Cultural criticism by Jonathan McIntosh. Video essays and shorts can be found on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
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New video essay examining the myth of the "alpha male" and how that false ideal is propagated through popular culture: youtube.com/watch?v=kpvpadX5…
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This is a scam. It's a move to socialize the risk and inevitable massive losses of an unprofitable company, to shift the burden from billionaires onto the backs of ordinary people and eventually to tax payers. Same scam that Anthropic and OpenAI are running.
WATCH: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk rings the NASDAQ opening bell as the company officially goes public, setting him up to be the world's first trillionaire.
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Jun 11
Hi hello, stop using AI
ALT Infographic listing reasons why generative AI sucks
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every single day just feels like this image now
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Jun 7
For those of you who missed it-
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Watch it in theaters today!!!
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Jun 7
a critical moment for us media. this is exactly what happened in turkey with erdogans initial rise to power. regime loyalists bought up all the private media outlets.
This is a devastating interview.
Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.
Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
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Jun 7
Make no mistake: The US government will socialize the immense costs of subprime AI. They will force us all to eat the losses, while the perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history abscond to private islands. Be ready, because a deliberate rug-pull is the plan.
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mind you his brother is the Fire Lord so he knows what evil is
Jun 6
Uncle Iroh voice actor Greg Baldwin criticizes Paramount over the state of the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' franchise
“Paramount doesn’t care about ATLA ... The new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"
"I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted"
"Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely. They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"
"These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism"
"ATLA is a mystery to them."
"They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise."
"Who should lose their jobs to AI? Answer… Studio Executives. Ironically…those cockroaches will be the last to go"
"In conclusion… Fuck you, Paramount"
(via @GregBaldwinIroh)
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Jun 5
This is a bailout.
BREAKING: Trump administration is discussing a possible government stake in OpenAI, per CNBC
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Generative AI isn’t inevitable, just like everything else tech companies have told us was “inevitable.”
“The metaverse is the future of tech!”
“VR headsets are the future of tech!”
“The blockchain is the future of tech!”
“Cryptocurrency is the future of tech!
Bullshit.
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Rest in peace, Marjane Satrapi.
We've lost one of the world's greatest cartoonists.
It is gut wrenching to think how her story began with a homeland at war, and it ended with it at war still.
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“AI is not going anywhere” is a PR line from a gen AI company press release that’s trying to make their bad broken technology seem inevitable. It’s bullshit. Please stop repeating it.
Keke Palmer opens up about her thoughts on AI:
"The climate stuff is worrying and concerning, but then there’s the reality that it’s not going anywhere. So I find myself trying to figure out how to be prepared, how to create things that protect the environment, be a part of things that are making it ethical. But I’m also understanding how it’s democratizing a lot of spaces for people that otherwise couldn’t reach them. So it’s weird. It can be so positive, but it also can be so damaging."
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We need to start calling "Generative AI" what it really is - a bullshitting machine
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People keep saying “AI is a tool” but a tool is only useful if it’s reliable. AI is like an electric screwdriver that generates a random bit each time you use it. Sure sometimes it’s the phillips head you need. But sometimes it’s a T20 Torx bit. Other times it gives you a banana.
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Too many weasel words in that statement to dispel the gen AI rumors I'm afraid
• Not "full of fully generative AI shots" 🤔
• Zero "shots conceived of by AI" 🤔
Why not just say no AI was used? It's four words
'Stop! That! Train!' Director Calls Claims He Used AI To Make Film "Patently Not True" deadline.com/2026/06/stop-th…
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"Oh we can't put the bullshitting machine back in the bottle. We just need to better regulate the bullshitting machine. And anyway the bullshitting machine has already been forcibly integrated into everything!"
That's what a bunch of y'all sound like when talking about gen AI.
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He's cooking with that answer
'Backrooms' Director Kane Parsons Calls AI "Genuinely Harmful" To Creativity: "Cultural And Economic Rot" deadline.com/2026/06/backroo…
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there is literally no positive to generative AI, whether it's artistically or ethically or environmentally, there is no upside to it whatosever
just hacks cutting corners out of the process at the detriment to the entire planet
Keke Palmer opens up about her thoughts on AI:
"The climate stuff is worrying and concerning, but then there’s the reality that it’s not going anywhere. So I find myself trying to figure out how to be prepared, how to create things that protect the environment, be a part of things that are making it ethical. But I’m also understanding how it’s democratizing a lot of spaces for people that otherwise couldn’t reach them. So it’s weird. It can be so positive, but it also can be so damaging."
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Tatiana Maslany speaks out for Palestine while promoting her Apple TV show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
“There is no ceasefire in Gaza. Israel is continuing to bombard it. The US & Canada & the UK are all complicit. We have to keep remembering Palestine.”
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