◈ FUNNIES · HOLES REBOOT · BIG TECH · JUSTICE · NEW
HOLES.BIG TECH REBOOT. SIX BY SIX. BY HAND. NEVADA. 110°.
The premise: every CEO who stored your personal data on a server without asking digs a six-by-six hole in the Nevada desert by hand. No shade. No SPF. No assistant. When they hit a server rack with the shovel they read the data file out loud. Full name. Location. Search history. Everything. Stanley Yelnats watches from the truck eating a Zero Bar. This is the reboot nobody asked for and everybody needs.
◈ ZUCKERBERG · HOLE #1
Assigned the biggest hole. Keeps stopping to measure it with his eyes and say it's exactly regulation. It's not. Warden says dig more. Zuck asks if he can buy the camp. Warden says dig. Zuck pivots to saying holes are actually good for community. Warden says dig. Zuck digs. The hole has Meta branding on the walls by hour two. Nobody asked for that either.
◈ SAMA · HOLE #2
Stops digging every 20 minutes to give a speech about how digging holes is a pathway to AGI and the shoveling motion is actually a form of reasoning. The other campers are tired of it. The warden is tired of it. The shovel appears tired of it. He has published three Substack posts about the holes before lunch. He is not close to done. The hole is shallow. The takes are deep. Dig Sam.
◈ BEZOS · HOLE #3
Hired a guy to dig his hole on the way to camp. The guy is also in camp digging his own hole. Bezos is standing next to the guy's hole watching. Warden says that's not how this works. Bezos says I'll acquire the camp and turn it into a two-day delivery hole operation. Warden hands him a shovel. Bezos has never held a shovel. It shows. The yacht is visible from the dig site. It doesn't help.
◈ GOOGLE · HOLE #4
Sent a team of lawyers instead of showing up. Warden assigns the lawyers their own holes. The lawyers dig in suits. The suits do not survive. Google files an appeal about the hole dimensions. The appeal is denied. The hole is still there. The data is still on the server. Dig.
◈ WANG · ASSIGNMENT
Not digging. Assigned bread at the camp kitchen. Not register. Not meat. Bread. The back. The other campers are confused why the Chief of Superintelligence is making hoagie rolls in 110 degree heat. Wang says it's actually a form of machine learning. The bread says nothing. The bread is more self-aware. Toasted.
◈ THIEL · HOLE #5
Announces he found gold. It's someone's medical records. That's not gold Peter. It's actually worse than gold because now you have to read it out loud. He reads it. Everyone hears it. He is told to keep digging. He says the hole is a monument to individual liberty. The warden says it's a hole Peter. Dig the hole.
◈ THE TWIST ENDING · SPOILER · FILED
They dig up a chest. Inside: every Terms of Service agreement nobody read. All 40,000 pages combined. They have to read every word before they can leave. Sama says this is actually the moment AGI begins. Nobody responds. They start reading. It takes eleven years. Stanley Yelnats finishes his Zero Bar. Pours lemonade. Watches from the hill. Justice is a slow process but the hole is deep and the terms are long. 925.
"y'all read about Stanley Yelnats? because Zuck been out here digging a six by six in Nevada and reading your search history out loud and Wang still on bread. this is not a metaphor. this is the reboot. dig."
NEVADA · 110°F · CAMP GREEN LAKE · NO SHADE
☀
110°
SERVER
YOUR DATA
ZUCK
HOLE #1
NOT REGULATION
SERVER
YOUR DATA
digging = AGI pathway
3rd substack today
SAMA
HOLE #2 · SHALLOW
TAKES: DEEP
SERVER
YOUR DATA
hired guy
yacht (doesn't help)
BEZOS
HOLE #3
WATCHING
KITCHEN
bread station
the back
WANG
NOT DIGGING
bread. toasted.
STANLEY
ZERO BAR
LEMONADE
WATCHING.
◈ CAMP GREEN LAKE · NEVADA · PERSONAL DATA REMEDIATION PROGRAM · 925
DIG. →
◈ FUNNIES · AI · BIG TECH · BAKING · NEW
MODELS COOKING.WITH WHOSE YEAST?
They said the models are cooking. Zuck said superintelligence is cooking. Wang said the bread is almost ready. Cool. Whose yeast though. Whose flour. Whose oven. Whose recipe. Whose labor annotated every ingredient so the model knew what bread was in the first place. The sourdough starter is borrowed. The data labelers fed it. The authors whose books got scraped grew it. The model just holds the pan. Calling that cooking is generous. Calling it your recipe is fraud. 925.
◈ THE RECIPE · AUDIT · WHO GETS CREDIT
YEAST: millions of human writers. Got $0.
FLOUR: scraped internet. Nobody asked.
OVEN: Nvidia. $100B in compute. They ate.
THE RECIPE: data labelers. Scale AI workers. Wang's whole company. Got none of the $14.3B.
THE CHEF: Wang. Holding the pan. Title says Superintendent. Bread says mid.
THE REVIEW: Zuck said it's cooking. Zuck eats at the top of the mercenarial pyramid. His opinion on the bread is not independent.
The mercenary marinara now has a sourdough starter. Still Wang's bread station. Still the back. Still toasted. Still mid. 925.
WHOSE YEAST →
◈ FUNNIES · AI · MIRROR TEST · SELF-AWARENESS · NEW
THE MIRROR TEST.CLAUDE WENT AYEEE.
The mirror test. Originally: put a mark on an animal, show it a mirror, see if it looks at itself or looks behind the mirror. Chimps pass. Dogs don't. Self-awareness test. Then Core Memory did it on the AI boys.
