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  A circus clown says to call AI "super intelligence," and the CEO of Microsoft obeys. My. Fucking. God. What a snivelling coward. https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2108931348857827686

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  Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/ #MachineSociety

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  I wrote about Substack's new AI detector feature, and was happy to learn that it correctly identified my column as 100% human written. https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/if-ai-companies-avoid-ai-slop-shouldnt #MachineSociety

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  BREAKING: John C. Dvorak has died.

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  People used Alexa to save time. "But after Amazon’s bait-and--switch, Amazon used the psychological tactics of fake “friendship” to get users to spend more time with it and supply to Amazon personal information that Amazon can use for personalized marketing." https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/amazon-invents-the-attachment-economy #MachineSociety

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  HEADLINE: "Musk's xAI sues Grok user over sexualized 'deepfakes'" ALT HEADLINE: "Company that pushes a sexualized minor as a chatbot avatar and enables sexualized deepfakes claims to be the victim of someone creating sexualized deepfakes" https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/musks-xai-sues-grok-user-over-sexualized-deepfakes-2026-07-15/

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  Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn’t want to hear https://www.theattachmenteconomy.com/p/three-governments-agree-on-something #MachineSociety

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  Two headlines that tell one story: "Trump’s recent financial disclosures revealed that he's made on average $6 million per day since he returned to office" https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5963054-trump-corruption-financial-disclosures/ "Millions of Americans take on debt and drain savings to afford food" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-credit-card-debt-buy-groceries/

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  HEADLINE: "Donald Trump's glamorous aide accused of 'fueling his delusions'" ALT HEADLINE: "Donald Trump's glamorous aide really knows how to play a narcissist" https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/donald-trump-natalie-harp-relationship-1908669

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  Phrase of the moment: “A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster” https://karlbode.com/the-spacex-ipo-is-a-giant-unworkable-con-orchestrated-by-an-overt-white-supremacist-huckster/

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  My office today: a very nice coffee joint called MOR Kitchen, which has great pastries and coffee, and which is directly across from and facing William Shakespeare's birthplace and home in Stratford-upon-Avon. This is my view. #gastronomad

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  The non-gold, non Trump-branded version of Trump’s $500 made-in-China phone costs $169 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Revvl-Unlocked-Smartphone-Azurite/dp/B0DRLMLMVX/?tag=appleinsider04-20

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  Phrase of the moment: "a space junk tipping point" https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-space-debris

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  AI tools can and should work better offline. I have an expensive iPhone that would have been considered a supercomputer just 10 years ago. A modern smartphone is powerful enough to do a lot of the work that’s currently performed in the cloud. That's why I'm impressed by Google’s AI Edge Eloquent. https://www.computerworld.com/article/4156760/googles-new-ai-app-is-a-glimpse-of-the-future.html

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  HEADLINE: "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation" ALT HEADLINE: "Once again and as always, unethical Meta uses it's platforms to silence critics and skew public opinion in its favor" https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads

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  If you want to keep THIS man happy, then keep your AI slop out of my podcast feed. https://archive.ph/v5ES2

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  As a nomad, I have unusual connectivity problems. Right now, I’m living on a farm in Tuscany. It’s amazing. But for 2 days recently, the connectivity got so bad I could barely work. There was little I could do except drink Chianti and gaze at the rolling hills. https://www.computerworld.com/article/4156760/googles-new-ai-app-is-a-glimpse-of-the-future.html

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  Marketing campaign of the moment: Disney and National Geographic, working with creative agency Meanwhile, are marketing a National Geo documentary about bees called "Secrets of the Bees" with billboards that double as permanent bee habitats. https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/04/10/disney-and-natgeo-built-billboards-that-bees-can-actually-live-in/

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  AI-driven online disinformation methods designed to create fear and mistrust were perfected by nation-states. Now, they're coming to the business world. https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/black-traffic-the-corporate-sabotage-37e

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  Suddenly, out of nowhere (and thanks to wonderful and generous friends), the legendary Château d’Yquem Sauternes has come into my life in multiple ways. My wife wrote all about it on our Gastronomad blog: https://gastronomad.net/blog/2026/4/11/serendipity-in-a-glass-of-liquid-gold

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  BREAKING: Donald Trump strongly endorsed fellow fascist Viktor Orbán in the Hungarian election, so of course Orbán lost. https://apnews.com/article/hungary-election-orban-magyar-trump-1a4eb0ba6b94e0c80c3cd18bd36254ab

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  Amira and I took an epic three-day road trip from Tuscany to Paris via Bordeaux. (Truffle hunting in Tuscany) https://gastronomad.net/experiences #gastronomad

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  This is the house in Tuscany I was podcasting from on TWiT Sunday. The WiFi for the house was horrible, so I switched to using my iPhone Air via Google Fi. The walls to the old house were two feet thick, so I put my phone outside on a chair with line-of-site from my laptop to the phone, and it worked great! https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1079

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  Amira and I took an epic three-day road trip from Tuscany to Paris via Bordeaux. (The view from an olive oil farm in Tuscany) #gastronomad

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  AI is finally delivering productivity — for remote employees (New research suggests the secret isn't the technology itself, it’s the freedom to use it your own way) https://www.computerworld.com/article/4159817/ai-is-finally-delivering-productivity-for-remote-employees.html

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  A new study found that AI has a much higher impact in the home than in the office. Here’s what that means for remote workers and digital nomads (like me): https://www.computerworld.com/article/4159817/ai-is-finally-delivering-productivity-for-remote-employees.html

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  Phrase of the moment: “the era of performative living” https://editorialge.com/escape-performative-living/

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  No, math doesn’t have feelings. (Why Anthropic’s “emotion” paper accidentally misleads the public.) https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/no-math-doesnt-have-feelings-a36

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  Branding needs work on this nail salon in Paris.

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  The Vibe Coding Hall of Shame: https://crackr.dev/vibe-coding-failures