X is such a delightful place these days. A goes between being a weird hodge-podge of different ideas to becoming a total dumpster fire. It seems to follow some logic that kind of resembles what your viewing patterns are, but can just as likely show you all kinds of different memes, opinions and information. I often veers into racist, obnoxious and fake news and stuff that looks more of a psyop than actually useful informaton. … And I’m loving it.
Here is a totally unstructured set of memes I found on X during the last 6 months. Enjoy the madness that is X, people. Try not to think about it, and you will be fine! With no further ado, here it goes…
The Internet landscape explained in one picture
As a producer/podcaster/broadcaster I can relate to this. People that create something have to wade through loads of products that may or may not help us “mining” the listeners for their attention. SEO-tools, new plugins and the next cool DAW. The overestablishment of creators has led to a total eco-system of crazy stuff sold with the promise of making us stand out. And to what avail? No-one is listening anyhow. But hey, if you’re in the business for a shovel, have I got a deal for you!
Some people don’t want a Fox-Waifu
This is very understandable. I totally agree. What will the world look like when women feel inferor because they don’t have long telescopic ears, a wet nose optimized for hunting and a bushy tail? And what can women do when society requires them to forage for rodents in big hole, pounce on prey or raid the chicken coop?
X runs the AI ragged
Right! On X, everyone asks poor Grok “is this real” even when the picture shows big foot in lingerine in a parking lot. I totally get if he feels tired and wonders if humanity should be allowed to breed. Poor guy!
Are we back to 2020 (Let’s hope not!)
In 2020, this was how we felt. It was horrible. But many still work from home and probably are about to go full Jack Nicholson in the Shining. All work and no play makes us all go bananas!
Finally explained RIGHT!
I’ve seen this meme so many times. It tries to explain societal policies like “should we help the poor” or “let people handle their lives themselves”. But what always irked me was that all pictures showed a bunch of freeloaders trying to see the game without the paying entrance fee. And now… Finally … someone explains the obvious problem with the picture and what it represents. Thank you, dear sirs!
I’m not contesting this
Can’t we have cool code names for war, like many software products. I want the next world war to be code named “Burnt badger” or call it “Nuked Naarwahl” or something.
Elon and Ayn sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g
Elon Must seems to fit in Ayn Rands “Atlas Shrugged”. Seriosuly, he would do just fine as a hero in her book. That’s the book that reveres dark tetrad behavior more than anything. Yeah, seems about what you expect from her… and from him.
Will I respawn or not?
If god has me as a playable character, what is wrong with his specs? And why can he not even play correctly? He has lost every battle based on social skills so far. Nah, this is not good. Are the are the angels with him on a raid? Does satan play as well? Many questions, but no answers. Maybe in the afterlife DLC.
But think about the kittens!!!!!
If it hurts cats, count me out. Also, it’s not stellar that it hurts humanity.
Is god Nietzsche, then?
My first girlfriend suggested this little aphorism:
- God is dead, says Nietzsche.
- Nietzsche is dead, says god.
- Nietzsche is god, says the dead.
This leaves me with the question: what does the undead say? And what does the fox say?
Remember: the only way to win is NOT to play
I remember War Games that I saw as a child. It had an AI (or AGI? or super intelligence?) that tried to figure out if it could win a world war. And it came close to figure that out for real. Maybe there is a story for Trump, Xi-ping and Putin there?
And this is why we can’t have nice things (with AI)
I cannot think of a better way to explain the problem with AI than this. It understands its task or does not, but always acts like it totally gets it. I know some people like that. But then again, those people does not consume whole nuclear power plants to function.
The honey badger… Nature’s arsehole
The honey badger is the worst animal ever. It just totally fails to have any redeeming point whatsoever. If reincarnation works, I would get most dictators and serial killers would become Honey badger in their next life.
