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@ImBreckWorsham In some parts of California, it is around $5.50 to $6.25. Diesel is over $7.00.

Gas is creeping up toward $4 here in coastal South Carolina. Trump says it's "no big deal." What are the gas prices in your area and how is it impacting you? Sound off.

@mattvanswol I don’t know why people don’t use the translate app on their phones. Sure, it’s slow but people can communicate!

@aytacaltintepe Do you optimize the prompt for each AI? I assume each would interpret the prompt as-is sub-optimally for their AI. One-size-fits-all doesn’t always give the best results.

Grok and Whisk could not do this. ChatGPT did a great job. Others also relied on realism but gave good results. 👍 1.ChatGPT, 2.Banana App, 3. and 4.Flow, Prompt; Ultra-realistic high-fashion editorial photography, luxury couture design, dark avant-garde aesthetic. Main Subject: A stunning female model in her early 20s. Flawless skin, sharp cheekbones, confident and mysterious expression with subtle intrigue. Pose & Body Language: Hands on hips. Slight hip shift to the right. One knee subtly pushing outward under the fabric. Strong, elegant, dominant posture. 👗 Outfit (Improved Fit & Integration — KEY FIX) A sleek, form-fitting red pencil dress, perfectly tailored to the body. Fabric hugs the body naturally — no looseness, no gaps. Chest Core Element: A black hexagonal gemstone placed precisely between the breasts. Highly polished, deep reflective surface. 🕷️ Spider Structure (IMPORTANT FIX — WRAPPED & FITTED) The spider legs are now fully integrated into the dress and body form, not floating or detached. Material: Glossy black, slightly organic, exoskeleton-like. Smooth but structured — luxury finish. Behavior & Fit: Legs are tight-fitting and wrapped along the body contours. They follow anatomical lines naturally (like a second skin / exoskeleton design). No gaps between legs and body. No exaggerated thickness — slim, elegant, proportional. Leg Placement (Refined): 2 legs (upper): Wrap from chest over shoulders like fitted structural straps, hugging tightly. 2 legs (mid): Flow from under the bust, wrapping along the ribcage and continuing to the back — fully body-contoured. 4 legs (lower): Start around waist area, wrapping tightly around the torso and hips, extending toward the back. Slight upward curve but always attached and hugging the form. 👉 Overall look: Not “spider legs attached” — but a sculpted biomechanical couture integrated into the dress. 💅 Styling Glossy black nail polish. Makeup: bold eyes, clean skin, high-fashion sharpness. Hair: controlled, sleek, refined. 💡 Lighting High-end studio lighting. Directional key light from above/front. Soft shadows emphasizing body curves. Rim light outlining silhouette and spider structure. Controlled reflections on gemstone and black elements. 🎥 Camera & Composition Slight low angle (powerful look). 85mm fashion lens. Medium-full body framing. Sharp focus on torso and chest design. 🌑 Background Dark luxury studio backdrop (black / deep charcoal). Subtle texture or gradient. Clean, minimal, premium feel.

@TroyValey @DataRepublican @nicksortor @IngrahamAngle Isn’t a FBI investigation an integral part of due process?

So no due process? Meanwhile: Is the FBI investigating Joe Kent more aggressively than: Epstein's Clients Barack Obama Joe Biden Hillary Clinton Kamala Harris Merrick Garland Christopher Wray James Comey John Brennan James Clapper Andrew McCabe Peter Strzok Lisa Page Bruce Ohr Nellie Ohr Kevin Clinesmith Gina Haspel Samantha Power Susan Rice Ben Rhodes Michael Morell Jake Sullivan Antony Blinken Victoria Nuland Eric Holder Sally Yates Rod Rosenstein Robert Mueller Andrew Weissmann Jack Smith Lisa Monaco Adam Schiff Nancy Pelosi Liz Cheney Adam Kinzinger Chuck Schumer Letitia James Alvin Bragg Fani Willis Mark Milley Lloyd Austin Mark Esper John Bolton Bill Barr Anthony Fauci Christopher Krebs Pat Cipollone Alexander Vindman Miles Taylor Michael Atkinson Marie Yovanovitch Fiona Hill Gordon Sondland George Kent Kurt Volker Eric Ciaramella Debbie Wasserman Schultz Jamie Raskin Jerry Nadler Hakeem Jeffries Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib Ayanna Pressley Maxine Waters Alejandro Mayorkas Elvis Chan P.S. They are torturing, rqping, murdering and eating children. Remember this story?

