Everyone is Quiet Quitting

Workers train the AI replacing them, regulators vanish, nuclear waste waits, El Niño clocks in, and one president refuses to clock out. This week’s Weekly Doom finds responsibility quiet quitting while ambition works overtime—then turns the whole mess into satire, song, and one very nervous laugh.

Check the Exits, Count the Kids

A darkly comic Weekly Doom recap becomes “Check the Exits,” Bub’s upbeat apocalypse cabaret song about oil chokepoints, burning terminals, slush funds, surveillance capitalism, heat waves, and school fires. Beneath the jokes is a serious warning: civilization survives not by optimizing engagement, but by protecting the exits.