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Welcome to the Tuftacracy: How Corporate Fiction Ate the Balance Sheet

Have you ever looked at a modern startup name – Grindio, Bloatio, Synergyx.ai – and felt an immediate, uncontrollable urge to roll your eyes into the back of your skull? Don’t worr...

Madness, utter madness

Exactly. If it looks like a market bubble it probably is. Think railways, internet… …so at the shakeout some will come out with great value and probably high consumer pricing and...

Absurdity of the Week

How To Beat VCs at Their Own Game

A few years ago, a buddy of mine from business school invited me to a fancy dinner at his Manhattan brownstone. By the time I finished my first glass of Champagne, I’d met most of...

What’s so funny about startups? Here’s you chance to standup and say it

Startup life is a joke—prove it at Ascend ’26’s Startup.Standup with Merrick Watts coaching. Apply before entries close Friday.

Snowflake Ventures: Investing in Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Snowflake Ventures backs Dust and Gray Swan to build the trusted, secure infrastructure enterprises need to move AI agents from pilots to production.

Underwater Existentialism

Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest....

Landlord Simulator

Landlord Simulator is a satirical property management game where you play as a landlord building a real estate empire while dealing with chaotic, troublesome te...

Some Delulu-Ass Craiglist & Marketplace Posts

Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: A beautiful and bizarre voyage to PANORAMA ISLAND

Campaign Trail: Journeys amps up absurdity to break back-to-school conventions

Anomaly helped imagine the first day of school at its most musically surreal while building on the retailer’s brand platform.

Madness, utter madness

PaulRobson: market bubble Yes, but I worry that the amount of debt generated by all this infrastructure buildout could give us another financial crisis. Hitech subprime

Sam Altman Mocked Anthropic’s New Ad. Investors May See a $965-Billion IPO Pitch

A new campaign previews the unusual proposition Dario and Daniela Amodei will ask public shareholders to buy into ahead of a possible October IPO.

5 Unlikely Inventions That Made Millions for Savvy Americans

Some silly ideas shouldn't be dismissed. The right timing can turn ridiculous notions into revenue.

A Case for the Giant Toxic Goo Pit I Want to Build in the Center of Town

I am a humble man. I made my fortune the old-fashioned way, through grit, determination, and a small multi-million-dollar loan from my father. And now I’m trying to achieve somethi...

'Shark Tank' star Daniel Lubetzky shares 3 steps to turn a wild idea into a viable business

Kind Snacks founder and "Shark Tank" star Daniel Lubetzky says the best business ideas often begin by sounding ridiculous.

Silicon Valley’s most absurd meme is taking on the worst corporate jargon in AI and tech

The tech world often feels like its own separate universe, one where Palantir chore coats and corporate merch are the coveted style choices and exaggerated tech-bro jargon is its o...

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Call Center

Call Center is a dark-comedy, 2D management simulation where you build and operate an illegal scam call center. Your goal is to hire scammers, that run scams!...

I've gone mad...

by Rachel Carpenter Well, this is either a really great idea or a really stupid idea and I can't decide which, so I'm doing it 😜. Mugs of Madness: a 20-card game of chthonic chao...

The Anti-A.I.-Ad Ad Campaign

The comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross have been putting up posters for fake tech products across the city, including a wearable grandpa, underwear that thinks, and A.I. cutle...

How This Founder Turned an Awkward College Bathroom Story Into a Leading Brand in a Billion Dollar Category

Sam Nebel turned a frat house conversation into a billion-dollar-category brand — and is teaming up with Liquid Death for a surprise collab.

The madness of SpaceX

Do you remember all the hype about the SpaceX share offering and how maybe 100,000 people in the UK struggled to buy shares on launch Read the full article...

Get A Job

satirical life simulator where you play as a broke, unemployed person trying to survive week-to-week by getting hired, managing basic needs, building credit!...