CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs

In the last three months I've had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What's been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It would be an "all hands" email in which the CEO talks up how amazing LLM tools are and saying that…

2026-6-9 11:11am Techdirt 5,000 words

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The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun

Should we wage 'Holy War' against the Thinking Machines?

2026-5-28 2:55pm Syndekit Charles McBryde, Syndekit 3,000 words

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That Methyl Methacrylate Tank

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank

Science Advances 1,000 words

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Can This Guy Get People to Live in America’s Emptiest Downtown? - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

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New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens

It started as a joke. Then it became a thing.

The University of Chicago Magazine 1,000 words