Tim Marks

Mike Johnson created a new award for Trump and gave him a trophy. The Republican Party is an endless clown show.

You’d think Jack Smith’s memo (that Pam Bondi inadvertently released) finding that Trump stole & kept 100s of classified docs after leaving office to enrich himself - would be more than a blip in the news cycle.

This is what oligarchy looks like. 50 billionaires have spent $433 million to buy the elections in November. 80% is going to candidates who supported a $1 trillion tax break for the top 1% & a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid & the Affordable Care Act. We must end Citizens United.

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA. Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

BREAKING: I just motioned to subpoena Don Trump Jr. for funneling $670 million in taxpayer dollars to a critical minerals company he has financial stake in. Republicans left the hearing room.

Every Republican senator who tried to block the nomination of a qualified Black woman to serve on SCOTUS, calling her a "DEI hire," voted to confirm a white plumber with an associate degree in construction technology and no national security experience to lead DHS.

Well, well, well. Look who’s mail in voting. So, it’s good enough for you, but not millions of others? 🤔

Yes, because undocumented people typically enter the country through commercial flights that requires multiple identification checks, a visa, and being put through immigration scrutiny. Makes perfect sense.

Let me get this straight. The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately. Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes. Trump said no. Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workers’ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote. Like a petulant child flipping the board when he’s losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse. Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judge’s approval while hiding behind masks. We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican party’s losing electoral math. Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today. Trump is the one standing in the way.

$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time. 5 minutes before Trump's post. Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer? This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.

The United Nations has an OBLIGATION to take action against Israel for its repeated egregious breaches of humanitarian and international law.

If every top Democrat doesn’t immediately condemn this threat of war crimes and collective punishment, without any ‘process’ BS complaints, then they should be primaried instantly. They’ll be complicit in this crime if they don’t speak out. Tainted forever.

Imagine if Iran bombed Washington and killed students in schools, what would you call it? Terrorists The U.S. and Israel bombed Tehran and killed students in schools. Why do you call it a "pre-emptive strike"? Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law

Imagine if Iran just killed 50+ school girls in the USA? Why on earth is it acceptable the other way round?

completely agreed, I understand they nailed the first "hook an llm up to my telegram" but it's missing a lot of actual value add on top - ie constrained systems, security, audibility, predictability. for me it's clearly a toy that can easily blow up - it nuked 3 of my test containers early on and leaked fake secrets I gave it so I very quickly bounced away back to my robust agents platform instead. I get it's a quick hack to add persistent chat to claude-code but I believe that is actually against the TOS and I can do almost the same with tmux and ssh with far more precision, and it's definitely not end-user friendly (where's the standalone docker image to run securely) or well run which makes the astronomical growth even more wild to me. Cool/viral runs around the world before well engineered can even launch I guess.

The new hardest thing in computer science: getting your @awscloud production SES approved. I understand the concerns but I've setup the dkim, the spf, the DMARC and all the monitoring and now I'm stuck in support ticket purgatory 🫢 cc @AWSSupport @AWSstartups

Literally just made this post independently and it feels spot on. I’ve been spending way too much time lately buried in agents, agentic coding, and genAI, and a few things are starting to click. The "craft" part of building has totally shifted. It’s less about the raw labor now and more about having a vision and the taste to curate what actually comes out of the machine. As the cost of creating stuff drops to basically zero, information becomes a commodity. What's left? Your creativity, your taste, and whether or not people actually trust you. In a world overflowing with content, you really only have two ways to stand out: novelty or depth. It’s becoming surprisingly easy to spot a project that was just "churned out" versus one where someone actually gave a damn and guided it with intent. I also ran a little experiment with AI coding tools that proved a point I’ve been dwelling on: The baseline matters more than ever. I tried building the same basic text game two ways: Starting from scratch with AI: Four hours in, it was a total disaster. Types were everywhere, build errors were stacking up, and the agents were just spinning their wheels trying to fix things they didn't understand. Starting with a hand-written engine: Four hours in, it was janky, sure—but it was feature-complete and actually playable. It feels counterintuitive, but in the age of AI, hand-crafted foundations matter more, not less. We’re about to see a massive flood of garbage content, but once we get through the peak of the hype, quality is going to be the only thing that resurfaces. The real winners are going to be the builders who know how to bridge the gap between human craft and generative power.

craft isn't dead, it shape-shifted. ran an experiment: built the same game two ways with AI. from scratch? 4 hours of chaos — broken builds, agent churn, off the rails. from a hand-crafted foundation? 4 hours to a playable game. as the cost to create hits zero, the differentiators are taste, curation, and credibility. the next wave belongs to builders who can blend hand-crafted foundations with generative AI. the baseline matters more than ever.

and will rearrange everything just because. Most people wouldn't hand their house keys to someone like that. So what's different with digital? Do people just not think of it the same way or is the hype too exciting to stop and check what you're actually giving access to?

Overheard last night: people giving OpenClaw access to their LinkedIn, email and entire filesystems. That's like hiring a cleaner for your apartment except this cleaner will take instructions from anyone who walks by, may give your stuff away if asked nicely,