No one wants this except the hucksters pushing it
A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party.
I made the group and invited six people.
SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.
... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)
I made the group and invited six people.
SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.
... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)
February 21, 2026 at 6:26 PM
No one wants this except the hucksters pushing it
Every argument for A.I. just shows these hucksters are the laziest, emptiest, dullest people on the planet.
January 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Every argument for A.I. just shows these hucksters are the laziest, emptiest, dullest people on the planet.
"Donald Trump" was a folklore character of the late years of the Atomic Age, intended to teach Northamericans the dangers of hucksters.
it's truly incredible that after a decade of trump being involved in politics (setting aside decades of his history in business) so many people still line up to make deals with him that end up with his knife in their back. anyway, mariá machado, step up and claim your fell for it again award.
January 4, 2026 at 9:40 PM
"Donald Trump" was a folklore character of the late years of the Atomic Age, intended to teach Northamericans the dangers of hucksters.
america's always been a country of hucksters going back to the very beginning, but we've never given so many transparent hucksters so many keys to the kingdom in the way we've been doing for the last several years.
more like "we don't need cancer research because a machine god will emerge from the stygian depths of the data center and provide for all of our needs"
January 29, 2026 at 9:37 PM
america's always been a country of hucksters going back to the very beginning, but we've never given so many transparent hucksters so many keys to the kingdom in the way we've been doing for the last several years.
Even when it's an entire stadium booing them, the AI hucksters cannot wrap their heads around the fact that no one wants the shit they're selling.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida.
Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
May 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Even when it's an entire stadium booing them, the AI hucksters cannot wrap their heads around the fact that no one wants the shit they're selling.
Today's elites are hucksters and frauds sincerely taken in by... other hucksters and frauds. A daisy chain of gullible con men.
January 19, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Today's elites are hucksters and frauds sincerely taken in by... other hucksters and frauds. A daisy chain of gullible con men.
A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money
July 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money
One of the things with how localized journalism used to be is that great stories like Wilson’s exposing frauds and hucksters often didn’t make it to the national stage, and the hucksters kept going anyway.
I also could not have written the piece without talking to Cammy Wilson, a young Mississippi journalist in the Midwest who wrote the truth back in 1973, which Pusser was none too happy about. When I traveled to McNairy County, it was her footsteps I tried best to follow.
December 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One of the things with how localized journalism used to be is that great stories like Wilson’s exposing frauds and hucksters often didn’t make it to the national stage, and the hucksters kept going anyway.
this stuff really boils my piss. immutable arent experts, theyre hucksters.
June 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
this stuff really boils my piss. immutable arent experts, theyre hucksters.
Dr. Oz too -Trump truly assembling a super team of hucksters and charlatans.
November 20, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Dr. Oz too -Trump truly assembling a super team of hucksters and charlatans.
STOP 🛑 using anti-Lincolnite language in the workplace!
instead of:
internal stakeholders
try using:
pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters
instead of:
internal stakeholders
try using:
pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters
July 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
STOP 🛑 using anti-Lincolnite language in the workplace!
instead of:
internal stakeholders
try using:
pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters
instead of:
internal stakeholders
try using:
pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters
Robert Downey Jr slams influencers as ‘evangelical hucksters of the information age’
Robert Downey Jr slams influencers as ‘evangelical hucksters of the information age’
Actor describes influencers as ‘evangelical hucksters of information age’
trib.al
May 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Robert Downey Jr slams influencers as ‘evangelical hucksters of the information age’
AI hucksters have such boring ideas, at least P. T. Barnum was out there sewing half a monkey to a fish
September 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
AI hucksters have such boring ideas, at least P. T. Barnum was out there sewing half a monkey to a fish
Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.
August 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.
Dopey press is why we're here pretending these two hucksters are geniuses or that anything they say is grounded in reality
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are only going to get more competitive now that they both are focusing on the moon, columnist Tim Higgins writes.
Bezos vs. Musk: The New Billionaire Battle for the Moon
Elon Musk has changed his focus from Mars to a lunar base, going head to head with Jeff Bezos
on.wsj.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Dopey press is why we're here pretending these two hucksters are geniuses or that anything they say is grounded in reality
Yes, and also, this is where I remind folks that most rules for "formal" English were invented in the Victorian Era by hucksters trying to make a pound off people feeling anxious about their position in society
roses are red
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
Another day, another whiner complaining that I use the singular "they" in my work, and of course they can go fuck themselves
(you see what I did there)
(also, gift link)
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(you see what I did there)
(also, gift link)
wapo.st/3JEdPUv
September 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Yes, and also, this is where I remind folks that most rules for "formal" English were invented in the Victorian Era by hucksters trying to make a pound off people feeling anxious about their position in society
VIDEO: From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to The Four Hucksters of the Apocalypse
June 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
VIDEO: From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to The Four Hucksters of the Apocalypse
Folks, just block those “Follow back” hucksters and move on. Criminy.
December 18, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Folks, just block those “Follow back” hucksters and move on. Criminy.
America has a long history of charlatans, hucksters, and nerdowells that stoke the fires in order to live off the warmth of the flames
September 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
America has a long history of charlatans, hucksters, and nerdowells that stoke the fires in order to live off the warmth of the flames
if anthropic's claims/suspicions are true they're monsters and if they're not they're hucksters. enough
July 11, 2026 at 11:15 PM
if anthropic's claims/suspicions are true they're monsters and if they're not they're hucksters. enough
Keep looping on how return of measles stems partly from vaccine success—many forget its severity and fall for anti-vax hucksters.
Similarly, fading memories of the winning fight against racial authoritarianism in WWII and Civil Rights Movement make space for the rise of anti-democratic hucksters.
Similarly, fading memories of the winning fight against racial authoritarianism in WWII and Civil Rights Movement make space for the rise of anti-democratic hucksters.
March 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Keep looping on how return of measles stems partly from vaccine success—many forget its severity and fall for anti-vax hucksters.
Similarly, fading memories of the winning fight against racial authoritarianism in WWII and Civil Rights Movement make space for the rise of anti-democratic hucksters.
Similarly, fading memories of the winning fight against racial authoritarianism in WWII and Civil Rights Movement make space for the rise of anti-democratic hucksters.
Alternative to charismatic hucksters...Bill...Clinton...
July 9, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Alternative to charismatic hucksters...Bill...Clinton...
Americans sure do love hucksters.
March 24, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Americans sure do love hucksters.
"Influencers" should be called by their real roles -- hucksters.
September 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"Influencers" should be called by their real roles -- hucksters.