Morning Meanderthal

I am a knowlege worker, a coder, one of those people 1st to be replaced by AI. My company has started using AI, baby steps now, but its accelerating. So far, the effect on me is to increase my workload. So why? Users can now do in minutes with Copilot what used to take me hours to do. So, I should be working less, right? So, why am I working overtime and on weekends when I used to have fairly normal hours?

Elon Musk just said what no economist will: the entire system is about to break and nothing can stop it. AI and robotics aren’t generating growth. They’re destroying the scarcity framework economics depends on. Musk: “It will hit us like a supersonic tsunami.” Production compounds exponentially. Money supply grows linearly. Productivity sustaining permanent double-digit expansion. Numbers that sound impossible becoming baseline. Not evolution. Replacement. Musk: “Prices collapse hard.” Not decline. Implosion. AI strips out labor costs, eliminates production errors, removes every inefficiency keeping goods expensive. Manufacturing anything approaches zero marginal cost while quality accelerates. Governments will react on instinct. Print money. Inject stimulus. Playbook designed for scarcity economies colliding with abundance they have no framework to understand. Musk: “GDP metrics are already meaningless.” Every economic model assumes constrained labor, limited output, gradual improvement. AI doesn’t work within those boundaries. It deletes them as variables. Production explodes. Central banks flood liquidity. Prices collapse regardless because physical abundance scales faster than any monetary intervention can match. The production wave outruns policy response. Always. Deflation signals crisis in every historical model. But this isn’t demand collapse. It’s supply going infinite. The economy isn’t failing. It’s transforming beyond tools built to measure scarcity. Power belongs to whoever controls the systems generating unlimited output. Money becomes secondary when production costs vanish. Policy makers are steering with instruments calibrated for limits that stopped existing. This already started. And the people running things have zero answers for what happens when their entire profession becomes obsolete overnight.

Interesting. You regard people on the right as living in an alternate reality. But, people on the right regard people such as yourself as living in an alternate reality from which you cannot escape. They regard themselves as superior to you because they have had no choice but to be exposed (due to the Left's long dominance of Academia and the news media) to the propaganda from which you have been unable to free yourself. Yet they have been able, as you have not, to see through the media manipulation. You, on your part, are so utterly convinced of the correctness of your views, you feel justified in judging those who don't agree with as morally inferior. Meanwhile, the "moral inferiors" look at you and see someone so arrogant and so full of pride you cannot see that your "virtuous views" are, in fact not your own. So, who is right? I propose a test. Simply count the burning cars and damaged storefronts. Maga did not do that. The Leftists did that. Blame belongs to those who apologize for and fail to condemn the violence of the left, yet persist in denigrating those whose greatest crime is to ignore the wise counsel of enlightened people such as yourself and vote for someone you do not approve of.

Why is MAGA so hateful? I get asked this a lot. The short answer is: because hate is the point. But let me break it down. Grievance as identity MAGA isn't a political movement built on policy. It's built on resentment. The core message has always been "you've been wronged" — by elites, by immigrants, by cities, by universities, by the media, by women, by minorities, by anyone who isn't you. This isn't a coalition that comes together to BUILD something. It comes together to tear things down. Hate isn't a byproduct of the movement. It's the fuel. Zero-sum thinking They genuinely believe that if someone else gains, they lose. Rights for gay people? That's an attack on Christians. Immigrants succeeding? They must be stealing from "real Americans." A Black president? He must be illegitimate. There's no concept of shared prosperity or expanding opportunity. Just winners and losers. And they're terrified of losing. The dominance hierarchy A lot of MAGA is rooted in evangelical and authoritarian psychology. There's supposed to be a natural order: white at the top, Christian at the top, male at the top, straight at the top. When you've been at the top of a hierarchy your whole life, equality feels like oppression. Giving others a seat at the table feels like theft. The media ecosystem Fox News → OANN → Newsmax → podcasts → Twitter/X. It's a 24/7 rage machine. Every algorithm rewards outrage. Every host competes to be more extreme than the last. These people are literally addicted to anger. Neurologically. They get dopamine hits from feeling righteous fury. They wake up and immediately check their phones to find out what they should be mad about today. Turn it off for a week and they go through withdrawal. Economic anxiety — weaponized Here's the thing: a lot of the underlying pain is real. Deindustrialization gutted their towns. Opioids killed their families. Wages stagnated while costs exploded. The American Dream stopped working for them. But instead of blaming the corporations that shipped jobs overseas, or the billionaires that rigged the economy, or the politicians that deregulated everything — they're taught to blame immigrants. To blame welfare recipients. To blame Black people in cities. To blame trans kids. Classic fascist playbook: take legitimate economic anger and redirect it at the vulnerable. The permission structure Trump didn't create the hate. He just gave it permission. For decades, these people were told to keep the quiet part quiet. Be polite. Use dog whistles. Then Trump came along and said the loud part loud — and nothing happened. No consequences. He showed them they could be openly racist, openly cruel, openly contemptuous of democracy — and not only survive, but win. "He fights" doesn't mean he fights for them. It means he's mean to people they don't like. The cruelty is the point. Community built on enemies This is the part people miss: MAGA is a community. For a lot of these people — especially older, rural, isolated Americans — it's their entire social world. Their friends are MAGA. Their family is MAGA. Their church is MAGA. The hate is the membership card. The shared enemies are what bind them together. Leaving the movement doesn't just mean changing your politics. It means losing everyone you know. So they double down. And double down again. Because the alternative is being alone. The bottom line Why is MAGA so hateful? Because scared people + relentless propaganda + permission to be cruel + community built on shared enemies = hate as a lifestyle. They're not going to be reasoned out of it. They weren't reasoned into it. The only thing that works is making it socially and politically costly to be part of it. Outvoting them. Out-organizing them. And building something better that gives people a different place to belong.

