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Waiting for the old Team Obama to flood our feeds with “If we’d stayed in JCPOA, Iran wouldn’t have missiles that could fly 4000 KM.” Except the JCPOA didn’t put limits on the missiles.

I’m going to tell you how much worse it was at the start of the PC Revolution for white collar workers trying to adapt, vs today with AI Today, presumably every white collar worker has access to a smart phone and/or a PC/laptop. Back then, a PC cost $4,995 , an off brand was $3,995. 5k in 1984 is about $16k today. It was really expensive. The only reason I could learn how to code and support software is because my job let me take home a PC to learn. By reading the software manual. Literally. RTFM. Or pay to go to training. Classes that started at hundreds of dollars then. It was expensive. It absolutely limited who could get ahead. Today, ANYONE can go to their browser, to the AI LLM website of their choice, and type in the words “I’m a novice with zero computer background, teach me how to create an agent that reads my email and …” That concept applies to LEARNING ANYTHING Think about what this means. Any employee of any company can say “ I need to learn how to xyz for my job , which is to do the following: Tell me what more information do you need to help me be more efficient, productive and promotable”. Or “ what new skills can you teach me that will help me reduce my chances of getting laid off “. Or “what suggestions do you have for me to communicate to my boss, who I barely know, to help my chances of staying employed “ These aren’t great prompts. But they are a start that anyone can take. Think about how incredible that is. Back in the day was so much harder for white collar workers. It was harder for new grads because unless they took comp sci, they probably had never used a PC. Big Companies are going to cut jobs. No question about it. Small companies is are going to need more and more AI literate thinkers who can help them compete or get an edge What I tell every entrepreneur, and it’s more crucial today. “ when you run with the elephants there are the quick and the dead. Adopt tech quickly , you can out maneuver big companies. “

RIP @chucknorris. In 1990 he founded Chun Kuk Do, which included these principles to live by: 1. I will develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways. 2. I will forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements. 3. I will continually work at developing love, happiness and loyalty in my family. 4. I will look for the good in all people and make them feel worthwhile. 5. If I have nothing good to say about a person, I will say nothing. 6. I will always be as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own. 7. I will maintain an attitude of open-mindedness. 8. I will maintain respect for those in authority and demonstrate this respect at all times. 9. I will always remain loyal to my God, my country, family and my friends. 10. I will remain highly goal-oriented throughout my life because that positive attitude helps my family, my country and myself.

Seriously? I make low-cost vaccines that reached 100 million people, bypassed big pharma, didn’t make a dime, and saved 300,000-500,000 lives, and they focus on a junk food joke I made 6 years ago, this Rogan crowd, a bunch of candy-ass lightweights

How does an actual adult live with themselves after acting like this? I get these people have no personal shame, no professional pride, no permanent ethics, but good lord, man, this is pathetic. These people are just sad. Their power is ending, but their dishonor is endless.

@TheRickWilson He means whore houses here, doesn’t he?

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Yes, yes, you had no choice, something something. Or maybe Trump has always been a test of basic judgment and character and millions of people have failed it because they were obsessed with their own resentful grievances.

Truly some of the stupidest people to ever govern a state in human history.

The United States imported approximately 0.5 mb/d of crude oil and condensate from Persian Gulf countries via the Strait of Hormuz in 2024, representing about 7% of total U.S. crude imports and 2% of U.S. petroleum liquids consumption. This "could" be replaced by increasing supply from Canada or within the US. The jump in prices is gouging from suppliers.

Why is @SenMikeLee so focused on this while he remains silent that African immigrant Elon Musk was found to have violated GA election law in 2024, with a much more substantive effect?

The internet gave everyone a microphone but took away the pause that used to come before speaking. When decades of research from PhDs is treated as just another “opinion,” expertise collapses into nothingness. A society that can’t tell the difference between knowledge and confidence eventually makes decisions based on the loudest voice, not the smartest one. That’s not a progress problem, it’s a survival problem.

This isn't true though, the actual regime change was the easy part, it's the state building that failed. Trump has made it very clear he isn't remotely interested in state building, so this is something new. x.com/YousefMunayyer…

Important: If Iran and proxies expand violent or cyber terrorism — DOJ and FBI national security units have lost dozens of experienced agents & prosecutors to purges & resignations. Pam Bondi proudly fired one respected official cos he forgot to take down Biden’s picture.

