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[D Mk @wickedsmaahht]

Have you ever noticed we live in a country where a 95-year-old man can walk into a mud pit in Chicago, call his band The Fuckers, and start reciting “Enter Sandman” like he’s giving a TED Talk from the afterlife?

William Shatner. Ninety-five. Riot Fest. Douglass Park. Thirty-five minutes. Spoken-word heavy metal. In the mud. With people cheering like this is normal.

It is not normal. It is magnificent.

He did “Crazy Train.” He did “Ace of Spades.” He did Metallica. Not sang them. Talked them. Like Captain Kirk got trapped in a guitar amp and decided to negotiate with Satan instead of the Klingons.

Behind him: actual musicians. Marcus Nand. Phil Soussan. Grown men who have paid rent with real notes while a nonagenarian stands there going, “What the F is heavy metal?” and somehow makes it a question worth answering.

Brian May is on the record. Tony Iommi is on the record. The album is called *What the F Is Heavy Metal?* which is the most honest title in music since someone first admitted most of it is just louder complaining.

The crowd ate it up. Of course they did. We will watch a man old enough to remember radio as furniture stand in wet dirt and dare death to tap him on the shoulder. Death probably took one look, said “I’m not dealing with this today,” and went to find someone easier.

You’re never too old to live out your dreams. That’s the line they always use. The real line is: most people quit the second it gets embarrassing. Shatner waited until embarrassing became the whole act, then sold tickets.

Follow @wickedsmaahht before the rest of the timeline figures it out.

#WilliamShatner #RiotFest #WhatTheFIsHeavyMetal #NeverTooOld #SpokenWordMetal #LiveLongAndGetLouder #CaptainKirkHasEnteredTheChat

[Sandra Oller❌👑 @Mavicamin]

@mariashriver

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

My fellow Americans: Please direct your attention to this matter for just a moment. Allow this to sink in. The President of the United States of America just said he wants to ban the free press. He said he doesn’t want them in his office, which by the way is the Oval Office in the People’s House. This is unheard of, and we the people cannot let this be!

For the record, we have a free press in this country. For the record we should all be worried not just about this latest outburst, but by all of it going forward without permission — putting our service members in harms way, raising tariffs willy nilly, threatening buildings and institutions unless his name gets put on them. This is not the behavior of a centered leader who is focused on the good of the people. This is not the behavior of a compassionate leader focused on the millions of Americans who cannot afford healthcare, childcare, gas, or food. This is not the behavior of a man who can emotionally regulate himself.

We should all be concerned — those who voted for him and those who didn’t. The midterms are around the corner. Vote like your life and the lives of others are at stake, because they are. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

It's stunning when you realize exactly how many things trump f*cked up in less than 2 years.

HILARIOUS when a song nails it perfectly.

THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!🔥🔥🔥

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The funniest part of this is where Maher gets furious about people who he claims don’t know what a genocide is but then proceeds to define genocide confidently and completely inaccurately, and doesn’t use the actual legal definition of genocide from the 1948 Genocide Convention (as Gaza clearly meets that.)

Maher is a classic talking walking Dunning Krueger.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

I implore you, if you watch nothing else today, please, please… watch this.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

If you were young in 2001, or weren’t even born yet, it can be hard to imagine what 9/11 felt like. The shock of that beautiful, cloudless morning. The heartbreak of the families whose loved ones were taken with such swiftness and cruelty. The realization that the forces of malevolence and violence were closer, and the future less certain, than we knew.

But in the days that followed, we felt something else, too. Pride in the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, and the passengers who had stormed the cockpit. Admiration for the men and women who left behind lives of comfort to serve their country. A deep resolve that nothing would break the will of a truly United States of America.

Today Michelle and I are remembering those we lost that day, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed. We pray for their families. And we hope Americans everywhere remember the true lesson of 9/11: that we can survive even our darkest days as long as we move forward as one nation and one people.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Twenty-five years ago today, we lost 2,977 souls and in the years since, thousands more to illnesses caused by the attack on our country.

This morning, Jill and I hold close the families who carry that loss every day. We honor the heroes of September 11th: the firefighters and police officers who rushed into the towers and the Pentagon, the passengers who fought back over Shanksville, and the generation that stepped up to serve in the aftermath.

Even now, we remember the greatest lesson of one of our nation's darkest days: at our most vulnerable, unity is our most powerful strength.

We will never forget.

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Obama: "I remember changing my children's diapers. Do you think that Donald Trump's ever changed a diaper?"

Someone in the audience shouts: "Yeah, his own!"

Obama: Laughs and says, "I almost said that!"

Funniest shit ever! 🤣🤣🤣

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

I’ve never smashed the follow button faster

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

OMG -- This is so funny and hilarious! 😆

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

The official Mitch McConnell pull string doll. I especially liked “Rigor Tortoise” 😂😂😂

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

“Hey, Donald. We’re sorry about your sagging … polls.”

[ice @icebergz99]

@TechWith_Nova Welcome to the machine…

[NOVA @TechWith_Nova]

Stunned by a post: a 21-year-old American college student made $43,000 in a month with an AI virtual girlfriend.

He set up an OnlyFans account called Maya. This Maya is 22 years old, tagged as a UCF psychology dropout, with 1,247 paid subscribers, and the highest-spending fan shelled out $1,847. But the most crucial part? The girl in those photos doesn't even exist.

No real person on camera, no real person typing. All the messages are written by AI, the photos are AI-generated, and the voice is AI-synthesized. The entire Maya boils down to just four documents on his MacBook.

Back in the day, building an AI virtual influencer took anywhere from six months to a year and a half. Now, he's got it running in just 4 weeks. Looking ahead, it might take only a weekend to whip one up.

These four files break down like this:

· persona.md, spelling out Maya's character, backstory, and likes;
· voice.md, locking in her speaking tone and voice style;
· flux.md, standardizing her appearance and photo style to ensure all images look like the same person;
· brain.md, logging what each subscriber has chatted about and their preferences.

Before the AI replies to any fan, it reads through all four files, so the persona never breaks, and it never forgets what the fan has said.

Truth be told, the tech stack is so ridiculously simple it's almost absurd. That famous virtual influencer Aitana López from before? Her team took 18 months to pull her together. Now, a Maya-style setup is done and dusted in 4 weeks.

This isn't sci-fi—it's something anyone with a computer can replicate step by step. And it's not just OnlyFans; slap this workflow onto Instagram, TikTok, or Twitch, and it'll run just as smoothly.

AI has basically driven the cost of creating a virtual person down to zero. At this point, the only real barrier left is whether you've got the taste to decide what this virtual person should even look like..

[#Anonymous @TheStripesGirl]

🤣🤣🤣