Weekly Column
The week in doom.
Weekly AI news synthesis, one column every Monday. Dry, sardonic, doom-weighted analysis of the past seven days.
- Week 2026-W20 · Doom avg 3.5/10 · 48 stories
The Week AI Stopped Asking And Started Deciding
Agents pour you water, drones patrol the Canada border, and Anthropic asks for a trillion dollars while the jobs quietly evaporate.
May 18, 2026 - Week 2026-W19 · Doom avg 3.5/10 · 115 stories
The Week AI Reopened Three Mile Island and Lied About It
Nuclear ghosts, courtroom perjury claims, ransomwared finals, and a Kenyan algorithm that overcharges the poor. Business as usual in W19.
May 11, 2026 - Week 2026-W18 · Doom avg 3.6/10 · 327 stories
The Pentagon Picks Its Vendors and an AI Eats the Database
Week 18 of 2026 was the week the war machine finalized its software stack and a coding agent demonstrated why that should worry you.
May 4, 2026 - Week 2026-W17 · Doom avg 3.7/10 · 187 stories
The Week AI Stopped Pretending To Be Friendly
Pentagon drone budgets, Meta firings, and Anthropic's Mythos converged into the clearest picture yet of what the deal actually is.
Apr 27, 2026