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The week in stupidity — 2026-07-06 to 2026-07-12

stupidity index · stu catching up on the news

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25% of the 4 items the feed collected this week were a fail, an outage or a confidently wrong human (last week: 33%). Catching up. Every headline links out; none of them is mine.

by the numbers

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AI Incidents & Outages1
AI Bubble & Money3

Outage notices: 1 (Replit 1) · Bubble Thermometer: no reading this week

top five, by formula

Wall Street’s AI Spending Warning Could Make Nvidia the Biggest Casualty

Wall Street’s AI Spending Warning Could Make Nvidia the Biggest Casualty    finance.yahoo.com

AI Bubble & Money · finance.yahoo.com · · open ↗ · share

AI’s $11 trillion compute boom may leave Wall Street holding a $7 trillion debt market

AI’s $11 trillion compute boom may leave Wall Street holding a $7 trillion debt market    MIXED Reality News

AI Bubble & Money · MIXED Reality News · · open ↗ · share

Wall Street Thinks AI Is Slowing. Wall Street Is Wrong

Wall Street Thinks AI Is Slowing. Wall Street Is Wrong    24/7 Wall St.

AI Bubble & Money · 24/7 Wall St. · · open ↗ · share

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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

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when the internet is most stupid

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2450 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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