Opinion | Progressives Are Listening to the Wrong People on A.I.

An obsession with the most doomer prospects of A.I. is blinding progressives from thinking about serious, realistic policies.

The New York Times

@Zitron via Bsky:

"Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs."

"Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse"
Where's Your Ed At newsletter
4/21/2026

https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/

#AI #AIhype #AIbubble #EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #technofascism #technoligarchy

Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse

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When the words "little is known" are used in reference to the goings-on of "four execs from Meta, Palantir and OpenAI", that is when we cross over the line from Sus into Assume The Worst.

"Detachment 201, the US Army unit led by tech executives"
April 13, 2026
@el_pais English

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-04-13/detachment-201-the-us-army-unit-led-by-tech-executives.html

#technoligarchy #broligarchy #technofascism #TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich

๐™‚๐™ง๐™ค๐™  ๐™„๐™จ ๐™€๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™๐™๐™–๐™ฉโ€™๐™จ ๐™’๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ ๐˜ผ๐™„
๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ: ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ
by #FrancescaFiorentini

"Grok. It's like Uber for your brain. And #Grok is growing bigger and bigger, despite breaking laws and being criminally cringe.

...xAI has also violated federal laws like The Clean Air Act, as it poisons the people of Memphis with its datacenter that is literally named Colossus. Only to be outdone by the new Colossus 2, which is the worldโ€™s first gigawatt datacenter. Thatโ€™s a small countryโ€™s worth of energy.

...And now, predictably, #xAI is working with the Pentagon...for their internal communications, but with the way AI companies have been collaborating with militaries in Israel, itโ€™s only a matter of time before it's used on civilians.

So the question becomes: are you ready to stop using the job-killing, water-guzzling, thief of creativity and thought known as AI? I will if you will."

https://youtu.be/NSGzpdnlVIM

#TheBitchuationRoom #AI #AIslop #AIpsychosis #Idiocracy #technofascism #technoligarchy

Trump Ushers in Technoligarchy | Molly White | TMR

YouTube
The year of technoligarchy

In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities theyโ€™re creating may be their downfall.

Citation Needed

๐™๐™๐™š ๐˜ฝ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ž๐™ง๐™š๐™จ ๐™๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜ฝ๐™š๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™ง๐™ช๐™ข๐™ฅ
๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ: ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ
by #FrancescaFiorentini

"Someday Donald Trump and the movement that got him elected will be gone. And the billionaires who back him won't care. Because they have other plans.

This is the story of how deeply un-American the billionaires who buy our politicians are, from their disregard for democracy, their freak-outs over equality, or the fact that they want to secede from the United States altogether.

The #broligarchy has no regard for this country.

And now, their dystopian plans for it have come out of the shadows and into the light."

#TheBitchuationRoom #TheNerdReich #techbros #technoligarchy #technofascism #TheNetworkState #PeterThiel #MarcAndreesen #DavidSacks #JDVance #ElonMusk #BryanArmstrong #BalajiSrinivasan #DonaldTrump #CurtisYarvin #Palantir

https://youtu.be/kZituqz4Kvs

๐™’๐™๐™ฎ ๐™„๐™จ ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ ๐™Š๐™—๐™จ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™š๐™™ ๐™’๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™‡๐™ค๐™ง๐™™ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™จ?
๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ: ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ
by #FrancescaFiorentini

"Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base... but this one takes the cake.

Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies, and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth.

They believe theyโ€™re in a fight against dark forces, and that theyโ€™re heroic men of Gondor, or Elves of Rivendell. Whatโ€™s worse is that they believe that Tolkienโ€™s Catholicism means he would agree with their world view that immigrants, feminists, and global cooperation are the enemy.

Francesca digs deep into 'The Nerd Reichโ€™s' misreading of Lord of the Rings, and how they took all the wrong lessons from the story."

#TheBitchuationRoom #thenerdreich #techbros #technoligarchy #thenetworkstate #PeterThiel #technofascism #LotR

https://youtu.be/1hiKvi6BDcw

An excellent primer for those who are new to or vague on the nuances re the #technoligarchy , the Network State agenda, and what any of it has to do with the autocratic coup currently in progress at the highest levels of the US government:

https://youtu.be/kZituqz4Kvs