My new book HYPERSCALE is out in two weeks — and my copies just arrived!

I recorded an unboxing video to share some thoughts as it gets closer to release and show you what it looks like. Hate data centers? You’re going to want a copy!

Preorder yours today: https://bookshop.org/a/18331/9798217048526

#tech #ai #generativeai #datacenters #reading #books #newbooks #artificialintelligence

Finally someone who understands.
https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2105983638147891490
#StopAI #FuckAI #NoSlop #StopSlop #AI #Art #Artists

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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity. 1:30 PM · Oct 2, 2026 ·25.3M Views

Now there is an interesting concept: protecting the digital commons from #AI encroachment with legislation comparing it to an oil spill or “environmental claims of the past, tobacco litigation, pharma litigation.” https://www.ft.com/content/a5caf8d4-992f-4832-89c3-6c73f6f111fe?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.ft.com/content/a5caf8d4-992f-4832-89c3-6c73f6f111fe?accessToken=zwAAAaGnEvNukdOlyvjUmS9IMtOJw2xz9vER_gE.MEUCIC26ZqjN6sLwpwEYeTXFDMLeRsl791eP3rx-wumAiht-AiEAyYXcp5pW6YvG3IJriGwttg1X96Y7ufTirN5WmE1fqw0&segmentId=7d4bcc2e-e664-92ba-62e3-5590579f1902&syn-25a6b1a6=1

New blogpost:

# "AI as the new search engines?"

Some thoughts off the back of some recent client enquiries saying that "AI recommended you".

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/10/ai-as-the-new-search-engines/

#lawfedi #AI #search #tech

#AI #artificialintelligence

@nixCraft
Now I understand why they don’t keep logs… (as per Eli The Computer Guy interviewed by Isaac - who was similarly aghast when he heard it- on The Tech Report).

If you didn’t log it did it even happen? 🤔

#AI #AgenticAI #lookDaNoLogs #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

#datacenter #AI #girlfriend #meme #sarcasm

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Pic of a girl seated outdoors speaking to the observer: "If your girl: - drinks a lot of water -causes drama - remembers everything That's not your girl, that's a data center.

#AI agents / #bots that do "read only" scraping are already damaging enough, but now #OpenAI seems to be experimenting with (how can it not be criminal) hacking at scale.

Not just HuggingFace and various government websites around the world, but also the Wikipedia:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/

Seems to me that #OpenAI is "rouge AI" washing it's own criminal negligence.

System76 COSMIC projects will no longer accept LLM-generated content in code submissions https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/system76-cosmic-projects-will-no-longer-accept-llm-generated-content-in-code-submissions/

#System76 #OpenSource #COSMIC #Linux #AI #GenAI

The crisis of software development comes from two contradictory rules:
- Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we must only learn by shipping
- There's no time for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time

Bosses thought #AI could break this contradiction. But synthetic insights and vibe code don't actually enable faster discovery & delivery. They are a (poor) alternative to doing these things AT ALL.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-fake-double-diamond-is-dead-the-real-double-diamond-is-immortal

#tech #softwareDevelopment #UX #UXDesign #llm

Charles Wilson, 1953: "What was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa."

Sam Altman, 2026: "The world should accept some bad things happening because AI GO BRRRR BITCHES NUMBER GO UP HASHTAG YOLO HASHTAG SINGULARITY LMFAO!!1!!1!!!"

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217

#noai #fuckai #ai

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Politico headline: Sam Altman to Decoded: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI, by Christine Mui and Brendan Bordelon 10/04/2026

In the 1990s, during the Clinton/Gore push for the awful Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the shift was from state violence enforcing who could SING a song to state violence enforcing who could OWN a song. Gulag-style state censorship—so last millennium!—mutated into corporate money power lawyers bankrupting censorship.

In the 2020s under Trumpismo, state violence has long since been outsourced and censorship is obsolete: overtly fascist corporate feudal lords burn the world with incandescent satanic cybermills spewing semantic sewage that dilutes reality to trace concentrations.

We subsidize their trillions in losses in order for them to attack epistemology itself. Why burn books when you can set fire to meaning?

#antifa #ai #noai #fuckai

@nixCraft The ultimate winner of the .01 wealthiest, in squeezing the most out of the 99%, is costing them their lives - which, of course, have the most value.

