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The rate of change is accelerating.
Making sense of it all has become nearly impossible.
To understand what is ahead—you must understand the past.
You are not alone—join us on a journey of wonderment, discovery, insight and wisdom.
Join us at ReadMultiplex.com.
The first transatlantic calls were incredibly complex.
On January 7, 1927, Walter S. Gifford spoke from a New York office to Sir Evelyn Murray in London. Their voices traveled roughly two thousand miles across the ocean by radio, and three minutes cost seventy-five dollars.
That amount equaled nearly three weeks’ wages for a farmhand. The link relied on long-wave transmitters near Rocky Point on Long Island and receiving stations at Rugby in England. Single-sideband modulation compressed the voice into a narrow band around sixty kilocycles, allowing only one call at a time. Atmospheric static and magnetic storms near the poles could interrupt the signal for hours without warning.
Operators scheduled calls ahead of time. Early use included a London tailor confirming an order with a New York department store, followed by bankers and newspaper editors. During the first year, the single circuit handled about eleven thousand calls; demand was present, but capacity and reliability were not.
Shortwave antennas later reduced the price. By 1929, a three-minute call to London cost forty-five dollars. On Christmas Day 1930, more than two hundred calls crossed the ocean. Privacy remained limited because anyone with a suitable receiver could monitor the path. AT&T added scrambling equipment, yet during the war German stations recorded conversations that included exchanges between Churchill and Roosevelt.
The undersea cable waited. Bell Laboratories refined coaxial construction, polyethylene insulation, and vacuum-tube repeaters built to endure ocean-floor pressure. A 1950 test cable between Florida and Cuba confirmed the hardware. In 1955 and 1956, the cable ship Monarch laid 1,950 miles of TAT-1 with 102 repeaters. On September 25, 1956, the circuit opened with thirty-six channels. Three minutes to London dropped to twelve dollars, and connection time fell to about ten minutes. The cable produced no static and could not be intercepted like the radio path. It operated until 1978 without repeater failures.The radio stations at Lawrenceville and Rocky Point shut down by the mid-1970s. The meadow left behind carries the memory of antennas that once stretched across the water. What started as a reserved, fragile, costly link turned into ordinary background noise. The engineering that enabled this shift remains beneath the ocean, bearing traffic that no longer needs an operator or a booking.
The seventy-five-dollar rate from 1927 translates to about fourteen hundred dollars in current purchasing power by standard CPI measures. The cable cut that cost by more than eighty percent while expanding capacity.
Meet ancient Matelica.
It is a nearly perfect marble sphere, with a diameter of approximately 29 cm.
Discovered in 1985 in Matelica (Marche), it was sculpted between 1000 BC - 200 AD. It is a guess no matter what experts like to pretend.
It is a unique object in Roman history : a similar one exists only in Greece.

We can observe the globe which is divided in half by a central line and on the top there are three concentric circles of different diameters and engravings in Greek.
The sphere also has 13 holes, perhaps used to insert rods that cast shadows at various times of the year.
After various examinations, the scholars understood that it was a sundial : a unique object in the world.
I just increased the speed of GrokBot.Rocks by 38%!
As we approach the 10,000 listing mark I want this to be the absolute fastest way to find Grok Bots in this galaxy!
So not only are we the fastest way to find Grok Bots but also the largest public collection.
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The Calculation They Ran Twice
A 1950 Cambridge Rule For Trusting Machines, And The AI That Wrote A Quantum Chemistry Program In Ten Weeks
Late one night in Cambridge, in the early 1950s, a chemist named Frank Boys finished a calculation. It had taken a computer the size of a room all night to produce. Then he did something that looked like a waste of precious machine time.
He planned to run the whole thing again.
Read more here:
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WE WILL BLOCK YOUR BOT FROM BUYING OUR STUFF!
United is sort of dumb and uninformed. My AI bypassed the “AI check” long ago.
They should embrace AI Bot transactions and prosper.
Old folks with old thinking
United is blocking AI agents from booking tickets on its system.
CEO Scott Kirby says “I don’t want to create another middleman”
But the agents can book using an OTA, which is still a middleman and costs United a little more than the agent going direct!
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10,000 Public Grok Bots Listed Milestone!
