“The only question is how high prices will go.” Mean Grocer President-elect Donald Trump successfully campaigned on lowering prices, especially at the supermarket. But this could be impossible to achieve if he wants to deliver on his other big promise: the mass deportation of millions of immigrants. As farmers and economists warn, carrying out this… Continue reading If Trump Actually Goes Through With His Deportations, Grocery Prices Will Spike Brutally
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Photos Show Kim Kardashian Holding Hands With Tesla Robot
International celebrity Kim Kardashian has shared a strange series of pictures showing her hanging out — and engaging in just a touch of PDA — with a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot sitting inside a Cybercab. The provocative series of photos, clearly intended to market her shapewear line, didn’t quite hit the mark with her audience… Continue reading Photos Show Kim Kardashian Holding Hands With Tesla Robot
Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers
“There have got to be so many people who are so embarrassed to be repping him on the streets driving their Teslas and who want to completely disavow this guy.” Drag Race For longtime Tesla owners, Elon Musk’s increasing rightwing crusading has made their electric cars into mortifying red flags — and now, a bunch… Continue reading Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers
People Are Getting Their Eyeballs Tattooed
Image by Getty / Futurism An unusual cosmetic surgery procedure that involves permanently changing the color of your eyes using tattoos soaring in popularity. As the Wall Street Journal reports, experts are warning that the procedure — called keratopigmentation, or corneal tattooing — could leave lasting damage. The procedure involves cutting a donut-like tunnel into… Continue reading People Are Getting Their Eyeballs Tattooed
Body Language Expert Says Trump Is Acting “Submissive” Around Musk
“The only other figure with whom the president-elect is so submissive is Vladimir Putin.” Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Musk A body language expert assessed Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s behavior around each other and concluded that the future president is acting uncharacteristically deferential around his star-crossed friend. Former police officer Darren Stanton analyzed a video of… Continue reading Body Language Expert Says Trump Is Acting “Submissive” Around Musk
Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke’s AI Holiday Ad and It’s Way Better
“Brilliant. No notes.” AI Gore Coca-Cola drew criticism for rolling out an uninspired and lazily AI-generated holiday advertisement this year. The ad is pretty much exactly the kind of insipid corporate sludge you’d expect from AI: predictable, unimaginative and vaguely uncanny. Fortunately, Redditors took matters into their own hands, celebrating tooth-rotting soft drinks with a… Continue reading Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke’s AI Holiday Ad and It’s Way Better
Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk’s Grok AI
Image by Matteo Della Torre / NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism To celebrate its new image-understanding capabilities, Elon Musk has encouraged his followers to share medical documents like MRI scans and x-rays with Grok, his AI chatbot integrated into X-formerly-Twitter. “This is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become extremely… Continue reading Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk’s Grok AI
Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers
Some simple tasks are just too hard for the robots. Mike Mulligan Autonomous robots are filling up Amazon warehouses, where they’re sorting, loading, and unloading packages with impressive efficiency. But it sounds like they’re still outmatched by humans when it comes to many essential tasks. The e-commerce giant’s robotic arm Sparrow, for example, excels at… Continue reading Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers
Shopify Allowing Sale of Holocaust Denial Merch
Yikes. Death Merch Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify is defending the right of its clients to sell antisemitic, Holocaust-denying merchandise on its platform. As Bloomberg reports, a store identified by the Anti-Defamation League is selling anti-Jewish propaganda, including parodies of the likeness of Anne Frank. Naturally, the store is marketing the problematic wares on Elon Musk’s… Continue reading Shopify Allowing Sale of Holocaust Denial Merch
As Climate Catastrophe Looms, New York City Declares Drought Warning
We’re in trouble. The Sky Is Falling New York City has declared its first drought warning since 2002, adding to the long list of portentous climate-related events afflicting the US and world more frequently, and forcefully, than ever before in recorded history. Floridians recently endured Hurricane Milton, which one meteorologist described initially as reaching the… Continue reading As Climate Catastrophe Looms, New York City Declares Drought Warning