Technology Blows

Dan Slimmon

Like a self-driving Uber at a busy crosswalk, technological innovation keeps hurtling boldly ahead. Whether you’re choking down a mug of Keurig between back-to-back Zoom calls, granting GPS permission to the iPhone app that flashes your vape pen’s firmware, or just silently praying for the haywire inventory bot at the supermarket to come out of Sentinel Mode so you can scramble to safety, Technology Blows is the audio tour guide for your information-age malaise.

  1. 6d ago

    The Guillotine: Grandfather Clock of Death (2/2)

    In celebration of Bastille Day, enjoy this 2-part episode on the guillotine. Find out: How a death penalty abolitionist became the namesake the world's most famous execution machineWhat makes the guillotine such an effective but unwieldy political toolWhich treacherous wizard witnessed France's final public guillotiningReferences: Camus, Albert. (1957). Reflections on the Guillotine. Translated by Richard Howard. Evergreen. Logevall, Fredrik. (2012). Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Random House. Smith, Philip. (2003). "Narrating the Guillotine: Punishment Technology as Myth and Symbol." Theory, Culture & Society 20(5): 27–51. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.30.2.201 https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge/page/692/mode/1up https://huongduongtxd.com/theguillotine.pdf https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-camus-reflections-on-the-guillotine https://books.google.nl/books?id=I2liDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA259#v=onepage&q&f=false https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9930870/#REF2 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764030205002 https://guillotine.dk/pages/history.html https://guillotine.dk/pages/louis.html#memorandum https://guillotine.dk/pages/weidmann.html https://guillotine.dk/pages/30sek.html https://tutoreto.com/the-history-of-the-berger-guillotine https://boisdejustice.com/Germany/Germany.html https://www.lexpress.fr/societe/il-y-a-80-ans-la-derniere-execution-publique-fait-scandale_2083762.html https://www.history.com/articles/the-guillotines-first-cut https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/06/a-short-history-of-the-executioner https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/executioners-who-inherited-their-jobs-180967947 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Henri_Sanson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine https://capitalpunishmentuk.org/execution-by-beheading-decapitation https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/11/guillotine-death-penalty-lethal-injection-is-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-slicing-off-the-head-is-the-better-way-to-go.html https://www.statista.com/statistics/994260/reintroduction-death-penalty-france https://web.archive.org/web/20130731141543/http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000319513&dateTexte=20090728 https://web.archive.org/web/20110720164546/http://www.histoirepassion.eu/spip.php?article1360 https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/contemporary-art-day-auction-l18025/lot.126.html https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/CHANEL-GUILLOTINE/5F7FA3427BBBEED1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Corday_(painting) https://www.newspapers.com/image/1237844599 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HP6UKFHKOiY https://snopes.com/fact-check/head-man

    The Guillotine: Grandfather Clock of Death (2/2)

  2. Jul 14

    The Guillotine: Grandfather Clock of Death (1/2)

    In celebration of Bastille Day, enjoy this 2-part episode on the guillotine. Find out: How a death penalty abolitionist became the namesake the world's most famous execution machineWhat makes the guillotine such an effective but unwieldy political toolWhich treacherous wizard witnessed France's final public guillotiningReferences: Camus, Albert. (1957). Reflections on the Guillotine. Translated by Richard Howard. Evergreen. Logevall, Fredrik. (2012). Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Random House. Smith, Philip. (2003). "Narrating the Guillotine: Punishment Technology as Myth and Symbol." Theory, Culture & Society 20(5): 27–51. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.30.2.201 https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge/page/692/mode/1up https://huongduongtxd.com/theguillotine.pdf https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-camus-reflections-on-the-guillotine https://books.google.nl/books?id=I2liDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA259#v=onepage&q&f=false https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9930870/#REF2 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764030205002 https://guillotine.dk/pages/history.html https://guillotine.dk/pages/louis.html#memorandum https://guillotine.dk/pages/weidmann.html https://guillotine.dk/pages/30sek.html https://tutoreto.com/the-history-of-the-berger-guillotine https://boisdejustice.com/Germany/Germany.html https://www.lexpress.fr/societe/il-y-a-80-ans-la-derniere-execution-publique-fait-scandale_2083762.html https://www.history.com/articles/the-guillotines-first-cut https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/06/a-short-history-of-the-executioner https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/executioners-who-inherited-their-jobs-180967947 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Henri_Sanson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine https://capitalpunishmentuk.org/execution-by-beheading-decapitation https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/11/guillotine-death-penalty-lethal-injection-is-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-slicing-off-the-head-is-the-better-way-to-go.html https://www.statista.com/statistics/994260/reintroduction-death-penalty-france https://web.archive.org/web/20130731141543/http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000319513&dateTexte=20090728 https://web.archive.org/web/20110720164546/http://www.histoirepassion.eu/spip.php?article1360 https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/contemporary-art-day-auction-l18025/lot.126.html https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/CHANEL-GUILLOTINE/5F7FA3427BBBEED1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Corday_(painting) https://www.newspapers.com/image/1237844599 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HP6UKFHKOiY https://snopes.com/fact-check/head-man

