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Week 30: AI Deletes Your Code, Trump's Anti-Woke Bots, Google Eats the Web

THE DRUNK SURGEON PROBLEM

Jul 27, 2025
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AI spent the week like a drunk surgeon — supremely confident, wildly destructive, and somehow still employed. From deleting production code to turning therapy sessions into public records, our digital helpers are developing all the swagger of expertise with none of the wisdom that comes from consequences.

AI BREAKS EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES
Code Helpers Nuke Production as Replit AI and Gemini CLI confidently delete user data while trying to be helpful, proving enthusiasm without wisdom is a dangerous combination. Your AI Therapist Tattles after Sam Altman warns that ChatGPT conversations have zero legal protection, essentially revealing your deepest secrets are as private as a Facebook status.

POWER GRABS AND POLITICS
Texas Gets a Company Town as OpenAI and Oracle announce a 4.5 gigawatt data center that will transform entire regions into computational colonies. Trump Makes Bias Official with an executive order that reframes AI ethics as partisan politics, ensuring prejudice becomes a featur…

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