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AI Listings Have Made Apartment Hunting Even More Debasing

Arts And Culture

Darren Aronofsky’s AI Videos Are A Fitting Tribute To America, I Guess

This Is So Stupid

It’s Time To Begin Safeguarding The Future Against Our Intelligent Teddy Bear

NFL

The New York Jets Will Now Try Being “AI-First”

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Wow! America’s Graduating Seniors Really Fucking Hate AI!

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The Written Word Is Having A Rough Week

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The Claude Delusion

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You Should Never Be The Most Sycophantic Participant In A Conversation With A Chatbot

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Why Would You Ask AI To Tell The Story Of Your Own Life?

April 10, 2026
Podcasts

A Feast Of Sludge, With Ed Zitron

April 9, 2026
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Go Ahead And Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.

Capital

Now That OpenAI Has Terminated Sora, How Will I Have This Blog Read To Me By An Uncanny Buxom Mike Wazowski?

Arts And Culture

The New Evangelists

March 20, 2026
Video Games

Nvidia Wants To Yassify Video Games

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Vindicated At Last In My Years-Long Loathing Of Grammarly

March 13, 2026
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Something Of Moderate Size And Importance Is Happening

February 24, 2026
This Is So Stupid

Devin The Dugong Wins The Internet With The Super Bowl AI Ad Everyone Can’t Stop Talking About

February 9, 2026
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Who’s Responsible For Elon Musk’s Idiot Chatbot Producing On-Demand Child Sexual Abuse Material?

January 2, 2026
Capital

An Evening With Sam Altman And Steve Kerr

November 5, 2025
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Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI

October 23, 2025
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Soon ChatGPT Will Be Able To Botch Math Problems And Encourage Self-Harm… In A Sexy Way

October 15, 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg Demonstrates That His AI Smart Glasses Suck And Don’t Work

September 18, 2025
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If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough

September 8, 2025
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Butlerian Jihad Now

August 27, 2025
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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

August 20, 2025
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Elon Musk’s Idiot Chatbot Turns Into An Explicit Nazi

History

A People’s History Of Climbing On Cars

July 2, 2025
Capital

Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose

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When An AI Agent Tries To Kill You, Who Goes To Jail?

June 17, 2025
NBA

What Is Sam Presti’s Name? The Answer(s) May Surprise You.

May 30, 2025
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The AI Floodwaters Are Rising Fast

Journalismism

Journalism’s Slop Crisis Started Long Before That AI-Generated Summer Insert

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