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a beautiful dystopia
STOP SCROLLING and WATCH THIS!
Imagine if Steve Jobs woke up in 2026, what might it be like to walk around and see everyone out in public absorbed in their devices, disconnected from real life and each other, what would Steve think about it all from his perspective ?
Steve Jobs, one of the most influential people of the modern era, his ideas changed our world, but was it for the better ?
This is why AI filmmaking is such a powerful medium, to explore an idea that would be impossible to create before.
Genmagnetic Presents :
THE INFLUENCER
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I have seen intelligent people destroy their careers by never learning to play dumb. Conveniently, game theory explains why that happens: In most high-stakes hierarchies, influence is perceived as a zero-sum game. If you appear "too intelligent," you are perceived as a threat. That can lock you out of important networks. Let the others feel superior for a while and hide your intelligence until deployment. Unfortunately, most people will never utilize this strategy. It necessitates acting strategically, not egoistically.
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Claude Code just found proof that every app on your phone is listening to your conversations. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. they're using what you say out loud to build your feed. i have the data to prove it.
i've suspected this for months but last week something happened that made me finally check.
i was on a call with my friend and told him i'm thinking about breaking up with my girlfriend. didn't text it. didn't search it. just said it out loud with my phone on the table. two hours later she opens TikTok next to me and her entire feed is breakups. "signs your relationship is over." "how to heal after a breakup." she looked at me and said "why is TikTok showing me this." i said i don't know. but i did know.
i connected my iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code that same night.
it scanned every app's background microphone activity for the last 90 days. not just the apps that asked for microphone permission. apps that were supposed to only have access to photos or location but were activating the microphone anyway.
what it found:
→ TikTok activated the microphone 347 times while the app was "closed" in the background
→ Instagram → 211 background activations
→ Facebook → 189
→ Snapchat → 94
every activation lasted between 3 and 15 seconds. enough to catch a sentence. every one of them tagged a keyword and cached it locally on the phone with a timestamp.
Claude Code pulled the full keyword cache:
→ "breakup" — tagged 4 hours before her feed changed
→ "moving out" — from a conversation with my mom last Tuesday
→ "wedding venue" — from a call with my sister about her engagement that i never searched once
→ "protein powder" — said it out loud to my roommate, had ads for it within an hour
→ "flight to tokyo" — mentioned it at dinner, saw travel ads the same night
those keywords were sitting in a local cache on my phone organized by app with timestamps. TikTok had the most entries. Instagram was second. every single keyword matched a conversation i had out loud near my phone.
the scariest one was "wedding venue." my sister told me she's getting engaged on a private call. i never searched it. never typed it. within a day my explore page had engagement rings and venue tours.
then Claude Code checked a second phone in the same room. my girlfriend's. same keywords. same timestamps. both phones were picking up the same conversation and tagging it independently.
i asked Claude Code how to shut it down. it mapped every app's microphone access and built a permission audit.
what i did:
→ revoked microphone access from every app that doesn't need it to function
→ disabled background app refresh for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat
→ turned off "Hey Siri" which keeps the microphone in passive listening mode 24/7
→ revoked "nearby interaction" permission which uses ultrasonic audio between devices
Claude Code confirmed all four apps lost background microphone access after the changes. i checked her phone too. same steps. took about 3 minutes per phone.
within 48 hours both our feeds went completely random. generic content. nothing personal. nothing from our conversations. that's when i knew for sure it was real.
the full step by step and the prompt are in the first reply. takes 3 minutes. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone who's ever said "my phone is definitely listening to me." it is. now you can prove it and shut it down.
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2 days before, OP claimed to have found spyware on his "wife's phone":
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Now, in this post, he talks about his "girlfriend":
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OP has a history of fake AI content:
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its still so wild to me that norm was one of the greatest comedians that ever lived, but also would come on twitter and grace us with these stunningly beautiful pieces of wisdom
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Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"
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JUST IN: Wikipedia, Steam, & government websites go offline after OpenAI's AI model discovers critical security flaws threatening millions of web servers worldwide.
