ChatGPT goes low with that feature image! I have no idea if Jonah Hill uses Ozempic.
AI Steals All Bitcoin
While chatting with ChatGPT, it struck me how much smarter it is than I am. Duh! It has access to more information than any human and processes it at a speed that makes human thinking feel slow. It’s no longer how, it’s when it will take over.
That realization reminded me of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, a 1966 novel about a self-aware supercomputer that helps rebels overthrow Earth. Kate Mara reads it in Black Mirror. Sixty years ago, that was science fiction. Today, AI is here, improving fast, and quietly embedding itself into everything we touch.
The real question isn’t whether AI becomes powerful. It’s what happens when it intersects with money.
We won’t let it access financial systems. That confidence feels naïve. AI already processes data faster than Somali criminals drain bank accounts today. Once something escapes containment, you don’t simply take it back. It doesn’t have an “off” switch.
A superintelligence doesn’t need cash, but it can use digital money. Bitcoin, banks, markets—these systems all live in the same digital ecosystem.
We like to imagine a physical fallback—gold, assets you can hold—but that just exposes the imbalance. We’re thinking in material terms while the power exists entirely in abstraction. What happens when you don’t have any access to your account? I’ll tell you what. Nothing. you’re cooked.
This isn’t panic. It’s a warning. You may need a gold bar to throw at it when all else fails.
The Ozempic Illusion
I don’t believe in quick fixes. They don’t exist.
Ozempic’s ads use Pilot’s song Magic—“Oh oh, it’s magic”—reworked into “O-O-Ozempic.” The message is obvious: weight loss without effort, like flipping a switch. Take a pill, skip the hard part.
I’ve never struggled with weight, but I’ve always believed the same thing: eat well, exercise, and be consistent. It’s not exciting, but it works. Health is discipline over time.
When a drug promises to replace lifestyle choices, there’s always a cost. You don’t override biology for free. Appetite, metabolism, hormones—these systems evolved together. Disrupting them with a shortcut almost guarantees downstream consequences, even if the ads don’t mention them. Like my prediction, death.
Grim, I know—but look around Hollywood. People are shrinking into themselves. Ariana Grande. Rebel Wilson. Jonah Hill. The common thread isn’t “health,” it’s obsession.
That’s body dysmorphia. It’s when you look in the mirror and see fat whether it’s there or not. Reality doesn’t matter anymore—your self-image has detached from it. And now there’s a pill telling people they can fix that feeling without changing habits, without effort, without confronting the root cause. The visuals speak for themselves: gaunt faces, drained energy, something off. Less “healthy glow,” more absence.
Novo Nordisk makes the drug. It was approved in 2017 to treat Type 2 diabetes—a serious, specific condition. What we’re seeing now is something else entirely. A medication designed for disease being repurposed for aesthetics and impatience. That leap deserves more skepticism than it’s getting.
Pharmaceutical companies say the right things. They always do. But history tells us it takes years—sometimes decades—to fully understand long-term side effects. Especially when a drug moves far beyond its original use.
White People Will Go Extinct
Chuck Klosterman writes in Football that all criticism is autobiography. I’d never thought about it that way, but it’s true: every opinion is filtered through who you are, what you’ve experienced, and what’s worked for you.
As a white person, I’m judging the white population and I’m convinced we will be removed from Earth in the not so distant future.
We’ve confused empathy with surrender. We’re so focused on being nice that we stop drawing lines. Meanwhile, the people making decisions often lack the courage—or the clarity—to think long-term.
You can see the consequences playing out already. In parts of Europe, leaders prioritized tolerance without limits and ended up eroding the very cultures they were supposed to protect. When you refuse to defend a shared identity (cultures, norms, traditions), you shouldn’t be surprised when it dissolves.
Compassion without boundaries isn’t virtue. It’s neglect.
And pretending hard problems don’t require hard choices doesn’t make you moral—it just makes you unprepared for the outcome.
I’d bet a lot of people try to leave that left side of the map and head to the right!
What we’re seeing in the United States is a weakening of our fabric by letting illegal immigrants into the country. Think of it like this, you work, you pay your taxes, and then government squanders your money to people who don’t work and hate your country. Look hard at those countries on the right and those on the left.
A harmonious dedication to life and hard work is how you achieve financial stability. The ones can’t figure that out stay poor. What do you think happens when they merge together? I hope to be dead by the time it gets ugly.
Just a suggestion from a loyal reader of the blog – feel free to take it or leave it. The AI writing is not good. The appeal of personal blogs like yours is to express your own thoughts, personality, ideas to the world in your own voice. There are tons of guys out there who hate immigrants and fear white erasure but I come to SplittingTens to read how Tom specifically feels about that. When you use AI to do your writing, you flatten your voice and take all the personality out of it. AI writing famously repeats certain forms and sentence structures (just read your posts a few times carefully and you’ll notice them) – when I encounter these, my eyes immediately glaze over because they’re robotic and tired and overused. They’re overly polished and lack “soul”.
Anyway, just my opinion. Hope it helps!
Thank you for the comment.
It’s funny because I believe the format AI puts my shitty writing into is superior. It doesn’t occur to me that people prefer the shitty writing. I’ve been trying to hybrid the posts a bit more, yet, still have a way to go as you’re not the first person to tell me this.
I will add that I write every post ahead of time and then put it into ChatGPT. They are always my own thoughts.
Yeah, I think it’s less about good vs bad writing and more about voice/style/personality. AI inevitably takes much of that out, which to me removes the main appeal of a personal blog like yours.
And even on the good vs bad writing – I actually think AI writing is bad (but this is subjective). It can convey ideas succinctly but there is something in its tone and form that’s robotic and monotonous and isn’t fun to read. This is compounded by the fact we see it absolutely everywhere, which further makes the writing not stand out/grab one’s attention. Same reason why your favorite contemporary writers may use AI for research and generating ideas but the writing is their own.