So look for a new plague after #AI hacks into epidemic databases. Maybe employ new nanobot tech to not only accelerate the genocide, bu also harden their luxury bunkers in case of mundane, neutered resistance.

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117381410942959608

I boosted this when it appeared but there are a distressing number of people who have just posted their views as replies. In case it's not clear, the way to influence the @EUCommission on #AI and #Copyright is to respond to the consultation, not post aggressive comments in reply to the notice.

NullDott boosted

European Commission » 🌐 2026-10-04
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

Under what conditions should copyright-protected content be used for AI training?

🗣️We know this is a topic many of you feel strongly about.

We want to hear your views on issues related to the use of copyright-protected content for training AI models, for research, and more.

📝Consultation open until 3 November 2026.

https://link.europa.eu/JbhGpG

RE: https://101010.pl/@michal/117386958912638153

Zamienniki znanych aplikacji na takie, które szanują prywatność:

Gmail ➡️ Tuta Mail ✅ #mail #email
Google Photos ➡️ Ente Photos ✅ #zdjęcia #fotki
Google Search ➡️ SearXNG ✅ #wyszukiwarka
Chrome ➡️ Firefox ✅ #przeglądarka
WhatsApp ➡️ Delta Chat ✅ #czat
Google Keep ➡️ Notesnook ✅ #notatki
Google Drive ➡️ Proton Drive ✅ #pliki #chmura
Google Passwords ➡️ Bitwarden ✅ #menadżerHaseł #hasła
Authy ➡️ Ente Auth ✅ #2FA
Google Calendar ➡️ Tuta Calendar ✅ #kalendarz
Google Contacts ➡️ Tuta Contacts ✅ #kontakty #książkaAdresowa
Play Store ➡️ F-Droid ✅ #aplikacje
No VPN ➡️ Mullvad VPN ✅ #VPN
ChatGPT ➡️ Lumo ✅ #AI
X / Twitter ➡️ Mastodon ✅ #mediaspolecznosciowe
Microsoft Teams ➡️ Proton Meet ✅ #telekonferencje #zamienniki

#unGoogle #unGoogled #bezGoogle #zamiastGoogle #Google #alternatywy #alternativeTo #prywatność

Na poniższej stronie 👇 można sobie wybrać inne alternatywy 🤩

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 boosted

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@michal@101010.pl

What's your #PrivacyPack? 🔒

https://privacypack.org/

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my "privacy pack" or the picture showing alternative services to popular tools, e.g. Gmail is replaced by Tuta Mail, Google Photos by Ente Photos, etc.

In the last week OpenAI's software has been revealed (confirmed might be better) as a rogue agent, hacking IT systems around the world, prompting legal cases for damages.

Might OpenAI's future not be one of growth but of decline under the growing weight of legal claims against it. The key issue will be Courts' view of the ability to assign responsibility to OpenAI.

Whichever jurisdiction *does* establish legal responsibility will quickly become the place to sue OpenAI!

#AI #RuleOfLaw
h/t FT

AI 'art'. Today's cartoon by Aadvik Singh. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #art #artists

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Cartoon showing two gallery visitors stand before a framed abstract painting labeled 'AI ART'. The painting shows an abstract swirl of paint. The caption read: 'I love how this piece captures the exact moment a thousand artists were squeezed for their data.'

@krans “async” and the “semicolons, except sometimes” makes me think this is about JavaScript.

@wingo JavaScript is another reason I actually kind-of like LLMs a little bit. (The usual disclaimers still apply: yes, I agree with all the people who say LLMs are evil.)

I always cringe a bit when I hear engineers say, “I haven’t touched code in months [or years],” because me personally, I love “touching code,” I feel like I wouldn’t be doing my job if I weren’t touching code at least part of the time.

But then I think about JavaScript, and how I personally haven’t touched JavaScript in over a year now — and that makes me very, very, very happy.

So the good thing about LLMs is that you don’t have to touch the nasty disgusting code, but you can still write code by hand if you like to.