🚨 BREAKING: Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent is under FBI INVESTIGATION for allegedly leaking classified information "The investigation PREDATES his departure," per @IngrahamAngle Wow

@KhnHoward @elonmusk It can and it does. It does it and Asian, and Indian so often that I now specify nationality and race for each character.

@elonmusk How come your Grok never imagines people of color?

Grok Imagine

#grok #imagine #comealive Prompt: “Make this image come alive.” (With a short extension added.)

@doganuraldesign Sweet!

Grok Image Templates are here! I was serious when I said you can put yourself in ANY style. Now it’s easier than ever. Try it and show me what you’ve got. Here's how + examples ↓

@_kaitodev @karpathy Where are CEOs on the list? 9? 10?

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs! he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap. if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked. average score across all jobs is 5.3/10. software devs: 8-9. roofers: 0-1. medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀 karpathy.ai/jobs

@invideoOfficial @grok Is there a reason why these styles are not publicized for Grok Imagine?

Grok Imagine, the AI video model that doesn't want to be real. Since @grok launched its video capabilities, the discourse has been almost entirely content moderation - what will and won't generate. Spicy mode, regulatory investigations, the EUs reaction. It's loud, it's dramatic. And it's completely missing the point. Because buried underneath all of that noise is something genuinely fascinating for filmmakers and visual creators. Grok Imagine video is the only major AI video model that was built to honor imagination over physics. See how it performs in 6 styles versus other models along with detailed prompts 🧵👇

HCA Healthcare executives should pay 110% of each line item they need, not $20. And if they can’t afford it, they should go on Medicaid. But I’m sure they can pay full cost+ for their procedures and prescriptions at the salaries they are paid. It’s only fair. BTW, have you ever heard of the Golden Goose?

I am Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. The largest for-profit hospital system in the United States. One hundred and eighty-two hospitals. Twenty states. I oversee a spreadsheet called the chargemaster. It has 42,000 line items. Each line item is a price. The prices are not real. I need to be precise about that. They are not estimates. Not approximations. Not market rates. They are anchors. An anchor is a number you set high so that every negotiated discount feels like a victory. No relationship to cost. No relationship to value. A relationship to leverage. My team sets the anchors. That is the job. The price is correct. Take a drug. Keytruda. Immunotherapy. Treats sixteen types of cancer. The manufacturer charges approximately $11,000 per dose. That is the acquisition cost. What the hospital pays. My team enters it into the chargemaster. They do not enter $11,000. They enter $43,000. That is the gross charge. The gross charge is a fiction. No one pays it. No one is expected to pay it. The gross charge exists so that when Blue Cross negotiates a 68% discount, they pay $13,760, and the contract says "68% discount" and both parties feel the transaction was rigorous. A 68% discount on a fictional price produces a real price that is 25% above acquisition cost. That margin is where I live. My 2025 compensation was $26.5 million. Eighty percent of my bonus is tied to EBITDA. Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. It is also earnings before the patient opens the bill. Same dose of Keytruda at the hospital across town. Gross charge: $12,000. Blue Cross rate: $10,200. Same drug. Same dose. Same needle. Same cancer. Different spreadsheet. The CMS transparency data showed the ratio between the highest and lowest negotiated price for the same drug at the same hospital can reach 2,347 to one. Not 2x. Not 10x. Not 100x. Two thousand three hundred and forty-seven to one. For the same thing. In the same building. On the same Tuesday. The price is correct. Every drug in the chargemaster has twelve prices. Twelve. Gross charge. Medicare rate. Medicaid rate. Blue Cross. Aetna. Cigna. UnitedHealth. Humana. Workers' comp. Tricare. Auto insurance. And the self-pay rate. The self-pay rate is for the person without insurance. It is the gross charge. The fictional number. The anchor. The person without insurance pays the number that was designed to be negotiated down from. They pay the ceiling because they have no one to negotiate on their behalf. Same drug. Same