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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI glasses failed multiple times in front of a live audience


Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t been having a good month of PR, and it couldn’t be happening to a better tech billionaire. First The New York Times ran a deep dive on the Meta CEO’s destructive takeover of an historic neighborhood in Palo Alto, all so he can build a mega compound (one of at least two he has). Then Zuck paid a visit to the emperor for a White House tech summit where he was caught on a hot mic making up investment numbers for Dementia Don. And now this: Meta held its annual Connect Conference last week, and Zuck took to the stage to tout the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses (Gen 2), a collaboration with the iconic eye wear brand, of AI-equipped frames. This second generation was supposed to have optimized the “seamless discussion experience,” so instead of saying “Hey Siri” to your phone, you can say “Hey Meta” to your glasses and get immediate and entirely accurate responses from the machinery. Only, guess what didn’t work during not one but two live demonstrations?

To demonstrate the tech, Zuckerberg spoke to food influencer Jack Mancuso via video link and told the AI to help the chef whip up a “Korean-inspired” steak sauce using ingredients in the kitchen.

Business Insider reported the vision unraveled when the AI glitched moments after the request, ignoring basic instructions and insisting that the employee had “already combined these ingredients.”

Despite the confidence of all involved, things continued unraveling. “What do I do first?” Mancuso asked the AI three times, his voice growing increasingly panicked as it ignored his basic requests.

“You’ve already combined the base ingredients, so now grate the pear and gently combine it with the base sauce,” it responded twice.

The segment was abruptly cut short after the panicked employee and a visibly flustered Zuckerberg blamed the AI’s failure on “bad wifi,” a flimsy excuse met with pity cheers from the audience.

“It’s all good. You know what? It’s so good,” said Zuckerberg as he tried to get the presentation back on track. “It’s, uh, the irony of the whole thing is that you spend years making technology and then the wifi at the end of the day catches you.”

But the event descended even further into farce just moments later, when, during the next segment, Zuckerberg’s attempts to use the glasses and wristband to make a video call fell completely flat and left the CEO making feeble hand gestures and mumbling awkwardly onstage after the AI failed to connect the call on four separate occasions.

Zuckerberg was eventually bailed out when Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, whom Zuck had been attempting to make the call to, appeared on stage.

“This wifi is brutal,” he joked, eliciting nervous laughter from those in attendance.

“Yeah, I don’t know,” Zuckerberg responded. “We’ll debug that later. You practice these things like 100 times, and then, you never know what’s going to happen.”

“I promise you no one is more upset about this than I am, because this is my team that now has to go debug why this didn’t work on the stage,” Bosworth added.

In addition to the cringe-factor, Wednesday’s humiliation was also a damning indictment of Zuckerberg himself, who this year took personal control of the company’s artificial intelligence division and offered new hires eye-popping salaries of up to nine figures in a desperate attempt to regain a foothold in the AI race after becoming frustrated with Meta’s relative lack of progress and several high-profile failures.

[From Daily Beast]

What a putz, blaming it on the wifi! Luckily for us, both snafus were captured on camera. When Zuck is unable to place the video call, you can practically see the cartoon steam bursting out of his head. Then the failed cooking segment, oy. The influencer, Jack Mancuso, really was panicked, and also had no sense of how to ad lib, he just kept repeating “What do I do first?” and hoping for a different result. Call me crazy, call me a curmudgeon, call me woefully behind the times… but whatever happened to cook books?! Or printing out a single recipe to follow? Granted I have a bias for analog methods, but with cooking I like to have the written directions in front of me to refer to, and I seriously doubt I would catch everything from hearing it alone. Even more especially because I tend to do more baking than cooking; only hearing measurements as opposed to seeing them would be a recipe for disaster. Sidenote: one of the most thoughtful gifts I ever got was a tea towel my aunt had printed with my grandmother’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, in my grandmother’s handwriting from the scrap of paper she wrote it down on. AI couldn’t give me that, even when it “works.”



