Make things robots can't make. Strict no clankers policy.
Rich Caccappolo, the vice chair of media at the company behind the Daily Mail, fears extractive chatbots are going to obliterate the online publishing business. "My concern is it’s not going to happen in three or five years—I joke it’s going to happen next Tuesday.”
The End of Publishing as We Know It
Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media
www.theatlantic.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Make things robots can't make. Strict no clankers policy.
I'm tired of these clankers
July 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I'm tired of these clankers
NO MORE CLANKERS
Amazon plans to replace more than 600K future jobs with robots
(via NY Times)
(via NY Times)
October 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
NO MORE CLANKERS
star wars did give us a slur for robots (clankers) but i don’t use it bc i don’t want to have to look a robot in the eye in fifty years and be like “you don’t understand it was a different time…”
December 3, 2024 at 4:16 PM
star wars did give us a slur for robots (clankers) but i don’t use it bc i don’t want to have to look a robot in the eye in fifty years and be like “you don’t understand it was a different time…”
❌ NO CLANKERS ❌
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
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www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
❌ NO CLANKERS ❌
Time to show these clankers that it do go down
July 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Time to show these clankers that it do go down
Newsom polling well with clankers is so incredibly on brand
March 24, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Newsom polling well with clankers is so incredibly on brand
Cash For Clankers will be the government program set up for buying distressed GPUs
Cash For Clunkers programs are crazy efficient - but they can't even touch Cash For Air Clunkers, which would let you decommission and repurpose the underlying infrastructure itself. General aviation airports are all over the place, they're very large, and they're often on urban land.
My deeper obsession here is that the avgas transition deadline is an unrecognized opportunity to buy out small planes (since they require expensive retrofits to burn unleaded) and close small airports - it's a major climate+urban land use opportunity within a major air pollution win!
February 25, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Cash For Clankers will be the government program set up for buying distressed GPUs
need more of this exact thing. stupid clankers absolutely eating shit or spazzing out
October 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
need more of this exact thing. stupid clankers absolutely eating shit or spazzing out
Clankers Against Humanity
September 29, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Clankers Against Humanity
If you search “clanker” on TikTok, it’s an endless series of jokes about how clankers can’t date your daughter, clankers can’t use the human water fountain, clankers won’t do hard work, clankers will get beat up if they move next door, people screaming about “wireback clankers.” This isn’t about AI
August 26, 2026 at 1:23 PM
If you search “clanker” on TikTok, it’s an endless series of jokes about how clankers can’t date your daughter, clankers can’t use the human water fountain, clankers won’t do hard work, clankers will get beat up if they move next door, people screaming about “wireback clankers.” This isn’t about AI
THE CLANKERS HAVE TAKEN OVER
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
THE CLANKERS HAVE TAKEN OVER
Clankers are an invasive species
The internet is dead.
“In total, more than 50 percent of web traffic is now nonhuman, Cloudflare said. Between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to websites of businesses in industries like finance, publishing and retail dropped nearly 40 percent, it added.”
“In total, more than 50 percent of web traffic is now nonhuman, Cloudflare said. Between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to websites of businesses in industries like finance, publishing and retail dropped nearly 40 percent, it added.”
I wrote about what's happening to the web now that everything is A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
July 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Clankers are an invasive species
you can and should call the robots clankers
People... are allowed to come up with mean names for inanimate objects. If you compare this practice to racial slurs, I'm going to think you believe people of other races hold the same concrete significance and value as inanimate objects. This is one of those slips that does not look good on anyone.
October 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
you can and should call the robots clankers
Dgaf clankers aren’t real people
December 3, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Dgaf clankers aren’t real people
Dropping the hard r (clankers)
December 3, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Dropping the hard r (clankers)
Ain't no need for them god dang clankers
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Ain't no need for them god dang clankers
November 30, 2024 at 6:25 AM
This is NOT FUNNY. Clankers inly do this when they're in EXTREME DISTRESS!
September 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
This is NOT FUNNY. Clankers inly do this when they're in EXTREME DISTRESS!
