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#EdZitron again.
Venture capital is now dominated by people that don’t build anything but worship at the altar of what they imagine a “builder” looks like. As a result, these people flock to founders that confirm their biases — those who are usually men, usually white, usually software engineers from big schools, usually building things that look and sound like everybody else.
#rotEconomy #AIBubble #ventureCapital
Premium: The Silicon Valley Bubble (Part 1) https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-silicon-valley-bubble-part-1/
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#EdZitron again.
Venture capital is now dominated by people that don’t build anything but worship at the altar of what they imagine a “builder” looks like. As a result, these people flock to founders that confirm their biases — those who are usually men, usually white, usually software engineers from big schools, usually building things that look and sound like everybody else.
#rotEconomy #AIBubble #ventureCapital
Premium: The Silicon Valley Bubble (Part 1) https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-silicon-valley-bubble-part-1/
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#EdZitron again.
Venture capital is now dominated by people that don’t build anything but worship at the altar of what they imagine a “builder” looks like. As a result, these people flock to founders that confirm their biases — those who are usually men, usually white, usually software engineers from big schools, usually building things that look and sound like everybody else.
#rotEconomy #AIBubble #ventureCapital
Premium: The Silicon Valley Bubble (Part 1) https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-silicon-valley-bubble-part-1/
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#EdZitron again.
Venture capital is now dominated by people that don’t build anything but worship at the altar of what they imagine a “builder” looks like. As a result, these people flock to founders that confirm their biases — those who are usually men, usually white, usually software engineers from big schools, usually building things that look and sound like everybody else.
#rotEconomy #AIBubble #ventureCapital
Premium: The Silicon Valley Bubble (Part 1) https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-silicon-valley-bubble-part-1/
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“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”
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“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”
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“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”
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“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”
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“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”
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The AI griftosphere is starting to show its ass. Good. May that hasten its overdue demise.
Latest from @Zitron
from 03/24/2026:
"The AI Industry is Lying to You"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/ -
The AI griftosphere is starting to show its ass. Good. May that hasten its overdue demise.
Latest from @Zitron
from 03/24/2026:
"The AI Industry is Lying to You"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/ -
The AI griftosphere is starting to show its ass. Good. May that hasten its overdue demise.
Latest from @Zitron
from 03/24/2026:
"The AI Industry is Lying to You"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/ -
The AI griftosphere is starting to show its ass. Good. May that hasten its overdue demise.
Latest from @Zitron
from 03/24/2026:
"The AI Industry is Lying to You"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/ -
A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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Oh hey look, Some More News did an episode on the topic that makes everyone hate talking with me for more than five minutes. Of course, they do it much better, and it can basically be summed up by this one line in the video: "Everyone laundering human suffering so the end-user can shelter themselves in plausible deniability."
That's the problem, though. This is all propped up by willful ignorance, and I have a hard time imagining enough people will take the blinders off to make a difference.
Even when I hung with IWW folks, people would still talk about their Amazon orders, like there's no alternative. There is. you've just decided your immediate "need" was more important than the well-being of every other link in the chain of misery.
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Oh hey look, Some More News did an episode on the topic that makes everyone hate talking with me for more than five minutes. Of course, they do it much better, and it can basically be summed up by this one line in the video: "Everyone laundering human suffering so the end-user can shelter themselves in plausible deniability."
That's the problem, though. This is all propped up by willful ignorance, and I have a hard time imagining enough people will take the blinders off to make a difference.
Even when I hung with IWW folks, people would still talk about their Amazon orders, like there's no alternative. There is. you've just decided your immediate "need" was more important than the well-being of every other link in the chain of misery.
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Oh hey look, Some More News did an episode on the topic that makes everyone hate talking with me for more than five minutes. Of course, they do it much better, and it can basically be summed up by this one line in the video: "Everyone laundering human suffering so the end-user can shelter themselves in plausible deniability."
That's the problem, though. This is all propped up by willful ignorance, and I have a hard time imagining enough people will take the blinders off to make a difference.
Even when I hung with IWW folks, people would still talk about their Amazon orders, like there's no alternative. There is. you've just decided your immediate "need" was more important than the well-being of every other link in the chain of misery.
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Oh hey look, Some More News did an episode on the topic that makes everyone hate talking with me for more than five minutes. Of course, they do it much better, and it can basically be summed up by this one line in the video: "Everyone laundering human suffering so the end-user can shelter themselves in plausible deniability."
That's the problem, though. This is all propped up by willful ignorance, and I have a hard time imagining enough people will take the blinders off to make a difference.
