Carlisle Herron

Arduino-RPi-ESPx fan, tech fiend, hobby programmer, guitar beginner, hiker/skier non-extraordinaire. #Thinkscript #DilbertReborn @MarketScholars fan!

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

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

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

Happy Friday, fellow humorists!

[꧁Bobbi꧂ @SaltyBitch_52]

These guys are funny.
Deer Blind Dad Jokes.

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

@prrobbins @hicasamadim 👍

[Dan @Daniel_Farinax]

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 👇

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

Absolutely spot on. Well worth reading.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

@mydaddyfixes @elonmusk Interesting, but wouldn’t it be better to “embed” electronic systems in vacuum than in sea water?

[Sunil Gurjar, CFTe @sunilgurjar01]

“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.

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

@EricCoyle_PhD @Starlink Check out my video from OH. I caught them too! :-)

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

@elonmusk Thanks for the fantastic @Starlink train light show last night over OH! I assume these beauties were yours? :-)

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 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.

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

This is just TOO cute!!! ♥️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A wholesome moment.

Mom giving her daughter one of the best experiences — memories that last forever, not just a day.

[Jo Bhakdi @JOBhakdi]

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.

[Ⱥmerican Trucker 🇺🇸 @taylorbilt]

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

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

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.

https://t.co/zTUmloiKqC

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Falcon Heavy

[Carlisle Herron @ArduinoGuy]

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

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[John Rain @johnthenoticer]

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

[Kelly 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @KellyKilljoyTN]

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