Wishlist my game so I can spend your money on warp drive research (or rent) and cold fusion reactors (or food) or pls RETWEET it for someone that will 🙏
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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
@ChrisUKSharp Listen to James Martinez talking about Brillouin Energy, how "oil money" is coming to their door, Gov is interested, it's not a fast rollout, how it's too slow to be weaponized, etc. There are many companies working on similar tech (eg Eng8, Clean Planet).
https://t.co/QhaIFlhn4s
Trying to slice a single photon mid-pulse does not leave one side lit and the other empty. It turns the state into something far stranger. @physrevlett@arxiv https://t.co/yMy0TQ3ki0
The White House https://t.co/wAKVAqJqmW joke accidentally teaches a better lesson than most UAP debates.
Ambiguity is never empty.
People see a gap and immediately fill it with a story.
Aliens.
Conspiracies.
Politics.
Disclosure.
Whatever fits.
The story changes.
The data doesn’t.
The symbol gets louder.
The evidence stays the same.
That’s why the most important question isn’t
“What do you think is happening?”
It’s
“What survives after the narrative is removed?”
I've obtained the master contract between the Ministry of Defence and Palantir Technologies UK Ltd.
It covers 2026 to 2029. It was signed on 30 December 2025 — while Parliament was in recess. There was no competitive tender. Here's what's in it. And what they don't want you to see.
The contract is administered through Defence Digital at MoD Corsham, the nerve centre of UK military digital and intelligence infrastructure.
The contract number is redacted. Not the value. Not the scope. The contract number itself is classified.
The entire pricing section is gone. Redacted under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act, commercial interests. So is the IP clause. So are the key liability figures. So are all the contract schedules.
A US company is embedded into UK defence infrastructure for three years. The public cannot see what we are paying for it.
Now here's the clause that should be getting more attention.
Palantir staff working on classified MoD sites must hold Security Check clearance as a minimum, with Developed Vetting available when required. The contract says personnel should be UK nationals where site classification requires.
Should. Not must.
Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel. It grew out of a CIA seed investment. Its largest shareholder base is American. Its founders have direct relationships with US intelligence going back two decades.
The contract does not prohibit non-UK nationals from working on classified UK defence environments. It expresses a preference.
Condition 14. The media clause.
Palantir is contractually prohibited from communicating with press, television, radio or other media about anything in this contract without prior written MoD consent.
That is why Palantir UK has said nothing publicly about this deal. They are legally barred from doing so.
The contract was signed on 30 December 2025. Parliament was in recess. No tender process. No public announcement at signing. The contract number is a state secret. The price is hidden. And the contractor is gagged.
This is how £240 million of public money gets committed to a single American company with no scrutiny whatsoever.
Section 43, commercial interests, is a qualified exemption under FOIA. That means a public interest test applies.
The argument that Palantir's commercial sensitivity outweighs the public's right to know the cost of a no-tender three-year defence contract is not a strong one. I'll be filing for an internal review.
I'll be publishing the full analysis on Substack. If you think Parliament should be able to see what we're paying Palantir and why no other company was given the chance to bid, share this thread.
The document is real. The redactions are real. Draw your own conclusions.
@BBCNews -Tax wealth & AI
-Set up nationalised property developers to mass build more social housing, employing more apprentices & new immigrant workers (instilling national pride)
-Phase out private rentals to reduce benefits
-Phase in UBI
-Move to 4 day week to share out dwindling jobs
@BBCNews -Reduce retirement age 1 yr every year allowing people to move up the chain & free up entry level jobs faster
-Make it easier for young people to be self-employed rather than harder & more expensive with MTD & quarterly tax returns
-Incentivise more care jobs with better pay etc
@BBCNews -Tax wealth & AI
-Set up nationalised property developers to mass build more social housing, employing more apprentices & new immigrant workers (instilling national pride)
-Phase out private rentals to reduce benefits
-Phase in UBI
-Move to 4 day week to share out dwindling jobs
@BBCNews -Reduce retirement age 1 yr every year allowing people to move up the chain & free up entry level jobs faster
-Make it easier for young people to be self-employed rather than harder & more expensive with MTD & quarterly tax returns
-Incentivise more care jobs with better pay etc
Still nothing from Burnham on his position on Palestine.
1) Has Israel committed genocide?
2) Will you end the proscription of Pal Action?
3) Will you end all arms sales to Israel?
4) Will you end the abuse of counter-terrorism legislation to suppress Palestinian activism?
Entirely misleading headline referring to trans people with GRCs being directed to the team that deals with restricted documents.
The way this has been worded to deliberately cause division and incite the exact reaction seen in the replies is disgusting and dishonest
Tony Blair thinks the answer to this country’s problems is AI, welfare cuts and endless spending on war.
Who benefits? Arms companies and tech billionaires.
Once again, Blair is wrong. The answer is a redistribution of wealth and power and the relentless search for peace.
@MikeyKayFilms@BBCWorld The drone equation changes forever when power systems like these are shrunk to battery sizes (prototypes exist) allowing electric drones to operate for months~years at high+low altitude.
Laser systems can be overwhelmed. Only defence is a bigger swarm.
https://t.co/dOfykAL0Eh
Fantastic initiative from @_karenhao…ranges from changing the language we use to describe AI to deliberately polluting the training data. Plus - my favourite - tracking the capture of media outlets who partner with these firms