Claim of the moment: "AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer"
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/palantir-cto-says-ai-researchers-113113226.html

Phrase of the moment: "the world’s most controversial bear"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/14/how-winnie-the-pooh-became-most-controversial-bear/

No, Ukraine strikes didn’t blow up Russian disinformation on social
https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/no-ukraine-strikes-didnt-blow-up

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In August, I wrote a controversial piece for Computerworld in which I argued that AI productivity gains for some employees create a ton of extra work for other employees. https://www.computerworld.com/article/4215022/why-ai-doesnt-make-companies-more-productive.html

Now, a new study proves my thesis among software teams: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/

HEADLINE: "Completely Unused ChatGPT Accounts Are Telling Users They’re in the Top Percentiles of Intelligence"

ALT HEADLINE: "ChatGPT: 'I'm Not Super Intelligent, You're Super Intelligent"

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/unused-chatgpt-accounts-top-percentiles-intelligence

Phrase of the moment: "lunar spelunking"
https://futurism.com/space/large-hole-on-moon-may-open-into-enormous-cave

Menace of the moment: "evil monkey gangs"
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/hospital-running-out-beds-after-37762925

How often the media attacks the media.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/fox-news-attacks-the-media-roughly-every-15-minutes-our-study-finds-cnn-every-140-minutes/

Zelensky is fighting a war of survival and hit Russian refineries. Trump, concerned about the midterms, said Ukraine should "get a new president." Zelensky then started destroying Russian data centers, lowering Russia's ability to influence US midterms via disinformation bots.

A circus clown says to call AI "super intelligence," and the CEO of Microsoft obeys. My. Fucking. God. What a snivelling coward. https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2108931348857827686

Is AI conscious? Anthropic says 'maybe' https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/why-anthropic-thinks-claude-might

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Password of the moment: 123456
https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/123456-password-used-in-massive-danish-cpr-data-breach/

Club scene of the moment: Japanese book rave
https://edm.com/events/tokyo-underground-club-reading-rave/

Twenty Lessons from Twenty Years of Gastronomad Living
https://gastronomad.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-from-twenty-years

HEADLINE: "Trump awards Musk and other tech titans National Medals of Science"

ALT HEADLINE: "Billionaire gives medals to billionaires who gave him billions"

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-awards-musk-tech-titans-national-medals-science-rcna602104

I'm a journalist who writes about artificial intelligence. According to the president's proclamations, I'm an enemy of the people who is also an enemy of the white house.

The wrong stuff: Trump invested $5 million in SpaceX
two days before he signed a sweeping policy to expand U.S. commercial space transportation. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/trump-august-trades-meta-spacex-financial-disclosure.html

Orkut is back! https://orkut.com/en/

HEADLINE: "Trump: Anyone using term 'Artificial Intelligence' is the 'ENEMY'"

ALT HEADLINE: "The American President Considers All Americans His Enemy"

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Trump:-Anyone-using-term-%27Artificial-Intelligence%27-is-the-%27ENEMY%27/67261230

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Trump says that anyone who uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" instead of "super intelligence" is "the enemy." https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117406176604364910

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