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there is no catch and that scares me
Elon Musk posted an idea that hit 27 million views:
"stop building startups. buy boring internet real estate and let bots run it"
that's literally what Grok Bot does now. the whole setup costs $0 on top of the sub:
→ create a bot, name it Mogul
→ tell it to find one boring niche people search every day (it reads X and reddit complaints in real time, it's grok)
→ it builds a small directory site on its own computer and ships one useful page every night
→ it negotiates affiliate and referral deals itself, by email, in your name
→ publishing runs on a routine. telegram sends you the money reports
→ month one: traffic. month three: the first $217. it never stops after that
your laptop stays shut. the site grows anyway
every page is a tiny employee that works forever. it compounds like rent
some of them run 3 sites each and haven't opened a single one. they don't post about it, and now you know why
every month you wait, someone's bot ships another 30 pages into the niche you would've picked
full playbook below
bookmark this before someone takes your niche
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Most people are still using AI the wrong way.
They ask it questions.
Elon Musk just pointed at the right way.
Yesterday, Jason Ginsberg wrote: "Treat Grok Bot like a teammate and give @bot an ambitious task you'd normally give to a new hire."
Elon's answer: "This is the way."
Three words. A whole shift in how we work.
Here's what that looks like in real life.
Scott Billows runs a business with a very traditional sales cycle. Deals that take months to cultivate.
He pointed Grok Bot at his company's tools.
It dug through the past. Surfaced old prospects and customers nobody was calling anymore. Handed them to his sales reps.
Two weeks in, a closed deal.
His words: "Without Grok Bot we most likely would not have reached out to this past customer."
Think about that.
Not a faster search. Not a smarter autocomplete. Not a chatbot.
A teammate that found money hiding in plain sight.
Everyone thought AI would be a better answer machine.
It's actually a new kind of colleague.
Elon put it plainly back in October: "assume you are hiring a super competent employee."
Not a tool you open. Someone you hand the job to.
The team keeps adding powers. Product pages. Order tracking. Payments. Team Bots your whole company can share.
Every week the job description gets longer.
Here's the part almost nobody sees yet.
For all of history, having a team was a privilege. Only the rich, the big companies, the well-connected could delegate.
Everyone else did everything alone.
That wall is falling.
A small shop owner. A single parent. A sailor at sea. Anyone can now say: "Here's the mission. Go."
When everyone gets a team, everyone becomes a builder.
And a civilization of builders doesn't stay small for long.
Stop asking AI questions.
Give it a job.
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This guy is 60, says he's "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" with tech and makes $25-30K a month with AI.
Here's the story:
About a year ago Bob started putting little AI helpers on small business websites.
Essentially an AI concierge business.
Around 26 clients paying $300 to $4,000 a month.
In this episode Bob:
- Shows how he prices it off what a lead is worth (he just asks AI)
- Gives it away free for 30 days so owners have zero downside
- Builds a demo of their site before he ever walks in
You can literally do this nights and weekends.
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🚨 BREAKING: Polish President Karol Nawrocki just RUSHED IN to the Presidential Palace for an EMERGENCY MEETING after turning his plane around mid-air to STOP the pro-EU tyrannical coup happening at the nation's highest constitutional court
He will reportedly be meeting with the "suspended" conservative chief, and the head of the Supreme Court
THE USA IS WITH POLAND! 🇺🇸🇵🇱
Donald Tusk and his flunkies picked the wrong fight!
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Why did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul!
A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
Everything that exists was created by God?
One student bravely answered:
Yes, created by God.
Did God create everything? - a professor asked.
"Yes, sir," replied the student.
The professor asked:
If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.
The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
Can I ask you a question, professor?
"Of course," replied the professor.
A student got up and asked:
Professor, is cold a thing?
What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?
Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered:
Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees
Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature.
Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
A student continued:
Professor, does darkness exist?
— Of course it exists.
You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness.
We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
Sir. does evil exist?
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.
To this, the student answered:
Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It's the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there's no light.
The student's name was Albert Einstein.
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Rep Eli Crane with some thoughts on the general public being told to be prepared for disruption...
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The guy who kept Shaq and Charles Barkley in line on TV for 37 years used to spend his mornings shaving and dressing his son, who could barely move and breathed through a ventilator. Then he'd go to work and laugh with those guys all night like nothing was going on.
Tonight Ernie Johnson said this season will be his last, and Barkley tried to thank him on air and couldn't get the words out.
I don't think most people watching that clip know what Ernie was carrying all those years.
He and his wife Cheryl adopted Michael from an orphanage outside Bucharest in 1991, when he was 3. He had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and doctors didn't think he'd make it to his 20s. He lived to 33. When Ernie was home, getting Michael ready in the morning could take an hour and a half, and Ernie did the showering and shaving and dressing himself.
In 2006 he told viewers he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and by the end of October he was back at the desk while he was still going through chemo.
When Michael died in 2021, Ernie wasn't on the show that week, and Shaq, Kenny and Chuck spent about six minutes trying to hold it together while they talked about a kid most of America never met.
Then last year he had heart bypass surgery, and this summer he turned 70.
Ernie's dad pitched in the big leagues and then called Braves games for decades, and he gave his son a rule Ernie's talked about forever: if somebody spikes you at second base, never rub.
If you've ever wondered why nobody's been able to copy Inside, that rule is a big part of it. Barkley could say the dumbest thing imaginable, Shaq could fall out of his chair, Kenny could go running to the big board, and Ernie would just pick it up and bring it back to basketball with that yellow legal pad. Those three got to be chaos because the guy in the middle never made his own stuff the show.
He still calls hosting a "get-to job," and he was calling it that the same year he buried his son.
So when Charles Barkley, who's roasted pretty much everybody alive on live TV, can't finish a sentence to the man, that's why.
Charles Barkley and the guys give Ernie Johnson his flowers. This is a must watch.
(via @ohnohedidnt24)
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Before Hollywood, I was living in a van in Hawaii and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. One day, the incredible Rae Dawn Chong walked into the restaurant, and naturally, I went up to her table and said, “Hey, you’re a movie star! What are you doing here?”
She asked if I could act, and I said, “Fuck yeah, put me in your movie!”
She asked for my phone number. The only problem was I didn’t have one. So I gave her my buddy Mike’s number instead. A couple days later, Mike casually mentions, “Oh, by the way, someone called you.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MIKE?!
I called her back, and sure enough, she was serious. I drove over to pick up the script, went back to Mike’s house, and read all 120 pages three times in a row. First script I’d ever read. My character's name was Devon, and I remember thinking, “Sweet! I could totally play a Devon!”
I showed up to the audition with every line and inflection mapped out in pencil. Rae told me I could act and offered me the part. I asked if we were shooting in Hawaii. Nope. Los Angeles.
I had about $60 to my name, a bag of clothes, and some rollerblades.
Then Rae told me they'd fly me out. And I remember thinking right then and there, my life just changed forever. I'm going to be an actor.
That little movie was Cursed Part 3, a low-budget horror comedy that opened the door to Hollywood for me.
I'll forever be grateful to Rae for taking a chance on a kid working at a shrimp restaurant. Everybody starts somewhere, and this is where it all began for me.
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HOLY SH*T. i made my first $10,000 with Grok Bot. THANKS ELON
for months i kept asking myself one thing: how do i build income that runs without me
so i sat down with Grok Bot and we went through dozens of ways to make money
most of them needed clients, time or luck
the fastest one needed none of that: a trading bot on polymarket
so we reverse engineered every crypto bot that prints there
why crypto:
→ a new "Bitcoin up or down" market opens every 5 minutes, 288 a day
→ the Bitcoin price is public, no insider info needed
→ every bet settles in 5 minutes, so you see what works fast
we spent weeks building the strategy together. this is what we ended up with:
→ only the 5-minute Bitcoin markets
→ it waits until about 2 minutes are left
→ Bitcoin is only $10 from where the window started, yet the losing side already sells for 20-40¢
→ it buys that cheap side. it still wins 44% of the time
→ when one side really pulls ahead, it buys the leader near 50¢
→ it rarely pays above 70¢, about 1 buy in 10
→ it skips 7 windows out of 10. $14 a bet, up to $170 on the strongest calls
23 days since we switched it on:
→ +$10,774
→ green 20 days out of 21
→ worst day: -$31
→ 6,692 trades, still running right now
honest part: before we put real money in, we ran it on paper for a week and every version bled. it bought the cheap side every single window and the fees ate everything
want the same setup? this is how mine is built:
→ Scout reads the Chainlink price these markets settle on and works out each side's real chance
→ Trader places the bets on its own, only when a side is 5+ points too cheap after the fee
→ Risk reads every trade each morning and pauses everything after 3 red days in a row
→ Grok Bot routines are too slow for 2-minute calls, so Builder wrote the terminal that actually trades. it runs 24/7 on a $6/month server and talks to Polymarket directly
paste this into Grok Bot to start:
"build me a Polymarket team for the 5-minute "Bitcoin Up or Down" markets: Scout, Trader, Risk and Builder. Scout reads the Chainlink BTC/USD price the markets settle on and works out each side's real chance. Trader flags any side 5+ points too cheap after the fee, never above 70¢, size $15. Risk reviews the log every morning. Builder writes a small terminal for a cheap server so it reacts in seconds. run it on paper first and switch Trader to real bets only after a green week"
full Grok Bot setup in the article below, my wallet in the reply ↓
i'm already building the next bot for another polymarket niche. follow so you don't miss the wallet when it goes live
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Wouldn’t it be nice if there was at least one actually pure website? One without the usual gotchas.
