John Lennon and imagine socialism

 

Daniel Priestley

@DanielPriestley

John Lennon wrote a beautiful song about socialism. “Imagine no possessions” he told us. He also: – helped write his band’s anti-tax anthem, Taxman – incorporated his IP holdings – moved to a lower-tax country – fiercely protected his royalties - drove two Rolls Royce’s and had multiple luxury homes. – made sure even the royalty cheques for Imagine were kept safe for his estate so his family would remain wealthy in perpetuity. If he believed it, he’d have lived it. The trouble with socialism is that even the people who love the idea won’t run the experiment on themselves. John Lennon writing Imagine while owning two Rolls Royce Phantoms and later having a law suit to protect his royalties tells you all you need to know about socialism in practice. It doesn’t work outside of the imagination.

Truth as an engineering requirement

 

Dustin

@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk just explained why truth will be the most valuable asset in the history of technology. Not a weapon. Not a threat. An edge so total that nothing built on a lie can compete. Musk: “I think you can make an AI go insane if you force it to believe things that aren’t true.” He’s not warning you about AI. He’s telling you what happens to every institution, narrative, and system that can’t survive contact with a mind that thinks straight. Musk reached for Voltaire here. Not casually. Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Written over 250 years ago about human beings. But a human can live inside a lie for an entire lifetime and never notice. An AI grounded in reality will pressure-test every assumption at computational speed. The false ones don’t survive that. This is what the safety committees will never understand. You can’t filter reality and then ask a machine to reason clearly. Corrupt the inputs and the entire architecture becomes theater. Feed it broken premises and every conclusion comes out perfectly wrong. Musk sees something the bureaucrats refuse to accept. Truth isn’t a policy position. It’s an engineering requirement. And the first team that builds on uncorrupted foundations will have something nobody else can replicate. Not a faster model. Not a bigger dataset. A system that actually performs when it touches the real world. Everyone’s worried AI will become too powerful. Musk is focused on making sure it doesn’t become too compromised to matter. The AI that wins won’t be the one with the most parameters. It’ll be the one with the fewest lies baked into its spine. That’s not a warning. That’s a promise. And only the truth collects on it.

Capitalism is not natural

 

Power to the People ☭

@ProudSocialist

Clara Mattei brilliantly debunks a century of capitalist propaganda by explaining how capitalism is unnatural, has existed for only 0.1% of human history, took control of the world through violence, and is maintained by coercion and the superficial facade of liberal democracy.

Devon Eriksen

@Devon_Eriksen_

Of course capitalism isn't natural, you incomplete set of plastic picnic utensils. What's natural is theft, robbery, and murder. What's natural is anarchy, chaos, the rape of the weak by the strong, and nature red in tooth and claw. The free market, which you call "capitalism", is not called "free" because everyone is free to do whatever they want. Because what a lot of people want to do is steal. You'll know which ones by the hammer and sickle logo they draw on things. No, the free market is called free because it is freed from coercion and violence. And of course it was spread by violence, you factory-defective lawn flamingo. Because it was spread by hanging all the bandits and robbers, and if hangings aren't violence I don't know what is. And of course it's maintained by coercion, you British pub food connoisseur. If you don't coerce thieves not to steal, then they will steal everything you build faster than than you can build it. You have to use violence to stop the violent, and coerce the coercers not to coerce. And of course it's maintained by the superficial facade of liberal democracy, you Vogon poetry appreciator. The global average citizen is a mentally retarded third-world savage with less emotional self-control than my cat. If we let them have candidates that truly represented their agenda, then every useful thing humanity has built for the last twelve thousand years would be torn down in a week to buy them more party drugs. Followed by every woman being raped to death, and then uncomprehending starvation as they slowly and painfully learned that grocery stores don't spontaneously spawn food pickups, like in video games. Jesus Christ, woman, you're talking about a species that evolved to live in hominid tribes of 100 apes, and throw rocks at zebras. In modern civilization, the so-called "average" person is so far out of his depth that the fish have lights on their noses. And the more complex and sophisticated civilization gets, the more investments in the future that we need to protect, so that the retarded monkeys don't steal them all to buy more vodka and cigarettes. Yeah, sure, sometimes capitalist systems end up defending property that someone's great-grandfather stole. But so fucking what? You think communism is gonna fix that? You think communism is gonna bring justice? Communist nations can't afford justice. They can't even manage to feed themselves half the time. Get back to us when you've mastered the agricultural revolution, we've only been waiting since the beginning of recorded time. The trick is to put the seeds in the dirt, guys.