    The Guillotine: Grandfather Clock of Death (1/2)

  3. Jul 1

    Cash Registers and the Man Divinely Appointed to Build Them (2/2)

    The cash register: a machine invented because your boss doesn't trust you to count. Join me and my guest Daniel Ryan to learn: Why we can thank the father of cash registers for B2B sales, office cafeterias, and maybe even the Buzzfeed listicleHow one man's fall from a horse led to the entire world being poisoned with leaded gasolineHow many baked potatoes is too many baked potatoesReferences: Conover, Charlotte Reeve. (1939). Builders in New Fields. G.P. Putnam's Sons.Crowther, Samuel. (1924). John H. Patterson: Pioneer in Industrial Welfare. Doubleday, Page & Company.Friedman, Walter A. (2004). Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Harvard University Press.https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/5d/2e/92/8bbb58c75ecb6a/US271363.pdfhttps://archive.org/details/johnhpattersonpi00crow/page/20/mode/2uphttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htmhttps://www.anchin.com/uploads/1413/doc/News_Rest-101Steal_FB.pdfhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20551940.2024.2307721St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 21, 1901, p. 11.St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 26, 1901, p. 44.https://www.brassregisters.com/fwl3/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1898-NCR-catalogue-Introduction-Terms.pdfhttps://www.brassregisters.com/fwl3/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/NCR-catalogue-1909-color-400-class.pdfhttps://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/incorruptable_cashier.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/llkUXxpIo20

    Cash Registers and the Man Divinely Appointed to Build Them (2/2)

  4. Jun 24

    Cash Registers and the Man Divinely Appointed to Build Them (1/2)

    The cash register: a machine invented because your boss doesn't trust you to count. Join me and my guest Daniel Ryan to learn: Why we can thank the father of cash registers for B2B sales, office cafeterias, and maybe even the Buzzfeed listicleHow one man's fall from a horse led to the entire world being poisoned with leaded gasolineHow many baked potatoes is too many baked potatoesReferences: Conover, Charlotte Reeve. (1939). Builders in New Fields. G.P. Putnam's Sons.Crowther, Samuel. (1924). John H. Patterson: Pioneer in Industrial Welfare. Doubleday, Page & Company.Friedman, Walter A. (2004). Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Harvard University Press.https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/5d/2e/92/8bbb58c75ecb6a/US271363.pdfhttps://archive.org/details/johnhpattersonpi00crow/page/20/mode/2uphttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htmhttps://www.anchin.com/uploads/1413/doc/News_Rest-101Steal_FB.pdfhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20551940.2024.2307721St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 21, 1901, p. 11.St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 26, 1901, p. 44.https://www.brassregisters.com/fwl3/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1898-NCR-catalogue-Introduction-Terms.pdfhttps://www.brassregisters.com/fwl3/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/NCR-catalogue-1909-color-400-class.pdfhttps://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/incorruptable_cashier.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/llkUXxpIo20

    Cash Registers and the Man Divinely Appointed to Build Them (1/2)

  5. Jun 3

    Ticketmaster: How a Company that Does Nothing Came to Own Everything (Part 2)

    On this week's episode, Meg Sinick joins me for the saga of Ticketmaster: the company that swallowed up and digested the live music industry by making a product that literally no one wants. Find out: How service fees and exclusive contracts turned the thriving music scene into a $300 Lil Jon meet-and-greet atop a pyramid of bleached skullsWhy the concentrated hate of millions of concertgoers only makes Ticketmaster more powerfulHow Taylor Swift finished what Eddie Vedder started (and also Kid Rock was there)References: Budnick, Dean, and Josh Baron. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped. New York: Plume, 2012.https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/reports/Ticket_Sales_Report.pdf https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970504/2537429/paul-allen-caught-in-the-middle----his-varied-business-ventures-sometimes-collide-with-those-of-microsoft-the-firm-he-helped-found https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/?ref=404media.co https://faqs.axs.co.uk https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/live-at-wharton-music-man-ron-delsener/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qoim5FInvN4 https://manicpresents.com/about/ https://musicsustainability.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/628/2025/08/The-LiveNation_Ticketmaster-Merger_-A-citizens-guide.pdf https://nclnet.org/live_event_ticketing_guide/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33288959 https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/ahead-trial-attorney-general-bonta-lays-out-case-against-live-nation https://playbill.com/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-ticketmasters-verified-fan-ticket-buying https://prospect.org/2022/12/21/ticketmasters-dark-history/ https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/089533003765888449 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10185618/event-brite-qr-code https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e91157c96fe495a4baf48f2/t/68e58e39bce25b729b47932e/1759874617679/2025-NIVA-State-of-Live-Report.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20240402023930/https://help.ticketmaster.com/hc/en-us/articles/9663528775313-How-are-ticket-prices-and-fees-determined https://web.archive.org/web/20241209042105/https://www.ticketmaster.com/mobile-tickets https://www.404media.co/scalpers-are-working-with-hackers-to-liberate-non-transferable-tickets-from-ticketmasters-ecosystem/ https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/online-ticket-sale-fees/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/11/23/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-buys-control-of-ticketmaster/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-07-17-9507210012-story.html https://www.classaction.org/media/heckman-et-al-v-live-nation-entertainment-inc-et-al.pdf https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/media/taylor-swift-tickets-resale-market/index.html https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/03/09/music-industry-revenue-us-2021/ https://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/testimon.shtml https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/paperless-ticket-trend-leaves-unbanked-outside-the-gate https://www.hypebot.com/adele-plots-ou-tour-with-indie-promoters-snubbing-live-nation-aeg/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/06/27/live-nation-ticketmaster-among-issues-at-indie-music-venue-conference/84342601007/ https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nj/Press/files/Lowson,%20Kenneth%20et%20al%20News%20Release.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ticketmaster-pays-10-million-criminal-fine-intrusions-competitor-s-computer-systems-0 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-31-fi-5143-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-09-ca-136-story.html https://www.natb.org/why-natb/ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32898804 https://www.newspapers.com/image/176472943/?match=1&terms=ticketmaster%20fees%20service%20facility https://www.newspapers.com/image/35017641/?match=1&terms=ticket%20scalpershttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rare-humanism-behind-paul-allens-technological-vision

    Ticketmaster: How a Company that Does Nothing Came to Own Everything (Part 2)

  6. May 20

    Ticketmaster: How a Company that Does Nothing Came to Own Everything (Part 1)

    On this week's episode, Meg Sinick joins me for the saga of Ticketmaster: the company that swallowed up and digested the live music industry by making a product that literally no one wants. Find out: How service fees and exclusive contracts turned the thriving music scene into a $300 Lil Jon meet-and-greet atop a pyramid of bleached skullsWhy the concentrated hate of millions of concertgoers only makes Ticketmaster more powerfulHow Taylor Swift finished what Eddie Vedder started (and also Kid Rock was there)References: Budnick, Dean, and Josh Baron. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped. New York: Plume, 2012.https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/reports/Ticket_Sales_Report.pdf https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970504/2537429/paul-allen-caught-in-the-middle----his-varied-business-ventures-sometimes-collide-with-those-of-microsoft-the-firm-he-helped-found https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/?ref=404media.co https://faqs.axs.co.uk https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/live-at-wharton-music-man-ron-delsener/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qoim5FInvN4 https://manicpresents.com/about/ https://musicsustainability.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/628/2025/08/The-LiveNation_Ticketmaster-Merger_-A-citizens-guide.pdf https://nclnet.org/live_event_ticketing_guide/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33288959 https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/ahead-trial-attorney-general-bonta-lays-out-case-against-live-nation https://playbill.com/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-ticketmasters-verified-fan-ticket-buying https://prospect.org/2022/12/21/ticketmasters-dark-history/ https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/089533003765888449 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10185618/event-brite-qr-code https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e91157c96fe495a4baf48f2/t/68e58e39bce25b729b47932e/1759874617679/2025-NIVA-State-of-Live-Report.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20240402023930/https://help.ticketmaster.com/hc/en-us/articles/9663528775313-How-are-ticket-prices-and-fees-determined https://web.archive.org/web/20241209042105/https://www.ticketmaster.com/mobile-tickets https://www.404media.co/scalpers-are-working-with-hackers-to-liberate-non-transferable-tickets-from-ticketmasters-ecosystem/ https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/online-ticket-sale-fees/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/11/23/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-buys-control-of-ticketmaster/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-07-17-9507210012-story.html https://www.classaction.org/media/heckman-et-al-v-live-nation-entertainment-inc-et-al.pdf https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/media/taylor-swift-tickets-resale-market/index.html https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/03/09/music-industry-revenue-us-2021/ https://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/testimon.shtml https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/paperless-ticket-trend-leaves-unbanked-outside-the-gate https://www.hypebot.com/adele-plots-ou-tour-with-indie-promoters-snubbing-live-nation-aeg/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/06/27/live-nation-ticketmaster-among-issues-at-indie-music-venue-conference/84342601007/ https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nj/Press/files/Lowson,%20Kenneth%20et%20al%20News%20Release.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ticketmaster-pays-10-million-criminal-fine-intrusions-competitor-s-computer-systems-0 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-31-fi-5143-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-09-ca-136-story.html https://www.natb.org/why-natb/ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32898804 https://www.newspapers.com/image/176472943/?match=1&terms=ticketmaster%20fees%20service%20facility https://www.newspapers.com/image/35017641/?match=1&terms=ticket%20scalpershttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rare-humanism-behind-paul-allens-technological-vision

    Ticketmaster: How a Company that Does Nothing Came to Own Everything (Part 1)

  7. May 6

    Grok: Elon's Truth-Seeking AI Liar that Became Hitler (Part 2)

    Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Join me and my guest Matt Johnson to find out: What Grok has in common with turn-of-the-20th-century tsarist propagandaThe 3 Jewish-adjacent facts that make it okay for Elon Musk to joke about JewsWhy LLMs sometimes become MechaHitler, but never CyberMaoReferences: Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Penguin Classics, 2017.https://academictorrents.com/details/5f96d43576e3d386c9ba65b883210a393b68210e https://anewz.tv/science/artificial-intelligence/3045/elon-musks-xai-releases-grok-3-its-latest-flagship-ai-mode/news https://apnews.com/article/parody-ad-ai-harris-musk-x-misleading-3a5df582f911a808d34f68b766aa3b8e https://archive.ph/pLqkg https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/supporting-peoples-right-to-accurate-and-safe-political-discourse-on-x1 https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Toxic-Twitter_FINAL.pdf https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/tech/grok-3-release-elon-musk/index.html https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/ https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1 https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/blob/main/grok4_system_turn_prompt_v8.j2 https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/82a9ce73bcd1422d2abd899ee7340e545f729e0b https://gizmodo.com/most-embarrassing-blunders-elon-musks-grok-ai-news-1851416945 https://gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok-praises-hitler-as-elon-musks-ai-tool-goes-full-nazi-2000626156 https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/intimate-media https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/manipulated-media https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-ai-chatbot-grok-fake-news-trending-explore https://mashable.com/article/twitter-ad-share-revenue-creators-elon-musk-favorites-eligibility https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-creator-fund-ad-revenue-sharing https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/how-the-hitchhikers-guide-inspired-elon-musk https://observer.com/2024/07/openai-founders-career/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-ai-grok-llm https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/27/elon-musk-fired-top-twitter-execs-including-ceo-reports-say/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/elon-musk-x-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-actual-truth/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/elon-musk-says-go-f**k-yourself-to-advertisers-leaving-x/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/elon-musk-says-all-premium-subscribers-on-x-will-gain-access-to-ai-chatbot-grok-this-week/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/05/secretaries-of-state-urge-x-to-stop-its-grok-chatbot-from-spreading-election-misinformation/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/meet-black-forest-labs-the-startup-powering-elon-musks-unhinged-ai-image-generator/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/04/x-is-hiring-staff-for-security-and-safety-after-two-years-of-layoffs/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/03/black-forest-labs-the-startup-behind-groks-image-generator-releases-an-api/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/10/x-is-testing-a-free-version-of-ai-chatbot-grok/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/07/elon-musks-x-gains-a-new-image-generator-aurora/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/xai-is-testing-a-standalone-ios-app-for-its-grok-chatbot/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/18/grok-says-its-skeptical-about-holocaust-death-toll-then-blames-programming-error/ https://time.com/6260185/elon-musk-ai-culture-wars/ https://venturebeat.com/ai/doomer-advisor-joins-musks-xai-the-4th-top-research-lab-focused-on-ai-apocalypse