Very interested in what the coming era of highly bespoke software might look like. Example from this morning - I've become a bit loosy goosy with my cardio recently so I decided to do a more srs, regimented experiment to try to lower my Resting Heart Rate from 50 -> 45, over experiment duration of 8 weeks. The primary way to do this is to aspire to a certain sum total minute goals in Zone 2 cardio and 1 HIIT/week. 1 hour later I vibe coded this super custom dashboard for this very specific experiment that shows me how I'm tracking. Claude had to reverse engineer the Woodway treadmill cloud API to pull raw data, process, filter, debug it and create a web UI frontend to track the experiment. It wasn't a fully smooth experience and I had to notice and ask to fix bugs e.g. it screwed up metric vs. imperial system units and it screwed up on the calendar matching up days to dates etc. But I still feel like the overall direction is clear: 1) There will never be (and shouldn't be) a specific app on the app store for this kind of thing. I shouldn't have to look for, download and use some kind of a "Cardio experiment tracker", when this thing is ~300 lines of code that an LLM agent will give you in seconds. The idea of an "app store" of a long tail of discrete set of apps you choose from feels somehow wrong and outdated when LLM agents can improvise the app on the spot and just for you. 2) Second, the industry has to reconfigure into a set of services of sensors and actuators with agent native ergonomics. My Woodway treadmill is a sensor - it turns physical state into digital knowledge. It shouldn't maintain some human-readable frontend and my LLM agent shouldn't have to reverse engineer it, it should be an API/CLI easily usable by my agent. I'm a little bit disappointed (and my timelines are correspondingly slower) with how slowly this progression is happening in the industry overall. 99% of products/services still don't have an AI-native CLI yet. 99% of products/services maintain .html/.css docs like I won't immediately look for how to copy paste the whole thing to my agent to get something done. They give you a list of instructions on a webpage to open this or that url and click here or there to do a thing. In 2026. What am I a computer? You do it. Or have my agent do it. So anyway today I am impressed that this random thing took 1 hour (it would have been ~10 hours 2 years ago). But what excites me more is thinking through how this really should have been 1 minute tops. What has to be in place so that it would be 1 minute? So that I could simply say "Hi can you help me track my cardio over the next 8 weeks", and after a very brief Q&A the app would be up. The AI would already have a lot personal context, it would gather the extra needed data, it would reference and search related skill libraries, and maintain all my little apps/automations. TLDR the "app store" of a set of discrete apps that you choose from is an increasingly outdated concept all by itself. The future are services of AI-native sensors & actuators orchestrated via LLM glue into highly custom, ephemeral apps. It's just not here yet.

I mentioned a random brand of dog food in a private conversation. 10 minutes later, I had an ad for it. It’s not a coincidence, and it’s not magic. Your phone is "shadow-logging" your life through 5 specific settings you’ve likely never touched. Here is how to stop the eavesdropping:

.@JamesTalarico: When did pedophilia become a partisan issue? The American people deserve to know the whole truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every single powerful person who enabled him — every name, every flight log, every cover-up, all of it. The White House and congressional Republicans are hiding the Epstein files. These are the same politicians who call librarians groomers and call their political opponents pedophiles. To be clear, if there is a Democrat on that list, I will be the first to call for their prosecution. If there's one thing we should all be able to agree on, it's that no one, including the President of the United States, should be able to cover up crimes against children.

In fifty years, this era will be studied as the moment the media chose power and relevance over country. They targeted a president who was effective. He was also a decent man. Those were disqualifying traits in an industry addicted to chaos. They called him boring. Stability did not fit their business model. Drama does. So they dismantled him politically and cleared the path for a convicted felon who had already pushed our system to the brink. This was not incompetence. It was intent. And the country will pay the price for decades. It will be remembered as one of the greatest scandals and self-inflicted disasters in American history.

Easy answer, Joe Biden fucking ruled. Sub-4% unemployment, phenomenal economy, passed generational investments in infrastructure, the climate, and manufacturing. Why on earth would you denigrate him? Does it make you feel special and cool and different from the other boys?

Never has so much US combat power been assembled with so little explanation to the public, allies, or Congress regarding why or how it will be used. Never.