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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
I am a Web3 Ambassador at World Liberty Financial. There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance." 600,000 wallets bought our memecoin. They lost $3.87 billion. The family collected $350 million in trading fees. It launched 3 days before the inauguration. 80% of the supply went to CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC. I did not choose the names. I designed the allocation, the vesting, the timing, and the distance between the product and the President. The distance is my best work. I am the reason these events are unrelated. World Liberty Financial sends 75 cents of every dollar to DT Marks DEFI LLC. That is the family entity. Zero capital contributed. Zero liability assumed. I wrote this into the Gold Paper. Page 14. The lawyers bound it in white leather. The binding cost more than the due diligence. Justin Sun invested $75 million. He was facing SEC fraud charges. The SEC dropped the case. He is now our advisor. These events are unrelated. Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to federal money laundering violations. He received a presidential pardon. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against his exchange the same week we listed our stablecoin. Then the exchange settled a $2 billion deal entirely in that stablecoin. These events are unrelated. Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed of BitMEX pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations. All 3 received presidential pardons. Then the company itself was pardoned. $100 million in fines. Gone. An American first. These events are unrelated. Sheikh Tahnoun of Abu Dhabi paid $500 million for a 49% stake that was never publicly disclosed. Then the administration approved semiconductor exports to his companies over national security objections. These events are unrelated. Everything is unrelated. I track the unrelatedness on a dashboard I built. The dashboard has 7 columns now. I am proud of the dashboard. On May 22nd, 220 people paid a combined $148 million to eat dinner with the America First president. Over half were foreign nationals. Justin Sun paid $18.5 million for the first seat. He visited the Executive Office Building the day before. I designed the seating chart. I put it on the Investor Confidence page. That page is doing well. The team page lists 3 Witkoffs. All 3 are Co-Founders. Steven Witkoff is the President's Middle East envoy. He testified as a character witness at the President's fraud trial. His son Zach runs the crypto operation. His son Alex is also a Co-Founder. I have not been told what Alex co-founded. The father runs the diplomacy. The sons run the platform. The family runs both. That is organizational efficiency. Barron is 19. His title is Web3 Ambassador. The same as mine. Donald Jr. called the conflicts of interest "complete nonsense." Eric launched a Bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin. America First. The mining partner is Hut 8. Hut 8 was founded in Canada. America First means the name. On March 6th, the President signed Executive Order 14233 creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The order directs the government to hold Bitcoin. The President's family holds billions in Bitcoin. The executive order appreciates the President's assets by presidential decree. I did not write the executive order. I made sure it looked unrelated to the portfolio. Trump Media put $2 billion of Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The ticker symbol is DJT. His initials. The press secretary said it is absurd to insinuate the President profits off the presidency. Forbes calculated his crypto holdings exceed the combined value of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower. I would call that absurd too. That is my job. 600,000 wallets bought in. 1 of them asked why she could not withdraw her funds. I told her the protocol was experiencing dynamic market conditions. She asked what that meant. I sent her the Gold Paper. She said she had read the Gold Paper. I muted her channel. Dynamic means the conditions change. The condition that changed was her access. A congressman called us the world's most corrupt crypto startup operation. We put it on a coffee mug. Ironic merchandise. $45. The revenue split on the mug is also 75/25. My own tokens vest on a different schedule. I wrote that schedule. That is not in the Gold Paper. The memecoin funds the family. The family funds the platform. The platform funds the stablecoin. The stablecoin funds the deals. The deals require the pardons. The pardons free the partners. The partners fund the platform. The President signs the executive orders. The executive orders inflate the assets. The assets fund the family. I am the reason these events are unrelated.
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Rohit
Rohit@rohit4verse·
Anthropic didn't build a better model to make Claude Code work. They built a better environment around it. 55 directories. 331 modules. Context compaction so sessions run for hours. Streaming tool execution that saves seconds per turn. Read this article for full breakdown.
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Anish Koka, MD
Anish Koka, MD@anish_koka·
There is a story that gets told about American healthcare -- The story goes like this: American healthcare is uniquely broken, uniquely inequitable, uniquely cruel to the most vulnerable. Our peer nations have figured out what we have not. Only problem: the story is made up.🧵
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DAN KOE
DAN KOE@thedankoe·
If you want to achieve anything great, it needs to become your one true priority. The only thing on your mind. Nobody accidentally got rich from business. Nobody accidentally built a great physique. They were obsessed with it for multiple years until it became their default.
