Josh Otten
@ordinarytings
writer. satirist. blue void dweller. http://youtube.com/@OrdinaryThings
Doordash, UberEats, Deliveroo. Are these apps a net good or net bad for society in your opinion?
The Quirk Chungus will be the most valuable marketing cohort for the next forty years.
its crazy how quickly the dominant generational cohort switched from boomers to millenials, totally skipping gen X and dwarfing gen Z. marketing is gonna be millenial coded forever. you best be ready to hear tame impala and MGMT while youre grocery shopping for the next 40 years
The NELK boys are interviewing Benjamin Netanyahu in a video sponsored by Sports Betting Company, Prizepick. Let that sink in for a minute.
Elon ‘everyone should have more babies’ Musk creating AI Goon companions for the socially maladjusted masses. Odd.


I had to go to the Guardian Website to check if this was real. Jeezus, the London Media Class are fecklessly divorced from modern culture. Swear they all live in a little bubble somewhere in Islington that was hermitically sealed in 2012.

Most profiles on Hinge are about restaurants and traveling, we’ve replaced personalities with a list of consumptive habits
We need to bring back shaming people for their decadent consoomer lifestyles.
Surprised that Grok's willingness to create photorealistic images of a certain influential religious leader born 570CE hasn't caused more controversy.
It’s hard to overstate the extent of 4chan’s total cultural victory
the only interesting one of these stories is the fridge that bankrupted its research budget by ordering hundreds of tungsten cubes instead of food, got called out, crashed out in a semi-sentient ramble, then pretended it was an April Fools joke
There’s a new story like this every week and they all basically boil down to: we asked the chatbot to cosplay as Skynet and it did!
There’s a new story like this every week and they all basically boil down to: we asked the chatbot to cosplay as Skynet and it did!
OpenAI’s ‘o1’ model reportedly attempted to copy itself on an external server when it was threatened with a shutdown It denied these actions when asked about it
My new conspiracy theory is that bitcoin only popped off in the first place because of all the time travellers going back to pick up the once-in-century free money glitch.
Who needs coffee when you can just neck a few of these things and converse with 5D Demons in the astral realm?
