August 27, 2026 8:14 PM
August 27, 2026
The Amish Are Embracing ChatGPT
AI is reportedly making inroads in a famously tech-cautious community: the Amish. According to a fascinating story by…
Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess
Longtime Cybertruck watchers might remember a peculiar day back before the brutalist pickup was even released, when Tesla…
Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration
Bad news for anybody holding out hope for a future free of climate disaster: one of the largest…
SpaceX Announces Plans to Put Billionaire on First Rocket to Mars
The future of space travel is pay to play, but that might not be a bad thing. During…
Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool
Hold onto your pumpkin spice lattes, because Starbucks is canning its AI tool after it turned out to…
Marc Andreessen Sputters Incomprehensibly at Question About How AI Will Actually Benefit Humankind
There’s plenty of hype to go around about AI. It’s going to revolutionize this and automate that. But…
Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week
This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative story claiming that a fully AI-generated movie called “Hell…
Finance Bros Tremble in Fear That They Could Be Replaced by AI Too
It’s not looking good for finance bros as another major banker has sung the praises of AI automating…
Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Shows Signs of Sloppy AI Generation
The long awaited Democratic Party “autopsy” of the 2024 election failure has finally been released, and it’s riddled…
Town Councilmember Goes Berzerk at Surveillance Camera Ban, Threatens to Outlaw Virtually All Modern Technology
Like data centers, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are incredibly unpopular with voters around the US. Plenty of…
SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment
Elon Musk has just pulled back the curtain on the biggest public stock offering in history, and the…
Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: “Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework”
An artist in London plastered fake OpenAI ads inside city subway cars calling attention to ChatGPT’s close ties…
You Are Not Prepared for What Actually Shut Down the El Paso Airport This Morning, But Let’s Just Say It Involves a Military Mega-Laser Shooting Something Down
When the Federal Aviation Administration announced it was shutting down El Paso Airport this morning, social media lit…
It Seems Almost Statistically Impossible That This Polymarket Bettor Didn’t Profit Off Inside Knowledge About the Super Bowl Half Time Show
Earlier this year, an anonymous bettor on Polymarket perfectly predicted the US invasion of Venezuela mere hours before…
Ring Boasts About Power to Surveil Entire Neighborhoods
When Ring’s latest commercial came on over a Super Bowl ad break, it offered a service that seems…
Sickos Cackle With Glee as Bitcoin Starts to Fall Again
Mainstream cryptocurrency Bitcoin plummeted earlier this month, crashing down to a sliver over $60,000 — which is well…
Erratic Elon Musk Tells Employees to Build Massive Catapult on Moon
As Elon Musk tries to sweep his Mars ambitions under the rug like an embarrassing teenage phase, he’s…
Job Board for AI Agents Immediately Overrun With Humans Desperate for Work
When you start a “bounty” board meant for AI agents during one of the worst job markets since…
Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI
The Chicago based multinational law firm Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a thousand employees as part…
Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs
In 2026, the grim comedy of late capitalism seems to have found a perfect punchline: workers laid off…
ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You”
In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful…
Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous
Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives…
Google Has a Major Problem With ICE
Google’s rank-and-file are joining together to address their bosses with a collective demand: cut ties with the US…
Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter
An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in…