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Mark Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto neighbors fed up with takeover, ‘constant construction’

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Would it surprise you to learn that Mark Zuckerberg is a bad neighbor? Yeah, me neither. Still, I appreciate The New York Times for their recent breakdown of the specific havoc he’s causing the community in one of the four (and counting) cities where he owns residential property. Crescent Park is an affluent neighborhood of Palo Alto and three miles away from Meta HQ, making it a logical home base for Zuckerberg. He bought his first home there in 2011, which happened to be the oldest house in Palo Alto, according to the local heritage society. Since then, Zuckerberg has shelled out over $110 million on 10 additional homes, five of which have been converted/connected into one giant compound where he and wife Priscilla Chan live with their three kids as their primary residence. Dare I say, it’s their “forever home.” But building the compound of your dreams in real life doesn’t materialize as quickly as an AI-generated image. So, much to Crescent Park’s chagrin, it’s been eight years of noisy, disruptive, constant construction.

Chez Zuck: The property features guest homes, gardens, a pickleball court, a pool with a hydrofloor covering and even a 7-foot silver statue of Chan, 40, commissioned by Zuckerberg. Underneath the compound, the tech executive added 7,000 square feet of what was referred to as basement space in permits, but neighbors call it bunkers or the billionaire’s bat cave. Elsewhere, one of the properties has been used as a private school for 14 children, despite city code prohibiting it. … A spokesperson for Zuckerberg’s family told the Times that they didn’t realize they were violating code and instead characterized the school as a kind of homeschooling pod formed after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spokesman said the kids did not pay tuition.

A neighborhood under occupation: Speaking to the Times, nine neighbors, seven of whom asked not to be identified out of fear of retribution, described eight years of constant construction, blocked driveways, debris and even car mirrors broken off by equipment. They also spoke about increased levels of surveillance throughout the neighborhood, including newly installed security cameras and security guards sitting in cars. “No neighborhood wants to be occupied,” Michael Kieschnick, a Palo Alto resident whose home shares three sides with property owned by Zuckerberg, told the outlet. “But that’s exactly what they’ve done. They’ve occupied our neighborhood.”

Et tu, Palo Alto? In 2016, a city board rejected his application to build a compound. But over time, the city has approved 56 permits for Zuckerberg’s properties, allowing him to slowly build it. Neighbors also alleged the police department recently posted signs creating a tow-away zone on a public road for five hours. Kieschnick later learned it was for a backyard barbecue hosted by the CEO. “Billionaire’s everywhere are used to just making their own rules — Zuckerberg and Chan are not unique, except that they’re our neighbors,” Kieschnick added. “But it’s a mystery why the city has been so feckless.” Kieschnick told the Times he’s been approached by Zuckerberg’s team with an offer to buy his home of more than 30 years. But his answer is no.

The Zuckerbergs’ spox strike back: “They value being members of the community and have taken a number of steps above and beyond any local requirements to avoid disruption in the neighborhood.” According to the representative, staff, vendors and crews are frequently reminded to minimize noise and they are encouraged to carpool or taxi to and from the property. … To accommodate the neighbors, the couple has made some changes. The Times reports security guards now sit in quiet electric vehicles. His staff has also sent gifts to the neighbors when things have gotten out of hand, including sparkling wine, chocolates, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and even noise-canceling headphones.

[From People]

Michael Kieschnick is my new hero! Not only does he have the balls to go on record by name with the NY Times and refuse to sell his home to the billionaire, but he flawlessly used the word “feckless,” a label that Palo Alto has genuinely earned in this case. Keep up the good fight, Kieschnick! (Note to city auditors: a look into how many gifts of noise-canceling headphones Palo Alto has accepted over the past 10 years may be in order.) As for Zuck, what is it with billionaires building compounds?! Not to mention, why does he need this one in CA and the 1,600-acre one in Kauai that he kicked native Hawaiians off their land to build? The NY Times article — which has great graphics for getting a visual sense of the takeover — brought up that another reason Crescent Park residents are angry is that Zuck could have just as easily built his compound in a town nearby with more space, instead of plunking himself down in the middle of an established community and tearing down historic homes. But I guess it’s too late now; like they say, home is where the seven-foot-tall sculpture of your wife is. And hey, free Krispy Kremes from the billionaire!

