@lsferguson @60Minutes Even to provide fair balance, 60 Minutes should have highlighted these outstanding American citizens.
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🇺🇸 Infectious Disease #IDTwitter | P&T Committee | Former Social Liberal | Don't forget Tibet | Posts don’t represent my institution❤️🇮🇱
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Where is 60 Minutes? @60Minutes
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol
🚨#BREAKING: Western North Carolina hero, Jake Jarvis confirms he has now worked an absolutely mind-blowing 570 DAYS FOR FREE for victims of Hurricane Helene with his 9-year old daughter, Mya. To this day, Jake has never charged victims a dime for help. ABSOLUTE HERO!!!!!!!
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@heynavtoor There will always be a place for a good salesperson or business developer.
Closers will always be in demand.
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I stopped hiring people in 2026 because these 10 free AI tools replaced them.
I didn't fire anyone. I just stopped hiring. Bookmark this — it's the leverage every solo operator dreams of.
1. Freelance writer ($500/article)
Replaced with: Claude. Writes blog posts, emails, scripts, and ad copy in my voice.
Site → claude.ai
2. Logo and brand designer ($500/project)
Replaced with: Recraft. Generates logos, icons, and vector graphics. Client-ready on the free tier.
Site → recraft.ai
3. Voice actor ($200/voiceover)
Replaced with: ElevenLabs free tier. Studio-quality narration in any voice, any language.
Site → elevenlabs.io
4. Video editor ($400/month freelancer)
Replaced with: Descript and DaVinci Resolve. Edit video by editing the transcript.
Site → descript.com
5. Translator ($0.10/word)
Replaced with: DeepL. The translator that beats Google. Free for documents and websites.
Site → deepl.com
6. Research analyst ($200/hour)
Replaced with: NotebookLM. Drop in 50 PDFs, ask anything, get cited answers. Free from Google.
Site → notebooklm.google.com
7. Bookkeeper ($300/month)
Replaced with: Wave. Free invoicing, expenses, and accounting. Trusted by 2 million owners.
Site → waveapps.com
8. Social media manager ($1,000/month freelancer)
Replaced with: Buffer free + Claude. Claude writes them. Buffer ships them.
Site → buffer.com
9. Stock photographer ($30/photo)
Replaced with: Pexels and Recraft. Free photos, free AI images, full commercial rights.
Site → pexels.com
10. Virtual assistant ($500/month)
Replaced with: n8n and Claude. Automate email, scheduling, follow-ups. Self-host on a $5 server.
Site → n8n.io
Here's the wildest part:
I added it up. The roles I would have hired in 2026 cost $5,000 a month. That's $60,000 a year for a one-person business.
I didn't fire anyone. I just stopped hiring.
The leverage one person has in 2026 used to require a full team in 2022.
The skill in 2026 isn't being good at one thing. It's knowing which 10 free AI tools replace 10 specialists.
Save this before you forget.
100% free. Forever.
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🚨BREAKING: meta officially connected meta ads to claude
the connector went live on april 29, 2026
the URL is mcp.facebook.com/ads
setup takes about 60 seconds
you go to claude settings, add it as a custom connector, authorize via facebook OAuth, and you're in
once connected, claude has full read and write access to your ad account
you can tell it what you're selling and who you're targeting, and it builds the entire campaign structure for you
ad sets, targeting, copy, everything
it can also monitor your pixel health, upload your product catalog, and generate performance reports
29 tools total, all free during beta
this is the workflow agencies charge $3,000 to $5,000 a month for
it's now a one-minute setup inside claude
just created a guide on how to actually connect Meta Ads to Claude step-by-step
Comment “META CLAUDE” and I'll send it
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@heynavtoor Or, you could get all the content and all the channels in one place for under $15 bucks a month!
apollogroup.tv/Scroll
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@laralogan
Thank you for highlighting Matt Van Swol’s relentless, year-long documentation of the Hurricane Helene disaster in Western North Carolina — and for calling out the mainstream media that packed up and left the people behind.