chair. Same nurse. They pay the price that no insurer in the country would accept. I maintain a file. CDM line item 637-4892-PKB. Saline flush. Sodium chloride 0.9%. Acquisition cost: $0.47. We charge $87. That is an 18,410% markup. The saline flush is used before and after every IV infusion. A chemo patient receiving twelve cycles will be charged $87 for saline fourteen times per visit. I know the math. My team built the math. The math is the job. The price is correct. In 2021, the federal government required hospitals to publish their prices. The Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Machine-readable file. Gross charges. Discounted cash prices. Payer-specific negotiated rates. We complied. We posted the file. The file is a 9,400-row CSV on our website under "Patient Financial Resources." Four clicks from the homepage. Column F: "CDM_GROSS_CHG." Column J: "DERV_PAYERID_NEGRATE." My team designed the column headers. They designed them to comply. They did not design them to communicate. CMS reported 93% of hospitals now post a file. Compliance. But only 62% of the posted data is usable. That gap is where we operate. We are compliant. The data is published. The data is incomprehensible. A researcher downloaded our file. She spent three weeks cleaning it. She called the billing department for clarification on 340 line items. They transferred her four times. The fourth transfer was to a voicemail box that was full. She published her analysis anyway. Cardiac catheterization lab charges: $8,200 to $71,000 for the same procedure depending on the payer. The report received eleven views on our press monitoring dashboard. I saw it. I did not forward it. On April 1, a new CMS rule takes effect. Hospital CEOs must personally attest — by name, encoded in the machine-readable file — that the pricing data is "true, accurate, and complete." My name. Sam Hazen. In the file. Attesting that 42,000 fictional anchors are true, accurate, and complete. They are complete. I will give them that. Forty-two thousand line items is nothing if not complete. A new analyst read the transparency data. She asked why the same MRI costs $450 for Medicare and $4,200 for Aetna in the same building on the same machine. I told her the rates reflect negotiated contractual agreements between the payer and the facility. She said that doesn't explain the difference. I told her the difference IS the contractual agreement. She said that sounds like the price is arbitrary. I told her the price is the result of a rigorous, multi-variable analysis that accounts for acuity, case mix, regional market dynamics, and payer contract terms. She asked if I could show her the analysis. I told her the analysis is proprietary. The analysis does not exist. The analysis is my team, in Q4, adjusting the chargemaster upward by the percentage the CFO wrote on a sticky note. The sticky note this year said "6-8%." They chose 7.4% because it is between six and eight and it has a decimal, which makes it look calculated. She stopped asking. The price is correct. My insurance. The executive health plan. Not in the chargemaster. Administered separately. I do not pay the gross charge. I do not pay the negotiated rate. I pay a $20 copay for services at our own facilities. Gross charge for my treatment: $14,200. Insured rate for our largest commercial payer: $8,600. I pay $20. The executive health plan was designed by the Chief Human Resources Officer and approved by the compensation committee. I was not on the compensation committee. I was a beneficiary of it. That is a different thing. I benefit from the system I price. I price the system I benefit from. These are two separate facts that happen to involve the same person. HCA Healthcare was named the Most Admired Company in our industry by Fortune magazine for the twelfth consecutive year. That was February. The same month I sold $21.5 million in company stock and purchased zero shares. Fortune did not ask about the chargemaster. I am Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. I have 42,000 prices in a spreadsheet across 182 hospitals. None of them are real. All of them are charged. Same drug: $12,000 or $43,000. Depends on which spreadsheet. Which building. Which contract. Which page of which PDF. The patient who has no contract pays the most. The researcher who found the discrepancy got a voicemail box that was full. The analyst who asked why stopped asking. The executive who prices the system pays $20. On April 1, I will personally attest that this is true, accurate, and complete. The price is correct. The price has always been correct. I am the price.