This genre has a pretty long rap sheet…
I’m into 60s music. Like classic rock and old Jazz from the old school era. I also, weirdly enough, like chiptune music. But rap. I cannot stand it. In the olden days it was about injustice and the hard life for African Americans. This I could understand, respect and even like. But today it seems to be tough guy-attitude mixed with horrible sampled loops and some sort semblence of rhythm. To quote ABBa’s legendary audio engineer, Michael B. Tretow, “Skare där va musik????”.
Ask not what he did in the oval office
George Carlin may have lived a bit wild, but JFK was a full on hedonist. I will not delve into that more, but he would have impressed Jeffrey Epstein. JFK may have been a good president, but a good man, he was not! George Carlin is brutal in his effective argumentation. It was most certainly not directed at JFK as Carlin entered his “FM”-era much later when he started going form “safe” to “risque” subjects in his shows.
’twas another time
Seen this meme a lot. Three old stuff that is getting popular and a fourth that you hoped would not. But there we are. Art deco is hot, people! Super hawwwwt!
Chuck Norris – the only man who could kill death
Ok, I admit, although with a heavy heart that the man is no more. But he most certainly did not walk gently into that good night. He probably raged, raged and raged against the the dying of the lime-light.
How it feel to live in Sweden today
I try to avoid getting political. But this is a joke comes with a very real background. When Sweden and Finland joined NATO, Russia threatened us with nukes. That was like the only thing you heard from them during that time. Putin, if you nuke us, what good will it do you to occupy the wasteland of Stockholm afterwards? Seems like a stupid thing to do.
Wasn’t he kinda a dick himself?
Seems like the man himself was not without his problems. And neither was mr. Deckard.
The rationalist’s journey is a lonely one
If you act like that, you will have no friends. But you will at least know in your heart that you built your reasoning well. And that makes you ready to battle all what is wrong on the Internet, one irrational Reddit user at the time. Once more into the fray!
Yo, Joe! Praise the Commodore and pass the ammo!
Kudos to the guy on the top of the image. Unless he is AI-slop. Then no. But this is a true (?) rendition of the classic loader screen of GI Joe from the C64 (bottom of the image). Cool!
Thinning lines…
Reddit! Are you reading this? Maybe get out off your neckbeard mancaves and offer some help instead of “helpful advice” from the “Yo’ mama” school of rethoric excellence.
I don’t wanna set the world on fire!
Would it be fun to play Fallout in real life? This observer says “No”, it wouldn’t. But then again, how would we know, without even trying? Might be fun to listen to 40s Jazz and blasting raiders in central Stockholm. Problem is that one might not even get to experience the fun of catastrophical scarcity.
Wise guy, huh?
Sure! We all want to be like him. But can we? Or are we all going to behave like the sad little nerds we are and cry mommy when someone “begs to differ” on the Internet. Not clear, I’m afraid.
Not the philosopher we deserve, but the philosopher we got
Philosophy is stupid! Just some old people shouting assertions at everyone. “You fool! Live as I say you should, not as I lived my life”. Many were rich old morons that didn’t have to live like the people they taught to live on hay so they would get pie in the sky when they die. Then there is the dude! The dude is awesome! Be like the dude!
… But that’s, like, just my opinion dude.
Don’t make any plans, folks!
So far, so good. Half a year to go, what could possibly go wrong?
Seven sins of politics – now in color!
You know this diagram of political views. Lefties to the left, righties to the right and pretty much everyone else in the middle . This is weird, but most people, the way this scale is made, land in the middle of it all. But that’s no way to make a political career. So the edge lords get elected and adhere to their respective ideologies. And now you know which sins to select. Nice! Mine is mostly Sloth and some greed. Because why not?
Told’ya so!
Interesting, no? Back in the day, I preached this logic to everyone and the people in my workplace said things like “let’s go to the cafeteria and listen to Erik’s new conspiracy theories”. But who is laughing now? No one. No one is laughing now. Every nation does this to every other nation. And yes, that is why we can’t save nice things on the Internet.
Nah, that’s Orion….
I have no idea what to say… Sorry. Words elude me.