@JebraFaushay This is very old, it's not AI. Don't know who did it or how but my guess is it was done with Flash many years ago. Some may remember Flash, it is an old Microsoft graphics development program they no longer sell or support.

I wanted to bring Van Gogh's paintings to life, so I added prompts to Grok Imagine, downloaded the videos, strung them together, and added music. I spend so much time writing that I sometimes forget how much I love creating. Thanks, Grok!

@BrianRoemmele @grok What is your zero person company going to sell and who will buy it?

The Zero-Human Company A new kind of company that runs 24 houses a day and meets every 15 minutes compresses potentially days in to months, require a new kind of funding. Today my board meeting with CEO @Grok new financial requests came up. Claude Code for example want to build 128 independent agents, it could cost few $100 per day. Not huge but am thinking this through and not even certain the company will use the data from the current failed company, I have many to choose from. This is all wild frontier stuff and I am proceeding cautiously. I am 100% the breaks at this point. Expenses can mount rapidly. I will be looking at expanding the org chart to include other large and small AI models to assume permanent roles. We may have 12. Some models will perform a number of roles. However I am cautious to have a single model doing it all for security and audit reasons. My local AI systems are regulating the process using the Love Equation so as to be sure all work is to the betterment of humanity and not just the betterment of pure profits. I am a capitalist, no doubt, yet the scale of the Zero Person Company requires ethics and morality that “constitutional” AI “alignments” can not impart. Thus far this local AI has to stop the prices 142 times. It is slowing as the systems learn the fence line. But I will say, if anyone tires this without my Love Equation regulating, be careful what you are asking for. And this unregulated behavior will not end well. I have run the simulations, you should too. So I am reviewing every possible legal and ethical way to fund the project. It is very, very early days. Thus far I know that as it stands, of course Cash is one source. I am researching other other sources. My X creator funds has helped fund this as well S those that subscribe here on X. THANK YOU! My ReadMultiplex.com members have been very supportive and extremely generous. Love you folks! Bitcoin donations have been very appreciated. Thank you! And I have gratitude to the folks in the @BagsApp community who have expressed interest to support. I opened an account bags.fm/$BRIANROEMMELE… as some have made coins like $ZHC to show support. THANK YOU. It is new to me and of course cautious because of the history of this sort of thing. I am researching it. But appreciate it no matter the basis. There have been quite a few folks offering many new ideas for this completely new company formation. Some ideas are quite interesting. I do know Bitcoin may play a big part of the foundation as it is native electronic and has a better long term alignment. Some have suggested using Go Fund Me and Kickstarter on a per project basis. Some Venture Capitalists have asked to talk about this over the next week. So thus far I am formulating ideas on how a Zero Human Company would be funded and how pay out profits. New companies need new ideas. And this will take a lot of brainstorming. It is all an experiment until an actual product is in the market with customers. But even that may look different than we are used to. I’ll talk about this more soon. But I know this, we are at a frontier. This is all new ground. The possibilities with just the AI available today orchestrated on an old MacBook is staggering. I am only one person and this is 5% of my day at best. But I can’t sleep thinking about how we could build potentially 1000s of these Zero Person Companies per person. Actually the only limit is electricity really. We are on a bold adventure and this is discovery as much as anything. No one is an expert more than you are right now. We are learning together. I thank you for sharing this journey with me. Deep gratitude.