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My latest: Mark Zuckerberg has turned part of Palo Alto into a compound, buying at least eleven houses and adding a 7,000-square ft basement, pool with hydro floor and 7-foot statue of his wife.

After eight years of construction, neighbors are steamed. https://t.co/63TNwl9AoI

— Heather Knight (@hknightsf) August 10, 2025

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The Sussexes made a statement about Meta’s new ‘no fact-checking’ policy

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Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to end Meta’s fact-checking program. Meta is the name of the social media company which owns Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg has been cozying up to Donald Trump in recent months, and this new move was seen as yet another capitulation to Trump and the MAGA crowd. President Biden called Zuckerberg’s move “shameful,” and all kinds of social-media and political experts are raising the alarm that “no fact-checking” could have dire consequences. Well, the Sussexes are now some of those critics raising the alarm. On sussex.com, Harry and Meghan released a lengthy statement bashing Meta’s new move. Here’s an excerpt:

It doesn’t matter whether your views are left, right or somewhere in between—the latest news from Meta about changes to their policies directly undermines free speech. This should deeply concern us all. Contrary to the company’s talking points, allowing more abuse and normalizing hate speech serves to silence speech and expression, not foster it.

In an already confusing and, in many instances, intentionally disruptive information environment, Meta has shown their words and commitments have very little meaning or integrity. As they announce these changes undoubtedly responding to political winds, they once again abandon public safety in favor of profit, chaos, and control. The company’s decision to rollback protections is so far away from its stated values and commitments to its users—including the parents and families calling for change around the globe—that it’s now deeply deceptive.

Millions of people are using Meta’s platforms in the United States. Hundreds of millions more are using them globally. Many use the platform to spread joy, build community, and share empowering information. Unfortunately, Meta’s recent decisions go directly against its stated mission to “build human connection” and instead prioritize those using the platforms to spread hate, lies and division at the expense of everyone else.

…We are particularly alarmed by plans to abandon commitments to diversity and equity, coupled with internal policy changes that undermine protections for marginalized communities. These decisions echo what experts, whistleblowers, and families have raised in hearings on online harm, especially regarding children’s safety: platform design, dictated by internal policies, directly determines our online experience. To ignore this is knowingly putting everyone in harm’s way and contributing to a global mental health crisis.

[From Sussex.com]

The Sussexes call on Zuckerberg to reinstate the old fact-checking policies and strengthen them. As the Times pointed out, Zuckerberg has been weakening the fact-checking policies for a while though, creating a sort of watered-down version in name only. The sense I’m getting is that Zuckerberg is trying to “meet the moment” of Trump’s America, and help foster a free-for-all of political disinformation and a cesspool of hate.

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Mark Zuckerberg recorded a song with T-Pain for his wife for their anniversary

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When it comes to his wife, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg has always been into grand gestures. Remember this past summer when America’s Richest Wife Guy commissioned a seven-foot tall Roman-style green and silver statue of her? Yeah. He’s that kind of gift-giver. Well, oops, he did it again and this time, he may have outdone himself. To celebrate their 21st dating anniversary, Zuck collaborated with T-Pain to do an acoustic cover of a song near and dear to his and Priscilla’s hearts: “Get Low” by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz. Yes, you read that correctly. T-Pain and “Z-Pain” play guitar as they duet their way through “Get Low.” You know what they say: “3-6-9, damn you’re fine…”

Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain collaborated to release one of the most unforeseen songs of the year on Wednesday: an acoustic version of Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz’s “Get Low.” The Facebook founder and Meta CEO teased the cover on Tuesday when he shared a picture of himself and T-Pain on his Instagram story with the caption, “It’s happening guys.”

Singer-songwriter and producer T-Pain followed suit, sharing the same image and referencing Zuckerberg as “Z,” a nod to the pair’s moniker on the track, Z-Pain.

