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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(129,278 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 02:57 PM Monday

medbed alert! elderly golfer's brain has gone fuckity-bye

let’s suppose that President Joe Biden, in the middle of the night, had posted to social media an AI-generated deep-faked imaginary news report of himself, proudly announcing that every American would now have access to a non-existent medical device that would de-age them, heal them, and re-grow the shit out of their missing limbs.

you know exactly what would have happened next: the entire world would demanded to know what the fuck is wrong with Joe Biden? the press would have been screaming for an explanation, and rightfully so. Comer Fudd would have stepped on every rake in a mad dash to convene a hearing. dust off them photos of Hunter Biden’s freakishly-oversized trouser-hog, Marge. we’s-a havin’ us a good-ol’ an impeachment party.

world leaders would have called for an obviously-impaired Biden to step down. so would Republicans. so would Democrats.

-snip-

you know where I’m going with this: on Saturday night, Donny Convict did just that: he posted a fake video of a fake Donny making a fake announcement about a fake medical device.



https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-golfers-brain-has-gone-fuckity

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medbed alert! elderly golfer's brain has gone fuckity-bye (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
WTF IronLionZion Monday #1
He knows... Escape Monday #2
Grifters! EarthAbides Monday #3
These "Med Beds" sound like something from sci fi Picaro Monday #4
MaddowBlog-Why it was so deeply weird to see Trump amplify 'medbed' pseudoscience LetMyPeopleVote Monday #5
Here's Seth Meyers' hilarious take on the AI 'Med Bed' video LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #6

EarthAbides

(375 posts)
3. Grifters!
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 03:40 PM
Monday

And just how much will a medbed card cost? And just when will a medbed hospital be built? And, where? Inquiring minds want to know...

Picaro

(2,199 posts)
4. These "Med Beds" sound like something from sci fi
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 05:29 PM
Monday

Because the concept of “med beds” comes from sci-fi.

In Larry Niven’s Known Space series (which includes Ringworld) there are “autodocs” that are incredibly sophisticated and capable handling almost anything that you can think of from a medical standpoint, including transplants, limb replacements, burn therapy etc.

The concept has been out there for quite a while, and I don’t think that the auto doc is unique to Larry Niven‘s work.

But the problem is is that they don’t exist. At least not today.

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,588 posts)
5. MaddowBlog-Why it was so deeply weird to see Trump amplify 'medbed' pseudoscience
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:10 PM
Monday

Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment that showed the president touting magical beds to the public. So why did he promote it?

Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment featuring Trump touting magical “MedBed” technology. He then used to his platform to amplify the nonsensical pseudoscience.

Maybe now’s a good time to renew the whole “cognitive decline” conversation? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-29T18:39:10.323Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-medbed-pseudoscience-rcna234487

When it comes to science and medicine, Donald Trump’s track record is an embarrassment. We are, after all, talking about a president who endorsed injections of disinfectant as a possible Covid treatment five years ago.......

One day later, he helped introduce the public to the “MedBed” idea. Politico reported:

Yesterday on Truth Social, the president of the United States shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News (it wasn’t) in which an A.I.-generated, deep-faked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that ‘every American will soon receive their own MedBed card’ that will grant them access to new ‘MedBed hospitals.


In all candor, I’ll confess that I’d never heard anything about this before the weekend, but evidently, there are fringe conspiracy theorists who believe there are magical, futuristic beds that can cure every disease, regrow missing limbs and even reverse the human aging process.

This is, of course, quite bonkers, though as the Politico report went on to note, “An offshoot of MedBed believers are QAnon devotees who insist the non-existent technology is being used to secretly keep John F. Kennedy Jr. alive.”.....

Incidents like these are not uncommon. Indeed, Democrats tried to make them a campaign issue ahead of Election Day 2024. In the race’s closing weeks, for example, Trump told a 12-minute story about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia, which came just days after the Republican decided to stop taking questions at a town hall event and instead swayed to music for 39 minutes.

A year later, Trump has promoted a “medbed” video for reasons that have not yet been explained.

As USA Today’s Rex Huppke summarized, after Trump twice suggested he was headed to Russia when he was actually going to Alaska, “That’s the sort of thing you hear before having to make a difficult decision about grandpa’s future.” Huppke similarly recently described the president as being “in obvious mental decline.”
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