Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, warns that AI is becoming a new Tower of Babel. As the son of a preacher man, I know that parable well: human hubris, God-like ambition, and the danger of power without humility. From OpenAI’s safety wars to Anthropic’s rare moral caution, from social media brain rot to… Read more.
A robot breaking a half-marathon record made headlines. But that was a sideshow. The real story is robots storming enemy positions in Ukraine, AI creeping into decision-making, and tech titans racing to profit from machines they openly admit could threaten human existence. Marx warned that capitalism would devour its children. iPINIONS contends he never imagined… Read more.
NASA wants us awestruck by Artemis II circling the moon. But iPINIONS asks what kind of country can spend billions on space spectacle and war while its own citizens still line up for basic care and dignity here on Earth. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/artemis-ii-another-moon-shot-another Read more.
Sam Altman wants ChatGPT to become “the core of how people use technology.” But after months of using it, I spend more time correcting its mistakes than benefiting from its intelligence. OpenAI posted $7.8 billion in losses while multiple lawsuits link ChatGPT to teen suicides. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s founders hired a philosopher to build AI responsibly.… Read more.
Social media is doing to our brains what asteroids did to the dinosaurs, hastening our extinction. MRI scans show the damage, tech insiders confess their guilt, and Geoffrey Hinton warns AI may soon decide we’re more useful as its tools than its masters. iPINIONS warns the signs aren’t satire anymore; they’re prophecy. Read the full… Read more.
When your smart TV starts watching you more than you watch it, Big Brother doesn’t need telescreens anymore. Orwell saw it coming. iPINIONS thinks this cartoon proves it. Read more on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/smart-tv-when-remote-control-becomes Read more.
You spend your life becoming qualified only to realize the interview is just data mining for the bot they already prefer. iPINIONS welcomes you to late-stage capitalism — where Adams’s Dilbert applies, Kafka’s Josef K. judges, and Camus’s Meursault thrives. Read more.
Just a year ago, I once declared Threads dead on arrival. Now it’s quietly kicking Elon’s X into irrelevance — no cage match required. From bots and hate speech to fleeing advertisers and Grok’s antisemitic meltdown, X is imploding. Meanwhile, Threads is gaining ground on users, credibility, and momentum. Turns out iPINIONS was wrong, but… Read more.
AI: the final human-made disaster? MAGA Republicans seem fixated on Trump’s quest to morph American democracy into an autocracy. They seem possessed of morbid curiosity or fatalism – the dangers a reelected Trump portends be damned. In a similar vein, the rest of us seem hell-bent on using fossil fuels until we destroy our planet. We seem possessed of morbid indifference or fatalism… Read more.
Companies fleeing X over antisemitism A growing list of companies has suspended advertising from Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, amid the ongoing fallout over antisemitic content. … In response to an X user who had blamed the rise in online antisemitism on Jews, alleging they promoted ‘hatred against whites,’ the… Read more.
