Jones raved that 'the left' are 'bodysnatchers. They're skin walkers. They literally take your skin.' He emphasized that The Onion is 'taking on our skin,' reflecting his bizarre fixation on skin during the rant.
Deepfakes are synthetic media edited or generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI). A cascade of A.I. fakes about war with Iran have proliferated across social media since the U.S. and Israel reignited military actions with Iran on February 28, 2026.
On TikTok, the war against Iran began with a series of videos from influencer types in Dubai, Doha, and elsewhere in the Middle East. They sat on restaurant patios or on hotel-room balconies and pointed their phone cameras skyward to document missiles flying through the air of their respective cities, then disappearing into puffs of smoke as they were shot down.
AI has made it trivially easy to produce content, and the result is a flood of generic, shallow material that exists to fill space rather than help anyone. People have started calling this "AI slop," and the term captures something real. Recycled tutorials, SEO-bait blog posts, content that says nothing you couldn't get by asking a chatbot directly. There's a lot of it, and it's getting worse.
Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice. To mark its 30th anniversary, EFF is interviewing leaders of online platforms about how they handle complaints, moderate content, and protect their users' ability to speak and share information.
The platform made headlines for being the first social media site expressly for AI agents, not humans. But for me, its significance goes way beyond that. Moltbook is a harbinger-the first real sign that a new type of internet is upon us. No, not a dead internet. Something much more epochal: a zombie internet that could have devastating consequences for advertising, social media, and the human web in the years ahead. Or perhaps it could be our salvation.
The term "conspiracy theory" calls to mind a variety of dubious claims and controversies, like rumors about Area 51, claims that the Earth is flat, and the movement known as QAnon. At first blush, these phenomena would seem to have little in common with bogus word origins. But there are a variety of false etymologies that spread virally and refuse to go away, in much the same way that stories about chemtrails, black helicopters, and UFOs refuse to die.
Most days, an email lands in my inbox with the promise to amplify my growth-my newsletter subscribers, the reach of my podcasts, the number of client leads, etc. I've gotten used to random people pitching me on their services, and some of the messages expertly prey on my insecurities as a business owner ("you're leaving so much on the table," et al.). I never answer any of them, but I sometimes wonder which ones might actually be legit.
Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up with a world-beating name for it, so for now let's just call it How bloody stupid is AI? The playing of the game will change from player to player, depending on their circumstances but essentially the rules remain the same. Ask AI a simple question about yourself, and see just how wrong it gets it.
Last year, a talented programmer friend of mine decided to give vibe coding a try. Vibe coding is the practice of describing to an AI chatbot what kind of program you want, and letting the AI write it for you. In a matter of minutes you can have new software in front of you, and just start using it. At least, in theory. This is what LLMs (Large Language Models) are supposed to be best at - generating usable software for professional developers
A mid-sized fintech company with 150 engineers rolled out AI coding assistants in early 2025. The productivity gains on greenfield projects hit 40%-better than the vendor's optimistic projections. Engineers building new microservices from scratch reported that AI pair programming felt like having a competent junior developer working alongside them, handling boilerplate, suggesting tests, catching edge cases before they became bugs.
There are these people that write software the old way, and the old way is going to go away. They call it 'vibe coding.' I think vibe coding is a slur. What's wrong with the term is that it implies ease. They don't understand that it's a skill.