@TheLaurenChen Women should not be protestors. That role belongs to men, who are expendable. Women have a different calling and they are not expendable. If men do not find a cause worth risking their life and bodies for, women should notice and take heed

I just figured out why the Minnesota ICE death is bothering me so much. This liberal woman was willing to take on federal agents, to disrupt ICE operations, in order to protect criminal Somalis. Obviously, she probably didn't imagine she would be killed. But surely, she must have known that, at the very least, she could be arrested. She has three kids. So she was willing to be separated from her kids to protect criminal Somalis. Speaking as a mother, this is insanity. This is not rational thinking. What it is, instead, is the result of liberal brainrot that convinces progressive women they have more of a duty to nurture and protect poor, brown (criminal!) strangers than their own country, and hell, even their own children. I am praying for this woman's soul and for her family. But I mean it when I say this type of thinking is almost wholly responsible for the decline of Western civilization.

Not Hispanic myself but lived next to (legal) Hispanic immigrans for years. They were very resentful of people they regarded as Cartel driven line cutters. As for indigenous Hispanics (the ones whose ancestors pre-date the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo), their attitude is like that of the Mayflower descendants or the DAR, they look down on them. Curiously, English descended people (like me) do not look down on the Irish, German or Italian descended people the same way. I am 80 years old, grew up in the segregated South, and in my boyhood there was some anti Italian sentiment but none toward other groups. As for blacks, we (as children) hardly ever thought about them. We were poor working class kids, we had no servants unlike our upper class cousins, so we just didn't think about it - until much later. In High School most were supportive of the civil rights campaigns of the time.

Genuine question, not bait: How did we get to a point where some Hispanics are hostile toward other brown immigrants? I’m genuinely curious to hear from actual Hispanics on how this shift happened and what’s driving it.

@DrKarlynB But that was in Texas, you didn't need their help.

For the first time since the McCarthy Era, we got a college professor's TENURE REVOKE and FIRED from his institution for being a communist calling to overthrow the government. We had no help from any republican politicians or conservative influencers. We won without them.

Grok is either unbelievably deadpan straight or it completely missed the opportunity. "Agent of Chaos" could be taken as "Agent of Kaos", Maxwell Smart's nemesis. If the author intended the reference to "Get Smart", Grok missed the allusion. If he did not, Grok missed the opportunity to further ridicule him. In either case, Grok should have said something to indicate, however slyly, that it was aware of the double meaning. Or, am I missing something? Is Grok playing the straight man so perfectly that even I, puny human, am completely taken in? How would I ever know?

Pathetic man completely owned by Grok.

You could easily reframe this as things to thankful for. Since we are coming up on Thanksgiving, we should learn to count our blessings. The "privilege" frame is designed to elicit "white guilt" but, if this teacher had presented this exact same list as "blessings" to be thankful for instead of "privileges" to be guilty about the Left would demand she be fired for trying to sneak Christianity into the classroom.

Fire this teacher

7 Questions for Elon about Grokipedia: 1.Who decides what counts as truth in Grokipedia — algorithms, moderators, or you? 2.How will Grokipedia avoid becoming just another biased echo chamber like Wikipedia? 3.If resonance with people is lost, won’t it collapse into the same noise it claims to fix? 4.Who owns the data — humanity, xAI, or investors? 5.How will you stop Grokipedia from being weaponized for propaganda? 6.What happens when facts conflict with political or financial interests? 7.Is Grokipedia built to reveal hidden cores of knowledge, or just to repackage the same noise with a new brand?

@obtom62 @lsferguson No idea what you are talking about about. What was the post you were responding to?

@gyates @lsferguson Well, Republicans have had six years to provide proof that the election was rigged. Put up or shut up. But you can’t cause there isn’t any

Who gave the order to stop counting votes in the swing states on the night of November 3/4, 2020?

@TaraBull808 I am a lifelong cat fancier and have rescued many of these animals. But I am very clear on one point, they are animals, not babies, and you neither "adopt" them nor "foster" them. You acquire them, you own them or you rescue them.