Even when I hung with IWW folks, people would still talk about their Amazon orders, like there's no alternative. There is. you've just decided your immediate "need" was more important than the well-being of every other link in the chain of misery.
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Oh hey look, Some More News did an episode on the topic that makes everyone hate talking with me for more than five minutes. Of course, they do it much better, and it can basically be summed up by this one line in the video: "Everyone laundering human suffering so the end-user can shelter themselves in plausible deniability."
That's the problem, though. This is all propped up by willful ignorance, and I have a hard time imagining enough people will take the blinders off to make a difference.
Even when I hung with IWW folks, people would still talk about their Amazon orders, like there's no alternative. There is. you've just decided your immediate "need" was more important than the well-being of every other link in the chain of misery.
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I am so thankful to see someone with an audience as large as Hank Green's getting this righteously pissed off about AI. Ed Zitron is doing good work, but he's niche as fuck. Your mom has at least heard of Hank:
https://youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10?si=sKhguLMUmH0mf7L5#AI #slop #RotEconomy #BetterOffline #NerdFighters #LateStageCapitalism
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I am so thankful to see someone with an audience as large as Hank Green's getting this righteously pissed off about AI. Ed Zitron is doing good work, but he's niche as fuck. Your mom has at least heard of Hank:
https://youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10?si=sKhguLMUmH0mf7L5#AI #slop #RotEconomy #BetterOffline #NerdFighters #LateStageCapitalism
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I am so thankful to see someone with an audience as large as Hank Green's getting this righteously pissed off about AI. Ed Zitron is doing good work, but he's niche as fuck. Your mom has at least heard of Hank:
https://youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10?si=sKhguLMUmH0mf7L5#AI #slop #RotEconomy #BetterOffline #NerdFighters #LateStageCapitalism
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I'm trying to figure a way out of printing and framing @pluralistic 's latest:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
But maybe I have a better idea. The @eff could put together a Most Wanted deck of playing cards of the priests and enablers of #enshittification and the #roteconomy.
Please do, and then take my money!
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I'm trying to figure a way out of printing and framing @pluralistic 's latest:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
But maybe I have a better idea. The @eff could put together a Most Wanted deck of playing cards of the priests and enablers of #enshittification and the #roteconomy.
Please do, and then take my money!
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I'm trying to figure a way out of printing and framing @pluralistic 's latest:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
But maybe I have a better idea. The @eff could put together a Most Wanted deck of playing cards of the priests and enablers of #enshittification and the #roteconomy.
Please do, and then take my money!
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I'm trying to figure a way out of printing and framing @pluralistic 's latest:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
But maybe I have a better idea. The @eff could put together a Most Wanted deck of playing cards of the priests and enablers of #enshittification and the #roteconomy.
Please do, and then take my money!
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/
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@theluddite
> do you think it explains just how much money they're willing to set on fire? And even then, what is it about AI that makes that connection?I'm convinced by Ed Zitron's thesis of the #RotEconomy:
A huge portion of financial activity, is based on the value of tech company stocks
Tech stocks are valued only because investors expect them to grow, rapidly and forever
Tech corps that don't promise unreasonable 10×, 20×, etc. growth, are severely punished
They have *no ideas left*.
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@theluddite
> do you think it explains just how much money they're willing to set on fire? And even then, what is it about AI that makes that connection?I'm convinced by Ed Zitron's thesis of the #RotEconomy:
A huge portion of financial activity, is based on the value of tech company stocks
Tech stocks are valued only because investors expect them to grow, rapidly and forever
Tech corps that don't promise unreasonable 10×, 20×, etc. growth, are severely punished
They have *no ideas left*.
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@theluddite
> do you think it explains just how much money they're willing to set on fire? And even then, what is it about AI that makes that connection?I'm convinced by Ed Zitron's thesis of the #RotEconomy:
A huge portion of financial activity, is based on the value of tech company stocks
Tech stocks are valued only because investors expect them to grow, rapidly and forever
Tech corps that don't promise unreasonable 10×, 20×, etc. growth, are severely punished
They have *no ideas left*.
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@theluddite
> do you think it explains just how much money they're willing to set on fire? And even then, what is it about AI that makes that connection?I'm convinced by Ed Zitron's thesis of the #RotEconomy:
A huge portion of financial activity, is based on the value of tech company stocks
Tech stocks are valued only because investors expect them to grow, rapidly and forever
Tech corps that don't promise unreasonable 10×, 20×, etc. growth, are severely punished
They have *no ideas left*.