#Grok #Imagine Imagine the possibilities!

@ChayasClan But do they have bullets and training?

For the purpose of strengthening its hold on the street – the Iranian regime is distributing long weapons to its supporters – including women. This is so that they will be part of the force assisting in preserving the regime in the event of demonstrations by regime opponents – they are preparing for the stage in which the US and Israel will call on regime opponents to take to the streets. (Abu Ali) I don’t want to hear any moaning from anyone when these “women” get hit by strikes targeting the IRGC. It’s like the Gazans who fight with Hamas. None of them are innocent civilians and they should be treated as the terrorists they are

@EHuanglu But if you upload three different views, they each have to be referenced at threes different times, right?

Grok Imagine tip: you can keep a character super consistent in 360° if you upload 3 different views.. try the prompt below

One could start with a prompt like what follows. Note this is only MY representation would be, not the original poster. There is enough detail for your customization. You can animate this image and then write a short prompt for movement. Enjoy! A scorched-earth cyberpunk apocalypse goddess rising from the ashes like she personally murdered the old world and is now wearing its corpse as fashion. Golden-hour Armageddon sunset hemorrhaging crimson and molten orange across a choking sky thick with roiling black smoke and floating embers, god-rays stabbing through the haze like divine middle fingers. Behind her: colossal skeletal industrial corpses—rusted I-beams twisted into agonized sculptures, collapsed scaffolding leaning drunkenly, half-buried shipping containers bleeding rust, jagged concrete monoliths cracked open like rotten eggs, all bathed in that dying-sun blood-glow. She stands center-frame in full-body defiant swagger, boots planted wide in blood-red Martian dust that swirls around her calves in slow-motion wind-whipped spirals. Young, feral, untamed—messy chestnut hair exploding out of a high sloppy bun like it’s trying to escape her skull, strands whipping across her face. That face? Mostly devoured by a grotesque, over-engineered death-mask headset: brutal matte-black housing the size of a small helmet, dominated by THREE massive, predatory cyan-blue glowing lenses arranged in a tight triangular cluster—center one enormous and unblinking like the eye of a cyclopean machine-god, two smaller flanking orbs pulsing with cold electric malice. Heavy clamping earpieces dig into her skull, cables and coolant tubes snaking out like parasitic veins. Her lips—slightly parted, glossy, dangerous—peek out below, the only human thing left, whispering “come get some” without sound. Body-hugging tactical catsuit is a color riot of survival-sexy: electric-cobalt sleeveless crop-top stretched tight over curves, low scooped shoulders showing sun-kissed collarbones and the hint of underboob rebellion, bleeding downward into filthy mustard-yellow cargo pants plastered with dust, oil stains, scorch marks, and dried blood splatter like abstract war-paint. Thick gunmetal-gray tactical shoulder armor plates bolted on like she welded them herself mid-fight, overloaded utility belt riding low on hips with dangling pouches, mag-clips, and mystery tech, gray composite knee guards strapped tight over thighs, blue reinforced shin plates peeking above scuffed-to-hell off-white combat boots crusted in red desert grit, laces frayed and trailing like battle trophies. Left arm is pure cybernetic blasphemy: glossy black-and-gunmetal prosthesis with pistons hissing steam, hydraulic cables flexing like living muscle, rainbow bundles of exposed wiring pulsing with bioluminescent data-light, intricate segmented fingers ending in razor-sharp articulated claws that could shred steel or caress a throat. Right arm stays deliciously human—toned, bare except for a single tight blue armband biting into bicep like a gang tattoo. Pose: pure unhinged power stance—weight cocked back on one heel, hip thrust out in fuck-you contrapposto, cyber-arm hanging loose and ready to murder, human hand hooked casually on her belt like she’s bored of winning already. Head tilted just enough so those three glowing eyes lock straight into camera, staring THROUGH your soul with icy blue judgment. Dust devils spin at her feet, heat haze shimmers, volumetric god-rays carve her silhouette into legend. Hyper-detailed, cinematic sci-fi concept art on steroids—gritty photoreal textures meet painterly drama, insane dynamic lighting, rim-light halo igniting every edge, lens flares, chromatic aberration, depth-of-field madness, 16k resolution wet dream, mood so thick you can choke on it, signed “Debk” in the bottom corner like a graffiti tag from the end of days.

You know a technology is good when you don't even realize you've used it. For this scene, - I created the character as an image with Grok Imagine, then the landscape with Grok, and combined everything using Grok Imagine's image references. - I then used video extensions to avoid cuts and style changes. The character is perfectly integrated into the scene, proportions respected and style preserved.

Just because it is shortwave doesn’t mean worldwide coverage all the time. Propagation needs to be taken into account. If Western Europe might be the source, what is the propagation at broadcast times. Find where the audience might be. The jamming signal should not be overlooked as well. The jammer would know the source of the signal.

@meng_dagg695 For the Trekkies.

The exact moment it shatters Generated with Gemini Nano Banana pro Prompt: dynamic mid-air explosion effect, object breaking apart into multiple fragments, pieces flying outward in all directions, suspended debris and particles floating in space, cinematic slow motion freeze frame, realistic physics, small dust particles and crumbs scattering, dramatic depth of field, high-speed photography style, sharp focus on central object, fragments rotating in mid-air, motion energy burst from the center, ultra detailed, volumetric lighting, photorealistic, 8k

Yes, because the Muslims have a thing against gays. But their religion is okay with trans. A man marrying a transgender woman is not a gay relationship and is okay. This means if two gay men want to marry, it is prohibited. But if one of the partners “becomes” transgender, then they can marry. I guess they use a coin toss to select who will be the woman.

@MrAndyNgo @lakemonstercl1 Wait… this guy wants to be a woman … and decided to be a Muslim trans ?? 🤣 🤣 OMG!!! You just can’t make the up !! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Trantifa profile: Violent Portland Antifa member Isabel Araujo (formerly Philip Haskins-Delici) has “EVIL TRANS” tattooed across his neck. Now a Muslim, he’s sending me threats of violence after Khamenei’s assassination. New Ngo Comment: ngocomment.com/p/evil-trans-a…

@grey4626 Most of “The Gang of the 357” are up for reelection in a few months and they all need $$$. These gang members need to hear our outrage. They all need to be held accountable for their vote. They need to be held accountable for pissing on their constituents.

