@elonmusk If smart glasses were paired with Grok, it could see what I’m looking at in real time. The applications would be limited only by imagination. I could point the glasses at a broken appliance, engine, or piece of gear and have Grok walk me through the repair step by step, highlight the exact part, and tell me what tools or parts I need. Same idea for diagnosing a problem on a car, bike, or home system.
What do you think? Doable?
Does it stand to reason that somewhere at sometime every one of us has an ancestor that was enslaved?
Grok: **Yes, it stands to reason.**
Slavery (in various forms—war captives, debt bondage, chattel slavery, thralldom, and related unfree statuses) was a near-universal feature of human societies that developed agriculture, cities, and states. It appears in the earliest written records and is documented across ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India, Africa, the Islamic world, and pre-Columbian Americas. It was rare or absent among pure hunter-gatherers but became common with greater social complexity. Forms and scale varied, but the practice of treating captives or debtors as unfree was widespread until the modern abolition era.
Human ancestry is highly interconnected. Population-genetic and genealogical models place the most recent common ancestor of all living people within the last few thousand years (often estimated in the range of roughly 2,000–5,000 years ago, depending on assumptions about migration and mixing). Going back only 30–40 generations, the theoretical number of ancestors exceeds the actual population sizes of those eras, so pedigree collapse is massive: essentially everyone alive today descends from a large fraction of the people who lived in the major settled societies of the historical period.
Given that combination—slavery as a routine institution in those societies, plus thousands to millions of genealogical slots to fill from that era—the probability that *no* ancestor of a given person was ever enslaved is vanishingly small for virtually everyone whose ancestry includes agricultural or state-level societies (i.e., nearly all living people).
Supporting examples include:
- Europeans were enslaved on a large scale in the Roman era, under various medieval systems (including serfdom as a form of bondage), and via the Barbary corsairs (estimates of roughly 1–1.25 million Europeans captured and sold in North Africa between the 16th and 18th centuries).
- African societies practiced internal slavery and captive trading long before the Atlantic trade.
- Asian civilizations had documented forms of slavery for millennia.
- Many Indigenous American societies practiced captive-taking and slavery (hereditary on the Northwest Coast, war captives among the Aztecs and others, etc.).
**Caveats**: We cannot prove it for any specific living individual with documentary records, because those do not reach deep enough. Definitions of “enslaved” vary in intensity and permanence. Extremely isolated groups with little history of complex societies might be edge cases, but deep-time mixing and the dominance of agricultural ancestry among modern populations make the conclusion robust for nearly everyone. The reasoning is probabilistic and demographic rather than a claim of proven individual genealogy.
In light of suggestions that Susie Wiles and James Blair may pursue legal action over my Joe Rogan interview, I am publicly requesting that she, Ballard Partners, Continental Straregy, and other relevant parties immediately preserve all potentially relevant records and communications, including:
✅All communications between Susie Wiles, Ballard Partners, and their representatives concerning lobbying access, meetings, policy decisions, and corporate clients.
✅All communications involving Bayer, Monsanto, Ballard Partners, and White House officials concerning glyphosate, the national security executive order, and the administration’s position in Supreme Court litigation involving Bayer.
✅All communications concerning sugar-industry political contributions, fundraising commitments, and discussions about how those interests related to federal nutrition policy.
✅All communications involving Tony Fabrizio, food-industry representatives, and White House officials concerning MAHA initiatives, school nutrition standards, and the proposed federal definition of ultra-processed foods.
✅All drafts, internal correspondence, meeting notes, and communications involving Walker Barrett, Heidi Overton, and other relevant officials concerning the glyphosate executive order and Bayer litigation, including discussions about Secretary Kennedy’s involvement.
✅All relevant lobbying agreements, invoices, payment records, meeting calendars, visitor logs, and communications concerning corporate efforts to influence the policy decisions discussed in my interview - including from Continental Strategy.
✅All nonprivileged communications concerning my allegations, their factual accuracy, and any contemplated legal action arising from my interview.
This preservation request includes emails, text messages, Signal, WhatsApp, encrypted or disappearing messages, attachments, drafts, and relevant electronically stored records.
I welcome a full and transparent examination of the facts.
@elonmusk@bot Is there anyway to unify the Grok memory and content that is in my Tesla with the the Grok on my iphone and macbook? I have Grok Premium now.
