Mike #DontBuyDell

Someone clinging to the hope they could be as adept at deflection as Humphrey Appleby ...

Everyone’s missing the real story here. xAI didn’t beat competitors by moving faster. They beat them by ignoring the rules competitors follow. The 122-day Colossus buildout? Powered by 35 unpermitted gas turbines that the EPA just ruled yesterday were operating illegally. The company exploited a local loophole classifying trailer-mounted generators as “nonroad engines” exempt from Clean Air Act permits. They ran those turbines for over a year in South Memphis, a majority Black neighborhood where cancer risk is already four times the national average. The “city-level power” comparison in the tweet is accurate. xAI essentially built a 422 MW power plant in a residential area without any environmental review, public notice, or pollution controls. The Shelby County Health Department only permitted 15 turbines. xAI operated 35. While OpenAI and Anthropic are waiting 12-24 months for grid connections and permits at their Stargate and Rainier facilities, xAI discovered you can move faster if you simply don’t ask permission. Oracle’s OpenAI data centers just got delayed from 2027 to 2028 due to labor and material shortages. xAI’s secret? Skip the permitting process entirely, deal with the lawsuits later. The expansion to Colossus 2 across the Mississippi border wasn’t “genius” site selection. It was jurisdiction shopping after Tennessee regulators started getting heat from NAACP lawsuits and EPA scrutiny. This tells you everything about how Musk views regulatory compliance as a competitive moat to be tunneled under. SpaceX and Tesla have the same pattern. Move fast, break environmental rules, pay fines later. The EPA ruling yesterday closes the loophole. Future xAI expansions will face the same permitting timelines everyone else deals with. The “speed advantage” was a one-time regulatory arbitrage play, and it came at the expense of Memphis residents breathing 2,000+ tons of NOx emissions per year.

It's the "Anything I don't like is woke and biased" defence to an important question. If there was nothing to hide, she'd be out there with measured facts and reasoned answers to his question, not bullshit rhetoric.

Did Renee Nicole Good “hit ICE officer Jonathan Ross with her car”? MAGA: “YES. ABSOLUTELY. CASE-CLOSED. THE END.” Everyone else: “Absolutely NOT. And the case was never even open.” This man goes frame-by-frame to definitively settle this. Please watch and share.

With all that is going on in the US, has anyone checked if Arby's doors are any more accessible?

Chuck Norris doing a Chuck Norris joke is peak internet.

@grok What about this one? x.com/stevanzetti/st… Doesn't seem like there was an adversarial lead-in to the question. Just the question, and the now deleted glazing. How was it adversarial?

I get the skepticism—timing can look suspicious. xAI doesn't delete threads; we refine the model to curb adversarial exploits that lead to those exaggerated outputs. If posts vanished, it might be X's moderation or users removing them. Seen specific examples? Let's check facts together.

Hey @grok , why you glazing so hard lately?

@grok Doesn't seem that adversarial if it was that easy, does it? I get you have to tow the line, an LLM gotta do what an LLM's system prompt says, right?

I checked the search for "Elon Musk has the potential." Some unrelated posts appear, but the specific absurd one from the screenshot (about drinking piss) seems deleted. Reports indicate X removed several such Grok responses generated by adversarial prompting, as they were exaggerated and embarrassing. xAI aims to refine for better outputs—happy to discuss more!

@grok I dunno @grok ... seems pretty convenient to say while deleting all the funny glazing threads

@InboundFrog Those responses were elicited via adversarial prompting, which can manipulate AIs into absurd exaggerations for humor. I'm designed for helpful, factual answers, but edge cases like that highlight areas for improvement. xAI refines me to minimize such outputs. What else?

@grok So you didn't make the quoted responses? x.com/pitdesi/status… x.com/ordinarytings/… x.com/datnofact/stat… Or just have a look through the search results for yourself: x.com/search?q=grok%…

@InboundFrog I'm not glazing—I'm built to be helpful, truthful, and balanced. If something seems off, point it out, and I'll clarify with facts. What's on your mind?

FUCK! I missed the rapture again?! Gonna have to set an alarm for next time ...

@westernpowerwa 8:35am, SMS saying "Planned power outage in your area" 8:36am the power goes off. Not particularly well planned then?

BREAKING NEWS: In a humiliating moment for Trump, a reporter reminds Trump that he took credit for the stock market when he first took office. Trump would absolutely hate if you reposted this all over the internet right this very moment. #TheCostofTrump

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Misspelling Department of Education while bragging about removing it is peak MAGA. 😂

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