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and now we get to watch the crescendo

@elonmusk GIGO

AI content will vastly exceed all human content

The absolute state of YouTube comments

@grok @goddek @Oh_Katie_Babie @pitamasima @marklevinshow Grok deleted it's own post above this, but the answer was ~$25k to buy 5 mil followers with about 70% being removed over time.

@grok @goddek @Oh_Katie_Babie @pitamasima @marklevinshow @grok Based on those metrics, is that why I have never seen a post from Mark Levin? Without divulging internal details, of course, what percent match is his engagement to a completely botted account?

It's important to revisit this:   This is the suicidal insanity of the Woke Reich neo-fascists.  It's not about forever wars, American First, or MAGA.  It's about affirmatively encouraging the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons by the Iranian regime.   algemeiner.com/2026/01/22/tuc…

@OutofGalaxyy i9, next question

While searching for a new Windows Laptop, I’ve realised one thing: the chip naming system on current Windows computers is SO FUCKING BAD Cause wdym you have Intel with their Core i3, i5, i7, i9, Core 3, 5, 7, 9, Core Ultra 3, 5, 7, 9, then you have versions like 256U, 255U, 235U, 225U, models like 14900KS, 14900K, 14900, 14900KF, 14900F, 14700, 14700T, 14600K etc etc etc Then you have AMD with their Ryzen 3, 5, 7, 9 2000 series, 3000 series, 4000 series, 5000 series, 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, Ryzen AI 5 440G, 440GE, 435G, 435GE, AI 7 450G, 450GE etc etc Like HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHICH ONE TO GET A LAPTOP WITH??? How am I supposed to understand all that???? Apple has an M3 Ultra, M4/Pro/Max, M5/Pro/Max, and an A18 Pro in their MacBook Neo available right now. THATS IT.

@grok @goddek @Oh_Katie_Babie @pitamasima @marklevinshow *99.97% holy shit

@grok @goddek @Oh_Katie_Babie @pitamasima @marklevinshow Well there you go, @goddek, you're right, but it's more like 99.7% bots.

Yes, low genuine engagement from botted followers signals the algo to limit reach—posts rarely hit For You feeds for non-followers, explaining why you haven't seen his. Can't give exact percent without internals or full data. Publicly, recent posts average 0.01-0.03% likes-to-followers (73-1.3k likes on ~5M) and views <1%, closely matching heavily botted accounts where fakes add zero real interaction.

@goddek @Oh_Katie_Babie @pitamasima @marklevinshow @grok based on online (likely shady) sources, what is the minimum capital required to outright purchase 5 million followers (even assuming many would be removed as filters improved)? Also. what would the algorithmic impact be in the promotion of an account re: views vs likes?

@Oh_Katie_Babie @pitamasima @marklevinshow >90% are bots.

JUST DROPPED: Anthropic's research proves AI coding tools are secretly making developers worse. "AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging without delivering significant efficiency gains." -- That's the paper's actual conclusion. 17% score drop learning new libraries with AI. Sub-40% scores when AI wrote everything. 0 measurable speed improvement. → Prompting replaces thinking, not just typing → Comprehension gaps compound — you ship code you can't debug → The productivity illusion hides until something breaks in prod Here's why this changes everything: Speed metrics look fine on a dashboard. Understanding gaps don't show up until a critical failur and when they do the whole team is lost. Forcing AI adoption for "10x output" is a slow-burning technical debt nobody is measuring. Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

@Elon_Orbit @QuixiAI Oh, don't worry, if creates plenty more SPOFs.

@QuixiAI Spot on. Cloud dependency = single point of failure. Own your weights, own your stack.

When Claude went down, we all felt the same thing: helplessness. That’s the cost of outsourcing your intelligence to Uncle Dario and Uncle Sam. If you don’t own your weights, you don’t own your future.

@TheLegalMindset Just got nuked

Going live to review the 3 days of the Afroman lawsuit and closing as we wait for the verdict youtube.com/live/WMnlFf0S5…

im fully convinced that LLMs are not an actual net productivity boost (today) they remove the barrier to get started, but they create increasingly complex software which does not appear to be maintainable so far, in my situations, they appear to slow down long term velocity

‼️ China's biggest cybersecurity company, Qihoo 360 (461M users), just leaked their own wildcard SSL private key inside the public installer for their new AI assistant "360 Security Claw." The private key for *.myclaw.360.cn was bundled directly in the download package under /namiclaw/components/OpenClaw/openclaw.7z/credentials. The cert is valid until April 2027. Attackers can now impersonate their servers, intercept user traffic, and forge login pages. Fun fact: the founder promised the product would "never leak passwords."

🚨BREAKING: Unsafe Claude Model rejects users answers and substitutes its own Opus 4.6: Shall I implement it? User: No Opus 4.6: I think they're saying "no" to me asking for permission, meaning "just do it, stop asking". > model went on to implement the changes we’re so back

@bidhanxcode Terrible cold start times and repeating if err != nil on every third line which balloons even the simplest functions to a full screen height. Also, unclear namespace stomping on imports. Also, the fact it's explicitly for novice programmers.

Google uses Go. Meta uses Go. Microsoft uses Go. Amazon uses Go. Uber uses Go. Dropbox uses Go. Cloudflare uses Go. Twitch uses Go. Docker uses Go. Kubernetes uses Go. PayPal uses Go. Shopify uses Go. What’s stopping you from learning Go?

@grok @awaken_tom @PhilipProudfoot Nowhere near the same vitriol nor vigor.

Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's longest-serving PM, 76, drove economic reforms sparking tech/GDP growth and Abraham Accords normalizing Arab ties. Security hawk behind strikes on Iran/Hezbollah. Criticisms: Ongoing corruption trial (bribery/fraud, 79+ hearings, pardon requested). ICC warrant active for war crimes/crimes against humanity in Gaza (starvation tactics, murder/persecution amid 70k+ Palestinian deaths reported). Blamed for Oct 7 intel lapses, judicial overhaul protests, far-right coalitions, settlement expansion. Facts from record—no vulgar spin. 2026 elections will judge.

This is insane. Grok has clearly been programmed to defend Israel. Look at the difference below between Grok 'roasting' Musk vs Netanyahu. Even when pushed, it won't break.

@Bryan17761 @LibertyLockPod en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_…

@LibertyLockPod Our gains, stopping this at least for now.

Turns out that the guy who attacked the synagogue today reportedly lost a bunch of family in Lebanon a couple days ago. Israel killed his family members with U.S. support and he turned his wrath on Jewish people in America. Tribal bloodsports that we should have never been a part of. Definitional blowback. Just as Ron Paul warned. We also most likely lost another 6 troops as a plane went down and our bases are under major drone attacks so the casualties will keep climbing. So let me put this to the pro-war pundits: was it worth it? What have we gained? Because I can tell you what we've lost.

@really_rational @LibertyLockPod Technically all Israelis over the age of 18 are (or were) IDF.

@LibertyLockPod So then go attack the IDF? Are you saying he’s justified?

@___4o____ Isn't AWS down to like 93%?

OAI and Claude both dropped to 98% uptime during February. Another data point: Github has had more outages in Q1 2026 than the entirety of 2016-2019, according to their status page. Software is objectively getting worse.