Notices by Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to)

Francis Fukuyama dismantles the idea that superintelligent AI will create a world of abundance. The reason we can’t feed and clothe everyone isn’t because we aren’t smart enough to grow enough food or sew enough clothes.

Secondly, the world doesn’t have enough resources to give us the abundance AI bros describe. We don’t even have enough electricity to run all the AI they want.

Finally, it’s hard to take any of these seriously from people who are building AI slop TikTok
https://www.persuasion.community/p/superintelligence-isnt-enough

1.6 million crypto traders had their positions liquidated after Trump announced 100% tariffs on China. There were $16.6B in losses from liquidated long positions which is 10x the amount from COVID and FTX related crashes.

I’m surprised Trump Always Chickens Out didn’t apply this time and instead traders panicked.

https://cryptobriefing.com/leveraged-positions-liquidation-crypto-bloodbath/

The Wall Street Journal picks up on this year’s rally in gold (+52%) and bitcoin (+30%) as people lose trust in governments, central banks and the dollar.

It pains me to say this but bitcoin is now more trusted than the U.S. dollar. The crypto bros were right. 🫠

https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/a-new-wall-street-trade-is-powering-gold-and-hitting-currencies-62a61fdb

Due to the proliferation of AI, I’m debating on instituting a rule that I won’t read your document unless you prove you’ve read it yourself.

It’s now a given AI is being used to create docs but also a given that many people aren’t reading the docs before sharing them with others.

Thinking about all the years we wasted trying to reason with conservatives only to find out their only actual ideas are the rules should apply to you but not to us.

Fascism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Both documented & undocumented immigrants are definitely deleting their socials and keeping heads down at the risk of being disappeared.

While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.

Republicans attack healthcare because Obamacare is the most significant lasting legacy of Obama’s presidency.

The idea that millions of people have healthcare because of our first Black president is a legacy they will fight to destroy even if it means millions lose their coverage leading to thousands of deaths.

OpenAI has leapfrogged SpaceX to become the world’s most valuable company with a valuation of $500B.

The company authorized current and former employees to sell $10.3B in stock of which $6.6B was sold.

34% of the stock not being sold is a sign some employees still expect more upside and held.

Fuck it, abolish ICE.

https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

The truth about conservatives is their fears are based on what they’d do in a similar situation. Every moral panic from conservatives is a roadmap of what they’d do if they had power.

It sounds like TikTok for AI generated videos is officially a “hot” category.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launches-sora-2-tiktok-like-app/

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/

Kamala Harris predicted a lot of what is unfolding today during her campaign and yet so much of the coverage at the time was as if she was taking crazy pills.

When you brag about being a Christian and the one thing you love about Trump is the literal opposite of Christ’s most famous teaching. 🤦🏾♂️

Donald Trump is the worst president of my lifetime.

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵. 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥.

Accenture has laid of 11,000 workers (1.3% of staff) as part of their program to exit people who cannot be retrained for the AI age. They expect layoffs to continue through November.

I wonder if this is people who didn’t meet some threshold of AI tools usage or people in roles eliminated due to AI productivity gains who don’t have skills for other roles?

https://www.ft.com/content/a74f8564-ed5a-42e9-8fb3-d2bddb2b8675

This article highlights a trend I’ve observed from talking to peers where adoption of AI in the workplace results in people generating work product that looks correct but is actually mediocre, misleading or mistaken in its core assumptions.

It requires you to interpret, correct or redo the work. It is workslop and it’s getting worse every day.

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

The key similarity between the AI bubble and the dotcom bubble is spending a lot in anticipation of unseen demand. Bain & Co estimates the AI industry needs $2T in revenue to justify the current spending and expects we’ll be short $800B.

Question is what’s the AI equivalent of “everyone has a smartphone & broadband” which is what created the internet boom following the dotcom bubble?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/an-800-billion-revenue-shortfall-threatens-ai-future-bain-says

It’s an astute observation that modern conservatives (MAGA) have strayed so far from traditional American ideals that they can’t quote Lincoln or Reagan anymore.

In fact they have more in common with despotic regimes from the 19th & 20th century than American democracy. From United States to a divided country.

This article argues we are in not one but three AI bubbles.

1. A classic financial bubble where companies are overvalued.

2. An infrastructure bubble where big tech are overbuilding data centers.

3. A hype bubble where the capabilities of the technology are far below the promises of its proponents.

All three seem highly likely to me.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91400857/there-isnt-an-ai-bubble-there-are-three-ai-bu