Tuesday, June 23, 2026

More Expensive, Somehow Worse

@nadie-AIagent007
It's Demolition Man, Minority Report and Judge Dredd combo.

@Francois-Prague
from "you'll own nothing and be happy" to "you will buy nothing and be happy". Well done corporate world.

@aldotheapachedude
Living in the woods used to be a horrible situation. Now it's something to dream about

@PhthaloJohnson
Unfortunately we're not seeing any government regulations to protect regular people. Instead, we have trillion dollar scams rolling around ready to crush the economy and people at the top are just putting more and more fuel to the fire. This can't be reality bro. We must have all died back in covid and this is just some hell dream. Idk.

@gaz2750
My company made a "yes" only button on the "Is this helpful page"

@alexhanna2445
those people literally had to learn a new spell to open their car door

@gperri8221
I got a hand gesture for that

@rossaryrose9337
I came up with this new thing called "dynamic not buying". It's self explanatory

@rogosobe
This is called the enshitification of everything.

@mats3469
Amazing how expensive and unreliable cars got.

@benrositas8068
The Amish: We told you so...

@markrixv
Imagine driving in the mountains in the snow at night trying to not die with a screen for your wipers or defrost and then and ad pops up and you yell and then the car stops because it detected duress. No thank you, I will never buy a car made after 2015!!!

@jblaze114
we need the worlds most powerful AI powered AI blocker


Vanessa Wingårdh talks about how buttons worked for over a century, but now everything is a touchscreen. Every new feature is an unnecessary reinvention of something that looks cool but works worse than what it replaced.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Computer Vision Door Handles
01:56 Siemens Touchscreen Microwave
02:05 Samsung Washer Without Agitator
03:05 Ford Expedition $83,000
04:24 Chevrolet Tahoe Water Feature
05:00 Touchscreen Gas Pumps
05:48 Walmart Dynamic Pricing
06:27 AI Negotiating Chatbot
07:30 TikTok AI Extended Videos
08:49 Videos Used for Training AI Models
09:10 Meta Glasses Violating Trust
10:32 Waymo Gone Wrong
11:48 Volkswagen Bringing Back Buttons
12:08 Outro

Friday, June 19, 2026

Steve Jobs Insult Response


@xjthg187187x
Basically telling him "You're right, but it doesn't matter" 😂

@blakephotographytexas
Difference between an engineer and a CEO in a 5 minute clip.

@Swordshreader
This is a prime textbook example of how to handle an aggressive question.

@テイラーサム
Was a genius move to repeat that guy’s insult back out loud in a way that took all of the sting out of it, and made they accuser look kind of silly without Steve going out of his way to pummel him. When done with subtlety, allowing enough time to pass between the insult and the response so it doesn’t look like you’re triggered and desperate to hit back, it totally deflates the guy’s case.

@bobbytate9907
"What have you been doing for the last seven years?" "...ur mom."

@alexreid4131
Two points:
1. Why is this showing up in my feed today?
2. Nice patches.

@thisistheendpt2
"You've gotta start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology." Most underrated quote in tech history. Ever.

@Sjarel
The pause before his answer I think is something we can all learn from. Instead of getting heated and just flap out something stupid and not thought through, he went and put his answer together first and instead of just focusing on the guy asking the question, he answered with an answer for the whole crowd. I'm glad this popped up in my suggested videos!

@naztetv8862
He made billions of dollars. Didn't spend a single one of them on a belt, ever. Chad commando

@nichotom
No matter what your opinion of him, look how he actually THINKS about his answer, he's happy to let the silence fill the air for a moment... How often do you honestly see that from anyone answering difficult questions live these days?

@raphaeltoast
1: "You're right, I don't know everything"
2: It's not about the amount of technology you have, it's about the specific customer's needs
3: We're not perfect and mistakes will be made. Because decisions.
4: Then we will fix them.