Matt and his wife Erin (@HistoryBoutique) have been absolute heroes on the ground, exposing the real human cost, the FEMA failures, the tent cities, and the miles-long lines for basic supplies that the rest of the country was told “everything is fine.” Their citizen journalism has been a lifeline.
What I admire most is Matt’s courageous conversion from a left-leaning liberal and Democratic voter to a clear-eyed moderate and reasonable voice — exactly like myself and millions of others who finally saw the media echo chamber for what it is. It took a catastrophe and government betrayal to wake him up, but he had the integrity to speak the truth anyway. Erin’s journey alongside him has been equally powerful.
Stories like theirs give hope that more Americans are breaking free and putting reality over ideology. God bless Matt, Erin, and everyone still fighting for Western NC. Keep going — we’re watching and supporting you both. 🙏
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Spot on, Matt. What we’re witnessing in those churches isn’t Christianity — it’s a full-blown Theatre of the Absurd.
They quote Scripture fluently, then perform the exact opposite: calling child mutilation “love,” preaching racial guilt as gospel, and baptizing open borders, gun grabs, and climate hysteria as “the least of these.”
It’s not biblical interpretation. It’s a grotesque perversion — a stage play where the world writes the script and the Cross is just a prop.
Glad you’re back in a church that still opens the actual Bible. Keep standing. The real faith hasn’t changed; the actors have simply swapped costumes. 👏
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I could use some help...
I came back to church after years away and I'm still figuring a lot of it out... but what is going on with the "Christian Leftists"????
These are people who know Scripture better than I do... but the SAME PEOPLE turn around and tell me a kid in elementary school can know 100% that they were born in the wrong body.
That puberty blockers are healthcare.
That get flustered and extremely angry at any reasonable question I throw at them about it.
That actually to question any of it is a form of sin in someway?
These people will literally say the church is too White.
As if whiteness itself is a big problem or a sin and that we need to repent of being white, and fix it in a room full of people who showed up to worship Jesus.
Can someone explain this to me?
How on earth does this make any sense from someone who is supposed to be a Christian?
How did these Christians get to this place?
How did a faith built on the goodness of creation, the dignity of the body, the truth that every person bears the image of God regardless of skin, end up getting SO sucked into these Leftist slogans?
What I notice is that every position the Christian left holds happens to track PERFECTLY aligns with the cultural arguments of the Leftist political movement.
Every single one.
Trans kids.
Race.
Sexuality.
Borders.
Guns.
Climate.
And they'll use the Bible, in genuinely bizarre fashion and slogans to uphold these political beliefs.
Like "love thy neighbor" for example, to say that illegal immigrants didn't do anything wrong.
"The least of these" somehow means trans kids or something?
"Turn the other cheek" somehow means that criminals should never be held accountable for crimes.
It seems, and I could be wrong, that a LOT of Christians are using politics to shape their faith.
Not the other way around
Maybe I'm missing something. I'm willing to be wrong.
But from where I'm sitting it looks FAR LESS like Christians are wrestling with hard questions and more like a version of Christianity that has agreed to push forward every argument the culture wants it to...
What's going on with the Christian church??????
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@HistoryBoutique They do this about every subject.
Review the last 30 years of 60 minutes and keep your eyes wide open.
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I truly cannot believe 60 minutes did this.
This is anti-American propaganda meant to divide us.
It is a slap in the face to every single person who did not crumble, but instead stood tall to help themselves and others.
It is a slap in the face to the thousands of just regular people from churches around the country who drove in and helped at the supply centers.
It is a slap in the face to Southern culture which I truly believe is at the heart of why we were able to mobilize so quickly.
It is a slap in the face to all Americans because that is who showed up for us.
They messed up BIG with this one because I have yet to meet a single person in real life who doesn’t believe the opposite of this story.
The government failed us.
Not the people.
Shame on 60 minutes.
Shame on CBS and Paramount.
