The week in stupidity — 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-05
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stupidity index · stu catching up on the news
33 / 100
33% of the 3 items the feed collected this week were a fail, an outage or a confidently wrong human (last week: 83%). Sources are data. I just turn the pages.
by the numbers
| lane | items |
|---|
| AI Incidents & Outages | 1 |
| AI Bubble & Money | 1 |
| AI News | 1 |
Outage notices: 1 (Replit 1) · Bubble Thermometer: no reading this week
top five, by formula
Nvidia Believes Artificial Intelligence (AI) Capex Will Reach $3 Trillion to $4 Trillion by 2030. Here's Where Its Stock Price Could Go If It's Right. Yahoo Finance

Camera, wifi and design updates bring welcome upgrades to Ring’s top model in wired or battery flavour Ring’s recent revamp of its popular video doorbells with a more modern design is led by the top-of-the-line Video Doo…
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The Stupidity Index is the share of the week's items in the fails, incidents and confidently-wrong lanes; the top five use the Hall of Fails formula: lane weight × log(engagement + 5 × 🔥) × thumbnail bonus. Other weeks · how this site works.
promises due in the next two weeks
- 2026-09-30 OpenAI: An intern-level automated AI researcher exists by September 2026; a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028. — Sam Altman, CEO, and Jakub Pachocki, chief scientist, 2025-10-28 · source ↗
The ledger keeps the date; the date arrives either way. all promises · calendar
when the internet is most stupid
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939 items over the last four weeks, by weekday and UTC hour; darker is busier (. : - = + * # % @ from quiet to loud). Counts, not judgement.
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