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@theluddite
> do you think it explains just how much money they're willing to set on fire? And even then, what is it about AI that makes that connection?I'm convinced by Ed Zitron's thesis of the #RotEconomy:
A huge portion of financial activity, is based on the value of tech company stocks
Tech stocks are valued only because investors expect them to grow, rapidly and forever
Tech corps that don't promise unreasonable 10×, 20×, etc. growth, are severely punished
They have *no ideas left*.
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"We will eat whatever slop gets scooped onto our plate as long as it's a bigger scoop than China's or Russia's."
This is an incredibly well reasoned philosophical argument against the continued encroachment of AI and the rot at the heart of our tech and our economy, but this one sentence cuts to the quick of why it will still steam-roll over us: The vast majority of the populace, at least in America, and I suspect in the larger "developed world" does not care. As long as there is reasonably palatable slop for us to consume, that's good enough to appease us. I see little islands of folks like me ranting and raving about this shit online, but do it in person, and you'll find yourself speaking with a sympathetic (but docile) choir, or folks who just... don't get it. They *like* it.
THEY LIKE IT.
They like the slop. It's good enough. It's easy. Why do I have to keep making things so difficult?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dm_UY8jCGQ
#GenAI #RotEconomy #Enshittification #Luddite #KingLudd #MainFrameBreakers
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"We will eat whatever slop gets scooped onto our plate as long as it's a bigger scoop than China's or Russia's."
This is an incredibly well reasoned philosophical argument against the continued encroachment of AI and the rot at the heart of our tech and our economy, but this one sentence cuts to the quick of why it will still steam-roll over us: The vast majority of the populace, at least in America, and I suspect in the larger "developed world" does not care. As long as there is reasonably palatable slop for us to consume, that's good enough to appease us. I see little islands of folks like me ranting and raving about this shit online, but do it in person, and you'll find yourself speaking with a sympathetic (but docile) choir, or folks who just... don't get it. They *like* it.
THEY LIKE IT.
They like the slop. It's good enough. It's easy. Why do I have to keep making things so difficult?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dm_UY8jCGQ
#GenAI #RotEconomy #Enshittification #Luddite #KingLudd #MainFrameBreakers
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"We will eat whatever slop gets scooped onto our plate as long as it's a bigger scoop than China's or Russia's."
This is an incredibly well reasoned philosophical argument against the continued encroachment of AI and the rot at the heart of our tech and our economy, but this one sentence cuts to the quick of why it will still steam-roll over us: The vast majority of the populace, at least in America, and I suspect in the larger "developed world" does not care. As long as there is reasonably palatable slop for us to consume, that's good enough to appease us. I see little islands of folks like me ranting and raving about this shit online, but do it in person, and you'll find yourself speaking with a sympathetic (but docile) choir, or folks who just... don't get it. They *like* it.
THEY LIKE IT.
They like the slop. It's good enough. It's easy. Why do I have to keep making things so difficult?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dm_UY8jCGQ
#GenAI #RotEconomy #Enshittification #Luddite #KingLudd #MainFrameBreakers
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"We will eat whatever slop gets scooped onto our plate as long as it's a bigger scoop than China's or Russia's."
This is an incredibly well reasoned philosophical argument against the continued encroachment of AI and the rot at the heart of our tech and our economy, but this one sentence cuts to the quick of why it will still steam-roll over us: The vast majority of the populace, at least in America, and I suspect in the larger "developed world" does not care. As long as there is reasonably palatable slop for us to consume, that's good enough to appease us. I see little islands of folks like me ranting and raving about this shit online, but do it in person, and you'll find yourself speaking with a sympathetic (but docile) choir, or folks who just... don't get it. They *like* it.
THEY LIKE IT.
They like the slop. It's good enough. It's easy. Why do I have to keep making things so difficult?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dm_UY8jCGQ
#GenAI #RotEconomy #Enshittification #Luddite #KingLudd #MainFrameBreakers
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GenAI is also the real-world corollary to my hypothetical cornerstone argument against nuclear power: We have proven, time and time again, that the capitalist hunger for literal power knows no bounds. GenAI is sucking up massive amounts of energy and water, driving neighboring populations insane from the noise, and having untold consequences on the environment outside of those factors... We are already on track to outstrip current power production in an age where we need to be *decreasing* our power demands. Nuclear just creates *different* pollution, one which will quickly pile up if our power demands aren't curtailed.
But y'know, become a fucking "prompt engineer" or whatever fake-ass job you can imagine to keep propping up and legitimizing this death-cult economy.
