whole shtick

Altman’s whole shtick is that he’s a weary messenger seeking to prepare the ground for responsible uses of AI that benefit humanity — yet he’s circling the globe lining up investors wherever he can, doing all he seemingly can to capitalize on this moment of intense AI interest.

Bringing Cameron back also makes a mockery of Sunak’s whole shtick thus far, which has been to offer change from the preceding 13 years of Tory rule, almost half of which took place under, well, David Cameron.

His whole shtick wasn’t pretending to be someone else so much as it was performing the most exaggerated version of himself: T-shirt and cargo shorts with gym socks, sleeping on beanbag chairs in the office, playing League of Legends during podcast interviews.

Their whole shtick involves posting the dumbest, least credible arguments imaginable, and then demanding that their output be treated no differently than material from reputable, fact-based sources.

“His whole shtick is kind of like he’s a principled constitutionalist,” said Harrison, 34, a Republican who voted for Trump in 2020 and quickly regretted it.