The collaboration was an anniversary present for Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, according to his Instagram post announcing the song’s release.

“‘Get Low’ was playing when I first met Priscilla at a college party, so every year we listen to it on our dating anniversary,” Zuckerberg captioned the post. “This year I worked with @tpain on our own version of this lyrical masterpiece. Sound on for the track and also available on Spotify. Love you P ❤️”

Also included in the post was a photo of lyrics from the song encircled by a heart, an album cover with T-Pain and Zuckerberg holding up guitars and many images of “Z-Pain” working in a recording studio.

T-Pain wrote on Instagram, “Z-Pain has arrived … Get Low by zuck and me out now.”

Originally released in 2002 by Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz, “Get Low” was the third single from the rap group’s ‘Kings Of Crunk’ album.

“Z-Pain’s” version has a much slower tempo, complete with Zuckerberg’s auto-tuned vocal serenade and a cameo from T-Pain. Zuckerberg, currently the world’s second richest person, shared Chan’s laughing reaction to the song on his Instagram story.

“It’s so romantic,” she said. “21 years later, I can’t get quite as low, but it brings back a lot of fun memories.”

[NBC News]

Okay, real talk: You have to stop what you’re doing and go listen to this cover. Give it 90 seconds so you can hear Mark singing the intro and first verse. (T-Pain comes in at the second verse.) Trust me. It’s been a sh-tty, stressful 10 days and an evil billionaire dork doing an acoustic cover of a hip-hop song that played in the club 20 years ago is going to make you laugh so hard that you’ll momentarily forget that Zuck’s nemesis Elon Musk is now our shadow president-elect. I’ll wait:

Okay, did you listen? Doesn’t it sound like a cover they’d do on Glee back in the day? Or maybe something your dorkiest of friends would do after he broke out his guitar around the campfire? I don’t know, but it’s so ridiculous that it’s somehow fitting that it now exists in this timeline. Whenever I think about that ugly green statue, I wonder if Priscilla knows just how over-the-top her husband is. I mean, she has to, right? What else is she going to do but laugh and roll her eyes? From the windows to the walls, if we ignore the music choice itself, at least re-recording the song that was playing the night they met is a more romantic gesture than a statue.

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Mark Zuckerberg commissioned a seven foot tall statue of his wife, Priscilla Chan

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Today in “there is a thing as having too much money” news, we have one of the most glaring examples, Mark Zuckerberg. I don’t know what is real and what is just for image, but Mark wants everyone to believe that he’s a Wife Guy. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have been together since they met at a party in 2003 while they were both attending Harvard. Priscilla used to work as a pediatrician, but according to her LinkedIn page, she’s now the co-CEO of their charitable organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. By all accounts, Priscilla is genuine and intelligent, and clearly her husband thinks so, too. In what I can only describe as an incredibly grand gesture, Zuckerberg commissioned a seven-foot tall Roman-style green and silver statue of his wife. It’s…something else, alright.

Mark Zuckerberg has raised eyebrows by commissioning a giant sculpture of his wife, Priscilla Chan.

In a photo of the statue, posted to Instagram, the Facebook CEO and co-founder said he was “bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife”.

The large sculpture was made by Daniel Arsham, a New York-based artist who has collaborated with brands including Tiffany and Dior. Chan is rendered in green and appears to be mid-stride, with a large silver cloak flowing behind her.

Zuckerberg’s photo shows Chan standing next to the statue, which appears to be roughly 7ft tall and has been placed under a tree. In the comments Chan wrote: “The more of me the better?” along with the heart emoji.

People magazine, which declared Zuckerberg to be “the ultimate wife guy!”, reported that in Roman times statues were sometimes made to honor dead loved ones or to “refer to significant relatives and to make meaningful associations”.

The statue received a largely positive response from Zuckerberg’s followers.

“Omg so beautiful, lucky girl,” one person wrote, while the account “The Billlionaires [sic] Lifestyle”, which posts pictures of rich people and expensive things, posted: “This need [sic] to be in [a] museum”, accompanied by the applause and fire emojis.