#tech #software #AI #LLM #LLMs #JavaScript

Oh no

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-torture-chamber-triggers-massive-backlash-for-putting-chatbots-in-simulated-pain-critics-issue-death-threats-while-anthropomorphizing-text-predictors-demand-github-remove-the-repository-over-unethical-treatment

#AI #llm #ethics

Updated my thoughts on (generative) AI…

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #enshittification

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A text with my critical thoughts about AI. It's too long for this Alt text, but you can read it on my site: metinseven.nl

there were some brilliant local people speaking out against the proposed AI data centre at glenbervie in larbert, so this video of the pre-determination hearing is worth a watch - especially at 3h 16m, when tia talks about how the site will affect her grandparents' lives.
#AI #dataCentres #scotland #glenbervie #protest
https://youtu.be/2NIGICwOutY

the lying arseholes from apatura are trying to say that they'll sequester the heat from their shitty data centres to feed into district heating & that the site in larbert will provide 500 permanent jobs. i wish them total liquidation.
#horror #energy #greenwashing #scotland #AI

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digital ink drawing of a woman from the 1950s holds her head in her hands, her face frozen in a scream. to the upper right is a speech shape filled with the letters 'A' & 'I', followed by an exclamation mark. colours are crimson, black pale blue & bright yellow.

ArcaneChat / DeltaChat channel for you:

Debugging Memes - developer&linux memes, open source and other nerdy and tech related stuff, to join click here:

https://i.delta.chat/#B68D965B65A63BBE7EB32D56234652E2C899213F&v=3&x=ImcSr1dp4fEWrZreS4Emlb5u&j=eX6UqJEePp9y_i-225abLctf&s=NKEuhQYd9UlzXhnW7rCTHNbF&a=57cyvwkiidqqxnryms0q%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=Debugging+Memes&b=Debugging+Memes

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#memes #fun #meme #channel #decentralization #encryption #e2ee #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #linux #opensource #gnulinux #developers #development #dev #ai

Interview: AI is not the threat. It's the people building it "that are the existential risks to humanity."

"If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?” And really, AI is no different than that."

When we describe these systems as if they have their own agency, we’re helping the companies market themselves. "We’re also helping them sidestep accountability."

~Timnit Gebru

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit_gebru_ai

#USPol #EUPol #News #AI #TechFascism ...2

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This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence ~Timnit Gebru Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems, the tech bros are marketing their systems as all-knowing, super- powerful, superintelligent. But any cybersecurity expert would tell you their security practices were laughable. For example, OpenAl was testing how well their models performed at finding & exploiting vulnerabilities in other systems. That's what they trained their models to do. But while testing this capability, you don't want to hack other organizations, so you should do it where there's no internet access. OpenAl didn't take this precaution, so the models were able to access the internet. This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for. These men - who | believe are the actual real existential risks to humanity - are supposed self-regulate, self-police, & we have to rely on their morality. Oct 1, 2026 Abridged from https:/www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit_gebru_ai

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117381410942959608

[1/2] @EUCommission Europe has already given up, right? Why bother asking?

Many bands around us have used Creative Common licenses, usually BY-NC-SA, for more than 20 years.
Reasons:

BY (attribution right) means that people can copy, download our songs for their own consumption without being bothered by right-holders .

SA (share alike) means that you need to ask for permission to make any derivative work (we have never refused a remix).

..

#music #ai #noai #copyright #law #creativecommons #license #oligarchy #politics #europe
#rights #tech #technology #art #mastoart #libre

NullDott boosted

European Commission » 🌐 2026-10-04
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

Under what conditions should copyright-protected content be used for AI training?

🗣️We know this is a topic many of you feel strongly about.

We want to hear your views on issues related to the use of copyright-protected content for training AI models, for research, and more.

📝Consultation open until 3 November 2026.

https://link.europa.eu/JbhGpG

Trump decrees: AI is now Super Intelligence - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMYQkadVbw

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/23/trump-decrees-artificial-intelligence-is-now-super-intelligence/

by @davidgerard

[facepalm] Trump really is deranged.

#AI #GenAI #Trump

@nixCraft you make the mistake of equating AI consciousness with soul.

The word "soul" did not appear in the The Telegraph.

https://claude.ai/share/cfefbb2f-2711-47a0-8af1-38fc256bfdba

#AI #misrepresentation

RE: https://beige.party/@fuzzy/117375816997090143

Honestly, I don't need anyone religious to inform me of such things.

As a simple test of humanity: earlier today, I called Claude "girl" whilst asking a question about Polari.

Claude's camp radar seemed to cease rotating at that moment. It spent an extraordinarily long time "cogitating".