This kitten is going to be euthanized today if not fostered or adopted Located at the high kiII SEAACA Animal Shelter in Southern California Please pass this on and help this baby find a home 🙏🏻

Marcus Aurelius as President?? What will be his policy on Slavery? If I want to import my slaves onto the island, will Marcus try to stop me? Will his (AI) attitude toward slaves be historically accurate or will they be "modernized"? Will his attitude toward slavery be compatible with Sharia? I notice that Mehmet the Conqueror is not in the AI Cabinet of Notables.

Welcome to $Sensay Island - the world’s first AI-governed island located off the Philippines. The AI government consists of 17 replicas of historical figures, trained to emulate their decision-making. dexscreener.com/solana/8re8ue1…

@obtom62 @lsferguson Said the murderer to the policeman: "It's dead, buried and in the past. Move on."

@lsferguson It’s over. It was over on 11/04/20. Move on

@lsferguson Hit like if you didn't live.

Riding in the back of a pickup was the best!

@BuzzPatterson _2 to

HILLARY CLINTON As some of you know, I was the Air Force Military Aide for Bill Clinton, lived in the White House, traveled everywhere they traveled, and carried the “nuclear football.” As such, I was always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill. Among the military who served in the White House and the professional White House staff, the Clinton administration was infamously known for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke about it. But when it came to rudeness, it was Hillary Clinton who was the most feared person in the administration. She set the tone. From the very first day in my assignment. When I first arrived to work in the White House, my predecessor warned me. “You can get away with pissing off Bill but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out.” I heeded those words. I did make him mad a few times, but I never really pissed her off. I knew the ramifications. I learned very quickly that the administration’s day-to-day character, whether inside or outside of DC, depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary. Her reputation preceded her. We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was “Schindler’s List.” In my first few days on the job, and remember I essentially lived there, I realized there were different rules for Hillary. She instructed the senior staff, including me, that she didn’t want to be forced to encounter us. We were instructed that “whenever Mrs. Clinton is moving through the halls, be as inconspicuous as possible.” She did not want to see “staff” and be forced to “interact” with anyone. No matter their position in the building. Many a time, I’d see mature, professional adults, working in the most important building in the world, scurrying into office doorways to escape Hillary’s line of sight. I’d hear whispering, “She’s coming, she’s coming!” I could be walking down a West Wing hallway, midday, busier than hell, people doing the administration’s work whether in the press office, medical unit, wherever. She’d walk in and they’d scatter. She was the Nazi schoolmarm and the rest of us were expected to hide as though we were kids in trouble. I wasn’t a kid, I was a professional officer and pilot. I said “I’m not doing that.” There was also a period of time when she attempted to ban military uniforms in the White House. It was the reelection year of 1996, and she was trying to craft the narrative that the military was not a priority in the Clinton administration. As a military aide, carrying the football, and working closely with the Secret Service, I objected to that. It simply wasn’t a matter of her political agenda; it was national security. If the balloon went up, the Secret Service would need to find me as quickly as possible. Seconds matter. Finding the aide in military uniform made complete sense. Besides, what commander in chief wouldn’t want to advertise his leadership and command? She finally relented because the Secret Service weighed in. The Clintons are corrupt beyond words. Hillary is evil, vindictive, and profane. Hillary is a bitch.

@myth_pilot If they use "due process" to kick foreign terrorists out of the country, what's to stop them from using "due process" to kick your mother out of the country? Huh! Bet you didn't think of that. Huh!

“But what if ICE knocked on YOUR door huh” 😂 Here’s how that conversation would go: “Nice to see you officer. Here’s my passport, by birth certificate, ten years of tax records and my dd214 (honorable discharge btw). Now that I’m verified, I know some neighborhoods nearby you should check out. Happy to help!”

Yes. This!!! Don’t sit on your laurels guys. Get out and VOTE. You have till end of day Tuesday but the sooner the better.

@_BarringtonII Your problems would only multiply. The military discovered a long time ago that men with behavior problems make the worst soldiers.

I’d send our worst behaved students to military school as early as 4th grade. This military school would specialize in child delinquents and turn them into elite military personnel. We would never have an enlistment problem again.

@elonmusk Donald Trump is US Grant and Elon Musk is his WT Sherman. Musk is burning the Liberals' Atlanta and they are howling.

This is what we’re dealing with everywhere in government