Wait, I thought Musk already HAD developed his own AI -- although Grok seems to function mostly like fanzines such as Tiger Beat used to function for teenage girls: "Elon Musk is the bestest, most dreamy, and savviest billionaire of them all."
"Techbro Christmas" is a gem, lol. It is going to be so, so ugly when the AI bubble implodes.
The ultimate combo deal is going to be getting a NeuraLink embedded in your brain, and the NeuraLink is programmed with Grok AI. Turns you from woke softie to hardcore Nazi overnight!
Yes, and in particular the generation that, through accident of birth, landed right on the sweet spot of the biggest economic boom in human history. With nice pensions from their secure, full-time jobs and a fully paid-for house, you might think they could happily devote themselves to gardening and grandkids or the nonstop Senior FuckFest that is life in The Villages, but no, they must be FURIOUS in a way that makes the grandkids hate them, which just makes them even more FURIOUS.
Without a hint of irony, today's REBID was nestled in my inbox above an ad for "Cognitive Daily" (haven't heard of it? What, are you living under a rock?) featuring an image of a smiling blond woman pointing at what looks like sticks of butter or cookie dough... the boldface caption link reads 'Dementia Has Been Linked To... (Learn More)". So they're on to us, Roy! 😆 🤣 😂
This stuff is killing me! Not in a literal, but more of an old time comic strip way, where I fall out of the panel with nothing visible but my feet in the air and a speech bubble that says “AWK!!” How old is “Grandpa”? I fear that he is my peer.
I went to a Christmas party last Saturday. My wife's work. There were three huge screens on the wall, showing AI produced Happy Holiday scenes. LIke one of the new holiday Coke commercials. I drank bourbon and thought about the end of civilzation.
I think we are helpless before the AI onslaught. Civilization is going to have to crash and maybe something good will rise like the smoke from the pyres we use to take care of our billionaire problem.
I remember going to company holiday events with JibJab videos featuring company officers. Looking back it was both a harbinger and a simpler time (because no one was trying to make you think that shit was real).
Our monkey brains love stories and flashing lights. None of it has to make sense if it all sparkles enough. Have you seen Glenn Beck's AI George Washington? We've already crashed and burned, the stimulus is just taking its time getting to the pain receptors.
Jesus Christ, if I hadn't've clicked through, I wouldn't know about the Three Stocks To Buy Now! Think of how many people DIDN'T BOTHER! I'm on the inside track now! Maybe my kids can lend me some scratch, it's payback time after all!
I gotta get me summa dat email, is AOL.com the one to get? I saw it in a movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, must be good if all the top movie stars got it!
Given that in reality all of Musk’s wealth is now tied to the artificially inflated value of xAI while Tesla and SpaceX circle the drain and his board of directors bribe him to stay because otherwise their investment will fall to zero, it’s fitting that the scavengers are out there gleaning the floor sweepings of the myth of genius Musk from the same rubes who think Trump is a successful businessman because he fired people on tv and has his name on buildings owned by banks and Russians (and now the US government).
News out today is that Elmo is planning to take SpaceX public in a $25 billion IPO this summer. So investors will literally be able to watch their money explode, crash and burn on a routine basis.
I try to stay away from any knowledge of what goes on in Big Tech, but of course I am aware that The Richest Man in the World is a complete loon, and it's hard to avoid having learned that Peter Thiel is way far gone with his apocalyptic libertarianism, or whatever you want to call it. Unfortunately I became aware of the Palantir CEO guy when that NYT interview video went around, so I'm asking: what the fuck is wrong with these people? Is it all bespoke chemical "enhancement," or are they born this way? Didn't our leading businessmen used to be gray haired men in gray flannel suits who golfed at the club after services at the Episcopalian church? Not saying those days were great, but holy fuck, what a circus! Are we not entertained?
The idea is to be so rich as to be insulated from the consequences of your own actions (and has been since Grunk tried to corner the prehistoric shell market).
Maybe I've just read too much Tennessee Williams, but I think in the past it was possible for a rich family to lose their money and property through profligacy or simple inattention to their finances. Today, that seems impossible. The Gateses and Musks will be rich as long as human civilization exists.
Jared Isaacman, Tubby's pick for NASA administrator, started a company when he was in high school that made him a billionaire by his mid- twenties, How can an experience like that not fuck you up? Wouldn't you come out of that thinking you're smarter than anyone, God's gift to humanity, with the answers to ALL of life's questions?
