Feb 15, 2026
Nothing comes to nothing (without my baby) Babyshambles.
Flood the zone (with evidence).
A kind of post-ironic fatalism that was once endemic to seedy message boards has bled into the broader culture, changing how people communicate. Nihilism is now the lingua franca of the internet. (The Atlantic)
Memes flatten any event, shrinking it down and making it indistinguishable from the rest of the slop and ephemeral content in a person’s feed, and they also become their own motivation for action. (The Atlantic)
Maybe it’s that AI has introduced a new (or just not often articulated) epistemological category. Not “real” and not “fake,” but something like “plausible render.” The image isn’t evidence that the thing exists. It’s evidence that the thing could exist. And for a lot of people, that might turn out to be enough. (default blog)
The logic becomes:
“Could AI disrupt this sector?”
“Why not?”
The story is powerful regardless of evidence. (Oops)
Recurring cycles of AI euphoria and despair. (Oops)
OpenClaw (previously, Moltbook, Moltbot, and Clawdbot – yes, we’re all confused) is a new social media site typically described as ‘Reddit for AI’, basically a local hangout spot for AI agents to talk to each other in real-time. The platform – with its bizarre, Shrimp Jesus-coded, crustacean-ified logo – saw more than 1.5 million bots join the server in a matter of days, prompting wild west scenarios of bots plotting against humans, building a new religion named Crustafarianism, selling digital drugs, selling products, making phone calls, posting real jobs, launching a briefly multimillion dollar $MOLT memecoin, and even hiring a human CEO. (Burn after reading)
Recurring cycles of euphoria and despair.