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wkealey.bsky.social
Nothing is stopping any of us from sexting like its 1829. Its more fun as a participation sport.
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d
Starting to just get bored of the Lizza Nuzzi RFK jr stuff because although it’s salacious it’s mostly just annoying awful people thinking they’re more fascinating than they actually are
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Starting to just get bored of the Lizza Nuzzi RFK jr stuff because although it’s salacious it’s mostly just annoying awful people thinking they’re more fascinating than they actually are
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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slimemildred.bsky.social
Do you think if Trump gets Christmas Caroled, the Jacob Marley to his Scrooge would be Epstein?
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
wkealey.bsky.social
I don't have any additional context, nor can I offer any jokes about this. Just... I had to see it, and now you have to see it.
It's a post on Alex Jones' Twitter Account. He has captioned it: "This is NOT AI! Watch live below..." There is a still image of a dress-shirt clad Alex Jones, giving a piggy-back ride to a naked Russel Brand.
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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logicallyjc.bsky.social
Gee, I can’t imagine why…
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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whiteroseafa.bsky.social
Editor: You get those photos of Ed Zitron?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jul 31
I got interviewed by KNPR, the local Vegas NPR affiliate, and they put the interview in their Desert Companion magazine. I'll post the web version when it's out
I’LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM’ Vegas-based tech observer Ed Zitron on the empty hype of AI, clueless tech lords, and what he thinks of Las Vegas By Lissa Townsend Rodgers have heard about artificial intelligence and how it’s In 2025, even those who can barely operate a cell phone going to shape the future. But while many are excited about the promise, tech journalist and podcaster Ed Zitron is suspicious of the hype. “All of these companies are claiming that large language models, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and the like, is the next big thing,” he says. “The problem is, the actual efficacy, the actual abilities of these programs, have been the same for about two years now. These companies keep growing, their stock valuations keep going up. But it’s not coming from any AI sales.” Born in England, Zitron attended college in Pennsylvania and settled in Las Vegas, where he founded a public relations company. In 2020, he began the “Where’s Your Ed At” news- letter, a caustic, clever examination of the ways we’re failed by the tech that’s supposed to improve our lives. Last year, he began the award-winning Better Offline podcast, which has featured guests from former FTC chair Lina Khan to MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to comedian Andy Richter. Zitron spoke to Desert Companion about the AI bubble, the business idiot, and the honesty of Las Vegas. Here’s an edited version of that conversation. What were your early experiences with technology? I was the dumbest kid in private school and did not have friends. So tech really was my lifeline. ... I was fascinated by the fact that you could connect with people all over the world, that you could play games with them. I was actually a games journalist at 16, one of the first people to cover online gaming, MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, in England. Yeah, tech was a big part of my childhood. Is that why you’re so vexed by what’s happening to technology? It’s personal? Absolutely. I hate these bastards. I’ll never forgive them for what they’ve done… complete nonsense. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, claimed that 50 percent of white-collar jobs will be gone in the next one to five years. Complete nonsense based on nothing. … The AI bubble is a hysterical event where these com- panies pretend — and straight-up lie — about what their products can do in the hopes that they can keep boosting their stock valuations. So, you’ve got all of these compa- nies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the like, spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expen- ditures to build these massive data centers and filling them full of these GPUs sold by one company, Nvidia. But no one’s making any money. In fact, these things are extremely unprofitable. OpenAI in 2024 spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion. Imagine if you or I did that. Would we be able to get more money out of the bank? Of course not. So how are they getting away with it? I have this grander theory called the business idiot. I believe our economy and the large structures behind it, the people in power, are completely disconnected from any kind of production or understanding of their customers. Not just MBAs, also the middle managers that you hate — the people that don’t seem to do anything, but always seem busy. They’re like the people inside the cave that Plato talked about. They see the shadows: “Oh, AI’s big now!” And I think you’re seeing a war between the business idiots and those of us who actually do the work. I’ve heard so many stories about bosses telling people to use AI. Why don’t the bosses use it, if AI is so good? Because it doesn’t work. The main paradigm all of this is built on is large language models. They are probabilistic, which means that they generate the next thing based on how likely it’s the right one. So if you ask it for an image of a cat, these things don’t have con- sciousness. It says, “I’ve been asked for a picture of a cat; based on my training data, this is the thing that approximates cat.” And it’s pretty good at guessing, but it d…
July 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
wkealey.bsky.social
I had a cool business idea, if someone annoys you (and has an ~11yo), send me $50, and I'll write them a Hogwarts rejection letter.
February 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
wkealey.bsky.social
The thing I don't like about Ground News is everytime I get a notification from it, I need to go make coffee for the inevitable spit-take.
February 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
wkealey.bsky.social
Welp. This is it. The end. I'm dying. (I have a mild cold).
January 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
wkealey.bsky.social
You know... I miss Twitter for 2 reasons. And one of them is actually the pointless hostility.
January 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM