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Software Architect, Game Developer, MS Computer Science @utulsa #Catholic #Husband #Father #Patriot #Tech #Bitcoin

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Happy Independence Day America! 🇺🇸 🎆
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These No Kings protests crack me up, these people have no idea what they are talking about. Trump is clearly an Emperor, not just a King.
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Timothy Snyder@TimothyDSnyder·
He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.
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Lila Rose@LilaGraceRose·
Beautiful. Hollywood Star Jessie Buckley praises marriage and motherhood during her Oscar-winning speech, dedicating the award to every mom “I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.” Marriage isn’t a trap. Babies aren’t burdens. Motherhood is a gift.
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@ahmed_baokbah It’s awful. We should have V10 engines with electric for overtake power boost. Hopefully these regulations won’t last long.
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@witcheer @openclaw LM Studio is a great replacement for Ollama. You can also get an MLX version of the models which run 2x faster. I was getting ~30 tokens a second in Ollama for Qwen3.5 35B but around 77 tokens per second in LM Studio with an MLX model. It’s a night and day difference.
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witcheer ☯︎@witcheer·
spent yesterday trying to run qwen 3.5 9b locally on my mac mini m4 for my @openclaw bot. inference is fast (14 tok/s), tool calling works, ram is tight but manageable at 6.6gb. one dealbreaker: ollama forces thinking ON for all qwen 3.5 models. 800+ invisible tokens before any output. 30-60 seconds of silence on every message, even "say hi." what I tried: → think: false on /api/chat - works, but openclaw doesn't send it → reasoning_effort: "none" on /v1/ - disables thinking but breaks tool calling → node proxy to inject the param - works for raw calls, breaks streaming → system prompt tricks - qwen 3.5 ignores them → /nothink suffix - that's qwen 3, not 3.5 reverted to glm-5 for now. the model runs great, ollama just won't let me turn off thinking for small models despite qwen's own docs saying it should default to off. if you're running qwen 3.5 locally with ollama and have thinking disabled with tool calling intact, what am I missing? modelfile trick? different runner? different approach entirely?
Qwen@Alibaba_Qwen

🚀 Introducing the Qwen 3.5 Small Model Series Qwen3.5-0.8B · Qwen3.5-2B · Qwen3.5-4B · Qwen3.5-9B ✨ More intelligence, less compute. These small models are built on the same Qwen3.5 foundation — native multimodal, improved architecture, scaled RL: • 0.8B / 2B → tiny, fast, great for edge device • 4B → a surprisingly strong multimodal base for lightweight agents • 9B → compact, but already closing the gap with much larger models And yes — we’re also releasing the Base models as well. We hope this better supports research, experimentation, and real-world industrial innovation. Hugging Face: huggingface.co/collections/Qw… ModelScope: modelscope.cn/collections/Qw…

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Jack Dorsey just announced a 40% reduction to the workforce of his company. -4000 people

Because AI tools are allowing them to achieve more with smaller teams. Things are moving very fast.
jack@jack

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

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Collin@TheValueThinker·
After @1914ad dropped this nuclear today (give it a read), @JaneStreetGroup appears to have deleted every tweet on their account. If facts indeed are proven true at some point in the future, $BTC prices basically manipulated and manufactured largest dumps during the last 4 months all by these guys. Masterclass in manipulation with paper $BTC.
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Justin Bechler #BIP-110@1914ad

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ZEEZ 🌚@Swaggzeez1·
@WhiteHouse Jack Hughes, who scored the game winning goal for the United States: “This is all about our country. I love the USA.”
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In another week full of AI announcements and updates, possibly the most impactful one may have slipped under the radar. This week Toronto based Taalas unveiled HC1, their first "Hardcore Model" chip that literally bakes an entire AI model (Llama 3.1 8B) into silicon. The result, is a mind-blowing inference speed of 17,000 tokens per second at a much smaller power draw than current AI hardware. I tried the public demo at chatjimmy.ai and it's shockingly fast. You ask a complex question and the response appears faster than you can read it scrolling. No lag. No "thinking" animation that drags on. Just instant intelligence. Try it out for yourself.
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Things you love to hear your kids say around the house on a Saturday. “I’m starting a business in my room. Come up and buy something after your lunch!”
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Father V@father_rmv·
“Every now and then the very life seems to have gone out of the Church, she is pallid with death; her blood seems to have been sapped out of her; her enemies seal the tomb, roll a stone in front of her grave and say: 'The Church will never rise again!' But somehow or other she proves them wrong, she does rise again." (Ven. Fulton J. Sheen)
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HUGE quadruple lines in NYC’s St Patrick’s Cathedral on both sides of the main aisle for Ash Wednesday blessings. In 45 years never seen it this busy. Mayor Mamdani’s snub of the new bishop may have something to do with it.

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