There's quadrillions of dollars sloshing around the world economy, and if you're in the right place at the right time with the right idea and the right connections, 0.000001 percent of it will fall in your pocket and you will believe you earned EVERY PENNY.
"ugly cars"--Yes, and not just the self-parodying Cybertruck. For all its advanced-tech vava-voom, every Tesla out there is a sad-making, pouchy, puffy slob of a car. What is it Captain Beefheart said? "Fast and bulbous!"
There must be something in them that makes the drivers be just terrible when they're behind the wheel. The joke always used to be (at least in the SF Bay Area) that if a car was being badly and obnoxiously driven, it'd be a BMW. Now it's a Tesla, by a wide margin.
I should point out that I live near where the factory is, and there's *way* more of those vehicular turds on the road here than I'm comfortable with. For the love o' god, people, there's a lot of vastly better EVs out there!
Charging my Nissan Leaf at work (Nissan Leaf: The Underperforming Car for Underperforming People) I saw something new: Guy pulls up to the charger slot next to mine in a Tesla, then gets out and goes in the building without connecting his car. Presumably because the charger slots are closer to the building. The thought that he was blocking some other EV driver from charging never entered his tiny, self-involved brain.
They put all the EV charging spaces together with the handicapped parking, so I suppose the choice, as he saw it, was lying about needing to charge his car or lying about being disabled (with the latter carrying some hefty fines.)
The total dominance of the car market by SUVs and CUVs is final proof that most people truly do not give a shit what their car looks like. "Spacious and comfortable transportation pod" is just fine, thanks, from inside I can't see it anyway.
They sure don't care what color their car is. I walk the dog past a big elementary school every morning, and out of the first ten cars in the parking lot, eight are white. The rest are black, silver, and gray. You see a car of any real color on the L.A. freeway, and it's a shock.
To which I can attest. I needed a new car, and wanted a Corolla hybrid. (This was July of last year.) Several dealers had no stock. One said, "We have one coming in on Monday." Which it did. It's a dark gray they call Underground. It's not a color I would have picked, but eh, whatever. That said, I love the car. (Last year, in CA, Toyota was showing tv ads on football games in which the big event was the arrival of "a truckload of new Toyotas" back outside, to which the happy shoppers flocked. I now see why. Inventory was way down.)
Oh, so many opportunities in Trump's America: Come in fifth at a swim meet but the other swimmer who tied you for fifth place identified as trans? Welcome to the Wingnut Welfare Gravy Train! A full schedule of Fox News appearances and speaking engagements awaits you! You need never get wet again!
Evil Afrikaner shitstain. Proof no intelligence required, just shit-tons of start up money and absolutely no empathy. Shining example of the fucked-up-edness of our current economic model, where all the money goes to sociopaths (e.g. Orange Shitgibbon). The plebes must work harder, 70 hours a week, not for their gain, but for the masters, who MUST GET RICHER QUICKER. They should be glad they have jobs at all, and they'll all be replaced by robots and AI as soon as possible. Then "you won't have to work anymore!' which translates to 'no food for you'. The system is insane, and it will fail. Once the starving starts, a hard rain is gonna fall.
"Proof no intelligence required, just shit-tons of start up money and absolutely no empathy." I'l add one other requirement: a crazy level of self-promotion. The start up money gets the asshole in the public eye, then the self-promotion moves it all along.
I think of Howard Hughes. All the money in the world couldn't stave off insanity. (I wonder what size tissue boxes L. Ron Musth is wearing now.) If his board is smart they'll remove him from active management before he destroys them all.
All the money in the world can't stave off death either. The only way he's getting to Mars is as cremains.
Bastard played an evil trick on his assistant (you probably know this one). Loved Baskins-Robbins ice cream, I forget the flavor. It was discontinued, so the assstant keeps the tubs (yes, tubs) of ice cream he had, but that day was soon approaching. He called Baskin-Robbins, hired them for a ridiculous price to make more, like a dozen of those big tubs, the minimum order.
He had it ready when the old ran out. He's ready. And after serving that last bowl of the original ice cream, HH said "That is so good. But I'm thinking I'd like to try flavor so-and-so. Hard to believe that's coincidence.
Well, in Elon's case it was emerald mines, for Dipshit it was daddy's money (roast down there, Fred. But like you told him, he'll always be a loser) that's start-up money. For recurring revenue, we have an ample supply of pur-blind idiots either scared of what's under the bed or Let's You And Him Start A Race War crowd, who pump in big bucks to make their dream come true. They and rich Rethugs wanting wage slavery. Hey, progress! Now *any* race can be made into wage slaves. No racism required.
