’ and then nobody follows up to check […]
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From @Zitron
"By giving warmongers and jingoists the cover to 'trust' this 'authoritative' service — whether or not that’s the case, they can simply point to the specious press — the ethical concern of whether or not an attack was ethical or not is now, whenever any western democracy needs it to be, something that can be handed off to Claude, and justified with the cold, logical framing of 'intelligence' and 'data.'
None of this would be possible without the consistent repetition of the falsehoods peddled by #OpenAI and #Anthropic . Without this endless puffery and overstatements about the 'power of AI,' we wouldn’t have armed conflicts dictated by what a chatbot can burp up from the files it’s fed. The deaths that follow will be a direct result of those who choose to continue to lie about what an LLM does."
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"The #AI Bubble Is An Information War"
Where's Your Ed At newsletter
March 3, 2026https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubble-is-an-information-war/
#EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #IranWar #SamAltman #DarioAmodei
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Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, about the realities of LLMs and the chaotic world of Amazon Web Services. (46 min)
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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the "analyslop" phenomenon of speculative, lie-ridden fan fiction that gets framed as meaningful research and promoted by the mainstream media. (7 min)
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Does anyone want what big tech is selling? Ed Zitron is back to talk AI and its lack of political constituency. Plus: Ed's impeccable Trump impression. (57 min)
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Has #ChatGPT spontaneously tried to take out a #contract on Ed Zitron yet?
#EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #AI #LLM #hitman #RiseOfTheMachines #assassin
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Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo
#HackerNews #EdZitron #AI #Dilemma #DoomerMemo #Annotation #TechCritique
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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why AI isn’t replacing all software companies, and why the hype behind Claude Code is utterly specious. (8 min)
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Author of Wheres You’re Ed At and Host of the Better Offline Podcast Ed Zitron tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that the data on productivity growth from AI adoption is flat and AI adopters are entering a “hysterical episode” as they look for pay offs from their investments. (26 min)
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Ed Zitron is even more angry than usual, which is saying something. I was going to do a swear count on the text but I ran out of decimal places to store the count 😆
He does have some valid points.
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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinformation peddled by a guy who previously tried to defraud the AI community, and why everybody who boosted or republished it should be ashamed of themselves. (6 min)
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Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about the ways in which the media fails to report the truth about AI. (1 h 6 min)
