The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Gazillion-Dollar Oops An update Three months ago I wrote about the AI spending binge and called it “The Trillion-Dollar Oops”. It felt cute at the time. The Trillion-Dollar Oops No1 · December 22, 2025 Read full story I owe you an apology. I was being generous. A whole year back, back  all  the way to December, the big five hyperscalers were spending $405 billion a year and I thought that number was already insane. I said it was accelerating. I said No1 knows what anything costs anymore. That these estimates kept getting revised upward so fast that by the time you finished reading the sentence, someone would have revised it again. I thought I was joking. But increasingly this dimension has other ideas with reality. I was being prophetic. The 2025 final tally came in at $443 billion for the top five, up 73% year-on-year. Fine. That’s the world we live in now. But the 2026 projections? CreditSights estimated about $600 billion in November. Then Q4 earnings calls hit a...

  Grand Theft Reality “There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself.” - Rousseau Helen of desTroy For decades, the ruling class has been  publicly lamenting  the collapse of public trust in its institutions, even while doubling down on the same behaviors that caused the masses to abandon them. AI has given them another chance to shroud their operations in an aura of magic, inspiring public awe and fear at levels not seen since the first televisions began appearing in American living rooms. Big Parasite has jumped at this chance to swap out the structural elements of consensus reality with its own competing versions, releasing these narratives fully-formed into the infosphere and having AI smooth over the inconsistencies and plot holes that  previously ruined  the illusion of plausibility. While admitting they have no idea how the technology  actually works , billionaire dweeb-...