Van Badham
@vanbadham.bsky.social
Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.
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Xania Monet’s music is the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully her AI ‘clankers’ will be limited to this cultural moment | Van Badham
While a robot pop star may be novelty now, young people are maturing with a scorn for generic digital products
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My latest in the Guardian is about the AI singer who just signed a $3m recording contract… while rumours of the return to analogue fun continue to spread.
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Please stop calling this Musk guy a huge fucking loser. As a huge fucking loser myself, he does not represent us. He's making us look bad.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Please stop calling this Musk guy a huge fucking loser. As a huge fucking loser myself, he does not represent us. He's making us look bad.
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The stupidest people who have ever existed are building the dumbest possible future and expect the rest of us to think they are geniuses and love them for it.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The stupidest people who have ever existed are building the dumbest possible future and expect the rest of us to think they are geniuses and love them for it.
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Sorry, capitalism, it is self-evidently disqualifying for any economic system to make this guy the wealthiest person on the planet.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sorry, capitalism, it is self-evidently disqualifying for any economic system to make this guy the wealthiest person on the planet.
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Dear god...
Not only are they shitty people, but they're also shit at being shitty people.
Not only are they shitty people, but they're also shit at being shitty people.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Dear god...
Not only are they shitty people, but they're also shit at being shitty people.
Not only are they shitty people, but they're also shit at being shitty people.
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this man was born to be the least popular friend in a group of magic the gathering players.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
this man was born to be the least popular friend in a group of magic the gathering players.
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Try it. Do it. Come to the Crown and Anchor in Edmonton and try it out on a random customer. Go on.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Try it. Do it. Come to the Crown and Anchor in Edmonton and try it out on a random customer. Go on.
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Trust me bro you’ll be the life of the party if you take a picture of someone, then look down and type for 20 minutes
People LOVE when you do that
People LOVE when you do that
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Trust me bro you’ll be the life of the party if you take a picture of someone, then look down and type for 20 minutes
People LOVE when you do that
People LOVE when you do that
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“I use AI to bully people. I am fun at parties.”
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
“I use AI to bully people. I am fun at parties.”
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Joyce Carol Oates sees this on her timeline, presses Quote Tweet and begins to type…
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sees this on her timeline, presses Quote Tweet and begins to type…
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Musk laughing at the thought of his AI doing a "vulgar roast" of someone has the same energy as Mr Burns laughing about crippling an Irishman
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Musk laughing at the thought of his AI doing a "vulgar roast" of someone has the same energy as Mr Burns laughing about crippling an Irishman
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It's the two most foul meathead lunks you knew in high school giggling about how they can make a robot be racist because somehow they became two of the most powerful and influential men in the world instead of small town cops hooked on the fentanyl they steal from the evidence locker
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It's the two most foul meathead lunks you knew in high school giggling about how they can make a robot be racist because somehow they became two of the most powerful and influential men in the world instead of small town cops hooked on the fentanyl they steal from the evidence locker
Like, I don’t know who needs to hear this but this is not actually what people do at parties.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Like, I don’t know who needs to hear this but this is not actually what people do at parties.
Every day now, this burns in the mind. “I’m going to take you to court for being mean to me!” Is because you’re twelve. “Files? What files? There’s nothing under my bed, don’t you even look!” Is twelve. “I’m going to get a girlfriend and I will fly to her on dates so she knows I’m special” 12 12 12
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Every day now, this burns in the mind. “I’m going to take you to court for being mean to me!” Is because you’re twelve. “Files? What files? There’s nothing under my bed, don’t you even look!” Is twelve. “I’m going to get a girlfriend and I will fly to her on dates so she knows I’m special” 12 12 12
Skeletor had more dignity.
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Skeletor had more dignity.
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You cannot be the richest man in the world and NOT be evil. You can't get there without being just the most awful piece of shit.
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
You cannot be the richest man in the world and NOT be evil. You can't get there without being just the most awful piece of shit.
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The richest man on earth had two choices for deploying his unfathomable wealth: 1) help the world in a meaningful way or 2) build an AI for bullying people. And he wonders why he's globally loathed.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The richest man on earth had two choices for deploying his unfathomable wealth: 1) help the world in a meaningful way or 2) build an AI for bullying people. And he wonders why he's globally loathed.
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Bill Gates said it pretty well, “The world’s richest man starving the world‘s poorest children isn’t a pretty picture“
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bill Gates said it pretty well, “The world’s richest man starving the world‘s poorest children isn’t a pretty picture“
I would feel incredibly sorry for Elon Musk if I didn’t also want to throw a lifetime’s worth of drinks in his face.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I would feel incredibly sorry for Elon Musk if I didn’t also want to throw a lifetime’s worth of drinks in his face.
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Comey and James cases dismissed. Because Lindsey Halligan.
No legitimate prosecutor would manufacture charges against Trump’s political enemies, and one willing to failed.
Authoritarian abuses don’t work without capable personnel. Or much deeper corruption of the courts, which they don’t have.
No legitimate prosecutor would manufacture charges against Trump’s political enemies, and one willing to failed.
Authoritarian abuses don’t work without capable personnel. Or much deeper corruption of the courts, which they don’t have.
NEWS: The criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James are gone. A federal judge ruled that the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as the lead prosecutor was illegal.
DOJ could try again, but there are other headwinds.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
DOJ could try again, but there are other headwinds.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Comey and James cases dismissed. Because Lindsey Halligan.
No legitimate prosecutor would manufacture charges against Trump’s political enemies, and one willing to failed.
Authoritarian abuses don’t work without capable personnel. Or much deeper corruption of the courts, which they don’t have.
No legitimate prosecutor would manufacture charges against Trump’s political enemies, and one willing to failed.
Authoritarian abuses don’t work without capable personnel. Or much deeper corruption of the courts, which they don’t have.
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you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
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CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
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This drunken ignorant oaf
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This drunken ignorant oaf
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"