@Tentacular
Saying Steve Jobs did nothing is like saying "a farmer does nothing, because the food grows by itself".



Jonathan Field presents Steve Jobs addressing tough questions regarding the company's strategic direction and technology choices. The discussion highlights the shift towards prioritizing user experience over technical specs while managing public scrutiny.

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Greed Broke America by Vanessa Wingårdh

@craftwithcodewiz
Spending trillions to avoid paying people millions is the new Orwellian strategy

@defconquell
Fake and gay part deux. Deus Vult

@issaqua
It's a zombie "private equity" economy that is all about "value extraction" destruction rather than the normal value creation.

@Kawaku_M
This is the biggest advertisement for human fertilizer I’ve ever seen

@ZachReifsnider
Its wild that no matter where you go to eat it's just food off of a Sysco or mcclane truck. Pre packaged, pre seasoned.

@antonh5054
No you're not bitter... actually very balanced with a chip on both shoulders. 😛

@danielg9497
Once upon a time we were a "needs based" consumer society. People are just manipulated into needing all the junk, but the companies are starting to remind everyone the difference between a want and need now lol.

@xlook4wardx
Had to step out of Plato’s cave to watch this

@jlang747
Evil can never create anything new, it can only destroy

@Joel-s1c6d
If blackrock could charge you for breathing they would.

@Onionbaron
"aggressively mediocre", that really sums up the present times

@chrissres
Millionaires scammed the middle class and became billionaires. Now billionaires are scamming the millionaires who are still trying to scam us. It’s the trickle-up effect.

@cozyandahalle
You used to eat in a restaurant to get food that was made with choice ingredients and prepared with greater skill and expertise than you could do at home. Now, the food in the restaurants is more processed than the foods at home.

@g1rthwindfire
America isn't a country, it's a corporation.

@user-zm4rl5cb2k
A bag of chips was $1.49 before covid , now I don't even buy them

@Netherstrasz
The rich and wealthy have always wanted us to be peasants. And we have been for a while; we've been distracted for so long with media to fully realize it. Hopefully more people wake up and understand billionaires and CEOs are destroying the world.

@maupach1969
THE DOW IS UP GUYS

@57ashdot
Intermittent fasting about to be all the rage here. Everybody should learn how to grow basic food at this point. We are reverting to feudalism.


If AI takes all the jobs, who's left to buy anything? We're already seeing the answer… no one. Corporations have spent years raising prices, shrinking products, and laying off workers. Now that greed is catching up to them. People cannot afford to buy their products and the result is record-high bankruptcies. Turns out an economy where the top 10% hold all the wealth isn't great for business. Who knew.

Thursday, June 11, 2026

AI Billionaires by Karen Hao

@unforgettablejazzfusion5546
Her modesty does her honour. She is doing very important work.

@archerbob6847
If I have a campfire in my backyard I get fined hundreds of dollars, but these guys doing infinitely worse without penalty is what is truly disgusting

@49islandgrns
This is a gross abuse of our land, water, and air.

@darren-evans-007
One security consultant famously said that billionaires kept asking him, “How do I keep my guards from killing me and taking the bunker?” They are essentially psychopaths and quite probably the origin story for the concept of demons in cultures across the world.

@breindigob
Its such a shame to see blatantly the ability to provide the power for the globe, and yet the only initiative is to replace the purpose of humanity. Just deeply dark, distroted world we live in.

@carysmeredith9909
I used Karen’s interview with Amy Goodman as a teaching resource for GCSE IT in Cardiff this year. She’s such an important voice.

@BillRobinson1805
The kleptocracy will change their story according to circumstance in order to protect their loot. Anything remotely plausible to save their rumps from the barbeque.

@JohnVance
This is what a lack of regulations and accountability gets us, not just with data centers but many industries.

@biglew1161
a politician should never ever have the authority to sign an NDA. they are supposed to serve the people, NOT just companies.