Wait, I thought Musk already HAD developed his own AI -- although Grok seems to function mostly like fanzines such as Tiger Beat used to function for teenage girls: "Elon Musk is the bestest, most dreamy, and savviest billionaire of them all."
"Techbro Christmas" is a gem, lol. It is going to be so, so ugly when the AI bubble implodes.
The ultimate combo deal is going to be getting a NeuraLink embedded in your brain, and the NeuraLink is programmed with Grok AI. Turns you from woke softie to hardcore Nazi overnight!
He had learned to love Big Brother.
I'm stuck on Little Brother. My primary care physician has diagnosed me as sibling-deficient. I blame the parents.
You mean one more person you could be a bad influence on? Maybe the parents knew what they were doing? "We made one, now let's break the mold."
You'd think an engineer and a classical musician woulda had better judgement...
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17JjYrBqrho
We now have an entire culture dedicated to making seniors wake up angry enough to send their pensions to Nazi billionaires.
Yes, and in particular the generation that, through accident of birth, landed right on the sweet spot of the biggest economic boom in human history. With nice pensions from their secure, full-time jobs and a fully paid-for house, you might think they could happily devote themselves to gardening and grandkids or the nonstop Senior FuckFest that is life in The Villages, but no, they must be FURIOUS in a way that makes the grandkids hate them, which just makes them even more FURIOUS.
This is a Black Mirror waiting to be written.
In Trump's America, Black Mirror writes itself!
Isn't the normal order of things that they write the sci-fi first and then we live if later, if at all? Something wrong here with Time's Arrow.
Without a hint of irony, today's REBID was nestled in my inbox above an ad for "Cognitive Daily" (haven't heard of it? What, are you living under a rock?) featuring an image of a smiling blond woman pointing at what looks like sticks of butter or cookie dough... the boldface caption link reads 'Dementia Has Been Linked To... (Learn More)". So they're on to us, Roy! 😆 🤣 😂
Must... click... through!
This stuff is killing me! Not in a literal, but more of an old time comic strip way, where I fall out of the panel with nothing visible but my feet in the air and a speech bubble that says “AWK!!” How old is “Grandpa”? I fear that he is my peer.
Gut Doctor Says Don't Eat This ONE Food!
"Gut!" sez hair doctor.
IST NICHT GUT FÜR GUT
One of the Federal judges that ruled against Tubby (I know, it's a big group) is named Immergut. How can you argue with her, she's ALWAYS GOOD.
I am...charmed...by the last word in the top line of that screen shot...
"COMBINED"
Because Gramps is no longer impressed by the pelfed-up value of just one semi-trillionaire. Nay, Gramps WANTS IT ALL.
I went to a Christmas party last Saturday. My wife's work. There were three huge screens on the wall, showing AI produced Happy Holiday scenes. LIke one of the new holiday Coke commercials. I drank bourbon and thought about the end of civilzation.
I think we are helpless before the AI onslaught. Civilization is going to have to crash and maybe something good will rise like the smoke from the pyres we use to take care of our billionaire problem.
Crash & Bern, LLC.
I remember going to company holiday events with JibJab videos featuring company officers. Looking back it was both a harbinger and a simpler time (because no one was trying to make you think that shit was real).
Our monkey brains love stories and flashing lights. None of it has to make sense if it all sparkles enough. Have you seen Glenn Beck's AI George Washington? We've already crashed and burned, the stimulus is just taking its time getting to the pain receptors.
Jesus Christ, if I hadn't've clicked through, I wouldn't know about the Three Stocks To Buy Now! Think of how many people DIDN'T BOTHER! I'm on the inside track now! Maybe my kids can lend me some scratch, it's payback time after all!
It's a stock tip so SECRET it only goes to people who have email!
I gotta get me summa dat email, is AOL.com the one to get? I saw it in a movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, must be good if all the top movie stars got it!
You've got Mail!...you poor sap!
Can it be that people were once excited to get email? Or is that just another example of Woke Hollywood LYING to us?
You gotta oafish propagandist planted in the FEMA
A slimy little rat inserted deep inside Interior
A War Secretary who can’t command a lemur
And a vice presidenté who aspires to inferior
Still working on ‘woke Stasi commissars’
Damn! I was just about to reply: “Performed by the Woke Stasi Commissars.”
2 grudging marks ('cause I'm angry I did not think of it).