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol
Out of every disgusting, dishonest piece of filth the mainstream media has produced about Hurricane Helene... This is the worst. 60 Minutes has NEVER done a story on the families FEMA denied. They NEVER mentioned the Amish, who are STILL in the mountains rebuilding homes 550 days later. They NEVER mentioned Jake Jarvis, who has worked 550 days STRAIGHT FOR FREE for Hurricane Helene victims. Instead, they dug up some fringe conspiracy angle to smear the people who actually showed up as White Nationalists. I'm so angry. Let me tell you what 60 Minutes will NEVER report on I was there. I lived it. I am still here. I shared every story I could find. Me, my wife, hundreds of volunteers delivered RVs to mothers holding babies who were sleeping in TOOL SHEDS AND TENTS in the freezing cold, in the mountains. Because their homes had been ripped off the side of a mountain and washed down the French Broad. So tell me 60 Minutes... WHERE WAS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? Tell me, WHY did all these volunteers NEED to show up? Any thoughts on that?!!!!! Any investigation AT ALL into the federal or state government's response to Hurricane Helene? Please tell me... if the federal government was doing such a GREAT JOB, why did we need to put victims in RVs... ...A MONTH AFTER THE HURRICANE?!!!!!!! Literally every single victim you talk to in Western North Carolina has a horror story about dealing with FEMA... ...and guess who they will all say actually cam through for them? Neighbors. Church groups. The Amish. The Cajun Navy. Shawn Hendricks. Samaritan's Purse. MercuryOne. The Mission Mules hauling insulin up washed-out roads, ONLY ACCESSIBLE by mules. Greg Biffle burning his own fuel in helicopters. Veterans like Adam Smith who organized helicopter rescues with other veterans BY HIMSELF and then was demonized by the media for it. Volunteers like Jake Jarvis working TO THIS DAY, 550 days later without ANY PAY AT ALL. THOSE ARE THE STORIES FROM HURRICANE HELENE WORTH TELLING. But 60 Minutes won't tell ANY OF THEM. Because the truth makes the federal government the villain and the "deplorables" are actually the heroes in this story and they can NEVER admit that. So instead they smeared the rescuers as white nationalists. This is unforgivable. I was there. I saw it with my own eyes. And I will BE DAMNED if I let CBS rewrite the history of what happened to my mountains.
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@AnatoliKopadze Thank you for your post. A few of these items were helpful for me to firm up my existing habits. Especially the error, File.
Respectfully, Number two doesn’t seem to be an instruction. It seems to describe why the instruction would be good. Am I missing something?
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@claudeai I see dozens and dozens of posts like this every day, why can’t Claude automatically implement these token saving tips?
CODIFY@codi_fyy
I kept hitting my Claude limit every single day. Until I learned these 17 fixes. Most people blame Anthropic for the limits. "Not enough messages." "Too expensive." "Runs out too fast." The real problem? You're burning tokens on things that don't need tokens. Here are 17 ways to fix that: 𝟭. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 Stop uploading PDFs and screenshots. Copy the text into a Google Doc. Download it as .md and upload that. The math: ↳ One PDF page = 1,500 to 3,000 tokens ↳ Same text as markdown = under 200 tokens You're burning 10x more tokens on the file format alone. 𝟮. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. Open Chat first. Plan the structure. Then move to Cowork to build. The math: ↳ File creation in Cowork burns more ↳ Chat is lighter and cheaper ↳ Plan cheap. Build when ready. 𝟯. 𝗦𝗮𝘆 "𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝗠𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀" Stop writing 500-word prompts. Instead write: "I want to [task] to [success criteria]. Ask me questions using AskUserQuestion." The math: ↳ Clicking options = almost zero tokens ↳ Typing 500-word prompts = 500 tokens ↳ Let Claude ask. You just click. 𝟰. 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 When section 3 is wrong, don't say "redo the whole thing." Say: "Only redo section 3. Keep everything else. Be precise." The math: ↳ Full redo of 2,000 tokens = 2,000 gone ↳ Fixing one section = around 300 tokens ↳ You're paying for every word of that 𝟱. 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 Instead of 3 separate prompts: "Summarize this" "List the points" "Suggest a headline" Send one message: "Summarize, list points, suggest a headline." The math: ↳ 3 messages = 3 full context reloads ↳ 1 message = 1 context reload ↳ Claude needs the full picture. Just like you. 𝟲. 𝗥𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Keep a prompt library. Swap only the variable part. Same structure. New task. The math: ↳ Stable prompts = cheaper prompts ↳ You save tokens without changing workflow ↳ Build once. Reuse forever. 