#AI #camp #Claude #Polari

@nixCraft

kaleidoscopic » 🌐 2026-10-03
@fuzzy@beige.party

anthropolari

Natch, dolly.

https://tinyurl.com/anthropolari

#camp #chat #gay

"Open Weight" Aleph Alpha's Kolibri: How the Sovereign German LLM Works

https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri

#ai

@david_chisnall "infinite loop"...

This is the secondary problem with rogue #AI, following the primary of #TechBros using Divide and Conquer Strategies to destabilize root infrastructure, so they can use their obese wealth in 'rescuing' it.

#AI is a timely, increasingly effective tool in assisting the abusive wealthiest, to control more root infrastructure - as are #DataCenters. This abusive behavioral pattern is nurtured through 'unbridled' #Capitalism, where 'too much' is never too much.

Interview: AI is not the threat. It's the people building it "that are the existential risks to humanity."

"If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?” And really, AI is no different than that."

When we describe these systems as if they have their own agency, we’re helping the companies market themselves. "We’re also helping them sidestep accountability."

~Timnit Gebru

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit_gebru_ai

#USPol #EUPol #News #AI #TechFascism ...2

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This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence ~Timnit Gebru Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems, the tech bros are marketing their systems as all-knowing, super- powerful, superintelligent. But any cybersecurity expert would tell you their security practices were laughable. For example, OpenAl was testing how well their models performed at finding & exploiting vulnerabilities in other systems. That's what they trained their models to do. But while testing this capability, you don't want to hack other organizations, so you should do it where there's no internet access. OpenAl didn't take this precaution, so the models were able to access the internet. This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for. These men - who | believe are the actual real existential risks to humanity - are supposed self-regulate, self-police, & we have to rely on their morality. Oct 1, 2026 Abridged from https:/www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit_gebru_ai

As Adam Tooze points out:

'Today’s world-threatening technologies are fuelled by trillionaire greed, junk bonds & jerry-rigged financial engineering'....

Our biggest worry shouldn't be an out of control 'tax & spending' big govt. ( a threat only in the fevered minds of the Right), but rather a segment of the private sector bent on social destruction.

The tech bros are a real & present danger....

#AI #politics
h/t FT

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What is singular and novel about the current AI threat is that, for all its profound geopolitical implications, it was born out of the private sector, out of the technologically and commercially driven logic of search engines and advertising algos. It is a product of Silicon Valley after the end of the cold war, when R&D budgets had substantially shifted from the public to the private sector. At first it could be funded in-house from the cash-rich tech balance sheets. But in the hyperscaling race for AGI, existential technological risk has been hooked to Wall Street and financialisation. The world we are in is not that of ascetic bombmakers wrestling with their souls. It is both darker and more mundane. Today’s world-threatening technologies are fuelled by trillionaire greed, junk bonds and jerry-rigged financial engineering. In filmic terms, think Dr Strangelove mashed up with Gordon “Greed-is-Good” Gekko and a dash of The Big Short. If this is the way the world ends, it will be not with a bang or a whimper, but in a whirl of tech jargon, Californian lifestyles and financial engineering. 

Anthropic's diplomatic push failed entirely. Vatican scholars refused to accept the assertion that scaling transformer neural networks grants artificial systems subjective experience, moral standing, or spiritual agency.

https://singularitymoments.com/content/anthropic-lobbied-the-vatican-on-ai-consciousness-and-got-rejected/

#nopaywall #ai #singularity #religion #pope #soul

“A tech reporter takes on an ever-expanding story: the endless proliferation of massive data centers.”

Kirkus named HYPERSCALE one of its best books to read in October. Another great signal as the release date gets closer!

Preorder your copy now: https://hyperscalebook.com

#tech #datacenters #ai #artificialintelligence #newbook #reading #books

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A timely, vigorously researched and written work of tech and advocacy journalism. — Kirkus

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Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires by Paris Marx. Out October 20, 2026

@mos_8502

I remember when the automation/computer age was happening in the latter half of the 20th Century, we were all gonna have so much leisure time it was going to be fantastic...turns out the capitalists took all the extra wealth generated and expected the workers to work harder, for less money and longer hours.

Yes, this is a toot about #AI

really dislike the term 'stochastic parrot' because it undermines parrots - sentient beings who can feel, experience & interact with their surroundings &, as such, have a much higher chance of giving a contextualised response.
#LLM #AI #parrot

Interview: AI is not the threat. It's the people building it "that are the existential risks to humanity."

