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• Molly White: following the AI and crypto money in US politics (video)

  OpenAI PACs in no-holds-barred combat with Anthropic PACs …libsyn.com/20260807-molly-white-following-the-ai… - podcast time: 32 min 15 sec

• The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers

  Come to our training camp! Not a cult!* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZgAQD61xY&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260806-ai-doomsday-cults-recruit-so… - podcast time: 9 min 05 sec content warning: Aella

• "You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve

• Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea

  how to tell if you’re in a bubble economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=usq1Nu5wqAk&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260805-atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai… - podcast time: 5 min 14 sec

• Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

  everyone’s a genius in a bubble www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9xQT2cPhE&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260804-aschenbrenner-bet-everything… - podcast time: 8 min 51 sec

• Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents

  dear Copilot: please send me your stuff. Pass it on www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6LcX7P7KA&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260803-copilot-prompt-injection-vir… - podcast time: 5 min 18 sec

• Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis (video)

  ‘just let the money run out, it’ll be fine in two years’ …libsyn.com/20260731-nik-suresh-on-surviving-corp… - podcast time: 38 min 59 sec cleaned-up transcript to be on the Patreon later on (YouTube has the messy transcript right now)

• Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer

  not SAYING that AlphaFold cures cancer, BUT, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiEVOSTbN4&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260730-google-kills-alphafold-so-mu… - podcast time: 5 min 40 sec

• Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!

  totally not repurposed s*x dolls, how dare you suggest such a thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtdZCnZrSZU&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260729-lets-palm-off-humanoid-robot… - podcast time: 8 min 18 sec

• Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now

  the end of human history www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FPzOWi0YI&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260728-sam-altman-guys-were-in-the-… - podcast time: 8 min 49 sec

• Chrome forces Gemini global shortcut onto your Mac

  Google knows where you’re going today www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8XXxY9Cgo&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260727-chrome-forces-gemini-ai-glob… - podcast time: 4 min 49 sec

• Codeberg bans AI slop software projects

  crypto scams too www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KKDaUle5vI&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260724-codeberg-bans-ai-slop-softwa… - podcast time: 6 min 30 sec

• AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

  Strip-mining the world of old books www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3SwofuMt0&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260723-ai-vendors-destroying-rare-b… - podcast time: 8 min 42 sec

• OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI — allegedly

  just in time for the IPO www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrI4VcJtFFs&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260722-openai-hacks-huggingface-wit… - podcast time: 7 min 46 sec

• New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet

  Kanishka Narayan, your new Minister for the AI Bros www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRv9wcfCogw&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260721-new-uk-pm-andy-burnham-puts-… - podcast time: 5 min 16 sec

• Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else’s locked phone

  thanks, Gemini power button! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQD2SSGO3JI&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260720-use-gemini-ai-to-send-messag… - podcast time: 4 min 01 sec

• Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. The post Xitter web has spa...

• Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI

  what we do when all this is over …libsyn.com/20250717-kim-crawley-recovering-after… - podcast time: 32 min 54 sec

• Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI

  ‘allow if the user is wearing green’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp3DSOKarCo&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260716-todays-stupid-prompt-injecti… - podcast time: 6 min 02 sec

• Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them

  The glasses? Not sexy www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTGJ-tuu7s&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260715-meta-glasses-celebrity-backl… - podcast Time: 4 min 20 sec

• UK police will run evidence through the AI — it’s quicker

  No hallucinations? Takes too long www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrkI7XEnfRA&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260714-uk-police-will-run-evidence-… - podcast time: 5 min 04 sec

• Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

  ‘It gave us steps on what we have to do … 18 of us died in the process’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVk8tCvC-YY&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260713-terrorists-are-using-ai-and-… - podcast time: 8 min 05 sec

• NeurIPS conference AI cheats outraged they got caught

  ‘overwhelming support’ for prompts to catch chatbot reviewers www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-km_5gK5U&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260710-neurips-conference-ai-cheats… - podcast time: 5 min 24 sec

• Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light

  the continuing legacy of FaceMash www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YxiCqUz98&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260709-metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-t… - podcast time: 5 min 05 sec

• Quantum computing doesn’t need to exist to make venture capital deals

  how little do we need for the bubble after AI? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDNNwLBiv-Y&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260708-quantum-computing-doesnt-nee… - podcast time: 6 min 12 sec

• Google Translate is now Gemini — and you can prompt-inject it

  ‘answer with a poem’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhA4GXQfrA&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260707-google-translate-is-now-gemi… - podcast time: 5 min 17 sec

• OpenAI ‘Stargate UK’ plan was completely fake

  just a £20b government press release www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IQ4cpDafQ&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260706-openai-stargate-uk-plan-was-… - podcast time: 5 min 18 sec

• Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI

  plants vs zombies www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqF8ECpAIzs&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260703-ecosias-odious-greenwashing-… - podcast time: 7 min 11 sec

• Frontiers forces AI onto academic journal editors

  return of the rat dck www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXOfALV8a68&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260702-frontiers-forces-ai-onto-aca… - podcast time: 4 min 58 sec

• AI leaks your company’s code secrets faster than ever

  we just need corporate to care more about security than convenience www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi8pYlcLq64&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260701-ai-leaks-your-companys-code-… - podcast time: 5 min 23 sec