"These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence."
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
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The Era Of The Business Idiot
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May 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence."
Personally I'm pretty horny about companies going bankrupt trying to automate everything
June 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Personally I'm pretty horny about companies going bankrupt trying to automate everything
Sticker Mule is the Uline of stickers. Don’t use either ever. There are so many alternatives.
Sticker Mule CEO fires workers, touts robots: ‘Automate, automate, automate’
CEO Anthony Constantino says the company has installed 250 robots at production sites in past two years
www.timesunion.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Sticker Mule is the Uline of stickers. Don’t use either ever. There are so many alternatives.
Dazed Jeff Bezos Realizes He Spent Entire Conversation Thinking About How To Automate Person Talking To Him https://theonion.com/dazed-jeff-bezos-realizes-he-spent-entire-conversation-1822418205/
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Dazed Jeff Bezos Realizes He Spent Entire Conversation Thinking About How To Automate Person Talking To Him https://theonion.com/dazed-jeff-bezos-realizes-he-spent-entire-conversation-1822418205/
you can't automate accountability
February 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
you can't automate accountability
The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn
August 20, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn
what if we could automate confirmation bias, and deploy it at scale
June 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
what if we could automate confirmation bias, and deploy it at scale
like literally just help us do the annoying and fiddly shit. automate "erasing little dots of ink from my scanned pages." automate "color flatting open lineart." automate the "washing dishes" parts and let us vibe in peace
June 4, 2024 at 7:11 PM
like literally just help us do the annoying and fiddly shit. automate "erasing little dots of ink from my scanned pages." automate "color flatting open lineart." automate the "washing dishes" parts and let us vibe in peace
AI has allowed Silicon Valley to finally automate the inspiration for countless children to self-harm.
This is horrifying and heartbreaking and frankly under discussed in conversations about #ai #digitalhealth #healthcommunication #mentalhealth #youthmedia
I see the company whose AI talked a teen into suicide has learned a lot from that tragedy.
We've gone beyond tech enabling or promoting child harm to technologies that initiate it.
HT @hypervisible.bsky.social
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We've gone beyond tech enabling or promoting child harm to technologies that initiate it.
HT @hypervisible.bsky.social
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November 26, 2024 at 8:18 AM
AI has allowed Silicon Valley to finally automate the inspiration for countless children to self-harm.
I feel like there are 2 types of engineers:
The ones that automate everything in their home, and those who automate nothing.
I’m the latter.
The ones that automate everything in their home, and those who automate nothing.
I’m the latter.
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I feel like there are 2 types of engineers:
The ones that automate everything in their home, and those who automate nothing.
I’m the latter.
The ones that automate everything in their home, and those who automate nothing.
I’m the latter.
Some union, please make this demand at the next contract bargaining!
August 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Some union, please make this demand at the next contract bargaining!
Yeah we keep trying and failing to automate ourselves out of a job
September 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Yeah we keep trying and failing to automate ourselves out of a job
Hundreds of billions of dollars to automate the experience of being groomed in an AOL chat room in 1998
New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.
August 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hundreds of billions of dollars to automate the experience of being groomed in an AOL chat room in 1998
We quality checked THREE THOUSAND stickers by hand this morning
I've had actually conversations with every single person who has ever ordered stickers from us.
We care about the quality of clients receive, not how cheap we can make them.
But go off about your robots, Donkey Show 💀
I've had actually conversations with every single person who has ever ordered stickers from us.
We care about the quality of clients receive, not how cheap we can make them.
But go off about your robots, Donkey Show 💀
Sticker Mule CEO fires workers, touts robots: ‘Automate, automate, automate’
CEO Anthony Constantino says the company has installed 250 robots at production sites in past two years
www.timesunion.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We quality checked THREE THOUSAND stickers by hand this morning
I've had actually conversations with every single person who has ever ordered stickers from us.
We care about the quality of clients receive, not how cheap we can make them.
But go off about your robots, Donkey Show 💀
I've had actually conversations with every single person who has ever ordered stickers from us.
We care about the quality of clients receive, not how cheap we can make them.
But go off about your robots, Donkey Show 💀
the promise of "automate everything" was it would free up the rest of humanity for leisure or the creation of art
instead they want to automate the art and free up the rest of humanity to do things that are too mundane for AI
instead they want to automate the art and free up the rest of humanity to do things that are too mundane for AI
AI and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. AI has greatly increased "productivity", but it has destabilized society, has made life unfulfilling, has subjected human beings to indignities, has led to widespread psychological suffering, and has inflicted severe damage on the Arts
January 10, 2024 at 6:45 PM
the promise of "automate everything" was it would free up the rest of humanity for leisure or the creation of art
instead they want to automate the art and free up the rest of humanity to do things that are too mundane for AI
instead they want to automate the art and free up the rest of humanity to do things that are too mundane for AI
Technology can automate tasks, but it cannot automate purpose.
April 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Technology can automate tasks, but it cannot automate purpose.
…okay, who did this? and what’s your beverage of choice, because you should drink for free for the rest of your life
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March 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion.
After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them.
Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?
After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them.
Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?
March 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion.
After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them.
Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?
After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them.
Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?
you can't automate giving a damn
you can't automate accountability
May 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
you can't automate giving a damn
Find accounts that post uplifting stuff and follow them. Don't let your feed be all doom and gloom. Yes stay updated and do follow and attend protests in your area but, stay sane. Don't let the worlds turmoil rot yur brain.
Don't automate your doomscrolling
Automate happy thoughts
Don't automate your doomscrolling
Automate happy thoughts
July 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Find accounts that post uplifting stuff and follow them. Don't let your feed be all doom and gloom. Yes stay updated and do follow and attend protests in your area but, stay sane. Don't let the worlds turmoil rot yur brain.
Don't automate your doomscrolling
Automate happy thoughts
Don't automate your doomscrolling
Automate happy thoughts
Apparently, inflation is bad, but we must impose tariffs to raise the cost of cheap imports so people buy expensive American goods. We can re-shore manufacturing, but to be cost competitive, we have to fully automate factories, replacing American workers with robots.
July 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Apparently, inflation is bad, but we must impose tariffs to raise the cost of cheap imports so people buy expensive American goods. We can re-shore manufacturing, but to be cost competitive, we have to fully automate factories, replacing American workers with robots.
lobotomizing real journalism at the same time we cheaply automate propaganda at historic scale, what could possibly go wrong
Artificial intelligence is automating the creation of fake news, spurring an explosion of web content mimicking factual articles that instead disseminate false information about elections, wars and natural disasters.
The rise of AI fake news is creating a ‘misinformation superspreader’
Artificial intelligence is automating the creation of fake news, spurring an explosion of websites that can disseminate false information about wars and elections
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2023 at 8:02 PM
lobotomizing real journalism at the same time we cheaply automate propaganda at historic scale, what could possibly go wrong
None of the examples in this article are “restarting the world’s idea machine.” They are AI tools helping scientists automate rote or routine tasks.
December 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
None of the examples in this article are “restarting the world’s idea machine.” They are AI tools helping scientists automate rote or routine tasks.
Sanders: The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Jeff Bezos wants to raise $100 billion to automate factories in America and around the world. It means there will no longer be manufacturing jobs in the United States.
April 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Sanders: The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Jeff Bezos wants to raise $100 billion to automate factories in America and around the world. It means there will no longer be manufacturing jobs in the United States.
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