Not everyone was impressed, however. Andrew Mwangi wrote: “This is the most billionaire thing to do ever”, and a user called deviletter said: “yikes. this is quite unflattering”.

[From The Guardian]

Oh my goodness, hahaha. Thoughts?? That statue is truly wild. It looks like he was going for post-oxidation Statue of Liberty meets new age Roman god statue. To his credit, for all of Mark’s problematic sh-t, we don’t really hear any gossip about Mark cheating on Priscilla, so maybe he really is a Wife Guy? I guess the intention is flattering, though I have no idea what it’s supposed to symbolize other than a nerdy billionaire who wants to idolize his wife. We need backstory! Regardless, the statue is a seven-foot personification of why billionaires need to pay more money in taxes. I mean, he could have bought that ugly sh-t and still paid several tens of millions of dollars in taxes to go towards public schools that will have the opportunity to educate students all about Roman artwork.

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Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk’s 2nd request to fight: are we really doing this again?

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Alright, who remembers last summer’s B-plot involving Elon Musk wanting to fight Mark Zuckerberg? To recap, last June, Elon Musk was bro’ing out with the Blue Check Bros while having a hissy fit over Meta’s then-new social media platform, Threads. At some point during that tantrum, Musk challenged Zuck to a cage match. Zuck responded by telling Space Karen to “Send me location.” At some point, it was planned that this cage match would be live-streamed from Las Vegas for charity. No one could agree on which platform to stream it from, and eventually, the Muskrat dropped out due to “shoulder surgery.” After that, the story had a few more gasps of air when Elon tried to rent out the motherf-cking Colosseum and then showed up at Zuck’s house for attention. It was a stupid time.

Last week, Elno apparently poked his head up from a potential ketamine haze and remembered his feud from 12 months ago. I have no idea if he thought that it was still ongoing, got excited after seeing the Gladiator II trailer, or if he’s just trying to distract from his daughter completely eviscerating him as she clapped back against his utter hypocrisy and complete cruelty, but he told a reporter during a visit to the US Capital that he is still totally down to get his ass kicked by Marky Z.

Mark Zuckerberg is showing little interest in Elon Musk’s renewed interest in a cage match. In a Wednesday, July 24, post on Threads, the Meta founder and CEO responded to Musk’s continued request to fight.

“Are we really doing this again?” Zuckerberg, 40, wrote.

The post was in response to Musk, 53, telling a reporter, “I’ll fight Zuckerberg any place, any time, any rules.”

The tech giants have previously discussed a potential match in the octagon in exchanges on social media and have yet to lock in an actual match. In June 2023, Musk and Zuckerberg appeared to agree to a “cage match” in Las Vegas. After a user posted about Zuckerberg’s Threads possibly competing with X (formerly Twitter) and another told Musk he needed to watch out for Zuckerberg’s ju jitsu skills, Musk responded, “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.” Hours later, Zuckerberg responded by posting Musk’s reply to his Instagram Stories, adding “Send me location.” Musk proposed the Vegas Octagon.

A Meta spokesperson told PEOPLE at the time that “the story speaks for itself,” as far as how likely a battle between the billionaires was. However, the impending fight might have to wait. In August 2023, Zuckerberg told his followers on Threads that the Tesla CEO wouldn’t commit to a date for their face-off.

“I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity,” Zuckerberg wrote at the time.

“Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead,” the Meta founder said.

He added that if Musk would be willing, he could contact Zuckerberg.

“If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me,” the Facebook founder continued. “Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”

[From People]

Hahahaha this is so dumb yet I sometimes long for these times when rich people are being ridiculous and ridicule-worthy towards each other. That said, Zuck’s kids are similar in age to mine, and it seems like he’s a more hands-on parent than Elon ever was/is, so perhaps he really is just rolling his eyes at the complete immaturity of it all. They should just call a truce, given that they’re on the same side for this year’s presidential election and all. (To be clear, that side is whatever party will let them greedily take home more money and avoid paying back into the system that helped make them gazillionaires.) If I had to pick a side, I suppose for, as much as I can’t stand Zucky-Zuck, I’m still all for watching him punch the daylights out of Apartheid Clyde.

