Indeed!

“The bubble doesn’t want cheap useful things,” Doctorow said. “It wants expensive ‘disruptive’ things: big foundational models that lose billions of dollars every year. When the AI investment mania halts, most of the models are going to disappear, because it just won’t be economical to keep the data centers running. The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100 billion IOU. AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.”

I think that pretty much sums it up.

The problem seems to be that it takes competent employees to get anything useful out of an LLM in the first place. However, it is these very employees whom the greedy CEOs want to replace. So the result is that an incredible amount of money is being spent on absolutely nothing.

The logical conclusion, then, should be that it would make more sense to replace these useless CEOs with AI. Since they’re just making idiotic decisions for a lot of money anyway, there could be lots of savings.

Unfortunately, however, that will never happen, because contrary to all that talk of KPIs and such, what really matters in the upper echelons of management is never efficiency, but rather ruthlessness and brown-nosing.

Recently, a (reputable) polling firm called me. It was about a survey on future prospects. One of the questions asked what I considered to be the most pressing problems people are currently facing. My answer was: billionaires, the ongoing centralization of the internet, and climate change.

Perhaps not the most eloquent answer, since all of these issues actually stem from the same root cause—namely, run-amok cutthroat capitalism—but off the top of my head, I couldn’t think of anything better.

The body of Christ, given for you. Take and eat.

The saddest part is that this will lead to fewer and fewer people being willing to provide content: on the one hand, because they refuse to let billionaires exploit them; on the other hand, because the LLMs not only steal their content but also ensure that no one visits the websites that originally provided it anymore.

This illustrates just how parasitic “AI” models are: they even kill their own host.

I think this will have a very significant, very negative effect on humanity.

It’s a step backward for civilization, reminiscent of the days when the elites held a monopoly on knowledge.

It’s really astonishing that this particular scam is the one stirring up US citizens, even though the matter is absolutely negligible compared to all the unbelievable corruption of this regime. Well, apparently they need something concrete—symbols, in other words—that offend their national pride in order to grasp just how criminal their government is.

If even the goddamn BusinessInsider comes to this conclusion, I wonder why they don’t also realize that all stock market transactions work this way today. None of this has the slightest connection to the real world anymore. Stock prices are determined purely by how many billionaires—or rather, their concentrated capital—are betting on which companies. And here’s the key: They always win, because even with the most absurd business ideas, they can drive up the price, which only crashes after the super-rich have sold their shares.

This makes it very easy to understand why the dumbest people in the world never lose money, as long as they’re rich enough.

Humanity is footing the bill for this, and it’s now becoming very clear just how high that bill is.

There's something cartoonish about his whole appearance.

Welcome to 2026, a time when piracy sites continue to receive cease-and-desist letters, but the applications that are being showered with unprecedented investments in the range of fantastrillions are also piracy ventures.

Yes, that, combined with the fact that he's orange through and through, but his posture also comes across as nothing but ridiculous with that barrel-like body and his head jutting forward...

Well, if they were to start doing this on a large scale, everything would probably collapse pretty quickly.

If, for example, BlackRock were to pull its billions out of AI companies, “the market” would be terrified and smaller investors would start asking about the business model—then they’d quickly realize that it doesn’t add up at all, and they’d want to sell their shares as well, because even this giant player has lost their trust.

The result would likely be the collapse of the global economic system, since such absurd amounts of money are at stake here that a crash would make the 2003 banking crisis look like a minor slip-up.

The bitter truth is that this will almost certainly happen sooner or later—and this time, governments will no longer be able to step in to bail out the “systemically important” megacorporations, because the sums involved are so vast that even the richest countries in the world can no longer foot the bill.

What makes you think this wouldn’t undermine the credibility of the U.S.? It’s just as undignified as a cage fight in front of the White House. But hey, I can put your mind at ease—there’s no credibility left to undermine anyway, since the U.S. has already lost it all.

To the rest of the world, however, this has more to do with the fact that U.S. citizens are unable to remove from office a president who is not only incredibly corrupt but who also uses the state apparatus to make the unspeakable crimes he and his billionaire friends commit possible in the first place.

U.S. citizens may be willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes. The rest of the world will not put up with it.

In the long run, this will lead to the downfall of the U.S. If you need an example of this, just look at what has become of Russia after the oligarchs took complete control - btw, this was made possible with the support of the U.S. (Clinton had even sent campaign experts at the time to help Yeltsin stay in power).

The citizens of the remaining democratic nations do not want this, and that is why they particularly despise the U.S. citizens for the fact that they stand by and just watch even in the face of these inconceivable atrocities.

It shows all too clearly that even functioning democracies are not immune to the concentrated monstrosity that the U.S. represents with its inhumane capitalism.

This is what this regime has achieved, and one almost has to be grateful to it for that: It has exposed the U.S. for what this country has been for decades.

I argue that U.S. citizens should paralyze the country with a general strike until the regime steps down and major reforms are implemented. Otherwise, nothing at all will change.

But yes, I’ve heard all this so many times before. Including the excuses as to why a general strike supposedly isn’t possible.

I haven't bought a single U.S. product since early 2025, and I no longer use any U.S. services as long as possible—which required me to go to great lengths to make many changes.

That's probably more than most Americans have done to oppose their government.

No one but themselves can change it. But they don't, precisely because of that attitude.

Yet another symbol of the state of the U.S. The MAGA folks are pretty good at that. Take this ridiculous military parade, the absurd cage fight in front of the White House, that goddamn ballroom—and the list goes on and on....

It’s truly unbelievable that, with all this stupid nonsense, they don’t realize how ridiculous and dim-witted they are. But hey, what else can you expect from this clown show....

In a way, it’s almost a good thing for the world, because it really makes it crystal clear just how uncivilized these wretched fascists are.

How could he? The guy is orange...

I’m not from the U.S. Still, I’m familiar with most of this. Nevertheless, Trump reportedly wanted to slash aid to Ukraine drastically at the start of his second term.

But yes, I completely agree with you. I’ve never been able to understand why so many U.S. citizens are always looking for some kind of foreign “agent” to explain the crimes of their own government. You hear time and again that Trump is a puppet of either Russia or Israel or whomever.

I do consider him a puppet as well, but one who essentially acts on behalf of U.S. billionaires, while shamelessly enriching himself while doing so.

I think the most important thing would be for U.S. citizens to finally realize that their worst enemies are their own so-called elite.

Biden is still largely responsible for this. If it were up to that orange pedo, all support would be cut off. He has already tried to cut the payments, but failed.

Let's see. Maybe there will soon be the first president in modern US History to serve three terms—if he lives that long. With ICE—which, given its strict adherence to party line and its exorbitant budget, equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country, seems to me to be nothing more than a secret police force—this regime certainly has the means to do so, I'd say.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that things will eventually start looking up again for U.S. citizens! However, I fear that if things continue as they have been, the downward spiral will unfortunately continue—at least for the people.