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But I also got some good news.

You've got another three-part episode, the second of the year.

And this week we're going to be talking about how the cracks in the generative AI market are becoming harder to ignore and how recent events are making a collapse seem all the more inevitable, what that means for the wider economy, really the markets and you.

And I want to make that case because as a journalist, I believe I have the duty to give

you the information you need to make sense of a world increasingly feeling incomprehensible.

And of course, detached from reality, and where everything is consequential to everyone,

where it's impossible for ordinary people to shroud themselves from the consequences of

decisions made by the executive and shareholder class.

Good journalism is making sure that history is actively captured and appropriately described and assessed,

and it's accurate to describe things as they currently are as alarming. And boy howdy am I alarmed.

Now alarm is not a state of weakness or belligerence of myopia. My concern does not dull my vision, even though it's convenient to frame me as somehow alarmist, like I have some hidden agenda or bias toward doom. I profoundly dislike the financial waste, the environmental destruction, and fundamentally, I dislike the attempt to gaslight people into swearing feal to a sickly and frail pseudo-industry

where everybody but invidia and consultancies lose money. And I also dislike the fact that I and

others like me are held to a remarkably different standard to those that paint themselves as

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