Gerry McGovern

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

Last Notes

2026-10-08 15:17:59 GMT

Men's long and horrifying hatred of women
"So, few years ago, mystified and horrified by this cataclysmic erosion in women’s rights, I decided to try to get a handle on what’s going on by digging deep into western cultural history, to see what I could find about the idea that women are bad, evil, monstrous, less-than-human, dangerous, and—most important—in need of patriarchal dominance and control."
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-persistence-of-misogyny-4000-years-of-demonized-women

2026-02-26 11:27:22 GMT

"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs." Every word is a lie."
A short while later:
"When I asked about the best hot dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing."
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-gemini-i-tried-making-lie-about-me-2026-2

2025-03-25 10:27:21 GMT

In the world of Facebook, there is no such thing as truth or lies--only engagement. And what engagement is is addiction. In the Valley of Pimps and Pushers, whatever gets you hooked and keeps you hooked is all that matters.
Societies of digital zombies, barely functioning addicts being sucked of data and cash, sold to highest bidder.
Moronic answers — even blatant lies — are what you get with Meta AI, even as it pretends to be self-effacing.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-24-downing-the-orange-kool-aid-pointless-arguments-with-trump-supporters-and-ai-bots-that-cant-tell-sinatra-from-keith-richards/

2024-02-03 11:59:44 GMT

Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin
Bitcoin is a true evil, destructive force, the pure expression of unbounded greed. And bitcoin is a good mirror of what Big Tech actually is, a greedfest of hype cycles, churning out one grift after another, the latest being AI.
The only difference between Silicon Valley and Las Vegas is in the chips they use.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/over-2-percent-of-the-uss-electricity-generation-now-goes-to-bitcoin/