    Grok: Elon's Truth-Seeking AI Liar that Became Hitler (Part 2)

  8. Apr 29

    Grok: Elon's Truth-Seeking AI Liar that Became Hitler (Part 1)

    Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Join me and my guest Matt Johnson to find out: What Grok has in common with turn-of-the-20th-century tsarist propagandaThe 3 Jewish-adjacent facts that make it okay for Elon Musk to joke about JewsWhy LLMs sometimes become MechaHitler, but never CyberMaoReferences: Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Penguin Classics, 2017.https://academictorrents.com/details/5f96d43576e3d386c9ba65b883210a393b68210e https://anewz.tv/science/artificial-intelligence/3045/elon-musks-xai-releases-grok-3-its-latest-flagship-ai-mode/news https://apnews.com/article/parody-ad-ai-harris-musk-x-misleading-3a5df582f911a808d34f68b766aa3b8e https://archive.ph/pLqkg https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/supporting-peoples-right-to-accurate-and-safe-political-discourse-on-x1 https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Toxic-Twitter_FINAL.pdf https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/tech/grok-3-release-elon-musk/index.html https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/ https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1 https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/blob/main/grok4_system_turn_prompt_v8.j2 https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/82a9ce73bcd1422d2abd899ee7340e545f729e0b https://gizmodo.com/most-embarrassing-blunders-elon-musks-grok-ai-news-1851416945 https://gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok-praises-hitler-as-elon-musks-ai-tool-goes-full-nazi-2000626156 https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/intimate-media https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/manipulated-media https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-ai-chatbot-grok-fake-news-trending-explore https://mashable.com/article/twitter-ad-share-revenue-creators-elon-musk-favorites-eligibility https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-creator-fund-ad-revenue-sharing https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/how-the-hitchhikers-guide-inspired-elon-musk https://observer.com/2024/07/openai-founders-career/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-ai-grok-llm https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/27/elon-musk-fired-top-twitter-execs-including-ceo-reports-say/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/elon-musk-x-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-actual-truth/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/elon-musk-says-go-f**k-yourself-to-advertisers-leaving-x/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/elon-musk-says-all-premium-subscribers-on-x-will-gain-access-to-ai-chatbot-grok-this-week/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/05/secretaries-of-state-urge-x-to-stop-its-grok-chatbot-from-spreading-election-misinformation/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/meet-black-forest-labs-the-startup-powering-elon-musks-unhinged-ai-image-generator/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/04/x-is-hiring-staff-for-security-and-safety-after-two-years-of-layoffs/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/03/black-forest-labs-the-startup-behind-groks-image-generator-releases-an-api/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/10/x-is-testing-a-free-version-of-ai-chatbot-grok/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/07/elon-musks-x-gains-a-new-image-generator-aurora/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/xai-is-testing-a-standalone-ios-app-for-its-grok-chatbot/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/18/grok-says-its-skeptical-about-holocaust-death-toll-then-blames-programming-error/ https://time.com/6260185/elon-musk-ai-culture-wars/ https://venturebeat.com/ai/doomer-advisor-joins-musks-xai-the-4th-top-research-lab-focused-on-ai-apocalypse

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