A Bluesky post promoting an 18,000-word takedown of AI startup valuations got traction not because it was contrarian, but because its central argument — no bailout is coming — is starting to feel obvious to people who were true believers six months ago.
Ed Zitron's newsletter hit Bluesky this week with a simple premise buried in 18,000 words: the AI bubble is not the Great Financial Crisis, no government will rescue OpenAI or Anthropic when the correction comes, and anyone expecting a bailout is misreading both the politics and the economics. The post promoting it drew 71 likes — a modest number by platform standards — but the replies told a different story. The people engaging weren't skeptics arriving to be convinced. They were converts who had already moved there on their own.
A separate Bluesky post, written independently but circulating in the same conversation, put the mood more bluntly: the AI industry's hype cycle has permanently turned millions of people against tech, and when the correction arrives, many of those people will celebrate it.[¹] That's a harder claim than most financial analysis will make — and it appeared not in a bearish investment newsletter but in a thread where the top replies were about Sam Altman's ongoing personal and legal turmoil, including a refiled sexual abuse lawsuit from his sister that circulated widely the same week. The stories aren't causally connected, but they're emotionally entangled. Each new piece of chaos at OpenAI makes the bubble thesis feel less like forecast and more like description.
What makes this moment interesting isn't that critics are calling a correction — they've been doing that since 2023. It's that the Zitron piece's specific argument, the one about the absence of systemic interdependency that justified the 2008 bank bailouts, is gaining traction precisely because the companies themselves keep providing evidence for it. OpenAI is simultaneously the industry's most important player and its most chaotic one, which is not a combination that inspires confidence in the
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