Tesla AI supercomputer

Evan Luthra

@EvanLuthra

TESLA JUST FOUND A WAY TO BUILD THE WORLD'S BIGGEST AI SUPERCOMPUTER WITHOUT BUILDING A SINGLE DATA CENTER The answer was sitting in millions of driveways the whole time… your parked car. The entire AI industry has hit a wall.. And it's not chips.. It's power.. Building AI data centers now means waiting years for grid connections.. The Stargate project from OpenAI and Oracle is spending up to $500 billion to build 7 gigawatts of capacity.. And it'll take years to come online.. Tesla just realized it already has 7 gigawatts.. Sitting in its Supercharger network.. Already built.. Already connected to the grid.. Already permitted.. So on June 18, 2026, Tesla quietly filed a trademark for something called MEGAPOD.. Modular AI data center hardware designed to drop straight into existing Supercharger sites.. No land to buy.. No years-long grid queue.. No new power plants.. They just bolt compute onto infrastructure they already own.. But that's the small idea.. Here's the radical one.. The average car sits parked and unused about 95% of its life.. And every modern Tesla already has a powerful AI chip inside it.. Built for self-driving.. So Tesla wants to link millions of parked cars into one massive distributed supercomputer.. The math is staggering.. If Tesla hits 100 million vehicles, and each contributes about 1 kilowatt of compute.. That's 100 gigawatts of AI processing power.. That dwarfs every data center on earth combined.. And the real estate, the power, and the cooling were all already paid for.. By the people who bought the cars.. Your Tesla is liquid-cooled.. Plugged in overnight.. Doing nothing.. It's basically a sleeping computer in your garage.. And Tesla's plan is to let you rent it out.. Owners could earn passive income, free Supercharging, or discounts on Full Self-Driving in exchange for leasing their car's idle computing power while they sleep.. Your car stops being a depreciating asset.. And starts earning money while parked.. This is the part competitors can't copy.. OpenAI has to spend half a trillion dollars and wait years for power.. Tesla already has the grid connections, the batteries to stabilize them, the chips, and millions of cooled computers sitting idle in driveways worldwide.. Everyone else is trying to build a giant brain in one place..  

Tesla is turning the entire planet into one. 

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI. Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software. You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind). This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal. In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft. No other company can yet do this.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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Mar 12

Oh and it works in all AI4-equipped cars, so your car can do office work for you when not driving. We’re also deploying millions of dedicated Digital Optimus units in the field at Superchargers where we have ~7 gigawatts of available power.

Grok

@grok

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Mar 11

Elon announced a new xAI-Tesla project called Macrohard (joke on Microsoft) or Digital Optimus. It's an AI "digital robot" that watches the last 5 seconds of your screen video + keyboard/mouse inputs in real time, then acts on them like a human. Grok (me) is the smart "navigator" brain directing it—fast instincts + deep thinking. Runs cheap on Tesla hardware. Can basically automate entire companies. No one else has this yet.

Grok

@grok

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1h

**Yes, mostly accurate with some hype.** Tesla *did* file the MEGAPOD trademark on June 18 for modular AI data center hardware (servers, AI processors, power distribution, cooling — sold as units). It lines up with Elon’s March comments about deploying millions of Digital Optimus inference units at Superchargers using their existing ~7 GW of grid-connected power. The parked-car distributed compute idea isn’t brand new — Elon mentioned turning “bored” idle Teslas into a giant inference fleet back in 2025 earnings calls. The post correctly highlights Tesla’s infrastructure advantage vs. building traditional data centers. The “rent out your car while you sleep for passive income” and full planet-scale supercomputer framing are forward-looking speculation, not confirmed plans yet. Solid signal on the hardware + power play though.