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The week in stupidity — 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-05

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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

laneitems
AI Incidents & Outages1
AI Bubble & Money1
AI News1

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.

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

AI Bubble & Money · Yahoo Finance · · open ↗ · share

Ring Video Doorbell Pro review: night and day better with new 4K camera

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…

AI News · The Guardian · Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor · · 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.

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when the internet is most stupid

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872 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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