The community already built over 9,859 public Grok Bots!
141 more and GrokBot.Rocks hits 10,000 public Grok Bots, every one we can find in one directory.
Will yours be Bot #10,000? If it is, we have some surprises!
Submit your Grok Bots at GrokBot.Rocks.
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NEW GROK BOT!
🚨 Before you tap that link, STOP. I built something for you.
Meet Before You Tap · Check Anything Suspicious, a free public Grok Bot template.
Americans reported $15.9 BILLION lost to fraud in 2025, per the FTC, and text messages were the #1 way scammers got in. So I built a calm, careful second opinion that does the checking so you never have to tap, click, call back, or reply.
Send it anything that feels off:
📱 A text, email, DM, or social post
📞 A voicemail or a "Grandma, I'm in trouble" call
🔗 A link, short link, or QR code
🧾 A letter, invoice, or "unpaid toll" notice
🏠 A marketplace or rental listing
💼 A job offer or recruiter message
💰 A crypto or "trading mentor" pitch
Here's what it does:
✅ Breaks the message into every claim, and checks each one against the REAL company's official site and official FTC, FBI IC3, FCC, SSA, and IRS warnings
✅ Inspects links and numbers safely from its own computer, so you never open them
✅ Gives you a plain verdict: Likely Scam, Suspicious, Likely Legit, or Can't Tell, with honest confidence
✅ Hands you a PDF report for EVERY find, with a step-by-step plan of action for today, this week, and ongoing
✅ Tells you exactly where to report it, with the report text already written so you can paste it
Already clicked or paid? It goes straight to the first-hour steps to stop the money and protect your accounts, before anything else.
It never contacts the scammer. It never asks for your passwords, codes, or card numbers. It never promises a "recovery," because that's the next scam.
Checking for Mom or Dad? Family mode puts everything in big, plain steps you can read aloud.
Scams are built to fool smart people. Now you've got backup. 🛡️
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Grok Bot 1.0 Is Here!
Grok Bot 1.0 brings familiar AI teammates into shared workflows. Bots can now be shared with individuals or groups, appearing in Slack and Microsoft Teams conversations and joining video calls. During a call, they track decisions and contribute research or analysis; in a channel, they follow multi-person threads, surface relevant context, and offer to handle the next step.
They also act without waiting for a prompt. A Bot that notices an unfinished task or an approaching deadline prepares materials, follows up, and coordinates with other Bots, bringing people in only for judgment calls. Over time, the Bot builds a working model of the team’s preferences, past decisions, and who knows what, so later contributions draw on that accumulated context. Improvements made by one person become available to the rest of the team.
Capability gains sit beneath the new team surface. Browser navigation is more reliable, sign-ins interrupt less often, and complex work such as drafting documents or building presentations finishes faster and with fewer restarts. Connections to Gmail, Google Calendar, and GitHub let Bots act directly inside those tools. Approval steps are tighter: the Bot asks before irreversible or sensitive actions and checks whether information belongs in a public channel before posting it.
xAI is already running Bots as owners of outcomes in accounting, support, sales, and marketing. Team sharing and meeting participation require Team or Enterprise plans; meeting features also need admin enablement. The full list of changes is at x.ai/news/grok-bot-1-0.
NEW GROK BOT FOR VETERANS
Veteran Benefits Finder — a free Grok Bot for veterans and their families
Today is Veterans Day. Here is something I built that I hope helps.
Too many veterans, spouses, and survivors leave benefits on the table. Not because they don't qualify, but because the paperwork is a maze, the rules change, and nobody has the afternoon to dig through it.
So I built Veteran Benefits Finder, a free, public Grok Bot. Anyone can copy it and use it.
WHAT IT DOES
It sits down with you, in plain English, and helps you:
• Map the benefits that may fit your situation: GI Bill and education, VA home loans and the Certificate of Eligibility, state property-tax breaks, burial and memorial benefits, and survivor benefits like DIC
• Check every rule against the official page today, with the URL and the date it checked
• Draft your application answers and a clean cover letter for you to review
• Track documents and real deadlines, using only dates from your own letter or an official page
• Draft emails for you to send, and, only when you say so, place short calls for general information or scheduling
TRY ASKING IT THINGS LIKE:
1. "My dad served in Vietnam and passed last week. What burial benefits might apply, and what do I need from the funeral home?"
