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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The agreement includes a $300 billion private investment fund. Reuters reports more than half is already pledged, backed by private companies from the US, Gulf states, Asia, South America and Africa. This reframes the entire deal. A government commitment to reconstruct Iran was always going to be politically impossible to sell in Washington. A private investment fund with $150+ billion already committed before the ink is dry is a different animal entirely. That's a coalition of global capital that has decided Iran's economic reopening is worth betting on, and it creates a constituency for the deal's success that goes well beyond any government's political will. The fund is also a pressure mechanism. If the final agreement collapses, $150 billion in committed private capital loses its entry point into one of the most resource-rich and underleveraged economies on earth. Not a diplomatic incentive. That's a financial one. And financial incentives tend to be more durable than political ones. Source: Reuters / Writer: Oliver

The problem with the "if it works who cares what the code looks like" mindset for agentic work is that it assumes the agent has a perfect understanding of "works." Realistically, things are underspecified, agents make bad assumptions, etc. To be fair, agents are pretty good at unit test coverage. They're pretty bad at designing human experiences (API, CLI flags, etc.), especially cohesive ones for future roadmap plans they may not have visibility into (unless your backlog is perfect and vision fully laid out, which I doubt). They're bad at knowing where performance matters and what type (CPU vs memory tradeoffs). They're bad at where compatibility matters and where it doesn't (and tend to err on the side of preserving it without further guidance). Etc. Unless you have this ALL specified, you can't possibly claim "it works" without taking a look and thinking about it.

A 19-year-old college student quietly turns down a job interview, stupidly telling the company it's because he doesn't want to work for a Jew. Within two days: -- The billionaire founder of one of the world's most powerful corporations (Palantir) demands that the company release his the student's to the world. The company instantly complies. -- National media trumpet the incident and spread the student's name and face all over the place. -- A senior Trump DOJ official repeatedly urges the public to notify him if that student is ever hired anywhere in the future, promising to use his office to keep the student permanently unemployable. Adults with large, influential platforms -- pundits, media types, even elected officials -- right here on X routinely say things as bad as, and often much worse than, pretty much every other group you can think of without facing a single consequence let alone a completely unhinged coordinated campaign of very powerful people to run their lives forever:

Mark Levin seeks to undermine Trump's deal with Iran by insisting it should be a "treaty" that must be approved by two-thirds of the Senate. (Trump can launch the war without Congress but can't end it without them, according to Levin.)