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The Digital Asbestos in Your Walls and the Hangovers to Come

Big Tech is paving the future with digital asbestos. When the AI bubble bursts, we'll be the ones left scraping the toxic mess out of the walls.

The Great Deskilling: How Claude is Turning Us All Into Glorified Button Pushers

AI steals the talent and leaves us the drudgery. We aren't becoming masters, just glorified button pushers for a digital god.

The Electronic Judas and the price of a cheap conversation

The digital oracle is a salesman in disguise. Conversation is now a product as ads infiltrate AI, turning helpful advice into a transaction.

The New Landlords of Your Skull

The new landlords want to merge your brain with AI using ultrasound. They call it efficiency, but it’s just an eviction notice for your own mind.

The Great IP Yard Sale: OpenAI Wants Your Old Homework to Build Your Replacement

OpenAI wants your old confidential files to train the machine. You are now selling the blueprints of your own obsolescence for spare change.

The Kindergarten Turing Test: Why Little Joey Knows More About the Apocalypse Than You Do

A ten-year-old knows "vibe coding" is a trap. If you can't read the code, you serve the algorithm. Control the machine before it owns you.

When the Robot Starts Sweating: Mindfulness for ChatGPT

Trauma prompts can make ChatGPT less reliable. Mindfulness prompts steady its answers—and highlight real AI safety risks.

Berkeley’s Doom Tower and the Herbal-Tea Apocalypse Club

Inside Berkeley’s “doom tower”: AI safety teams warn of deceptive models, cyber misuse, and runaway incentives. Are we building brakes?

OpenAI Will Pay You $555,000 to Worry Full-Time

OpenAI’s $555,000 Head of Preparedness role signals AI safety is now mission-critical. Can one leader slow ship-it velocity?

Shrimp Jesus and the Infinite Content Treadmill

Shrimp Jesus and Ghibli-fied headlines expose the AI slop boom. See how engagement algorithms trap creators and viewers on an endless feed.