THROES
the flailing death rattles that echoed throughout the entire Super Bowl...
Everyone saw them, and everyone commented on them. I’ve written about this subject more than I ever would’ve cared to just a few years ago, but here it is again…
Artificial Intelligence.
Specifically, the overwhelming number of ads we saw last Sunday during the Super Bowl that were disturbingly, emphatically, obnoxiously PRO A.I.
A.I. designed to do all your data entry.
A.I. for your interior design.
A.I. for your daily reminders.
A.I. for traveling.
A.I. for hiring/firing people.
A.I. for digitally replacing actors.
You’ve read my takes on A.I. and how utterly useless I think it is. How much of a scam I think the whole branding element is and how the only reason A.I. exists is for the doomcults within the billionaire class to push us closer to annihilation even faster than they already were…
But one prevalent thought I had during the onslaught of slop commercials we were force-fed on Sunday was not how annoying I found every ‘product’ or how dehumanizing all the A.I. rendered photos and videos were…All I could find myself thinking was,
“holy shit, these fuckers are DESPERATE.”
Not just for money — we’ve known that for a while. For the last two years, there’s been an endless array of reports and analytics from economists who argue that A.I. is a fiscal dead end.
The reported values of every A.I. company on the planet are entirely fictious — invented metrics and bullshit numbers that are paraded around every quarter as some kind of money-printing miracle, as the Line Keep Going Up. But there’s never been an ounce of profit to boast about since the day generative A.I. was first released, and there has yet to be any evidence that they can reduce the extreme costs of A.I. data centers in any meaningful way in the next decade.
And yet, more and more companies continue to funnel more and more billions of dollars in to the A.I.-based stock market, forcing more and more pressure on the “bubble” in the hopes of some revelation in the near future.
But it became apparently obvious to everyone in the last year or so that A.I. will NOT be the economic panacea that bullish dipshits have been proclaiming ever since the pandemic. In fact, it’s almost certainly going to be the cause of the next inevitable megacrash that zeroes out all the markets and robs all of its investors of virtually their entire portfolios — or rather, all the investors who were left out of the loop when it came time to cash out.
Once again, I am very aware of the asshole hypocrisy of my using an A.I.-generated image for a post that is vehemently anti-A.I., and I, once again, am choosing to believe that it’s simply fighting fire with fire in a very perverse way that I suspect will age terribly in a year or so.
So why, oh why, were we subjected to a trillion MORE A.I.-based ads during this year’s Super Bowl than ever before?
The same reason we received so many ads for cryptocurrency in 2020, and social media platforms in 2010, and web browser domains in 2000.
It’s the next phase of the scam.
The hype for A.I. exists, no doubt. Despite what naysayers like Ed Zitron have been [correctly] pointing out from Day 1, there is still a disgusting amount of adoration for the inane atrocities that A.I. companies are pedaling on a daily basis, and there is still an unrepentant insistence that WE ALL MUST EMBRACE A.I. NOW.
At works, in our homes, in our cars, everywhere all the time.
Not because it works or helps in any substantive way, but because the market insists upon itself that we must invest in A.I. as to stop the bubble from bursting and tanking the economy.
Project responsibility unto the less fortunate — primarily middle class Americans who can afford to invest, but not in the lavish and careless ways that the upper class do — and let them know that whatever happens next rests solely on THEIR shoulders. Keep them out of the loop on anything, save for KEEP INVESTING; HOLD THE LINE!
The easiest way to get them to do this is endless, obnoxious, reinforcement. Psychological warfare, implanting and repeating the earworms over and over about how great the product is and how much it can do for you — and moreover, how much everyone who speaks out against the product is going to live a much worse life than you in the long run.
Give the middle class the idea that they might, some day, reach the higher echelons of society, if only they invest in the Big Thing, Right Here, Right Now.
And then comes the rug pull…
That’s where we are.
We are DAYS away from the point of implosions.
Not years, not months, not even weeks…DAYS.
The Super Bowl ads weren’t just a Hail Mary for the tech bros, they were a death rattle.
It cannot be overstated how much the stock prices for several A.I. giants took a huge hit last week, partly due to yet another failure to deliver any substantive profits or margins over the course of 2025, but also in the wake of several big name douches (Zuckerberg, Thiel, etc.) being explicitly called out in the Epstein files.
I’ve spoken on billionaires’ involvement in the most morally despicable acts imaginable before, so I don’t think I need to belabor the point today.
That information, coupled with the double-down efforts of Sunday evening, lead me to believe that the asshats of Silicon Valley are days away from pulling the ripcord. This is their last chance to superficially inflate the market as much as possible (with money from the unassuming middle class) before they know they’ve hit their plateau.
And in the dead of night, without warning or notice, they’ll all pull out. (Ha)
And we’ll all wake up to another Friday morning deluge of horror as we hear that the S&P and the DOW and the NASDAQ have hit their worst bottoms since not just the pandemic or housing crisis or dotcom boom, but since the Great Depression.
The middle class will be further marginalized and suppressed until the group effectively no longer exists and is fused together with the lower class, and the rich will continue to ride off into the sunset with yet ANOTHER self-imposed self-destruction that allowed them to corporatize and privatize their earnings, while continuing to socialize their losses.
And all of those middle class hopefuls who wasted all their time and money on generative bullshit will look to the heavens and wonder why no one told them that this was all just another pump and dump scam…