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Number of the moment: 56,000
https://thenextweb.com/news/ibm-whistleblower-data-breach-cover-up#:~:text=breached%20more%20than-,56%2C000,-times%20by%20a

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HEADLINE: "The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI"

ALT HEADLINE: "Trump might be a communist"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/06/the-trump-administration-might-take-an-equity-stake-in-openai/

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Phrase of the moment: "a node in the AI scraping economy"
https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/#:~:text=a%20Node%20in%20the%20AIScraping%20Economy

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Mike Elgan

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Wind and solar now produce more energy than gas.
https://electrek.co/2026/05/20/in-a-first-wind-solar-generated-more-power-than-gas-globally-april-2026/

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HEADLINE: “High-Wire Negotiations With Iran? Trump Finds It ‘Very Boring.’”

ALT HEADLINE: “Trump Isn’t As Entertained By Killing People and Driving Up Global Prices As He Expected.”

https://politicalwire.com/2026/06/01/trump-says-iran-negotiations-are-very-boring/

Mike Elgan

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People with a moral stance against AI are outcast only among the tiny minority of pro-AI tech bros and developers. In actual society, the zoomers are outcasts.
https://musings.martyn.berlin/to-have-a-moral-stance-on-ai-is-to-be-an-outcast-and-it-sucks

Mike Elgan

@Mike Elgan 1780261345

Phrase of the moment: "the Cargo Pants militia"
https://archive.ph/RPAA3#selection-921.41-921.64

Mike Elgan

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Phrase of the moment: "cognitive sovereignty"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/24/ai-tools-thinking-human-hard-coding-writing-technology

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Mike Elgan

@Mike Elgan 1779604433

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/

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Schroedingers_Cat · 2w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqvggmh9xsmhz2aksp7u6pt5xyemse4qa0ze3ugzvguruhwcgz50ds7yvj68 Adding this up - that is something like a trillion dollars wasted on producing crap. And it will cost another trillion to to undo all the damage. Just what a waste. When there is so muc...

FourOh-LLC · 2w

Not sure if META or AMAZON are the kind of organizations you except to function without a measure of crazy, and some strain of evil. What I see is these entities are engaged in a pissing-contest.

Mike Elgan

@Mike Elgan 1779603508

Claim of the moment: AI is more expensive than human employees
https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

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How Google betrayed the web
https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/google-betrayed-the-web

Mike Elgan

@Mike Elgan 1779463701

With AI, typing’s out, talking’s in (‘Voicepilled’ blabbermouths will become so common that nobody will even remember how to use a keyboard.)
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4175881/ai-will-kill-the-skill-of-typing.html

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