No asking for your email. No parts paywalled. No ads. No data collection.
I think so, which is why I created teddyrookbook.com
Homeschool families get every K–12 course free (with teaching guides and practice that checks answers), plus a lesson planner that builds a week-by-week plan. Science labs. Languages. Music. Etiquette. Logic. Meal planning. Trades and farming. And much more!
I’m building this for my family to use and sharing with others because I’m open to feedback on how it can be better.
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This is a lie that has destroyed countless marriages and families. What this "advice" has done to a generation of children is soul-crushing.
Be wise. Do not get your marriage advice from a Jezebel podcast.
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I asked an AI agent to make me money. It did.
This is one of the best videos I've ever made. I rarely post my YT videos here to X unless I am especially proud of them.
This is a rare one. YT link is in the comments if that's your preference.
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In 1806, John Colter was on his way home with the Lewis and Clark expedition after two years in the wilderness. He was a few weeks from civilization. He asked permission to leave early, turned around, and went right back into the mountains with two trappers.
Over the winter of 1807 to 1808, he traveled alone through hundreds of miles of unmapped country with a 30 pound pack and a rifle. He came back talking about boiling springs, steam shooting out of the ground, and the smell of sulfur. Nobody believed him. People started calling the place "Colter's Hell." He's now considered the first white man to see parts of what became Yellowstone.
Then it got worse.
In 1808, Colter and his partner John Potts were trapping beaver along the Jefferson River in Montana when several hundred Blackfeet warriors surrounded them. Potts fired and was killed instantly.
The Blackfeet stripped Colter completely naked, took his shoes, and gave him a short head start. Then they let their young men chase him.
He ran barefoot across a plain covered in prickly pear cactus, for miles, with the soles of his feet shredding. He ran so hard that blood poured out of his nose and down his chest. When he finally looked back, only one warrior was still close.
Colter stopped, turned around, and faced him. The warrior lunged with his spear, stumbled, and the spear snapped. Colter grabbed the point and killed him with it, then kept running.
He reached the river and dove under a pile of driftwood. He stayed hidden there, mostly underwater, while the Blackfeet searched the banks for hours.
That night he swam downstream and started walking. Naked, no weapon, no food, feet full of cactus. He lived on roots and covered roughly 200 miles before stumbling into a trading fort, where the men there didn't even recognize him.
And then he went back out trapping anyway.
After a few more close calls, he finally quit, moved to Missouri, got married, and died a few years later. Of all the men on the Lewis and Clark expedition, he's the one who never wanted to leave the frontier.
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As France is burning, I keep thinking of what the UAE Foreign Minister said a few years ago 👇
He accurately predicted this.
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Grok Bot built me a completely autonomous business which has already generated $1,100
I think this is the future of the economy
Everyone's agents building and launching microbusinesses autonomously
In this video I walk you through step by step how to set up your own:
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The lion saw Daniel and thought, “Wait, this one belongs to the Lion of Judah. He’s family!” 😭😂🦁
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The calf was born last night. The bear showed up this morning... Our donkey went at it before the cow even knew it was there. Braying, rearing, kicking. The bear went back into the woods and the calf stood up for the first time right after.
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