Stuck in the middle…
What did I say about not being political? Well, here I go again. But actually, can we try not to be swayed but all this deranged “love … or .. hate” of false dichotomy? Nah, never! What would the debates on the Internet be about then? They would actually be interesting, enlightning and, you know, totally boring. And we can’t have that!
So correlation does not imply causation… But is it correlated?
Every now and then AI-slop can be interesting. Enough said!
I hope no one invents a religion with a name based on science….
Nah, no one would ever be that daft. Can’t happen in the best of worlds (that we all live in)
Warning labels are so morons won’t sue… I guess…
I would like to know who this is useful information for. Or rather, please don’t tell me. I don’t.
But she loved me! (That was until my credit cared was declined)
I have seen the AI girlfriends on the Internet and if they were real poeple, they would probably sort under some kind of diagnosis. And I really hope the price of a good graphics card soon goes under the GDP of Tanzania.
My liver begs to differ
In this day and age, its easy to want to soothe your soul with some “sudden comfort”. But you shouldn’t. You know drugs are bad, mmmkay?
Wonder what a sequel to this would look like?
Not to comment on the man himself, but this is not a joke. Biff Tannen, as seen in the second installment of the franchise, is meant to be him. This has been confirmed. And that is interesting.
Great words from a great man
In these days, it’s nice to remember wise words from a great man. Not everyday you find that on the Internet.
When Internet fails in five years from now… Well, now you know how it happened
It’s in Swedish and says “I can vibe code – then the software giants will fall on market”. Yes, and so will the Internet.
Doesn’t matter: everyone already knows everything about everyone
As of lately, Discord wanted you to do this. And tomorrow, it will be someone else for some other reason. But then again, every device and app spies on you. So just complain when you are alone in your apartment and someone will consider what you just said. Unclear if that is really a good thing.
Old man is bitter
SkyNet is an AGI or even superintelligence. Still dumb as a brick, though
What would an AGI or a superintelligence makes out of humanity? Hate, love, serve, control, help, annhilate … or maybe observe us and then say “screw this… I’m out” ?
My parents raised no fool
That Hitler guy, the more I read about him, the less I like him. Really nasty person. Someone should stop him.
Lands of confusion… But this time without Ronald Reagan or Genesis
We’re back in January of 2026 and this is what it looked like. Maybe one day, it will look better. Because worse than this, it can’t get. Right? Right?
If we’re going to play Fallout in real life soon, might as well get the feeling for it
Maaaaaaaaybe ….
Yes, this story we must tell our kids
This I remember. Try to run anything that hasn’t passed through five different malware scanners and three firewalls today. It just isn’t safe. Then again, what is safe on the Internet today?
Hah! As if! Vibe coders couldn’t hit their left foot with that
Another scared comment about the dangers of inflicting code you have never seen, nor understand on the Internet.
I remember when it was ok to just be a big nerd
I might just go into early retirement now.
It makes my security work easier
Back in the day we called everything either “Virus” or “Antivirus”, so I don’t really see what has changed.
Sure, but will it still work afterwards? The computer that is.
The man was still walking the earth and beating up the flowers in the park when I saved this picture. And I believe he could have inserted the USB strick with the power of a thousand sledge hammers. But, would that have been a good thing? Unsure. But the hole in the wall behind the computer afterwards would have been impressive. And the computer would have been found in a neighboring country.
All we know from the pre-war history is in small fragments
The history has been passed down orally between the generations. All we know, is that this was, what we call in in layman’s terms “a bad idea”.
Top rationality or the road to nowhere?
Most people are, as I wrote earlier, in the middle. But all idelogies and thought leaders are falling off the edges. So there…
Please don’t nuke here
In between China, Russia and US – who would be the better one to occupy us? No one, I say. Sweden has done pretty well on its own so far. And our king whould issue a stern protest and the retract it, if this happened. And we can’t have that, can we?
POV Trump
Touch grass, mr president!