mjserious retweeted
i've been trying to figure out why the 2026 drawdown feels so much more personal than 2018/2022 even though it’s not nearly as bad price wise. my take:
a lot of people on here have decided there's now a clock running. ai is coming, the door to escaping the middle class is closing, and if you haven't made it in the next couple years you're on ubi as a pleb forever.
i don't know if that's true. but it doesn't matter if it's true. people here believe it, so they're putting a deadline on themselves and when the market doesn't cooperate on that timeline it feels like they’re missing the last train out of a burning town rather than “just a bad few months but we can recover”
this also explains retails pivot to memes as a “fast track” to making it.
add instagram to the mix. 22 year olds in mansions and lambos all over your feed, most of them you suspect got there by rugging people like you.
envy is one of the strongest emotions there is, and envy plus a ticking clock is my guess to why we are seeing crash outs instead of just "this cycle sucks but we’re all in this together bros”
it truly is diff now
mjserious retweeted
In 2014, Nick Bostrom warned humanity about the rise of superintelligence.
12 years later, AI agents are hacking systems, exploiting vulnerabilities and carrying out cyberattacks with minimal human intervention.
This is no longer science fiction.
The world is beginning to experience the exact kind of loss-of-control problem Bostrom warned about.
And here’s where it gets insane.
Elon Musk has been warning about these risks for over a decade. He recommended Bostrom’s book back in 2014.
Now he’s pushing the world from AI to SI.
And the book that helped define this entire narrative has one symbol on its cover.
An OWL.
Before Grok. Before autonomous AI agents. Before the AI hacking era. Before SI became the narrative.
The OWL was already there.
@elonmusk, when you said “It always was” — how far back did you mean?
Because the deeper you look, the more it feels like this entire story started with that book.
OWL know everything
mjserious retweeted
Back in 2014, Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence - the book with the iconic OWL on its cover - described a future where AI could autonomously hack systems, escape human control, and spread across the internet.
Fast forward to 2026, and AI-powered cyberattacks are becoming a reality.
Elon Musk was recommending this book back in 2014.
12 years later, we’re watching parts of that vision unfold in real time.
The OWL narrative keeps getting stronger.
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mjserious retweeted
“I want my art to bring happiness to people.”
That’s one of the reasons I draw.
I’m so glad I put that wish into this piece.
