Roast of the Day
The roasts take a current claim, film, product, institution or public performance and ask the impolite but useful question: does any of this make sense? Each article separates the judgement from the evidence, checks the important factual claims and leaves the sources in view. Expect dry British satire, modern incentives and the occasional three-panel sketch. Start with the newest receipt or use the topic links to narrow the archive.
AI Power Grab: Who Really Profits From Chips And Rails
A roast of the lazy claim that only AI infrastructure and chips will matter. Who really holds power: model makers, chip giants, or the…
Predator: Badlands – A Good Film in Heavy Franchise Armour
Predator: Badlands turns the Yautja into a hero, builds a real alien language and delivers IMAX spectacle, even as franchise machinery follows close behind.
Die My Love: Art Film or Sedative?
A slow art-house descent into madness that forgets to entertain. Die My Love aims for poetry but lands on a pillow.
AI Gods, Empty Promises, and Human Grit
The AI race promises gods, delivers bugs. Big Tech chases artificial genius while forgetting the one thing it can’t code: human creativity.
Black Phone 2: Grainy Dreams, Thin Scares, Longer Calls
Black Phone 2 leans on grainy dream logic and a louder Grabber. We count the numbers, the missed shots, and why style beats scares.…
Smarter AI, dumber work: GPT-5 and the waste loop
GPT-5 thinks harder but wastes compute on redoing the whole picture. The numbers show rising energy and shaky instruction-following. Here is the roast with…
Back to the Future’s 40-Year IMAX Time Loop
The 40th anniversary of Back to the Future in IMAX shows how old classics still outshine new blockbusters drowning in hype and high ticket…
AI is not a bubble. It is a debt-fuelled buildout at scale
AI is not a dotcom replay. It is a debt-fuelled infrastructure buildout with rising energy bills, record capex, and no quantum shortcut. Numbers, not…
Plumber safe? For now. Learn to fix the robots and code
Leaders say trades are safest from AI. Hinton points to plumbing. Altman flags customer service risk. Truth: no job is static. Learn to fix…
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