The story of 2025 continues to be — never concede anything. Just stare ahead as you plow into the merge and the other guy will yield.

In that spirit, here’s Sam Altman, turning up the music and accelerating as he rapidly approaches the oncoming produce truck of reality.

As if this wasn’t hand-wavy enough, keep in mind I’m reading this the day after OpenAI launched, with great fanfare, Sora 2 — “deepfake TikTok“, if you will — which is literally just a slop machine for making fake AI videos of “your friends”, which actually means “people you want to see in fake videos”.

This company is the mullet of technology. Business in the front, party in the back. Scientific discovery in the streets, ShitTok in the sheets. Whichever one of those things gives them enough money to survive (the Department of Defense, or advertisers) first will be what they claim is what they wanted to do all along.

And if, as more than a few people are starting to suspect, neither one happens? Well, it’s… it’s gonna get real ugly.