Ed Zitron, who knows what he's talking about, did an annotated version of Matt Shumer's "Something Big Is Coming" hype

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Thu Feb 12, 2026, 09:54 PM - Edit history (1)

The link Ed posted on X:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5c3m575cq21p7jjac/Something-Big-Is-Coming-Annotated.pdf?rlkey=qlr0mgnlpjifo5xkon2crhrhw&e=1&dl=0

I hope you'll read it. What he has to say is both sharp and hilarious.

I'll put Ed's thread on X in a reply below.

[highplainsdem]

1. Ed's posts about this on X:

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. No surprises here - it's the Blue Tsunami in November!

What could be bigger than that?

Anything Trump has in mind will fail.

[highplainsdem]

3. ??? This is about AI, and silly hype about it that got tens of millions of views earlier this week:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221012921

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221014954

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221017268

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. OK, I was just making up my own "BIG NEWS"

Rather than clicking on a blind link.

Sounds like they are doing some pumping ahead of the dumping of AI stocks…

[highplainsdem]

6. Ahead of fundraising - see the third link there - but I'm sure some of them are planning to dump stocks.

It's depressing that so many people fell for what Matt Shumer wrote.

[RockRaven]

5. If one likes audio content, one should listen to Ed's podcast "Better Offline"

He is one of the better AI-company-skeptics (my descriptor, not his own) out there.

[highplainsdem]

7. He's great. And his writing is brilliant. Often reminds me of Harlan Ellison's best rants against the TV industry.

[highplainsdem]

8. kick

[Hugin]

9. K&R Merely for the word hilarious being in the post.

I NEED hilarity right now.

I am savoring the mark-up. It’s saying all of the things that I would have said.

[highplainsdem]

10. We all need hilarity right now. It's one reason I like Ed's writing so much. He writes beautifully and

very clearly about complicated subjects that are serious and can be depressing, but he can also skewer the fools and villains he writes about so perfectly that I laugh out loud.

[Hugin]

11. The DU tech heavyweights did a very good job in the previous thread.

Dissecting this tissue. It was like watching chum thrown to sharks.

Credit where credit is due.