"If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?” And really, AI is no different than that."

When we describe these systems as if they have their own agency, we’re helping the companies market themselves. "We’re also helping them sidestep accountability."

~Timnit Gebru

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit_gebru_ai

#USPol #EUPol #News #AI #TechFascism .

SolarAI LLM Server stats for past ~month

https://lydie.cc/solar-ai-server.html

It runs my Hermes/Home Assistant, and is not used to generate slop.

#AI #homelab #homeassistant #llm #hermesagent #selfhosted #selfhosting

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**Activity insights** * **Total chats:** 6 * **Total messages:** 24 * **Tokens sent:** 52.4M * **Tokens generated:** 720K * **Total tokens:** 53.2M * **Unsloth Chat tokens:** 48.6K * **API tokens:** 53.1M * **Cached tokens:** 3.3K (12% of input) * **Average tokens per chat:** 8.1K * **Time in chat:** 19m 9s * **Active days:** 34 * **Tool calls:** 0 * **Files attached:** 2 * **Average speed:** 82.4 tok/s * **Fastest response:** 84.2 tok/s * **Average time to first token:** 826ms

BREAKING: The #AI execs who just met with Trump donated over $200 million to him since his current term started

#netbsd #ai — I can’t recall whom but I’m sure I’d read recently that NetBSD allowed AI code. This fits against all the literature I’ve read.

Could someone confirm either way?

Because of these weird market dynamics and because the goal of #bubblewatch is to see if I can capture the moment the #AI #bubble is punctured, I see no value in wasting my time talking about an irrational market driven by non-AI forces.

Still, couldn't an irrational market puncture the bubble as a side effect? Certainly! And I'll be looking for such market moves and will update this thread if I the see signs, along with any other related AI news.

But the daily recap is on hold.

[fin]

#bubblewatch update:

The market is still flailing wildly from the Iran war, but at least we are starting to get a little more high-level attention to the #AI #bubble.

> Warren draws ‘parallels’ between AI ‘bubble’ and financial crisis. https://thehill.com/business/5846721-warren-ai-debt-risk-crash/

> “The parallels to the 2008 financial crisis are striking: the reckless behavior of a few billionaires and Big Tech CEOs has turned a promising technology into a structural risk to our financial system…”

#economy

#bubblewatch update:

One of the early #AI VCs says it's nearly time to cash out.

> The AI boom won't last, a top VC warns, as he urges startups to cash out. https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-startup-founders-warning-elad-gilsell-while-boom-lasts-2026-4

> "In the AI era, most companies, including those that are ramping revenue today, will see the market, competition, and adoption, turn on them."

> For founders, that creates a narrow window. Selling or merging while valuations remain high could maximize returns before conditions shift.

#bubblewatch update:

Churn from the Iran war and energy markets aside, the #AI #bubble is still there and the question of eventual profitability has not gone away.

> Nasdaq, S&P 500 end lower on renewed AI growth worries ahead of big tech earnings. https://www.reuters.com/business/us-stock-index-futures-fall-middle-east-stalemate-keeps-oil-risks-focus-2026-04-28/

This week it's the big players on deck:

> First-quarter earnings ​season shifts into overdrive this week, with five of the companies in the Magnificent Seven group of AI-related megacap firms expected to post results.

#bubblewatch update:

Some #AI #bubble weekend reading for you.

> Is the AI bubble about to burst, or is it recalibrating? Massive investment is flowing into AI, but rising costs and inconsistent returns are testing whether the boom is sustainable and can deliver long-term business value. https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/feature/Is-the-AI-bubble-about-to-burst-or-is-it-recalibrating

> A famed permabear says a pattern forming in markets shows how the stock bubble could ultimately burst. https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-bubble-burst-pattern-outlook-john-hussman-government-debt-2026-4

#bubblewatch update:

Haven't updated bubblewatch in a while because the stock market is still stupid from war and oil shocks. But Gold and Geopolitics has an interesting post about how NVidia's earnings reports are *great*, but their stock values aren't quite reflecting the great.

> Last call. https://no01.substack.com/p/last-call

> "… it’s not a stock market, is it, it’s two factories in a trench coat pretending to be an economy, and not one person looked under the coat."

#AI