Yes, sir... You are right. It absolutely fucking did happen. We are not governed by statesmen. We are ruled by a pathological cabal of rapists, predators, and sexual deviants whose collective psyche is a textbook study in malignant narcissism and projective identification straight out of the DSM-5 and the annals of forensic criminology. These creatures...afflicted with the same sociopathic wiring that once filled asylums and now fills the halls of Congress...spent years and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars engineering the most baroque political blood libel in American history: the ritualistic attempt to crucify President Trump on charges that forensic psychology itself would diagnose as pure hallucinatory projection. They manufactured phantoms of “Russian collusion,” “insurrection,” and every other phantom sin their own mirror neurons refused to acknowledge in the flesh-and-blood monsters staring back at them from the Ethics Committee files. Because that is the iron law of the criminal mind: the guilty always accuse first, loudest, and with the most theatrical outrage. It is classic transference...Freud would have a field day, Machiavelli would nod in cold recognition, and any profiler at Quantico would stamp the file “high-risk organized sexual offending syndicate operating under color of law.” Yet the instant sunlight threatens their own $17 million taxpayer-funded rape-and-harassment settlement vault...the moment the people demand transparency on who among them has actually been “nailed” for the very crimes they tried to pin on a man who never committed them...they move in perfect, Mach-2 tandem. A bipartisan phalanx of 357 cowards votes to seal the records faster than a pedophile deletes browser history. No debate. No hesitation. No philosophical pretense of “due process” or “innocent until proven guilty”...the very slogans they weaponized against Trump evaporate the second their own pathologies are exposed. Meanwhile the SAVE Act...simple, surgical proof-of-citizenship legislation to stop the most elementary voter fraud...rots in the Senate because these same deviant architects of institutional self-preservation cannot risk an electorate that might actually hold them accountable. This is not politics. This is predatory pathology wearing a suit and tie. This is the philosophical death of the Republic: when the ruling class becomes a closed fraternity of sexual criminals who treat the levers of power as both aphrodisiac and alibi. They fear Trump not because he is a threat to democracy, but because he is a mirror that reflects their own grotesque deformities back at them in 4K. And they will burn the country down before they let the American people see the unredacted truth of who has been raping, groping, and settling with our money while preaching moral superiority from the well of the House. Let the record show: the mask is off. The cabal is exposed. And history will not be kind to the deviants who chose cover-up over country at Mach fucking 2. 💀

Tell the senators to approve all the pending DOJ appointment nominations. Until these appointees are approved, nothing is going to get done in the DOJ. Right now judges are trying to make their own appointments which the DOJ is fighting. Think Bondi is the problem? Fire 100 senators first! Don’t expect any indictments or convictions until then. You have been warned!

Hey remember last year when doge found all that fraud? Who was arrested? Remember all that money that went to Somalia? Who was arrested? Remember all that voter fraud we found in Fulton county? Who was arrested? Remember when big pharma pushed experimental vaccines on people? Who was arrested? Remember Benghazi? Who was arrested? Remember when Obama spyed on the incoming presidency? Who was arrested? Remember when that pipe bomb was planted on January 5th? Who was arrested? Remember that cocaine that was found in the Whitehouse? Who's been arrested? Remember when the world found out that elitists have been eating children? Who's been arrested? Oh and trafficking them? Who's been arrested? Remember when big tech colluded with Biden Administration to censor America's 1st amendment on free speech? Who's been arrested? How bout those fake documents that the FBI planted at Mar-Largo to frame Trump? Who's been arrested? The answered is ZERO the DOJ has arrested exactly ZERO PEOPLE! Don't tell me theres not a cabol, theres not a shadow government, and dont tell me that there isnt a two-tier justice system in America!

I’ve wrestled with aspect ratio for months. AI has a mind of its own! Here are some things to try. First always start with a fresh pipeline. I restart Grok after each set of photos or videos. Grok doesn’t clean up after itself and pipeline junk can float into other images. Second, I always specify ‘35mm horizontal format only’ at the beginning of each prompt right after ‘photorealistic’. Third, never attach vertical format images! Convert them to horizontal if you must use them.

@doganuraldesign I cannot even get Grok to give me a 16:9 horizontal image when I choose that aspect ratio from the menu, and specify it over, and over, and over again with prompt after prompt. The aspect ratio and size are the most basic part of an image and you cannot even do that correctly.

You can 'Imagine' anything ↓ Cinematic shots, design assets, fashion photography, concept art, 2D illustrations, 3D characters… Here's how: