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Opinion

Congress Discovers Electricity Bills Exist, Acts Shocked

The House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act to shield consumers from AI data center costs, proving that even a broken legislative clock is right twice per decade.

💀💀💀  3/5 — Better Late Than Never™
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VC

Insight Partners Discovers Diversification While Industry Sleepwalks Into AI

A $90 billion firm celebrates not putting all eggs in one basket, as if this were a novel insight rather than basic portfolio theory.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Contrarian Cope
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Opinion

Trump Calls Huang to Assure Markets That AI Won't Kill Us

A sitting president and the world's most powerful chip CEO jointly dismiss existential risk onstage, proving either confidence in AI safety or confidence in regulatory capture.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Regulatory Theater
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Opinion

Canada Discovers Factories Are Actually Artificial Intelligence

Having mills and supply chains is apparently all you need to dominate the Physical AI revolution, per one very confident op-ed.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Nostalgia As Strategy
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Opinion

Researchers Casually Mention Extinction, Internet Loses Mind

Tech's most successful con: packaging apocalypse scenarios as intellectual rigor.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Probabilistically Deranged
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Opinion

AI Influencers Solve Body Diversity by Creating Better Bodies

When the problem is unrealistic beauty standards, the 2026 solution is obviously more unrealistic beauty standards, but synthetic.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Peak Tech Solutionism
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Opinion

Altman Calls Regulators 'Productive' While Building Unreviewable AI

OpenAI discovers that voluntary government scrutiny works best when you control the narrative.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Regulatory Theater Major
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Opinion

Canada Rebrands Itself as 'Stable Partner' to Poland, Straight-Faced

The nation that has spent decades watching commodity prices crater now wants to sell nuclear tech and LNG as though geopolitics don't exist.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Audacious Amnesia
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Opinion

OpenAI Claims Math Victory, Forgets to Credit the Homework

A potential Millennium Prize solution arrives wrapped in accusations of intellectual theft—proving Silicon Valley's favorite innovation is plagiarism with better marketing.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Theft With Footnotes
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Unicorn

Stockholm's New Mafia Doubles Down on Vibes, Triples Down on Math

Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B valuation in eight months, proving that if you name your company after an emotion, investors will value it like a nation-state.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Criminally Affectionate
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