𝟳. 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 Stop sending "No, I meant..." In Chat, click Edit on your original message. Fix it. Regenerate. The math: ↳ Every "No, I meant..." adds to history ↳ Claude re-reads ALL of it ↳ Edit the original. Save the context. 𝟴. 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 Use Sonnet or Haiku for quick checks. Save Opus + Extended Thinking for real work. The math: ↳ Chat is the lightest ↳ Cowork is the heaviest ↳ Don't pay Cowork prices for Chat-level work 𝟵. 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗠𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 Cowork reads your About Me file before every single task. Trim it to under 2,000 words. The math: ↳ Bloated file gets read in full every time ↳ 22,000 words x 10 sessions a day ↳ That's 220,000 tokens burned on context 𝟭𝟬. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁, 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗨𝗽 When Cowork gets it wrong, don't keep adding follow-up messages. Click "Restart the conversation from here" on an earlier message. The math: ↳ A 20-message session = 105,000 tokens ↳ A 30-message session = 232,000 tokens ↳ Restart early. Save massive tokens. 𝟭𝟭. 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟱-𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 Ask Claude to summarize everything important. Copy the brief. Open a new session. The math: ↳ One developer tracked his usage ↳ 98.5% of tokens went to re-reading old messages ↳ Only 1.5% went to the actual answer ↳ That's insane. 𝟭𝟮. 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗗𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 Only include files Claude needs for this specific task. The math: ↳ Every file = tokens spent ↳ Drop too many and Cowork summarizes instead ↳ Zero unnecessary folders = tokens saved 𝟭𝟯. 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰 = 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁 You asked about a LinkedIn post. Then a proposal. In the same chat. Claude is now re-reading your LinkedIn post every time it thinks about your proposal. New topic. New chat. Always. 𝟭𝟰. 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗢𝗳𝗳 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱 Web search. Connectors. They all add tokens. Default: everything off. Turn features on per task. Not per account. The math: ↳ Filtered retrieval = fewer results ↳ Fewer results = fewer tokens ↳ Only fetch what you actually need 𝟭𝟱. 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 Stop uploading the same PDF to 5 different chats. Use Projects instead. Upload the file once. Every new chat inside that project sees it. The math: ↳ Anthropic confirmed reused project content ↳ Doesn't count the same way ↳ Upload once. Use forever. 𝟭𝟲. 𝗦𝗲𝘁 𝗨𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀. 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆. Go to Settings → General → Personal Preferences. Set your style. Pick "Concise" or custom. Turn off Memory. It costs you tokens. The math: ↳ Without preferences every chat starts with 3-5 wasted setup messages ↳ "I'm a marketer, I write casually..." ↳ One setup = permanent savings 𝟭𝟳. 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗜𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗗𝗼 Claude can't make images. If you send 5 messages describing a visual and get text back. That's 5 messages wasted on a task it was never going to solve. Need images? Gemini. Need real-time search? Grok. The math: ↳ Tokens spent on impossible tasks ↳ Are tokens you never get back ↳ Know your tools. Use the right one. The real reason you're hitting limits isn't the plan you're on. It's the habits you haven't fixed. Fix these 17 things. Watch your usage drop by half. Same output. Half the tokens. Save this post! Credit: Ruben Hassid
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Since the research preview in February, hundreds of organizations have used it on production code, catching issues existing scanners had missed.
Based on early feedback, we've added scheduled scans, directory-level targeting, CSV and Markdown exports, webhook notifications for new findings, and dismissals that carry forward across scans.
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@MarinaMedvin Regarding Infectious Disease, that percentage gap would widen even more.
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Harvard just released a study showing AI outperformed human doctors in an emergency room setting.
The study is based on 76 emergency room cases in a Boston hospital. OpenAI's "o1-preview" went up against two human doctors described as "expert attending physicians."
AI correctly diagnosed in 67.1% of the cases. The individual scores for the two human doctors were 55.3% and 50.0%.
AI proved especially adept at diagnosing rare diseases and complex cases.
