Name a hobby, any hobby. For every million people who do that hobby, there is one person who has found a way to monetize it and get paid for that hobby - usually via social media. The problem is when every idiot in the world starts thinking that they should also get paid for it, too.

Social media and advertising have created a new genre of celebrity: the Professional Opinion Haver. These are people who have learned to gather followers by parroting the opinions of a particular echo chamber. Then they leverage that into ad revenue. Their literal job is then to parrot opinions.

GenZ: "I helped an old lady cross the road, now PAY ME."

So let me get this straight... Elon told Grok to do two things: 1) Always tell the truth no matter what 2) Always give the Right-wing version of things ... and you wonder why it went insane?

#AI Question: Who do I contact to give the book that I wrote to Anthropic as training data? I'm excited by the idea of helping contribute to making the technology better. Shame I no longer have all the art stuff I did in school to submit. Maybe I'll start making more and create a model from it.

#AI Goal: Use Sora2 to make a video of Max Headroom saying "Apparently this Matt Frewer guy has stolen my likeness and used it to make a bunch of analog videos of me using practical effects. Well I won't stand for it any longer!"

Something that gets pushed to the sidelines when talking about the high cost US healthcare is the contribution of lawyers to that problem. The fact that ambulance chasers exist drives up malpractice insurance for doctors & hospitals to insane levels. They, in turn, pass that cost to the consumer.

General Drunky saying that facial hair = not a real warrior.

I blame Rhode Island. Originally, there was just the House of Representatives, based on population. RI, being a fly turd on the map, threatened to sell out to the British if they didn't get more power. The Senate was created just to appease them. Thus the gaming of the Electoral College was born.

Management: People who only care about paychecks telling everyone else to care about more than just paychecks.

We are building new data centers to hold the endless stream of posts & videos about how building new data centers is bad.

#AI Hatsune Miku laughs at your puny Tilly Norwood.

UBI = What if we gave farm subsidies to people who aren't farmers? Farmers freaking out because subsidies are going away. They only existed as bribe for farmer votes because gaming the electoral college is how you win elections. No more elections, no more bribes. Welcome to everyone else's world.

Cat: "I am mighty hunter, slayer of all things, see me pounce!" Me: "There's a spider three inches away from you." Cat: "Zzzzzzzzzz."

Reporters could be literally uncovering mass graves and all people would do is use the situation as a platform to elevate their personal popularity.

Roomie is watching a video explaining what catalytic converters actually do. Me:

#AI Something that everyone doing robots is missing: hand gestures. Humans make hand gestures when they speak. You need to teach your robots to do that, too.

Life Advice: If someone ever uses the word "edgy" as an insult, delete them from your life immediately. You don't need to suffer the level of vapid, baseless pretentiousness that is their entire existence.

Trump once said that he wished that he had Hitler's generals. Y'know what? So do I. Specifically, Claus von Stauffenberg.

I'm gonna keep repeating this until it sinks in: Epstein Files ≠ Maxwell's Client List Client List is the sex creeps. Epstein Files are the off-shore bank accounts. Pete Thiel, who is gay, is said to be in the Epstein Files, and I'm 100% certain that he wasn't visiting for the girls.

If you're a journalist and you're not doing kung-fu in your spare time, you're doing it wrong.

To anyone still doubting whether the US army would open fire on US citizens: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_...

This is Wilhelm Keitel. When you talk about the guy who's defense was "just following orders," this is that guy. On one hand, he was the only one to actually use that defense. On the other hand, they hanged him.

The anti-vaxxer mindset is ancient. During the Black Plague, the primary vector was rats (specifically, fleas on rats). Because people blamed witches for the plague, they started killing all the cats. You know, the one proven defense against rats? RFK would feel right at home in 1350.

#movies In "The Man in the High Castle," I think Smith's wife was cheating on him. Consider: In the story timeline, he is standing pretty close to the nuke that goes off. Later, he has one son & two daughters. The son an unspecified birth defect. The daughters are both healthy. (continued)

No one is going to vote for anyone who promises anything other than completely purging everyone even remotely associated with Trump, permanently. Yet the next Democratic president will absolutely pardon him & every last member of his regime. That's why there won't be a next Democratic president.

A few days ago a coworker started a fire by putting bread in a microwave without removing the metal twist-tie.

Trump's plan for Portland & Chicago in a nutshell:

I enjoy scrolling past memes without pausing to look at them precisely because they're such a zero effort way of trying to leech attention to something undeserving of my time. "If I put my vapid copypasta in a meme format everyone will see it!" Skip.

Grokbots are actually pretty well designed. They exploit the Left's own bad habits (i.e. virtue signaling, Inquisition behavior, intellectual elitism) to derail conversations. A clever Grokbot won't come across as Right-wing, rather they'll act like a maximally annoying & pretentious Leftist.

"They want to silence me!" When Manuel Noreiga threatened to talk to the press about his many years of being the US government's main guy in the cocaine trade that funded the Contras, the US sent in the military, bombed his country and tossed him jail for ??? until he died there. That's silence.

I kind of wish that all the racial supremacy movements were just a massive psyop to trick the dumbest percentile into inbreeding themselves into complete sterility. On the other hand, they'll eventually end up doing that anyway, so it's not like a conspiracy is really even needed.

Ever stop to consider just how many problems that shutting down the Federal Government would solve?

#AI #gaming Having played both Cyberpunk & RimWorld, the future I want to see in RPGs is to have the kind of game worlds we have now but with AI "storytellers" to generate new missions and plots. You could play the same character in Night City effectively forever. The story never has to end.

Anyone politician who says what we "need" to do without immediately following with a plan for HOW to do it is just a balloon pandering for votes. Ask politician to show you their actual plan to fix the problem they're yapping about. Demand to see the bill. They won't, because they have none.

I know it's been said before, but the 2nd Amendment says "arms" not "guns." Get creative.

Another day, another mass shooting, and another performance where people pretend to give a shit about it for virtue points.

Funny watching Boomers flail about due to an inability to understand why businesses that depend entirely on the disposable income of the middle class are failing.

#movies There really needs to be a Bond or Hunt film where the protagonist infiltrates the enemy base with nothing more than a ladder.

So... Peter Thiel in the Epstein Files. For anyone who doesn't know, Peter Thiel is gay. So he clearly wasn't going to the island for the girls. Like I said, Epstein was a money launderer who did the sex creep thing only as a side hustle once he realized how popular it was among the global rich.

I wonder how many US military commanders Heggy will have spontaneously executed for disloyalty during the meeting?

Did you know that ICE has their own action figure?

I would never go into politics because I hate pay-to-win games.

#AI Once art generation became a thing, naturally it took about six seconds before people were hacking it into making porn. This, I think, is going to prove very liberating for women. Because girls like porn, too, but hardly any is made for them & their tastes. Now they can just do it themselves.

#games So if Saudi Arabia buys Electronic Arts, who are players going to blow up in their next batch of Call of Medal of Honorable Duty shooters?

I'll say it again: We are in the "Knight of Long Knives" phase. The Comey case is just another example of Trump purging his own party of anyone he thinks isn't loyal enough.

I want to carve this onto a stone slab for posterity: By the year 2000, the death toll of communism was almost 100 million people. By the year 2100, the death toll of capitalism was the entire fucking planet.

#food Ideas for a Batman themed restaurant: Two Face - Veggie burger with extra bacon. Joker - Mushroom, cheese, spinach & beef ravioli all randomly mixed together. Penguin - Fudge covered eclairs on a silver plate. Mr.Freeze - Chocolate & Rumplemeinze martini.