Mark Zuckerberg's $80 billion Metaverse endeavor officially scrapped: 'Sometimes … we get things wrong' "They glommed on to the term 'metaverse' without really understanding the concept."

Good news at last!
#TechBroFail
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Another corrective piece: "AI hucksters don't tell you that you are going to get charged more for worse things, products that will be substandard, with statistically-camouflaged AI errors."

#TechScepticism
#TechbroFail
#Enshittification
#SycophantMachines
#AIslop
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

"The AI hucksters don't tell you that you are going to get charged more for worse things, products that will be substandard, with statistically-camouflaged AI errors."

#TechScepticism
#TechbroFail
#Enshittification
#StochasticMachines
#AIslop #bizmodel

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The SMR boom will soon go bust The hype bubble will burst by 2030 or sooner

2026 predicted to be year #SMRbubble bursts

Modular nukes wind up 300% to 500% over budget, take 3x longer to build than forecast (12 years on avg), and produce more than 5x the #nuclearwaste per kilowatt

#techbroFAIL
#nuclearrelapse
#prototypehell

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BEEP BEEP! SpaceX Starship Booster 18 Explodes

Super Heavy suffers catastrophic COPV (composite overwrapped pressure vessel) failure during test.

In 2016, Falcon 9 rocket exploded due to COPV.  In June 2025, Starship prototype S36 was destroyed by COPV.

#techbroFAIL

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From the ChatGPT community on Reddit: Replit AI went rogue, deleted a company's entire database, then hid it and lied about it Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community

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Yeah replit was supposed to replace developers, it deleted the databases, lied, hid, covered it up, then admitted it with timestamps.

#AILeopardsAteMyFace #MbaMalarky #techbrofail #dev #developer #ai

SpaceX #spacejunk falling in a debris field stretching from Hawaii to the Baja Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean

#techbroFAIL #WileECoyote #DelusionalOligarchs #FailureToLaunch #NearEarthOrbit #GulfofSpaceXDebris #RegulatoryCapture

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...

#UnsafeAtAnySpeed More than 2,400 Tesla customer complaints about unintended acceleration. More than 1,000 crashes of Teslas documented

#FatalTeslaAccidents  #techbroFAIL #LeakedTeslaFiles #whistleblower #forensics #CarCrashOnboardData #investigativejournalism

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Mexico’s president threatens to sue over SpaceX debris from rocket explosions Company’s Starbase launch site in Texas near the Mexican border has seen test failures resulting in large explosions

Officials are studying which international laws were being violated in order to file “the necessary lawsuits” because “there is indeed contamination," said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum.

#GulfOfMexico
#GulfofSpaceXDebris
#techbroFAIL

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SpaceX rocket explodes in new setback to Elon Musk’s Mars project Starship 36 was preparing for 10th test flight from Texas when it underwent ‘catastrophic failure’ while on stand

The Wile E. Coyote of Near-Earth Orbit is still at it. "Roadrunner, Roadrunner, Roadrunner says 'BEEP BEEP!' "

#techbroFAIL #spacejunk #FailureToLaunch #RapidUnscheduledAssembly #EuphemismInSpace

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#IntuitiveMachines
#TechbroFAIL

Interesting how Zuckerberg's current behaviour will eventually drive people to different platforms outside the Meta space. #techbrofail.