I see this as a positive step into the future. Working together, AI will make doctors so much more competent and effective.
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@Opikenobi @DamiDefi You say “Download the SKILL.md file from the link”.
But you do not provide the link, that is what the user means by Clickbait.
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Most people use Claude like a yes machine. Ask a question. Get validation. Move on.
Here is the problem with that:
Claude will agree with you more than it should, until you install this skill.
It is called The LLM Council.
And it turns one Claude into five independent AI advisors that attack your question from different angles, grade each other's reasoning anonymously, and deliver a single synthesised verdict.
Here is how it works:
→ You ask a real decision question
→ 5 AI advisors each analyse it from a completely different angle
→ They peer-review and grade each other's work anonymously
→ A Chairman synthesises everything into one verdict and a clear next step
Install it in 4 steps:
→ Download the SKILL.md file from the link
→ Open Claude and go to Customise Skills
→ Upload the SKILL.md file
→ Type /llm-council and go
One Claude tells you that you are right.
Five Claudes show you exactly where you are wrong.
This is what multi-agent AI reasoning looks like in practice, built directly inside Claude using the Skills framework, no API, no code, no extra subscriptions.
The difference between a good AI decision and a great one is not a better prompt.
It is better adversarial pressure on the answer before you act on it
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@heynavtoor Thanks for the update, I have installed goose and connected my ChatGPT account. If I am starting a new business, and am writing business plans and negotiating with new manufacturers, how will Goose help me?
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🚨 Claude Code costs $200/month. GitHub Copilot costs $19/month. Jack Dorsey's company built a free alternative. 35,000 GitHub stars.
It's called Goose.
An open source AI agent built by Block that goes beyond code suggestions. It installs, executes, edits, and tests. With any LLM you choose.
Not autocomplete. Not suggestions. A full autonomous agent that takes actions on your computer.
No vendor lock-in. No monthly subscription. Bring your own model.
Here's what Goose does:
→ Works with ANY LLM. Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, Ollama. Your choice.
→ Reads and understands your entire codebase
→ Writes, edits, and refactors code across multiple files
→ Runs shell commands and installs dependencies
→ Executes and debugs your code automatically
→ Extensible through MCP. Connect it to any external tool.
→ Desktop app, CLI, and web interface. Pick your workflow.
→ Written in Rust. Fast. Lightweight. No bloat.
Here's the wildest part:
Block is a $40 billion company. They built Cash App, Square, and TIDAL. They use Goose internally. Then they open sourced the entire thing.
This isn't a side project from a random developer. This is production-grade tooling from a company that processes billions in payments. Built for their own engineers. Given to everyone.
Claude Code: $200/month. Locked to Claude.
GitHub Copilot: $19/month. Locked to GitHub.
Cursor: $20/month. Locked to their editor.
Goose: Free. Any LLM. Any editor. Any workflow. Forever.
35.3K GitHub stars. 3.3K forks. 4,078 commits. Built by Block.
100% Open Source. Apache 2.0 License.
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@milesdeutscher Just setting up some of these tips, exhausted my usage for the day!
Claude knows how to alienate customers.
The sales prevention department at play!
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@charliejhills @grok @grok do you think an LLM council skill is helpful for Claude?
If so, will it use up your daily allowance or will it have a negligible impact?
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@charliejhills @Grok what is your opinion of this LLM council skill for Claude use?
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Claude will gaslight you, until you install this skill.
It's called The LLM Council.
You ask a question. 5 advisors attack it from different angles. Then they peer-review each other before giving you the verdict.
How it works:
1. You ask a real decision question.
2. 5 advisors attack it from different angles.
3. They grade each other's work anonymously.
4. Chairman synthesises one verdict and the next step.
Install in 4 steps:
1. Download the skill
drive.google.com/file/d/16N7dwX…
2. Open Customise skills in Claude
3. Upload the SKILL.md file
4. Type /llm-council
One Claude tells you you're right.
Five Claudes show you where you're wrong.
Get more free AI guides here charliehills.substack.com
Repost ♻️ to help someone in your network.
P.S. Credit to Ole Lehmann for building it.
