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The Nevada Motel of Colorado Springs, Colorado was abandoned in 2016. Today, it remains boarded up and fenced off, likely waiting for demolition. deadmotelsusa.com/post/8241219...

Obviously, the non-American world has a digital sovereignty problem - Trump has means, motive and opportunity to order his tech companies to shut down any public official, large corporation, or individual who displeases him: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... 1/

The greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/

These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/

With the state of the industry dominated by froth, lies and mutual destruction pacts, it's no wonder that companies are deploying "totally gameable metrics such as 'money spent on AI'" as a means of evaluating employees and divisions. 54/

Without fail, this resulted in the once lukewarm execs insisting they be allowed to purchase Cortex *immediately*. Prospects who'd been unmoved by a pitch for new tech that would result in *millions* in savings were *hypnotized* by demos of a product described as *unsuitable and unreliable*. 47/

As Suresh says, if you're in business with a liar, you might be able to reason with them in private - but you can't reason with a true believer. The true believers are in charge. 38/

Suresh has a good track record of writing trenchant, frank criticism of AI. You may know him from his 2024 essay, "I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again": ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... 11/

If Donald Trump ordered Big Tech to turn off all of your country's chatbots tomorrow, nothing would change. Every one of your country's ministries and corporations would chug on with nary a hitch. 4/

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/