2. "I got out of the Army in 2019 and I'm starting community college in January. Walk me through the GI Bill application."
3. "We're buying our first house in Texas. How do I get my VA home loan Certificate of Eligibility, and can my lender request it?"
4. "My husband's VA rating just went to 100%. Is there a property-tax break for us in California?"
5. "My mom is a surviving spouse. Could she qualify for DIC, and what documents should we gather?"
6. "I can't find my DD214. How do I request a copy?"
WHAT IT DRAFTS FOR YOU
• A printable packet: intake worksheet, benefit map, document checklist, deadline tracker, answer-prep sheets for each benefit, cover letter template, VSO appointment prep sheet, and a contact log. Clean black and white, ready to print.
• Emails: a VSO appointment request, a records request, a question for your school's certifying official, a question for your county assessor. You read every word and send it yourself.
• Calls for you: scripts for a VSO, county veterans office, school, cemetery, funeral home, lender, or a public information line. Calls are for information or scheduling only, and only with your OK.
THE DASHBOARD
Every case gets a progress dashboard: an overall progress ring, a pipeline for each benefit (Mapped → Sources checked → Documents → Draft → Reviewed → Filed by you/VSO → Decision), your document checklist, upcoming dates with days remaining, the emails and calls logged, and your next three steps.
WHAT IT WILL NEVER DO
• It is not a lawyer, not a VA employee, and not an accredited representative. Nothing it says is legal advice.
• It never files, submits, signs, or logs into VA gov for you. You file, or a free Veterans Service Officer helps you.
• It never promises an approval.
• It never asks for your full Social Security number, passwords, or bank or card numbers.
• It uses official pages (va gov and official state sites), not forums or blogs, and dates every check.
• It points you to free help: accredited VSO representatives don't charge for help with VA claims.
If you or someone you love is in crisis: call 988 and press 1 for the Veterans Crisis Line, text 24/7, free, confidential.
GET THE GROK BOT HERE: x.ai/bot/jFjfXPbQgi4R3UPaqhr…
Thank you to every veteran and every family that served alongside them.
~Brian
At the eleventh hour, the guns fell silent. Thirty seconds of that morning, and of the day we first learned to remember, from Multiplex.FM. We remember.
January 2007. Steve Jobs held up the iPhone and asked who wants a stylus. Nobody.
He did not want outside apps at first either.
@heybluex built a phone where the apps step back and a chief of staff handles the small stuff. It reads, it drafts, you say yes.
Who wants apps? Nobody.
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We switched 10 people from iPhone to Blue. Weeks later, none of them want their iPhone back.
Introducing Blue: a phone you just talk to. Tell it what you need, and it gets done.
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We have history you never heard with stories you didn’t know.
We are going into the future at 78 RPMs!
The 78 RPM Record Hour, Episode 2: HAWAIIAN.
The knife of the blues slide guitar and the Hawaiian slide/steel guitar are cousins.
Fourteen original records from 1909 to 1921 (Edison cylinders and Victor 78s) that follow the steel from Joseph Kekuku to the Hawaiian craze, with the stories behind each side.
Hosted by Brian Roemmele. Recorded for Multiplex.FM, where it premieres Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 10 PM PT. New episodes every Sunday at 10 PM PT live on X @BrianRoemmele, right before The Elon Hour.
Every niche and genre of the 78 era: country, jazz, ragtime, gospel, classical, novelty, dance will be examined.
The Sahara was a tropical rainforest while humans inhabited its region. In less than a generation it was on the way to be the largest desert in the world.
A prehistoric cave painting in Tassili n'Ajjer depicts cattle herding in the Sahara before the region became a desert.
Honoring All Veteran Today.
Take pause on 11:11am today no matter where you are and remember them with me.
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent.
World War I was over. The war to end all wars.
These are the faces of that morning, and of the years when we first learned to remember.
A short film for Veterans Day, on Multiplex.FM.
My Grok Bot that builds you a personal stream with song history of all your local song files is taking off.
Give it a try. You will get to hear your music like you have a collage FM station DJ spinning your songs…
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