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Elon Musk just invested $1 BILLION in Skydance, the company that bought Warner Bros. Discovery and now controls CNN.
I genuinely don’t think today could possibly get any better. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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We’re about to learn that most code written over the last 20 years was complete slop and most software developers were never that good
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BREAKING: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, & other major banks have reportedly detected unauthorized AI agents operating inside customer accounts.
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JUST IN: Elon Musk reveals Tesla is building an “Optimus Academy” where thousands of humanoid robots will practice real-world tasks, learning from their mistakes to continuously improve.
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I've been GrokBot pilled.
First of all, Grok knows me better than other bots, like Meta Muse, thanks to the 300,000 posts I've done here for 20 years.
But now that GrokBot @bot can read lists, it opens up powerful new personalized news capabilities.
I've done this for about a year over on alignednews.com -- but last month my X API bill alone was $6,000.
For a couple of hundred a month you can do the same with lists, either you create, or ones other people have created.
Last night I stuck in my "best in AI" list and had it write me this news page: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Every hour my bot reads that list and builds me a new news page. Now I've only put about 10 minutes of effort into this so far. So it's not the prettiest thing you ever have seen, but my bots are working on other ways to present them to me.
And you can do the same for any topic you care about. You just need to build a list, or find one that's already built and there are millions of lists here on X on literally any topic.
Put your favorite football team onto a list, along with all your favorite journalists or other fans. Then have Grok bot read them for you.
And that's just the start. You can have it write you a script based on the news, then copy that into, say, @Gemini_Notebook and then you get a podcast, or a video. Based on what people are saying on your topic here on X.
Thank you so much X for making lists far more powerful than they ever were before. Makes the thousands of hours I've put into mine over 20 years so much more useful.
Tips?
Start small. You can chew through your tokens very quickly. It's amazing how good it is with a small list, like this one, which is what created the page up above: xitter.gq/i/lists/19535363366753… (Best AI accounts I've found out of 70,000 here on X).
Don't over hit it. You only need your bot to read the list every hour. Maybe even less. If anything is really important it gets reshared into lists, so the bot doesn't need to hit it often to build you a really great set of things that are important to pay attention to.
I've been begging for this capability for years. THANK YOU X!
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JUST IN: Elon Musk reveals Grok Bot is experiencing the fastest product growth he has ever witnessed.
This is huge.
Elon just changed what wins on X.
Not likes. Not outrage. Not the loudest headline.
Time.
Overnight he announced two changes to the timeline. A new AI ranking model that predicts much better how long people will actually spend on a post. And a retrieval model trained to surface posts people read all the way through.
Read that again.
All the way through.
For fifteen years, social media ran on one business model: hijack your thumb. Make it angry, make it short, make it scroll.
The result? Millions of people arguing about articles nobody opened.
Everyone assumed that was just human nature.
It wasn't. It was the incentive.
Change what the machine rewards, and you change what people create.
Reward rage, you get rage.
Reward clickbait, you get clickbait.
Reward depth, and suddenly people start thinking before they post.
That's what most people miss about Elon.
He doesn't complain about incentives. He rewrites them.
Tesla didn't beg the car industry to care about electric. It built cars so good the industry had to follow.
SpaceX didn't lobby for cheaper rockets. It landed them, and the cost of reaching orbit collapsed.
Now X is doing the same thing to the scarcest resource on Earth: your attention.
And according to Elon, user active seconds are growing exponentially, hitting all-time highs almost every day.
Turns out people don't hate reading.
They hate wasting their time.
Fun fact: if you're still here, you just trained the algorithm. Welcome to the experiment.
Small change in code. Big change in civilization.
Because a species that wants to become multiplanetary can't run on an eight-second attention span.
Nobody gets to Mars by skimming.
You get there by thinking long, building long, and finishing what you start.
Even posts.