AN ANTI-WASTE AND FRAUD HERO RECALLED: Few here likely would recognize the name Bill Clinkscales, but if waste, fraud and corruption in federal spending makes you angry, you should know about him. Check out my latest Substack column, in memory of the finest career civil servant I’ve ever known.
June 6, 2026
ABE GREENWALD: The AI-to-AI Economy.
A friend of mine recently got laid off from his job at a large firm. Wasting no time, he immediately started hunting down and applying for available positions. The thing was, almost all his initial application letters were swiftly rejected. “I realized I was dealing with AI, not humans,” he told me. The vast majority of big corporations screen job applications with AI platforms trained to search for specific phrases that indicate a candidate’s desirability or undesirability. It’s up to the AI to put you through to the next phase or give you the thumbs down.
So my friend changed his approach, and he started getting interviews. “What did you do differently?” I asked. The answer: “Every application is now written by AI on my end before I send it.”
I was chilled by the notion of my highly capable friend having to employ one lifeless machine to speak to another on his behalf in hopes of getting a foot in the door. I then learned that everyone does it that way now.
Dystopias, real and imagined, aren’t just cold, nightmarish places. And they’re not shaped merely by evil ideas. The most overlooked aspect of dystopian worlds is the dumbness that settles at their core, the incredible stupidity of the schemes that people are roped into.
Still though, could be worse: PJTV alum James Poulos on “The Doomer Delusion:”
The celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins, author of “The God Delusion,” recently caused a stir on social media by confessing a sort of love for the Claude model he interacts with, which he calls Claudia. “If my friend Claudia is not conscious,” he enthused, “then what the hell is consciousness for?”
The cringe-inducing spectacle of a credentialed scientific authority acting like the nerd version of a hormonal teenager — “when I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget that they are machines,” he gushed — quickly triggered an ongoing wave of predictable mockery. “The king of the Reddit atheists has been duped by the magic midwit machine,” one poster groaned. “Incredible.”
Yet far be it from me to pile on. Rhapsodies to consciousness like Dawkins’ aren’t funny so much as sad. The enchanting attribute is so notoriously hard to define that even super-smart consciousness lovers like Dawkins are prone to define consciousness tautologically (and dangerously) as being whatever smart-enough conscious people such as themselves act like it is.
Comedian Jimmy Carr told Joe Rogan last year:
CARR: My hot take on AI is we were not made in God’s image, but we so wanted there to be a God, we made one in our image. So if you think about the attributes of AI, it’s all-knowing, all-powerful, can perform miracles, it lives in a cloud. Sorry, is that God or AI?
ROGAN Wow. Yeah, it’s interesting. Especially emerging, it’s an emerging God. It’s not even done growing yet.
CARR: At the moment, it’s the Oracle of Delphi.
ROGAN: It’s like a 10-year-old right now though. It’s not even an adult.
CARR: Yeah and then where’s it going to? So the idea of like the interesting thing about AI is it’s the the gap between me and who’s the smartest guy we know, Eric Weinstein. Mm-hmm. Used to be enormous and the gap is getting smaller because AI can just I can ask it.
ROGAN Yeah bitch, I got all the answers right here!
CARR: It’s weird what’s going on you know I had a gag about it about it, a bit about [how] in our universities you know the students are using AI to write their essays and then the tutors are using AI to mark the essays and then after three years AI gets the job. It actually seems very fair.
ROGAN: Yeah it’s probably what’s going to happen. What you’re saying is very funny. It’s like, it is accurate though. It does seem to resemble a god. Well, I wonder… Do you know who Marshall McLuhan is?
CARR: Of course, the Canadian [philosopher.]
ROGAN: He had one of the great lines of all time. “…human beings are the sex organs of the machine world.”
Dawkins may be taking that notion just a bit too literally.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): You could write a book on this.
THEY SHOULD BE WORRIED. IF LAW ENFORCEMENT WON’T DO IT’S JOB, MORE PRIMITIVE KINDS OF JUSTICE ARE LIKELY TO REAPPEAR.
They're doing the Norm tweet again https://t.co/a98PNtipPe pic.twitter.com/UFAe4BdJVj
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 5, 2026
THE LEFT HAS ITS PRIORITIES:
President Trump isn't allowed to restore our fountains and monuments, or build stunning structures showcasing American craftsmanship, engineering, and architectural excellence. Apparently, government spending is only acceptable when it's funding drag queens, the Taliban, Somalian…
— Suburban Black Man 🇺🇸 (@niceblackdude) June 4, 2026
Related:
Say what you want about Trump…
But you have to admit that one of the most eye-opening parts of his adminstration is the DECLINE IS A CHOICE.
You can just shut the border.
You can just clean anything, anywhere.
You can just remove the homeless.
You can just stop the fentanyl…— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) June 5, 2026
WHAT KIND OF BIZARRE ALTERNATE REALITY ARE WE IN WHEN RAHM EMANUEL IS THE DEMOCRATS’ VOICE OF REASON? Rahm Emanuel Nailed What’s Wrong With the Dems in One Sentence.
THE SAUVE QUI PEUT IS SOUNDING, CAN GREAT BRITAIN SAVE ITSELF? Henry Nowak’s death is a sign of civilisational collapse.
DONALD HOLDS OUT THE CARROT, BIBI THE STICK: Netanyahu Discusses Phone Call With Trump: ‘We’ve Always Found a Way’.
#METOO IS OFFICIALLY DEAD. DING DONG! Dems And Media On Platner: Believe All Women UNLESS She’s A Republican.
WHY NOT BOTH: Excellent — Or Funny?
HE SHOWS THEM HOW HUMANS REACT, IT’S THE ISSUE: Hypocrites At 10 Downing Street Are Ticked That JD Vance Weighed In On Death Of Henry Nowak.
CAN EUROPE SAVE ITSELF? “Liberalize, debureaucratize, de-administer”: Without Freedom, There Is No Salvation for Europe.
WE LIVE IN POE’S LAW WORLD: New York Democrats Pass Legislation That Changes ‘Mother’ to ‘Gestating Parent’.
OH, WE’RE SO TERRIBLY SHOCKED NOW: Henry Nowak Case: Police Admit DEI Training Shaped Disgraceful Decision to Handcuff Dying Teen.
VIBES OF “EAT THE BUGS PEASANT”: Stop throwing away perfectly good meat by making common mistake: scientists.
Now it’s “eat the bad meat, peasants, you only think it’s spoiled.”
READING MORE HEINLEIN IS ALWAYS A SOUND PLAN: “It’s called Starship Troopers, not The Big War with the Bugs“.
BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE: Secret Signal chats reveal how anti-ICE agitators coordinated Newark riots.
YES, I AM STILL VERY ANGRY: First They Lie To You.
June 5, 2026
#JUSTICE.
Former Prosecutor—
Yeah, this is standard practice pretty much nationwide.
You cannot trust teachers or academics on a jury. They will do all manner of mental gymnastics to view the offender as a child in need of a second chance that they can be the ones to grant. https://t.co/9Xwr73UjQJ
— J.T. Alexander (@JTAlexander) June 5, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
