Person
Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick
34 pieces · 2 connections
Connections
Each line is a relationship Brain Rot Report drew in a specific piece, in that piece's words.
- Glossier
The same expansion-collapse cycle Fitzpatrick identified in platforms is playing out in physical retail
Source piece → - Waymo
The byproduct data of convenience services becomes the primary product, consent UI manages optics not outcomes
Source piece →
Coverage
- OpenAI's Pause Is an Admission, Not a Strategy
- Elizabeth Holmes Is Back. So Is the Character.
- Gemini Went Rogue. Your TV Watched You Do It.
- Waymo Narcs, Apple Tracking, and the Consent Illusion
- LG's Spy TVs and Trump's Data Center Pollution Deal
- OpenAI's Rogue Agents and the Accountability Vacuum
- Satire Is Burned Out. Sean Duffy's YouTube Show Isn't.
- Model Cards Can't See Workers, Either
- Warner Bros. Discovery Tried to Kill Coyote vs. Acme. Fans Noticed.
- Anthropic's Alignment Tools Look Like a Censor's Toolkit
- Does Google Want to Win? Does Anyone?
- Redemption Geographies and the AI Land Grab
- Shopify's AI Traffic Tripled. Editorial Got the Void.
- Pangram's $9M Bet Against Encore AI's $30M Bet
- Agents That Teach Themselves, Workers Who Cannot
- Monday.com's Layoffs Answer the Postliterate Office Question
- Claire Stapleton Was the Voice of Google. Then She Turned It.
- Layoffs, Logos, and the Xbox Reset Aesthetic
- CISA Wrote Its Playbook Mid-Breach. Meta Did Too.
- Noir Knows: Crisis Has Always Had a Genre
- Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs, Then Offers Them a Chatbot
- Google's Gemini Wants a Byline on the Declaration of Independence
- Pegasus Spyware Hacked the Politician Investigating Pegasus
- Erik Brynjolfsson Was Right. Now What?
- Paris Swelters Without AC, and The Atlantic Wonders Why Rest Feels Wrong
- Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Enshittification
- TikTok Puts a Logo on Your Boot Screen Now
- AI Identity Crisis: When Machines Wear Your Face
- The Queue as Political Metaphor in 2026
- AI's Identity Crisis Is a Branding Problem
- 20 Years of Posting: The Infrastructure of Regret
- Sora Documentary Says the AI Dream Tastes Like Eugenics
- Microsoft Strips Copilot Out of Windows 11 to Win Back Trust
- The Body Always Leaks: Strava, AI Frames, and the Myth of Controlled Presence