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GenAI is also the real-world corollary to my hypothetical cornerstone argument against nuclear power: We have proven, time and time again, that the capitalist hunger for literal power knows no bounds. GenAI is sucking up massive amounts of energy and power, driving neighboring populations insane from the noise, and having untold consequences on the environment outside of those factors... We are already on track to outstrip current power production in an age where we need to be *decreasing* our power demands. Nuclear just creates *different* pollution, one which will quickly pile up if our power demands aren't curtailed.
But y'know, become a fucking "prompt engineer" or whatever fake-ass job you can imagine to keep propping up and legitimizing this death-cult economy.
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GenAI is also the real-world corollary to my hypothetical cornerstone argument against nuclear power: We have proven, time and time again, that the capitalist hunger for literal power knows no bounds. GenAI is sucking up massive amounts of energy and water, driving neighboring populations insane from the noise, and having untold consequences on the environment outside of those factors... We are already on track to outstrip current power production in an age where we need to be *decreasing* our power demands. Nuclear just creates *different* pollution, one which will quickly pile up if our power demands aren't curtailed.
But y'know, become a fucking "prompt engineer" or whatever fake-ass job you can imagine to keep propping up and legitimizing this death-cult economy.
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GenAI is also the real-world corollary to my hypothetical cornerstone argument against nuclear power: We have proven, time and time again, that the capitalist hunger for literal power knows no bounds. GenAI is sucking up massive amounts of energy and water, driving neighboring populations insane from the noise, and having untold consequences on the environment outside of those factors... We are already on track to outstrip current power production in an age where we need to be *decreasing* our power demands. Nuclear just creates *different* pollution, one which will quickly pile up if our power demands aren't curtailed.
But y'know, become a fucking "prompt engineer" or whatever fake-ass job you can imagine to keep propping up and legitimizing this death-cult economy.
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That fact that I can't afford to live unsubsidized as a skilled mechanic and I hear people talking about training to become "prompt engineers" makes me want to start smashing servers.
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That fact that I can't afford to live unsubsidized as a skilled mechanic and I hear people talking about training to become "prompt engineers" makes me want to start smashing servers.
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That fact that I can't afford to live unsubsidized as a skilled mechanic and I hear people talking about training to become "prompt engineers" makes me want to start smashing servers.
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That fact that I can't afford to live unsubsidized as a skilled mechanic and I hear people talking about training to become "prompt engineers" makes me want to start smashing servers.
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Listening to Better Offline: The Era of the Business Idiot - Part 3.
Ed Zitron has been on good form this week. All three episodes in the Business Idiot series dropped this week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000712701288
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Listening to Better Offline: The Era of the Business Idiot - Part 3.
Ed Zitron has been on good form this week. All three episodes in the Business Idiot series dropped this week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000712701288
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Listening to Better Offline: The Era of the Business Idiot - Part 3.
Ed Zitron has been on good form this week. All three episodes in the Business Idiot series dropped this week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000712701288
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Listening to Better Offline: The Era of the Business Idiot - Part 3.
Ed Zitron has been on good form this week. All three episodes in the Business Idiot series dropped this week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000712701288
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Listening to Better Offline: The Era of the Business Idiot - Part 3.
Ed Zitron has been on good form this week. All three episodes in the Business Idiot series dropped this week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000712701288
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I'm running out of bullseyes to award Ed #aifraud #techrot #roteconomy
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The hype-economy (or #roteconomy) and its believers/promoters/leaders may be about to amplify the crash to come / already underway.
There isn't much there there, but they are zealots of potential (unfounded), spoiled by their privilege and the luck it affords them.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/ -
The hype-economy (or #roteconomy) and its believers/promoters/leaders may be about to amplify the crash to come / already underway.
There isn't much there there, but they are zealots of potential (unfounded), spoiled by their privilege and the luck it affords them.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/ -
The hype-economy (or #roteconomy) and its believers/promoters/leaders may be about to amplify the crash to come / already underway.
There isn't much there there, but they are zealots of potential (unfounded), spoiled by their privilege and the luck it affords them.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/ -
The hype-economy (or #roteconomy) and its believers/promoters/leaders may be about to amplify the crash to come / already underway.
There isn't much there there, but they are zealots of potential (unfounded), spoiled by their privilege and the luck it affords them.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/ -
The hype-economy (or #roteconomy) and its believers/promoters/leaders may be about to amplify the crash to come / already underway.
There isn't much there there, but they are zealots of potential (unfounded), spoiled by their privilege and the luck it affords them.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/ -
How The #TechMedia Can Beat The #RotEconomy