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need a movie to watch

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first good message gets a real reply

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Interesting day today!

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Learning something new every day

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@BrandonStraka Thanks for sharing this

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@gippp69 Interesting perspective

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@patricia_pearl_ Well said!

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@jonathanchait Interesting perspective

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@fingent_ai So real

[SCOTTY BEAM @ScottyBeamIO]

TODAY I LET GROK BOT MAKE EVERY SINGLE PHONE CALL FOR ME, AND I CAN’T F*CKING BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED

I decided to run an experiment.

Yesterday Elon posted that Grok Bot can now call people and businesses for you, make a request on your behalf and send you a summary of the conversation.

So I tested it on my real life. Here’s how my day went:

→ INTERNET PROVIDER: I told my bot my bill was too high.

It called, sat through the menu, asked to be transferred to retention and calmly said I was thinking about switching. 28 minutes later: $35 off every month.

Then it did something I would never think of: it asked about hidden fees and made them confirm the new price by email. I just read the live transcript like a Netflix show.

→ GYM MEMBERSHIP: the one you can “only cancel by phone”.

They tried to keep me three times. A discount, a free month, a “pause instead”. My bot said no to all of it, got the cancellation confirmed and sent me the confirmation number.

I’d been too lazy to deal with it for two weeks straight. Grok Bot just handled it for me.

→ BARBER: I needed a fresh cut before the evening.

My bot called my barber and booked me for 5 PM. He chatted with it like with a regular client, said “see you later, bro” and hung up.

He still doesn’t know he was talking to a bot.

→ AND THEN IT GOT CRAZY: I asked it to plan a date.

First it called a restaurant and booked a table for two at 8 PM. Then it called my girlfriend and invited her to dinner, at the exact place it had just booked.

She said yes. Then she texted me “did your AI just ask me out?”

Total: almost 2 hours on the phone today. I spent 0 of them.

This update is absolutely insane, and I’m still in shock from this experiment. Calls were the last thing I still had to do myself. Now Grok Bot does them better than I do.

Bookmark this so you can try the same experiment yourself.

And I broke down all the latest major Grok Bot updates in my article below ↓

[Lorn @lorneseth]

Logan Paul left California's 50% taxes and moved to Puerto Rico to pay 4%.

Then Bad Bunny made the YouTuber and WWE star the villain of a protest video. Logan called him a hypocrite.

At 18, a $2,000 Vine deal had him feeling rich, until a friend said $700 of it went to the government. Years later, he says, California was taking more than half. The island's offer sounded almost too good:

"It seemed ridiculous that someone would move to Puerto Rico to pay 4% taxes."

He moved in 2021.

Locals owe income tax of up to 33%, and many were furious at the rich arrivals. Logan admits it:

"There are locals who are not happy about the foreigners that are coming into their country and taking advantage of this tax law that they don't have access to. Why they don't have access to it, I have no idea."

In 2022 Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican reggaeton star and the most-streamed artist on Spotify that year, dropped El Apagon, a protest song about the island. Its video ends with a documentary about families pushed out by tax-break newcomers, and Logan shows up in it.

Logan fired back that the singer uses the same tax program himself:

"He has a f*cking Act 20... It's all online. It's government information. It blows my f*cking mind how people don't want to believe that... I thought we were cool. Why are you making me like a poster child for a regime that you're a part of?"

But Act 20 is a business break that island companies can get too. The 0% on investment gains that angers locals is a different law, Act 22, and only newcomers qualify.

Who's the hypocrite, Logan Paul or Bad Bunny?

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@DrKarlynB Couldn't agree more

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@NicHulscher Thanks for sharing this

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@HK45USP Love this take

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@slave_2_liberty Couldn't agree more

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@MercedesAMGF1 Interesting perspective

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@HK45USP So real

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@PollTracker2024 Totally agree with this

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@HK45USP Love this take

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@ItsD247 @baroncoleman Well said!

[Lux @xtblux]

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley sold KISS in 2024, the name, the songs and the likeness, in a deal reported at more than $300 million. Peter Criss, the drummer who created the Catman face, turned down $1 million in 2001 for 8 shows in Japan and never wore it for them again.

Eric Singer has played the drums in the Catman makeup ever since.

In the video below, a fan asks why Singer and guitarist Tommy Thayer still dress as the Catman and the Spaceman instead of creating their own characters. Stanley tells him to ask "the 35,000 people" outside. Singer, in Criss's makeup, adds: "The band in the past did try another makeup. Guess what? It didn't work."

Criss left in 1980 and came back for the 1996 reunion on a salary, not as an owner. On the 2000 farewell tour he learned he was paid $10,000 a show less than Ace Frehley, and he painted a teardrop under his eye in protest.

The case for Simmons and Stanley: they kept KISS going for 16 years without its original drummer, and they own the rights to the makeup. "The makeup is earned," Simmons has said. "Just being there at the beginning is not enough."

Asked in the same clip about Gene the musician and Gene the businessman, Simmons answers: "It's all business."

So did Simmons and Stanley earn the Catman face, or did they just keep the one thing Criss made himself?

I post one famous deal like this every day, with who got paid, who got played, and the numbers that never made the poster.

[LeoTerrell @TheLeoTerrell]

Dana’s career is OVER!