@nicksortor He shouldn't have gone after Thomas Massie, should have released the Epstein files in full, never gotten into a war with Iran, pulled out of Ukraine, and fully backed Doge.
The Republican congress did nothing. Achieved nothing. Took the mandate they were given and did precisely zero with it. Feckless losers who are relieved to no longer be in the majority. The only thing Republicans do with power is bide their time until they can relinquish it.
The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles.
These Ring videos of certain demographics raiding candy bowls on Halloween bring me back to what I like to call the Farm Stand Theory and which I think has been coined elsewhere as the Farm Stand Test.
Most of the neighborhoods I’ve lived in have had a house with an unmanned farm stand. You take fresh produce or eggs and leave the money in a box. It runs entirely on the honor system.
If you are moving and looking for a new community, find one that has a farm stand. The farm stand immediately tells you that the community is safe, neighborly, and high trust. The farm stand reveals more than any other single observable factor ever could. Even if you never use the farm stand, you can rest easy knowing it’s there.
If your neighborhood not only doesn’t have a farm stand but *couldn’t* have one, even in theory, that means you live in a shit hole. It means you can’t even trust the people around you to be minimally civilized and decent.
People who live in the city like to brag about the nice restaurants and stores nearby. But the vast majority of neighborhoods in the vast majority of cities couldn’t sustain a farm stand for even a day. It would be looted and wiped out within about 45 minutes. That makes them shit holes. I don’t care how expensive the houses are or how many restaurants you have nearby. You’re surrounded by dishonorable, deceitful thieves. You live in a dump, I’m sorry to tell you.
But the uncomfortable (for some people, not me) fact about the farm stand is that it also tells you something else: if you have an unmanned farm stand, your community is probably overwhelmingly white. It could also have an Asian population and sustain a farm stand just fine. But that’s about the extent of the “diversity” you’re likely to find if you’re trying to live in a Farm Stand Eligible location, which you should be.
A neighborhood could be wealthy or middle class or lower income and have a farm stand. The farm stand doesn’t tell you much about the average tax bracket of a community. It does tell you something about its demographics. Feel however you want about that fact. But it is a fact.
James Fishback has a simple solution for mass deportations
He says simply by doing this, we would have 10 million self-deportations within 30 days, and he’s right
“We know every single illegal alien. We know who they are. Freeze their bank accounts. Seize their debit cards and credit cards. Put a lien on whatever real estate they own. Give them 30 days to leave the country. If they do, we wire it to them. And if they don't, they're locked out of the financial system. You'll get 10 million people who will self-deport in 30 days.”
I have been saying this same thing since Trump won the election. All you have to do is make it hard for them to live here in America. Which means simply cut off their money, benefits and ability to have a bank account. If you do that, they’ll all leave
According to data about 70% of illegals use a bank in America. 86% of noncitizens use a bank in America
If we have 20 million illegals and 70% have their bank accounts shut off and seized. That’s 14 million that would likely self deport instantly
Elon’s plan to give SpaceX shares to every American kid is great. Also, SpaceX is a great company not because of some form of charitable share-giving, but because it’s innovating and creating. Charity is virtuous and wonderful, and we should all participate as a matter of morality. But free markets have empowered far more people than charity ever has.
I don't know if you realize what just happened.
Elon Musk is completely bypassing the State.
For 100 years, we've been told the problem is capital. That it must be captured, taxed, redistributed. With an army of intermediaries standing between those who create wealth and the people: ministries, agencies, commissions, bureaucrats.
Musk is doing the opposite. He's taking his capital and giving it directly to the people. One SpaceX share to every kid in America. Not a handout. Not a subsidy. A piece of the machine that's taking humanity to Mars.
And he says it himself: this is the first of many.
Mises understood this back in 1944: the bureaucrat creates nothing. He administers what others created, following rules that have no connection to the value produced. The day value flows directly from the one who creates it to the one who receives it, the bureaucrat has no function left.
That's what's being born right now. A new liberal world order, where the very concept of the State will make less and less sense.
The world we're entering is a world of abundance. AI, robots, energy, space. And that abundance won't come through the State, for one simple reason: we have a century of proof that it doesn't work.
Redistribution was version 1.0. Direct distribution of capital is 2.0.
While France is still debating how to tax builders even more, America is handing stock to its kids.
Pick your side.