Already been done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM
"Commanding the lemur"
is THAT what kids are calling it these days?
Given that in reality all of Musk’s wealth is now tied to the artificially inflated value of xAI while Tesla and SpaceX circle the drain and his board of directors bribe him to stay because otherwise their investment will fall to zero, it’s fitting that the scavengers are out there gleaning the floor sweepings of the myth of genius Musk from the same rubes who think Trump is a successful businessman because he fired people on tv and has his name on buildings owned by banks and Russians (and now the US government).
Cheery!
News out today is that Elmo is planning to take SpaceX public in a $25 billion IPO this summer. So investors will literally be able to watch their money explode, crash and burn on a routine basis.
I try to stay away from any knowledge of what goes on in Big Tech, but of course I am aware that The Richest Man in the World is a complete loon, and it's hard to avoid having learned that Peter Thiel is way far gone with his apocalyptic libertarianism, or whatever you want to call it. Unfortunately I became aware of the Palantir CEO guy when that NYT interview video went around, so I'm asking: what the fuck is wrong with these people? Is it all bespoke chemical "enhancement," or are they born this way? Didn't our leading businessmen used to be gray haired men in gray flannel suits who golfed at the club after services at the Episcopalian church? Not saying those days were great, but holy fuck, what a circus! Are we not entertained?
Y'all know whom I blame, tho I could be persuaded to add their teachers, councilors, dieticians, bartenders and parole officers...
https://youtu.be/8_mePjkQW_c?si=9k0jrxKfepLHbC5x
After they all fall down on the job, there's nobody left to tell these guys, "Sit down and shut up, you're making a fool of yourself."
The idea is to be so rich as to be insulated from the consequences of your own actions (and has been since Grunk tried to corner the prehistoric shell market).
Maybe I've just read too much Tennessee Williams, but I think in the past it was possible for a rich family to lose their money and property through profligacy or simple inattention to their finances. Today, that seems impossible. The Gateses and Musks will be rich as long as human civilization exists.
Which may not be long!
Jared Isaacman, Tubby's pick for NASA administrator, started a company when he was in high school that made him a billionaire by his mid- twenties, How can an experience like that not fuck you up? Wouldn't you come out of that thinking you're smarter than anyone, God's gift to humanity, with the answers to ALL of life's questions?
There's quadrillions of dollars sloshing around the world economy, and if you're in the right place at the right time with the right idea and the right connections, 0.000001 percent of it will fall in your pocket and you will believe you earned EVERY PENNY.
Guy who came up with a somewhat better way to process credit-card transactions acts like he invented the light bulb.
"New with the fresh scent of fascist billionaire!"
You cannot believe what my Bored Ape® image is worth today.
If the answer is "zero", I believe it.
Oh, it was worth nothing yesterday, but there's been a surge in the market and now it's worth 10 percent MORE than nothing! Do the math!
"ugly cars"--Yes, and not just the self-parodying Cybertruck. For all its advanced-tech vava-voom, every Tesla out there is a sad-making, pouchy, puffy slob of a car. What is it Captain Beefheart said? "Fast and bulbous!"
With a special cameo appearance by JD Vance as the Mascara Snake.
There must be something in them that makes the drivers be just terrible when they're behind the wheel. The joke always used to be (at least in the SF Bay Area) that if a car was being badly and obnoxiously driven, it'd be a BMW. Now it's a Tesla, by a wide margin.
I should point out that I live near where the factory is, and there's *way* more of those vehicular turds on the road here than I'm comfortable with. For the love o' god, people, there's a lot of vastly better EVs out there!
Charging my Nissan Leaf at work (Nissan Leaf: The Underperforming Car for Underperforming People) I saw something new: Guy pulls up to the charger slot next to mine in a Tesla, then gets out and goes in the building without connecting his car. Presumably because the charger slots are closer to the building. The thought that he was blocking some other EV driver from charging never entered his tiny, self-involved brain.
Ehh, you're probably right there, but it could also be a matter of that clown just not giving a damn.
They put all the EV charging spaces together with the handicapped parking, so I suppose the choice, as he saw it, was lying about needing to charge his car or lying about being disabled (with the latter carrying some hefty fines.)
Well in Baltimore everyone drives like an asshole.
The total dominance of the car market by SUVs and CUVs is final proof that most people truly do not give a shit what their car looks like. "Spacious and comfortable transportation pod" is just fine, thanks, from inside I can't see it anyway.
