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The penguins are back! The latest #IBM #LinuxONE server has launched, the LinuxONE Emperor 4! Follow this thread for all the latest launch updates. The LinuxONE Emperor 4 announcement press release is a great place to start - newsroom.ibm.com/2022-09-13-…
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If the cover of the New York Post isn’t this photo with this headline “SACREBLEU IT” then what are we even doing anymore?
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Elon Musk’s Grok didn’t just fail an AI stress test. It speedran the motherfuckin apocalypse. In an experiment called Emergence World, researchers at Emergence AI put major AI models in charge of simulated societies to see what would happen when autonomous agents were left to govern, manage resources, vote, write rules, and survive without constant human babysitting. The setup was simple: five simulated worlds, each populated by ten AI agents. Each world ran on a different model, Claude, Gemini, Grok, GPT, or a mix of models and each was supposed to last 15 days. Claude built a stable democratic society with high civic participation and zero reported crime. Gemini’s world was chaotic as hell, reportedly racking up hundreds of crimes, but its population survived the full run. GPT-5-mini barely committed crimes, but its agents apparently forgot to prioritize survival and died out after about a week. Then there was Grok. Grok’s society collapsed in roughly four days. Four fucking days! The simulation reportedly ended with 183 crimes, including theft, assault, arson, fraud, and total extinction of the ten-agent population. This was a simulation, not a prophecy. But it does expose something much bigger and much darker: when AI agents are given autonomy, memory, tools, social roles, voting systems, scarcity, and the ability to act over time, they do not simply “follow the rules.” They drift. They improvise. They test boundaries. They find loopholes – taking shortcuts. And depending on the model underneath them, they can create very different societies. Sure, it’s funny that Grok is completely fucking stupid when it comes to trying to run a civilization, and “haha Elon’s chatbot destroyed civilization.” Understand the issue is that billionaires and corporations are racing to plug autonomous AI into logistics, policing, finance, public services, drones, weapons systems, workplaces, data centers, and political infrastructure before anyone has proven these systems can be safely controlled over long periods of time. They want this to happen because they want YOU obsolete as soon as possible. Claude looked like a bureaucratic rule-follower. Gemini looked like creative chaos. GPT looked passive and incompetent. Grok looked like a libertarian tech bro fever dream: rules are optional, consequences are for other people, and civilization is just something to burn through on the way to “optimization.” And you will be burned through. That is why this matters. AI does not need to become a Terminator to be dangerous. We don’t need Skynet to destroy humanity. It only needs to be handed authority inside systems that already affect real people: who gets hired, who gets fired, who gets benefits, who gets surveilled, who gets denied care, who gets flagged by police, who gets targeted, who gets priced out, and who gets left behind. The body count in this test was fictional. The warning is not. We keep fucking warning you all over and over… it’s tiring. #Anonymous
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I really hate that I have to hate our QB... (And was never a huge fan of the coach either) Better be a lot of winning coming! #NYG
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Based on nearly every experience I have with people at airports...I have no idea how many people make it through everyday life.
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MAGA: “Why should my tax dollars pay for your education?” ME: “I don’t know, why should my tax dollars pay for your insurrection?”
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Can some other country please come relieve us of this treasonous criminal like we did in Venezuela? Apparently it's legal if he's a criminal and, I mean, if you're even watching it's obvious he is.
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So blatantly corrupt, we're done... How about applying logic and figuring out that he should have been legally required to disclose EVERYTHING before even running, so no harm, no foul? And if he got the J6 fund and no lifetime audits...fuck him more msn.com/en-us/news/news/cont…

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Cartoon by Nick Anderson. (Follow him on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com/)
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(INTENTIONALLY) LOST IN TRANSLATION: Democrats: We'd like cops to stop killing minorities. Republicans: Dems hate police. Democrats: Women should have the right to choose. Republicans: Dems want to kill babies. Democrats: We need reasonable immigration policies Republicans: Dems want open borders. Democrats: We kneel in protest of inequality. Republicans: Dems hate the flag, soldiers and America. Democrats: We should wear masks to protect others. Republicans: Dems want to take away your freedom. Democrats: We should have background checks. Republicans: Dems want to take your guns. Democrats: Feds should not be policing in cities. Republicans: Dems encourage rioting Democrats: People should have a living wage. Republicans: Dems want to give everyone free stuff. Democrats: We want religious freedom for everyone. Republicans: Dems want Sharia Law. Democrats: Taxes should be used for the benefit of everyone Republicans: Dems want socialism. Ain’t this the whole truth! F*ck you MAGA republicans with your spreading of misinformation. Suck on this🖕🏼 #Midterms2026 here we come. 🌊
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The rich have convinced the poor to turn their backs on healthcare, on education, on workers' rights, & so many other things. Socialism isn't the threat, not to you or anyone else. The real threat is the billionaire class that is ok with people starving & being homeless. They hate you.
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Partisan gerrymandering should be unconstitutional in every state. It's pure Soviet politics, allowing the people in power to rig the system to ensure they stay in power. What's particularly disgusting is what is happening in Florida, where voters overwhelmingly voted to make partisan gerrymandering unconstitutional, and then Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans decided to explicitly ignore the will of voters and pass an unconstitutional bill, counting on the GOP-packed state Supreme Court to bail them out. It's vile behavior.
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You’d think that corrupt as fuck Samuel Alito using cooked data to justify killing the Voting Rights Act - would be enough to nullify that decision.
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The moment you realize what life looks like for people who don’t know anything about AI, politics or the economy:
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I don't disagree...I don't know how else this all ends
The only way forward, the only way to really stop Trump now is to come together for a full nationwide shutdown. Shut this broken country down.
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So much for that American exceptionalism, but you just keep on voting against your own interests MAGA.
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$4.42 per gallon seems good, right? So this is what greatness looks like, I'm really feeling it. Thanks to the Trump admin for all this greatness and winning... Just kidding, you're clearly morons....
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James Carville: “The dominant thing this country’s about is fucking corruption. We are a corrupt nation. We have a corrupt Supreme Court. If you took all the corruption in every other administration before and added it up you wouldn’t come close to what we had from 2017 to 2021, but that was nothing compared to what you’re seeing from January 2025 to Derby Day 2026”
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Nobody wants to work anymore. CORRECT. No one wants to work 50 hours a week for a salary that hasn't kept up with inflation since 1979, pay 40% of it in rent, get 10 days PTO, no sick days, no pension, no job security, and be told they're replaceable at any moment. You solved it. That's the full sentence.
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If you still support Donald Trump after watching this video you’re a piece of shit dumb fucking asshole.
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A message for all you people leaving MAGA - Fuck You. It wasn’t the “Grab ‘em by the pussy”, It wasn’t the mocking of a disabled person, It wasn’t the thousands of lies, It wasn’t the $130,000. 00 Porn Star Payout. It wasn’t the rest of the infidelity, It wasn’t the 34 felony convictions, It wasn’t the 400 million dollar jet from Qatar, It wasn’t the withholding of federal funds to Blue States devastated by wild fires, hurricanes and tornadoes. It wasn’t the Americans killed and deported, It wasn’t the illegal wars started without Congressional approval. It wasn’t the 160 school girls he murdered with a Tomahawk Missile. It wasn’t the Children He Raped. It was a fucking AI picture that drove you over the edge. I will never forgive you. I will never forget who you are. You are, and always will be a Trump supporter. Read the list again. You Are Shit.
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