Joe Gregory
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Today’s story behind the numbers: This FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team saved 10 hostages from a subject in Bakersfield, California.
Yesterday, we saw the best of this FBI when a subject, Anthony Scott Searles-Harris, in Bakersfield, California, barricaded himself in the Kern County Superintendent of Schools' office, armed with explosives, and took 10 innocent people as hostages.
Immediately, the FBI jumped into action, mobilizing resources, including launching our CIRG Hostage Rescue Team – the FBI’s elite tier 1 tactical unit – who flew across the country in the middle of the night, preparing for a high-risk, life-saving mission.
@FBISacramento, @FBILosAngeles, and our teams across the country utilized more than 150 additional FBI personnel, including SWAT, crisis negotiators, Special Agent Bomb Technicians, and more, where, after an intense, nearly 15-hour negotiation, the FBI HRT team successfully breached the building around 4:30am local time, neutralized the subject, and safely recovered all hostages unharmed.
This was outstanding work by the men and women of the FBI, with our partners at the Bakersfield Police Department, who executed the mission brilliantly and saved at least 10 lives in a situation that could’ve turned deadly.
LINK: foxnews.com/us/bakersfield…
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How about you explain why funding is being drastically cut for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities?
My sister, who is one of those individuals, called me last night absolutely devastated because her job was reduced to just one day a week. After looking into it, I found out it’s because the State is pulling back funding.
She loved her job. She was proud of it. It gave her purpose, independence, and confidence. Now she’s in tears because of decisions being made by people who will never have to experience the consequences themselves.
These cuts are not numbers on a spreadsheet. They are impacting real human beings who depend on these programs to live meaningful and dignified lives.
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@MrBeast I may not have won this challenge (still awaiting official review), but emotionally I’m in the final three.
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@itsolelehmann Yeah I’m not making rules, I’m just building skill files to do workflow automation. And I do clean up the skill file, sometimes manually, when they aren’t processing efficiently.
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i deleted half my Claude setup last week and every output got BETTER
sounds backwards, but anthropic's own team just explained exactly why it works.
here's the one prompt that tells you what to cut (and you don't even have to paste anything):
this is what happens to everyone...
you get a bad output, so you add a rule to your skills. "be more concise."
next week, another bad output. another rule. "use a casual tone."
but a month later, something else breaks. "always explain technical terms."
you keep stacking, and it feels productive because you're fixing problems as they come up.
but 3 months in, you've got 30 rules piled on top of each other.
some of them contradict each other ("be concise" and "always explain your reasoning" are fighting).
some of them fix problems that the model doesn't even have anymore.
and the model is trying to follow all of them at once, which means it's doing none of them well.
it's like handing a chef a 47-step recipe when they only need 12.
the extra 35 steps slow the chef down, make them second-guess the parts they already know, and the dish comes out worse than if you'd just let them cook.
that's what over-prompting does.
anthropic just published a piece on how they build claude code (the ai coding agent).
their own engineering team found that their scaffolding was making the ai worse
which means your custom instructions are almost certainly doing the same thing.
so here's the actionable move...
instead of manually reading through your setup line by line, just tell claude to audit itself.
if you're in claude's desktop app, claude already has access to your:
claude[.]md (the file where your preferences and rules live), your skills folder (where your reusable instruction files are stored), your context files, everything.
just open claude code/cowork and say this:
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"read my entire setup before responding. check my claude .md, every skill in my skills folder, every file in my context folder, and any other instruction files you can find.
then go through every rule, instruction, and preference you found. for each one, tell me:
1. is this something you already do by default without being told?
2. does this contradict or conflict with another rule somewhere else in my setup?
3. does this repeat something that's already covered by a different rule or file?
4. does this read like it was added to fix one specific bad output rather than improve outputs overall?
5. is this so vague that you'd interpret it differently every time? (ex: 'be more natural' or 'use a good tone')
then give me a list of everything you'd cut with a one-line reason for each, a list of any conflicts you found between files, and a cleaned up version of my claude.md with the dead weight removed."
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one message. claude goes and reads your entire setup, audits it, and comes back with exactly what to cut and why.
you don't dig through files, you don't read every rule yourself. it does the whole thing.
once you get the results, don't just blindly delete everything it flags.
here's the process:
1. read what it flagged and why
2. delete the flagged rules
3. run your 3 most common tasks with the trimmed setup
4. did the output stay the same or get better? the deleted rules were dead weight
5. did something specific break? add back just that one rule
the goal is to find the minimum viable setup that gets you the output you want.
your ai setup should be getting simpler over time.
addition by subtraction baby

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🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable
We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.
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If you have a @TraegerGrills grill and the app is not signing in, you’re not alone. In probably one of the most important days for Traeger’s app to work, it is down. There is no official response from Traeger or ETA for resolution, however, there are a large number of folks upset about it tagging Traeger on X frustrated that their app is not working.

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@elonmusk Starship utilizes a fair amount of Ai though correct? Purpose built by the SpaceX team. 🚀
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BREAKING 🔴
CEASEFIRE BEGINS:
IRAN FM: “The military operations of our powerful Armed Forces to punish Israel for its aggression continued until the very last minute, at 4am.
Together with all Iranians, I thank our brave Armed Forces who remain ready to defend our dear country until their last drop of blood, and who responded to any attack by the enemy until the very last minute.”

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@sentdefender President Trump has put a lid on all public White House events and has been meeting with his national security advisors in the Situation Room. He also left the G7 a day early so definitely something’s up.
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There’s no credible evidence to support the claim that this was a nuclear test.
First, the magnitude was only 2.5, which is far below the seismic signature of even the smallest nuclear detonations — typically above magnitude 4.0. For comparison, North Korea’s smallest confirmed test registered around 4.1, and their largest reached 6.3.
Second, the reported depth was 10 km, which aligns with natural tectonic activity, not underground testing. Nuclear tests are typically conducted at shallow depths under 1 km to manage containment and monitoring.
Finally, a nuclear detonation would trigger immediate alerts from international seismic and nuclear monitoring networks (CTBTO, USGS, etc.). There’s been no indication of that here.
Speculation is understandable given the location and timing, but the data simply doesn’t support the theory of a nuclear test.
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Tehran is under heavy bombardment as Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is on fire.
#iranisraelwar #Iran #Israel #IsraeliranWar #israil #WorldWarIII #WorldWar3
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