July 8, 2026

Goosed in the Shell (A Better Offline / Trashfuture Collaboration)

Ed Zitron and the TF Crew are on both your feeds this week to discuss the Softbank slide deck breakdown you’ve all been waiting for. It’s nothing other than the goose, and whether or not the goose was valued, and what kind of factory does a goose use to make golden eggs.

Softbank Presentation here.

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Comments (55)

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David Stosser · July 11, 2026

I really hope you lot do a review of the ACME movie in a few months' time.

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Elsie Hupp · July 10, 2026

How much could a data center cost? Ten trillion dollars?

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Cate Kneale · July 10, 2026

Can't help wondering what would happen if they actually built the AI God and it said, yeah you need to do everything the environmentalists said, cars and planes are banned as of right now, and we're instigating global communism.

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AnnoyingSpanishGuy · July 10, 2026

Xkcd 1626

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Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep · July 9, 2026

All this talk of Uncle Sun and no "Say goodbye to his uncle!"?! l demand my TF be like a later season episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and consist of a recitation of bits as if it were a catechism

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Keith · July 9, 2026

Sem duvida, Os CEOs estão ficando psicose de IA.

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Steven Chisholm · July 9, 2026

Clearstone has not just submitted another ordinary application to Dartford Borough Council and hoped for a warmer reception. Instead, it asked the government to treat the Ebbsfleet AI Data Centre Campus as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project. On Wednesday, the Secretary of State agreed. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-centre-campus-new-barn-road-dartford-section-35-direction-planning-act-2008?ref=kentcurrent.news. https://www.clearstoneenergy.com/project/ebbsfleet-ai-data-centre/?ref=kentcurrent.news

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Steven Chisholm · July 9, 2026

This is going to be built not far from me. Please help stop it..

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Andrew Davis · July 9, 2026

Y'all, I'm starting to worry about the continued dominance of our Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

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Joshua Rodman · July 9, 2026

I was not prepared for this many goose slides.

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cent · July 9, 2026

He financing on my goose

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Horse Badorties · July 12, 2026

And I honk

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Paxcow · July 8, 2026

THE GOOSE THE GOOSE THE GOOSE WAS NOT VALUED WE DON'T NEED NO BEAR CASES LET THE MF'ER EARN! EARN MF'ER, EARN! - The Notorious S-o-N

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John Harwood · July 8, 2026

I don't think that Mr. Soft read the story of the goose and the golden egg all the way through. In the end, both goose and farmer are both super dead.

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Mob King · July 8, 2026

Japanese goose buries 🥝🥝🥝

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Sam Blackman · July 8, 2026

Boat In The Shell, a show about how I wish I had boat money goddamnit fuckin hell

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HAUNTER · July 8, 2026

Yay another Edpisode

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M Wigby · July 8, 2026

The True Source of Value Golden Egg factory inside the goose What you see are the eggs What produces them is the factory itself

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Borangehat · July 8, 2026

"Eggs Do Not Lay Eggs" or, "You must transition for oviposition."

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James Rule · July 8, 2026

Remind me again, in the story of the goose that laid a golden egg, it was a good thing when the greedy person got a hold of the goose who then chopped it open to understand the mechanics of the goose, right? That's how the story ended, on a high note.

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SpookyPenguin · July 8, 2026

Slide 50 wow...makes me wonder what kind of satire Douglas Adams would have written about this.

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Real-Life NPC · July 8, 2026

When the AI bubble pops, Softbank's goose will be cooked.

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Kyle McGill · July 8, 2026

Finally, better future

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Rory Thomas · July 8, 2026

Mokoto Goosanagi

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Eric Adams (German) · July 8, 2026

Insert Egg joke here.

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George Toner · July 8, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqCAmXTJBI A second reaction has hit the Goose. I stand by Brennan Lee Mulligan's point that these eggs are presumably how this species reproduces, so... And more to his point, this is the kind of metaphor it takes Business Brain which is starving for metaphors to fall for. The most depressing thing is that, and I forget who said this, these days they're not even having fun they're just doing the nerd drugs which help you concentrate. At least they're still seething with envy when they watch American Psycho and wishing they could be Patrick Bateman, even if it's not for the same reasons

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David Lee · July 8, 2026

What episode date was the episode about bridging loans mentioned around 16:30?

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August1612 · July 8, 2026

here you go https://www.patreon.com/posts/160271109?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=android_share

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Cormac · July 8, 2026

Uh, folks, does Masayoshi Son's use of chatgtp mean that OpenAI knows everything he says to it? 🤔

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George Toner · July 8, 2026

Well, gee, now, if I was a ruthless and amoral executive who'd made my way to a position of some importance and could have recordings of an important (rival) figure's innermost thoughts said in confidence to a trusted advisor and friend... or just choose not to have them... would I a) Not have them b) In this economy, find psychologists who can keep their mouths shut

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Kapjak · July 8, 2026

I see the episode was late so everyone could watch the new ghost in the shell before recording

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kaninchen ZERO · July 8, 2026

goose dick eversion

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Cat Mara · July 8, 2026

Man, they won’t even let me fuck the goose… is this anything?

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Petrorenminbi · July 8, 2026

Hold on…did Dril plagiarize the corn cob tweet from the twilight zone?

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Cat Mara · July 8, 2026

I don’t think so… in the Twilight Zone episode referred to, “It’s a Good Life”, a kid with omnipotent powers takes over a village and sends the bodies of people who displease him “to the cornfield”

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Paul Natsuo Kishimoto · July 8, 2026

> i show my plumage from Ed killed me

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Francesca · July 8, 2026

who up valuing their goose

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etienne · July 8, 2026

great another episode where I need to sort out what's true and what's said because Ed can't or won't read financial documents correctly

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Felis Catus · July 9, 2026

Do you have a specific example or article? Just to see what's talked about here

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cole d · July 8, 2026

GOOSE WAS NOT VALUED!

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Petrorenminbi · July 8, 2026

You could easily convince me “goosed in the shell” is a British football term for whatever Belgium did to USA the other day

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ZombieDwarf · July 8, 2026

With your help, it can be!

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Charles Comfort · July 8, 2026

Fuck that's a good title

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Lenny · July 8, 2026

Goose Value 0?

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Paul · July 8, 2026

in Dark Souls font: "Goose Valued"

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Huronbikes · July 8, 2026

How can you joke about goose value when Elon's sad AI birthday was a thing that happened?

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Vanessa P · July 8, 2026

Internal mechanism

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Vast and Trunkless · July 8, 2026

“Making of Cyborg” plays off-key on a kazoo

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apk98 · July 8, 2026

Can't wait to have a gander at this

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Vast and Trunkless · July 8, 2026

Bunch of silly geese in the pond.

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Donovan Burns · July 8, 2026

Untitled Masayoshi Presentation /ETA: It is a lovely morning in the global economy, and you are a horrible investor.

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Page Chase · July 9, 2026

I need this to be a real game. Complete with whimsical white boys. Instead of a honk button, you get a "sounds like a great idea, I'm going to take out a bridge loan of b/millions to give you money" button.

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Larketto · July 8, 2026

FINALLY SOMEONE WILL VALUE THE GOOSE

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Tyler Smith · July 8, 2026

Dropped everything for GOOSEPOD

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Elsie Hupp · July 10, 2026

Ideally to be consumed with a nice glass of gose?