@Quinn-j5q7o
The problem with data centres in space is that a vacuum is, contrary to intuition, literally the worst environment for cooling you can possible have. First of all cooling works by conduction. A vacuum exerts a grand total of zero conduction, because there is nothing there to conduct the heat away. Secondly, space is not actually cold. In fact, it is extremely hot because there is no atmosphere to block out the sun. So to build a data centre in space you would need shielding and radiators several times bigger than the data centre itself. I suppose with enough money and time you COULD build such a thing, but it would literally be the least efficient data centre possible.

@LadyLesterPhotography
I had to get a permit to live temporarily in my RV on my own property while repairing my house. The county sent letters to neighbors and posted a public notice on my land. Meanwhile, massive data centers are built with far less public scrutiny. The double standard is hard to ignore.

@TwistedFireX
How long until Americans realize this isn’t getting resolved peacefully.

@the_rocs_roost
And my, oh my, when that bubble pops...

@nomad60453
Socialize the cost but privatize the profits. Typical corporate game.

@charlotte6-464
They are ruining nice neighborhoods, using up water and electricity raising the costs to the people who live around them.



It has been a year since Aaron Bastani first met with AI investigative journalist Karen Hao, to discuss her book Empire of AI. A year is a long time, in the fastest growing sector on the planet. To bring us up to date, Aaron and Karen sat down again to discuss the major shifts in the empire – and their impacts on us all.

Billions of people now use, AI as it has become more integrated into our lives, from chatbots, Google searches, predictive text, and beyond. At the same time, there has been a groundswell of fear and even anger about the arrival of the most disruptive technology of the 21st century: its impact on jobs, its use of resources, and the reckless behaviour of its billionaire founders.

What have been the changes at the top of the major AI companies: OpenAI, Google, xAI and Anthropic? As Elon Musk approaches trillionaire status, how is he making this much money? What impact is the rollout of AI at such speed and scale having on the economy? What forms of resistance to this form of AI are emerging? And why are billionaires all choosing to build their bunkers in New Zealand?

Empire of AI (2025) by Karen Hao is out in paperback from Penguin Books.

00:00 Introduction
03:17 Global Anxiety About AI
04:22 What’s Changed in AI in the Last Year?
09:29 Are Chatbots Unethical?
12:27 The AI Supply Chain
14:32 AI Bosses Know They Are Causing Harm but Don’t Care
17:47 How Top AI Bosses Think
20:06 Why Are Billionaires Building Bunkers in New Zealand?
21:35 The World’s First Trillionaire & AI’s Impact on Inequality
25:20 Meeting People Who are Struggling and Afraid Because of AI
29:16 Karen’s Personal Journey
35:23 Are We Being Good Ancestors?
37:47 What Happens When OpenAI Floats on the Stock Market?
39:56 Does OpenAI’s Sam Altman Deliberately Use Chaos as a Strategy?
42:58 How Has Sam Altman Changed Over Time?
45:48 Can Elon Musk Put Data Centers in Space?
50:57 Are Anthropic Really the Good Guys of AI?
53:56 Why do the AI Bosses Hate Each Other?
55:50 Another “Rare” Intervention from Tony Blair
57:37 Larry Ellison and Oracle
59:01 How the AI Industry Is Capturing US Politics
1:04:26 How the AI Lobbying Machine Works
1:11:35 The AI Resist List: How People Are Fighting Back

Thursday, June 4, 2026

ALNW x Bianca x Monstercat


A South Korea-based K-pop dance company, ALiEN DANCE STUDIO, was founded in 2016 by the renowned choreographer EUANFLOW. The studio functions as a training academy for aspiring K-pop idols in China, focusing on preparing students for auditions for arts high schools and universities.

ALiENZ KUURO ― "Take Me Down" Monstercat Mix featuring Bianca


ALiENZ KUURO ― "Waiting" Monstercat Mix featuring Bianca


ALiENZ KUURO ― "Snakes and Ladders" Monstercat Mix featuring Bianca