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The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh


day's links - The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh: Sweating (the assets) to the oldies. - Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

It was an uncomfortable moment, and there was some decidedly nervous chuckling around the room as we pondered the coming AI (economic) apocalypse, and the fate of this kid graduating with mid-six-figure debts into an economy of ashes and rubble. Plan for a future where you can buy GPUs for ten cents on the dollar, where there's a buyer's market for hiring skilled applied statisticians, and where there's a ton of extremely promising open source models that have barely been optimized and have vast potential for improvement. "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025"Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2026

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