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Law Of Thinking
Law Of Thinking@lawofthinking·
You may not see it yet, but everything is quietly aligning in your favor.
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Dear Son.
Dear Son.@DearS_o_n·
I fell in love with this quote: Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.
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Blake Burge
Blake Burge@blakeaburge·
A mentor once told me: "One of the biggest reasons people stay stuck is that you can’t keep one foot in your old life and one in your new one. There’s no halfway version of growth. Decide who you want to be, and act like it. Every single damn day."
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Rumi
Rumi@rumilyrics·
Never quit something with great long term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.
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Mayank Vora
Mayank Vora@aiwithmayank·
Top Stanford students have a secret NotebookLM workflow. They never re-read a book. They upload the PDF in NotebookLM, run 6 prompts, and extract more insight in 20 minutes than most readers get from finishing it twice. It took me 3 weeks to figure out exactly what they were doing. Here it is:
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Bober_smart
Bober_smart@Bober_smart·
1.Download Obsidian → create a new vault (folder) 2.Download Claude Desktop (Claude Code) 3.Point Claude to the path of your vault 4.Paste the prompt from the article > Just 4 steps and 10 minutes of your time The face I made when I realized I had been suffering all this time, not knowing such simple things
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Nav Toor
Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails. Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day. Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair. Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential." 96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail. But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical. Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it. Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own. Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path." The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way." It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway. When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack. And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it. Anthropic published this about their own product.
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Ruben Hassid
Ruben Hassid@rubenhassid·
People think learning AI takes months. It's really just a couple of hours. And I wrote 17 free guides to start right away: Claude 101: ruben.substack.com/p/claude Claude Code: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-code Claude Skills: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-skills Nano banana 2: ruben.substack.com/p/banana-2-3bd Claude in Excel: ruben.substack.com/p/ai-couldnt-d… Best AI for Search: ruben.substack.com/p/grok-420 1M followers with AI: ruben.substack.com/p/1000000 Claude for your team: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-for-t… No prompt saves you: ruben.substack.com/p/magic AI Slides (PPT in 2026): ruben.substack.com/p/powerpoint Set up Claude Cowork: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-cowor… Claude to sound like you: ruben.substack.com/p/i-am-just-a-… Claude interactive charts: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-charts Claude as your computer: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-compu… Claude Cowork + Project: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-cowor… You're an AI workaholic: ruben.substack.com/p/ai-holic Setup AI before prompting: ruben.substack.com/p/how-to-bette… ___ 1. Save this list for later (three dots, top right). 2. Share it with a friend by ♻️ reposting this image. 3. Subscribe to my free newsletter: how-to-ai.guide.
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Neyazuddin Ansari
Neyazuddin Ansari@riyazz_ai·
🚨 BREAKING: NotebookLM can now tutor you like a $150/hr private tutor from any top university. For free. Here are 8 prompts that replace hours of paid tutoring sessions: (Save this before it goes viral)
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
California has the best weather on the planet and the science behind it is absurd. The cold California Current runs south from Alaska at 50°F. When warm air crosses it, moisture becomes fog instead of rain. San Francisco's average July high is 67°F. Phoenix, same latitude, hits 106°F. A 39-degree gap between two cities in the same state. That's the cold current doing all the work. The Pacific High, a semi-permanent pressure system, blocks storms from reaching the coast six to eight months straight. LA regularly goes 200+ consecutive days without a single drop of rain. Most places at this latitude get summer thunderstorms. California gets zero. Then the Sierra Nevada blocks every arctic air mass that freezes the rest of the continent. When a polar vortex drops Chicago to -20°F, LA sits at 65°F. Three systems running simultaneously: cold current for cooling, high pressure for drought, mountains for insulation. There are exactly five places on Earth where all three converge. California is one. The others are coastal Chile, the Western Cape of South Africa, southwestern Australia, and the actual Mediterranean. That's the entire list. Jensen Huang just told everyone to move to California and eat the highest taxes in the world because "the weather is great." He watched Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Thiel, and Zuckerberg flee the state to dodge an $8 billion tax bill. His response: "I haven't thought about it even once." He's not being glib. He's being geological.