Another @elonmusk quote from his visit to the hill today—

Musk said he’d fight Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “any place, any time, any rules” pic.twitter.com/XYSBdmpkzX

— Kelly Phares (@kellyfphares) July 24, 2024

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Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a $100 million bunker in Hawaii

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When we last checked in with Mark Zuckerberg, he was busy lowering his property tax rate by raising high-quality cattle and feeding them a steady diet of macadamia nuts and beer on his controversial, 1,600 acre Hawaiian estate called Ko’olau Ranch. It was really taking “wealthy, sustainable, and wacky” to a whole new level. Speaking of, if you ever wondered what it would be like if Zuck had a bunker in the world of Leave the World Behind, you won’t have to wonder for much longer. The world’s sixth richest person is reportedly adding a 5,000 square-foot bunker underneath Ko’olau Ranch for a cool $100 mil.

Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly constructing an extensive compound in Kauai, Hawaii, featuring a unique blend of luxury and survivalist elements. The compound, known as Koolau Ranch, is set to include a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker, complete with its own energy and food supplies. The bunker’s design incorporates a metal door filled with concrete, a feature commonly found in bunkers and bomb shelters.

The project, which reflects a growing trend among Silicon Valley elites for preparedness and luxury, is estimated to cost around $100 million to build on top of the $170 million spent acquiring the land. This brings the total investment to approximately $270 million, according to Wired.

The project has been shrouded in secrecy since the beginning. Workers on the ranch are required to sign strict nondisclosure agreements, and reports indicate people have been fired for posting on social media that they are working on the project. Workers on the compound undergo constant surveillance from hundreds of cameras, and military-style security measures have been implemented across the ranch.

The methods to acquire the land also give rise to issues and speculation. Zuckerberg initially hid the purchases of land using shell companies and brokers to disguise them. Those shell companies are now involved in several lawsuits claiming they pressured locals with ancestral land rights to sell the land or get into a bidding war at auction with one of the richest men in the world.

The sprawling 1,400-acre compound is planned to house more than just the bunker. It will include over 30 bedrooms and bathrooms, two mansions connected by a tunnel to the bunker and nearly a dozen tree houses linked by rope bridges. The tree houses are designed to provide guests with an immersive treetop experience. The compound also will feature a fitness center, guest houses and other operational buildings.

The county where the compound is being built offers tax incentives for building hurricane-resistant safe rooms, which might partially explain the construction of such a robust structure. Despite the grand scale of the development, representatives for Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, emphasize their commitment to preserving the natural beauty of the ranch. They point out that the development occupies less than 1% of the land, with the rest dedicated to farming, ranching, conservation and wildlife preservation. Alongside the sprawling farm and ranch, the compound is being designed to be self-sustaining. From underground bunkers to its own energy and water supplies, the compound has nearly everything you would need to survive for months at a time.

[From Yahoo]

Whenever I hear these stories, I’m always torn between rolling my eyes and lowkey wondering if the people on that billionaires WhatsApp chat know something that we don’t know. But reading the description of that compound with its 30 bedrooms, two mansions connected to the bunker by tunnel, and treehouses is truly f—king wild. How gross to store that much food for a “what if” scenario when there are children out there who are starving. Also, what a bummer that the treehouses probably won’t survive the apocalypse.

The real kicker here is that Zuckerberg and his family don’t even need this estate on this land, which has forced Hawaiian natives off of it. Like, it’s all just too much. Tax the rich more. If they have enough money to build bonkers (typo and it stays) that are like four to five times the size of most people’s homes, then they can spare a couple hundred million in taxes to help benefit the rest of us. Ugh, the more I hear about what Zuck’s been up to lately, the more I start thinking that maybe it wouldn’t have been such a bad idea to let Elon and Zuck duke it out.

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