He unlocked a feeling he didn’t know existed.. 😅

Happy Friday, fellow humorists!

Beginner video: How to install & use Grok Build (made for non-technical SuperGrok and X Premium users) I got so many questions from friends, so I made this simple step-by-step guide. You’ll see exactly how to: • Install Grok Build in seconds with one command • Create real websites • Use Grok Imagine to auto-generate images & videos • Run multiple projects at once in different folders Grok even runs commands for you. No coding experience needed. Watch the full walkthrough 👇

Absolutely spot on. Well worth reading.

Tesla

“Charlie and I were on a plane which was hijacked. They asked Charlie about his last wish and he said he wanted to give speech on the virtues of Costco.” “The hijacker asked me, what was my last wish and I said - Shoot me first.” 😂 - Warren Buffett.

🚨 AREA 51 JUST LIT UP 17 earthquakes in less than 24 hours. Right after talk of UFO file releases. Natural activity… or activity underground? Something doesn’t add up.

This is just TOO cute!!! ♥️

No one even talks about these milestones anymore. Tesla is building a MASSIVE new business. Autonomous trucking is BIGGER than Robotaxi, and the Semi is the hardware piece. Expect autonomous trucking to be ready within 12 months.

Cutest thing you'll see today on X....

Interesting blog post that LLM’s cannot train themselves up to new intelligence levels by training on their own output data. Would make common sense to most people, I think, but there sure do seem to be quite a few companies trying to raise quite a bit of money to do this very (mathematically impossible) thing. smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-canno…

Falcon Heavy

I disagree with the “wages are flat” statement but the rest sounds very interesting.

Percentage of younger people diagnosed with a mental health problem in the US, according to their political opinions

How about some afternoon Rage Against the Machine as you'll never sing it the same again! 🤣😂🤣🐾 🎶 🤘

BREAKING 🚨 Elon Musk indicated that the current AI4 is already enough to handle unsupervised FSD 🔥 AI5 chips will be used for Optimus robot and the supercomputer clusters 🔥 So if you want unsupervised FSD on your Tesla cars, no need to wait for AI5 🔥 This is HUGE 🔥

The IRGC's decision tree has collapsed to 2 branches: 1. Accept the US terms (which means some version of: nuclear concessions, free passage through Hormuz, & constraints on proxy operations) & preserve the economic infrastructure that sustains the regime's power base. 2. Reject the terms & face a naval blockade that severs the China trade corridor, grinds the domestic economy to a halt, & creates the internal conditions for regime collapse. The first option might be humiliating, but the second is existential for the current regime. Right now the IRGC is being forced to find a way to repackage capitulation as strategic wisdom, declare victory on state television, & keep their construction companies/money-machines running. Otherwise they risk internal revolts & potential In-fighting within the IRGC coalition (personally think that the likelihood of regime change is being underpriced by the market). With regards to the Hormuz outcome specifically.. It is almost predetermined at this point because the US has already begun establishing physical control of the waterway. The mine-clearing operations & destroyer transits aren't contingent on a deal.. they're happening regardless. Iran's stated position of sovereignty over the Strait & IRGC-coordinated transit with a per-vessel fee was always a negotiating position & not a defensible end state. What the final deal will likely produce is what I've described as *implicit* rather than *explicit* US control. The language will be something like "free & unimpeded passage consistent with international maritime law" with an international monitoring mechanism that includes Iranian participation in some consultative capacity. Iran gets to save face by having a seat at the table. The US gets what it actually wants, which is that no vessel needs Iranian permission to transit (& tacitly corroborating its dominion over the energy lifeline of the world). The hegemon doesn't formally annex the chokepoint, but rather establishes a legal framework of "free passage" that is guaranteed by its own military power. In other words, control without the political liability of ownership. Recall, the British didn't formally own the Suez Canal for most of its operational history, but they guaranteed "free passage", with a fleet parked at both ends.. The US is doing the same thing with Hormuz & the deal that emerges from this process will formalize that arrangement under language both sides can live with. The practical effect is that Hormuz becomes a US-guaranteed (read: controlled/owned) corridor, backstopped by permanent naval presence in the Gulf, with Iran's theoretical sovereignty over its territorial waters preserved in diplomatic language, but voided in operational fact. The IRGC will accept because the alternative (losing their [Chinese] economic lifeline, which they've clearly shown is their Achilles heel.. it's what brought them to the table after all..) threatens the material foundation of their power more than any military strike could. The terms will be dressed up as a mutual agreement. Trump will call it the greatest deal ever made. Iranian state media will frame it as a victory for diplomacy & sovereignty. American destroyers will continue transiting the Strait (of America) whenever they please.. Step 7

This is awesome

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

I’m going to return to airplanes & cool it on military, but I’d like to plug one last relevant group: The Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). The promise in the U.S. Military is we leave no one behind. If we can recover you alive, we will. But even in death, we will not leave you behind or forget. DPAA is the agency responsible for the latter part. They have a list of all military members who are not accounted for at the end of operations, from all wars. Then they start piecing together all the clues they can to figure out where our missing service members might be. Once they have a good idea, they go out & search, looking for any evidence, asking locals if they know anything, digging in the dirt & diving in the water. If they can find you, they will. If someone else stumbles on you, they come get you. They use advanced forensics to positively identify you, and only then can your name come off their list. Once they’ve finally found & identified you, they work with your family to bring you home. You will be given full military honors. It might seem silly to some, but “no one gets left behind” is something we take seriously, no matter the cost. It’s not just a slogan. There are times it may not be possible to bring you home alive, but even after 50, 60 or 100 years, we continue to search, still bound to the promise. It’s not a slogan. It’s the backbone of our military & we’ll go to extremes to make good.