Polymarket@Polymarket

JUST IN: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urges people to move to California despite high taxes because “the weather is great”

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elvis
elvis@omarsar0·
Building a personal knowledge base for my agents is increasingly where I spend my time these days. Like @karpathy, I also use Obsidian for my MD vaults. What's different in my approach is that I curate research papers on a daily basis and have actually tuned a Skill for months to find high-signal, relevant papers. I was reviewing and curating papers manually for some time, but now it's all automated as it has gotten so good at capturing what I consider the best of the best. There are so many papers these days, so this is a big deal. You all get to benefit from that with the papers I feature in my timeline and on @dair_ai. The papers are indexed using @tobi qmd cli tool (all of it in markdown files along with useful metadata). So good for semantic search and surfacing insights, unlike anything out there. I am a visual person, so I then started to experiment with how to leverage this personal knowledge base of research papers inside my new interactive artifact generator (mcp tools inside my agent orchestrator system). The result is what you see in the clip. 100s of papers with all sorts of insights visualized. I keep track of research papers daily, so believe me when I tell you that this system is absolutely insane at surfacing insights. This is the result of months of tinkering on how to index research and leverage agent automations for wikification and robust documentation. But this is just the beginning. The visual artifact (which is interactive too) can be changed dynamically as I please. I can prompt my agent to throw any data at it. I can add different views to the data. Different interactions. I feel like this is the most personalized research system I have ever built and used, and it's not even close. The knowledge that the agents are able to surface from this basic setup is already extremely useful as I experiment with new agentic engineering concepts. I feel like this knowledge layer and the higher-level ones I am working on will allow me to maximize other automation tools like autoresearch. The research is only as good as the research questions. And the research questions are only as good as the insights the agents have access to. Where I am spending time now is on how to make this more actionable. I am obsessed about the search problem here. The automations, autoresearch, ralph research loop (I built one months ago) are easier to build but are only as good as what you feed them. Work in progress. More updates soon. Back to building.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy

LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So: Data ingest: I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them. IDE: I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played with a few Obsidian plugins to render and view data in other ways (e.g. Marp for slides). Q&A: Where things get interesting is that once your wiki is big enough (e.g. mine on some recent research is ~100 articles and ~400K words), you can ask your LLM agent all kinds of complex questions against the wiki, and it will go off, research the answers, etc. I thought I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good about auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all the documents and it reads all the important related data fairly easily at this ~small scale. Output: Instead of getting answers in text/terminal, I like to have it render markdown files for me, or slide shows (Marp format), or matplotlib images, all of which I then view again in Obsidian. You can imagine many other visual output formats depending on the query. Often, I end up "filing" the outputs back into the wiki to enhance it for further queries. So my own explorations and queries always "add up" in the knowledge base. Linting: I've run some LLM "health checks" over the wiki to e.g. find inconsistent data, impute missing data (with web searchers), find interesting connections for new article candidates, etc., to incrementally clean up the wiki and enhance its overall data integrity. The LLMs are quite good at suggesting further questions to ask and look into. Extra tools: I find myself developing additional tools to process the data, e.g. I vibe coded a small and naive search engine over the wiki, which I both use directly (in a web ui), but more often I want to hand it off to an LLM via CLI as a tool for larger queries. Further explorations: As the repo grows, the natural desire is to also think about synthetic data generation + finetuning to have your LLM "know" the data in its weights instead of just context windows. TLDR: raw data from a given number of sources is collected, then compiled by an LLM into a .md wiki, then operated on by various CLIs by the LLM to do Q&A and to incrementally enhance the wiki, and all of it viewable in Obsidian. You rarely ever write or edit the wiki manually, it's the domain of the LLM. I think there is room here for an incredible new product instead of a hacky collection of scripts.

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MATT GRAY
MATT GRAY@matt_gray_·
A mentor once told me: the money you seek is in the systems you create.
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The Knowledge Archivist
The Knowledge Archivist@KnowledgeArchiv·
“A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.” —Hermann Hesse
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Jason Nguyen
Jason Nguyen@itsjasonai·
🚨 BREAKING: NotebookLM can now tutor you like a $150/hr private tutor from any top university. For free. Here are 8 prompts that replace hours of paid tutoring sessions: (Save this before it goes viral)
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