They sure don't care what color their car is. I walk the dog past a big elementary school every morning, and out of the first ten cars in the parking lot, eight are white. The rest are black, silver, and gray. You see a car of any real color on the L.A. freeway, and it's a shock.
The most popular color choice for cars today is "Eh, whatever"
To which I can attest. I needed a new car, and wanted a Corolla hybrid. (This was July of last year.) Several dealers had no stock. One said, "We have one coming in on Monday." Which it did. It's a dark gray they call Underground. It's not a color I would have picked, but eh, whatever. That said, I love the car. (Last year, in CA, Toyota was showing tv ads on football games in which the big event was the arrival of "a truckload of new Toyotas" back outside, to which the happy shoppers flocked. I now see why. Inventory was way down.)
The Corolla Hybrid: All of the eco-benefits of the Prius with none of the virtue-signaling.
And wasn't this a Wendy's commercial a long time ago? Dayvear! Eveninkvear! Any color you want as long as it's gray!
There's some clown in my neighborhood driving a Maserati with a silver rainbow mylar wrap. Utterly heinous. Dude, all your taste is in your mouth...
What a fucked up country...
I got good news for ya: We're nothin' special, we're livin' in a fucked-up WORLD.
"...put up to an extra $30,000 in your pocket every year."
That's chicken feed. In Trump's America, you can make multiples of that just by publicly calling adults or children the n-word.
"Put tens of $thousands$ in your pocket! Become an N-Word Entrepreneur!"
Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/cinnabon-fired-worker-video-racial-slur.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k8.l_v5.b4h9SRTiCDkW&smid=url-share
I clicked on the link but did not get a free cinnabon. I demand my no money back!
"N-Word Entrepreneur" being, as the crowdfunding pitches, "the Hope of Jesus."
Oh, so many opportunities in Trump's America: Come in fifth at a swim meet but the other swimmer who tied you for fifth place identified as trans? Welcome to the Wingnut Welfare Gravy Train! A full schedule of Fox News appearances and speaking engagements awaits you! You need never get wet again!
"Forget rockets or brain implants"
Because it sure as hell looks like Elmo has, at least the "make these things actually work" part.
He's more of an idea man, really.
Evil Afrikaner shitstain. Proof no intelligence required, just shit-tons of start up money and absolutely no empathy. Shining example of the fucked-up-edness of our current economic model, where all the money goes to sociopaths (e.g. Orange Shitgibbon). The plebes must work harder, 70 hours a week, not for their gain, but for the masters, who MUST GET RICHER QUICKER. They should be glad they have jobs at all, and they'll all be replaced by robots and AI as soon as possible. Then "you won't have to work anymore!' which translates to 'no food for you'. The system is insane, and it will fail. Once the starving starts, a hard rain is gonna fall.
"Proof no intelligence required, just shit-tons of start up money and absolutely no empathy." I'l add one other requirement: a crazy level of self-promotion. The start up money gets the asshole in the public eye, then the self-promotion moves it all along.
Point. I did leave out the ego as big as the Solar System. Which came first, the ego or the sociopathy? It is a puzzlement.
I think of Howard Hughes. All the money in the world couldn't stave off insanity. (I wonder what size tissue boxes L. Ron Musth is wearing now.) If his board is smart they'll remove him from active management before he destroys them all.
All the money in the world can't stave off death either. The only way he's getting to Mars is as cremains.
Bastard played an evil trick on his assistant (you probably know this one). Loved Baskins-Robbins ice cream, I forget the flavor. It was discontinued, so the assstant keeps the tubs (yes, tubs) of ice cream he had, but that day was soon approaching. He called Baskin-Robbins, hired them for a ridiculous price to make more, like a dozen of those big tubs, the minimum order.
He had it ready when the old ran out. He's ready. And after serving that last bowl of the original ice cream, HH said "That is so good. But I'm thinking I'd like to try flavor so-and-so. Hard to believe that's coincidence.
And "shit-tons of start up money" translates as "coming from taxpayers." After start up, then contracts to continue the perpetual scam machine.
Well, in Elon's case it was emerald mines, for Dipshit it was daddy's money (roast down there, Fred. But like you told him, he'll always be a loser) that's start-up money. For recurring revenue, we have an ample supply of pur-blind idiots either scared of what's under the bed or Let's You And Him Start A Race War crowd, who pump in big bucks to make their dream come true. They and rich Rethugs wanting wage slavery. Hey, progress! Now *any* race can be made into wage slaves. No racism required.