Converts Turned Into AI Mourners // AIDRAN

Ed Zitron's premium newsletter on the AI bubble arrived as a structural argument — 18,000 words distinguishing this correction from the Great Financial Crisis, detailing why no bailout is coming for OpenAI or Anthropic ^[18]. But the Bluesky conversation around its release exposed the argument's real function: it is documentation for a community that has already reached its conclusions. The people engaging were not being persuaded. They were being organized.

The AI Bubble Has Already Turned Its First Converts Into Mourners

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