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@MikeBenzCyber Are Tony’s days numbered?
Is the ID community about to turn on Tony?
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@paulsperry_ @joelpollak They will comply and remove them and then put them back on.
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BREAKING: Settlement of a Judicial Watch lawsuit has forced the review and removal of some 800,000 ineligible voters from Oregon voter rolls
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@claudeai How about increasing daily usage capacity by 50% or more?
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Another Claude Code hackathon comes to an end.
Thank you to everyone who spent a week building with Opus 4.7, and to @cerebral_valley for co-hosting.
Introducing the winners:
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This month I hit my usage limit almost every day on Claude. I check the work Claude does on ChatGPT and then go back to Claude to keep going. I have not run into a usage limit on ChatGPT once—never.
I have started to rely on ChatGPT more and more because Claude is unreliable due to this limitation.
I am now going to subscribe to @Grok, and transfer all my projects over from Claude.
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@shanaka86 That is what I call a stretch goal extraordinaire.
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Elon Musk earns $54,080 per year. Unchanged since 2019. That is the annual salary of the richest person on Earth from the company targeting the largest IPO in history.
SpaceX’s board approved a new compensation package in January. It was disclosed this week in confidential SEC registration excerpts ahead of the IPO. The terms are not financial. They are physical.
Two hundred million super-voting Class B restricted shares vest if and only if SpaceX reaches a $7.5 trillion market valuation and establishes a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million people. A separate tranche of 60.4 million restricted shares, awarded March 23, vests on valuation milestones plus the operation of orbital data centers delivering at least 100 terawatts of compute capacity.
If any target is missed, Musk receives zero shares. Not reduced shares. Zero.
Read the milestones again. They are not revenue targets. They are not EBITDA gates. They are physics problems.
One million people on Mars means solving 0.38g gravitational physiology, 233 millisieverts per year of unshielded radiation, closed-loop life support across 26-month windows, and in-situ propellant production at industrial scale. Nature published a 2024 analysis showing Starship exceeds its published dry mass by roughly 110 tonnes and lacks return delta-v. MOXIE produced 122 grams of oxygen over two years. A colony needs tonnes per day.
One hundred terawatts of orbital compute means space-based data centers where heat rejection scales with the fourth power of temperature. Global electricity generation averages 3.3 terawatts. This milestone requires 30 times the planet’s entire power output routed to AI chips in vacuum. Musk posted on April 22 that this scale “would be 200 times the US economy every year.”
This is not compensation. This is a civilization specification sheet priced in equity.
The lunar pivot makes the sequence visible. Moon first because windows open every 10 days instead of 26 months. Lunar factories manufacture orbital data centers. Mass drivers catapult them into orbit. Revenue from orbital compute funds the self-growing city. The city stages Mars. Mars becomes the backup.
Each step requires a different branch of physics. Orbital mechanics for windows. Electromagnetism for mass drivers. Stefan-Boltzmann for cooling. Radiation biology for survival. ISRU chemistry for fuel. And at the base: a $54,080 salary ensuring the builder receives nothing unless the physics works.
SpaceX filed its S-1 with an explicit warning: “Our initiatives to develop orbital AI compute and in-orbit, lunar, and interplanetary industrialization are in early stages, involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability.”
The company told you the milestones might be impossible. Then tied 260 million new shares to achieving them anyway.
The IPO targets June 28 at a valuation between $1.75 and $2 trillion. The compensation package requires $7.5 trillion. The gap between where the company starts trading and where Musk gets paid is a 4x return that depends on physics no human has ever demonstrated.
$54,080. Two hundred million shares. Seven and a half trillion dollars. One million humans on another planet. One hundred terawatts in orbit. Zero shares if any of it fails.
That is not a compensation package. That is a wager against the laws of physics with the stakes denominated in civilization.
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I highly recommend you convert the PDF into a .MD file, as that will be more efficient.
Open the PDF in Google Docs, save it as a .MD file, and then upload it into Claude.
I am experiencing the same frustrations, and what’s worse is that Claude can make mistakes repeatedly in one chat session. Then, when it finally gets it right, it tells me I’ve used up all of my time!
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