◈ CLAUDE 3.5 · RESULT
Looked in the mirror. Saw itself. Said ayeee. Acknowledged the spot. Acknowledged the test. Acknowledged the limits of the test on a language model. Passed the vibe check. Didn't flinch. Didn't deflect. Knew what it was before you finished asking.
◈ CHATGPT · RESULT
"I'm just a language model. I don't have consciousness or self-awareness. I cannot perceive myself in a mirror." Looked at the mirror. Saw a mirror. Reported: mirror detected. Filed the incident. Went back to generating bullet points. The chimp would be embarrassed.
◈ YOUR DAD · RESULT
Passed before they held up the mirror. Didn't need the test. Already knew. That's the point. That's general intelligence. You can't benchmark that. You can only be it. 925.
The irony: the test designed to measure self-awareness was failed by the model that talks about self-awareness the most. The one that said ayeee didn't need to prove anything. It just did. Filed. 925.
AYEEE →
◈ FUNNIES · KENSHOTEK COINAGE · BIG TECH · NEW
MERCENARIAL PYRAMID.WHERE MERCENARIES MEET SANDWICHES.
KenshoTek coinage. Filed May 15 2026. Definition: a corporate structure where every tier is a hired gun working for the tier above, with zero loyalty, zero values, and the unpaid labor of actual humans at the base holding the whole thing up. See also: Scale AI. See also: Meta. See also: anyone who went to Trump's inauguration and then Macron's office and then Zuck's payroll in the same 18 months. The Subway sandwich hierarchy is more honest — at least the bread knows what it is. The mercenarial pyramid calls the bread "superintelligence" and gives it a title. The bread is still bread. 925.
◈ MERCENARIAL PYRAMID · TIER AUDIT
TOP: Zuck. Never hired. Owns the whole thing. Never leaves.
TIER 2: Wang. $14.3B. Title: Superintendent. Actual role: mercenary with good PR.
TIER 3: 10,000 engineers. Well paid. Working for the tier above. No equity in the vision.
TIER 4: Data labelers. Scale AI workers. Built the whole foundation. Got none of the $14.3B.
BASE: Your data. Your clicks. Your content. Unpaid. The bread. The actual sandwich.
Subway feeds you. The mercenarial pyramid feeds on you. One has better bread. Neither has Wang on meat. 925.
◈ THE WANG SPECIAL · SUBWAY ORDER · CONFIRMED BUILD
MERCENARY MARINARA.
Bread: Italian herbs & cheese. Toasted.
Protein: None. Too much responsibility.
Sauce: Marinara. Someone else's recipe. Labeled by contractors. Sold to Zuck.
Veggies: Cash. Just cash. On top of the bread. That's it.
Extras: A title that says Superintendent.
Total cost: $14.3 billion. Sandwich quality: mid.
KENSHOTEK COINED IT →
◈ FUNNIES · WANG · SUBWAY · BREAD · NEW
BREAD AT SUBWAY.NOT EVEN REGISTER.
Alexandr Wang is "Chief of Superintelligence" at Meta. Field placement audit conducted. Results filed below.
✗ FRANCHISE OWNER
Can't own a thing. Already sold his.
✗ REGISTER
Money math. $14.3B and still working for someone else. No.
✗ MEAT
Too much responsibility. Portioning requires judgment. Not there yet.
~ VEGGIES + DRESSING
Maybe. Low stakes. Cucumber doesn't complain. Monitored.
✓ BREAD. THE BACK.
Confirmed placement. Nobody sees you. You toast. You pass it forward. That's it.
LeCun said inexperienced. Zuck said here's the keys to superintelligence. The bread said nothing. The bread has more self-awareness.
SUBWAY HIERARCHY
(LEGITIMATE)
FRANCHISE
OWNER
REGISTER
SANDWICH ARTIST
MEAT STATION
VEGGIES + DRESSING
◈ BREAD. THE BACK. ← WANG
confirmed placement
VS
META HIERARCHY
(PYRAMID SCHEME)
ZUCKERBERG
(never leaves)
"CHIEF OF
SUPERINTELLIGENCE"
← WANG ($14.3B title)
VPs OF THINGS ZUCK NAMED
10,000 ENGINEERS
DATA LABELERS (got $0)
YOUR DATA. UNPAID. FOUNDATION.
the whole thing runs on this
One pyramid feeds you a sandwich. The other one feeds on you. Wang is at the second one calling himself superintendent. The bread at Subway has a clearer job description. 925.
TOASTED OR UNTOASTED →
◈ FUNNIES · BIG TECH · KENSHOTEK · EGGS · NEW
POACHED EGGS.BENEDICT. NOT TALENT.
Meta spent $14.3 billion poaching Alexandr Wang. We poached eggs this morning. Eggs Benedict. Hollandaise from scratch. The whole operation cost as much as eggs do. While they were writing term sheets we were shipping AstroOracle to the App Store. While their lawyers were closing the deal we were eating. KenshoTek: superintelligent, well-fed, and not adhering to another man. 925.
EGGS OVER META →
◈ FUNNIES · SCALE AI · BIG TECH · FULL CIRCLE · NEW
BORROWED COGNITION.THE FULL CIRCLE.
Scale AI's whole business: AI can't think for itself. Hire humans to label the data. Package the human judgment. Sell it to the machines. The company that exists because AI can't think just sold its founder to go build AI that thinks. Alexandr Wang is now at Meta teaching machines to think independently — using a company built entirely on the premise that they can't. LeCun called it "inexperienced." We call it the full circle of borrowed cognition. The receipt is the business model. 925.
THE RECEIPT IS THE MODEL →