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@elonmusk @ginnydmm @business Anti-asian?

@business Good, South Africa should be shunned until it stops its extreme anti-White and anti-Asian racism. It’s time for severe sanctions against South Africa.

South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana confirmed he won't be attending the upcoming meeting of the Group of 20 finance chiefs in Washington, a sign of the country's deepening rift with the US bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@elonmusk @ClaysonMonyela South africans are the only people that will make fun of a man...on his own platform. Yoh, shame man.

@ClaysonMonyela Stop being such a fucking racist, you asshole

.@elonmusk watching the more than 600 USA companies investing more in 🇿🇦, complying with #SouthAfrican laws & thriving. Zero drama!!

Apple has removed Lebanese village names in Southern Lebanon. As Israel invades, they are already setting the state to justify occupation. I’ve never seen something like this.

JUST IN: IMAGES RELEASED OF IRANIAN DELEGATION ARRIVING IN PAKISTAN THE DELEGATION IS CALLED MINAB 168 After the school girls that were killed by U.S

@KobeissiLetter @HormuzLetter @nikitabier @elonmusk Lol professor Jiang actually quoted them recently in one of his lectures instead of yours You kind of do the same thing from other sources and not sure if you actually have an IP on the shared brand elements.

Hey @nikitabier @elonmusk. This account literally recreated our profile picture and header using AI and is illegally capitalizing on our brand's image. We have received tons of emails and messages asking if this account is ours, and we have no affiliation with it. In fact, this account is not even based in the US and they are actively damaging our brand. What is X's policy here? At the bare minimum, this should not be eligible for monetization or just banned entirely.

BREAKING: Trump has set a deadline of within days for European allies to commit concrete military support in the Strait of Hormuz, including warships, Der Spiegel reports. NATO Secretary General Rutte informed European capitals after his White House meeting that political pledges made since the start of the war are no longer sufficient. Multiple European diplomats described the demand as an ultimatum.

@NadiaFerreira85 @vlok_andre Does the harm happen after we benefit from hormuz access?

@vlok_andre ANC's relationship with Iran is a stain on South Africa. It is going to harm us significantly.

Sincere question for South Africans who criticize(d) the South African government for its ties to Iran: In the light of the war these last few weeks, and more importantly, the world's response to it and how the US is handling the war, have you changed any of your views on your initial criticism? Does the war and its development validate your initial position, or are you prepared to agree that the position was never that simple, that SA's relationship with Iran can be rationally understood and defended? Just your sincere, considered view, not a gotcha riddle

@Zephyr_hg News

I never run out of content to post anymore. Built an automation that monitors 50+ news sources, scores articles for relevance, and writes social posts automatically. It finds trending topics in my niche before they explode everywhere else. Saves me 15-20 hours monthly and keeps me ahead of every trend. Comment "NEWS" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)

@AlfieJCarter Agent

I built 4 GTM agents in Claude Code that replaced hours of manual work per client. Here's the complete playbook for each one: 1️⃣ ICP Research Agent → Receives a company or contact list → Researches firmographic fit and tech stack signals → Scores each account against ICP criteria → Returns a ranked summary with match rating and reasoning → Runs in its own context window - zero bleed into main session 2️⃣ Sequence Builder Agent → Takes a signal type and ICP tier as input → Selects the right channel (LinkedIn, email, or WhatsApp) → Writes a complete multitouch sequence with subject lines → Includes reply handling scripts for each response type → Outputs ready-to-deploy copy without a single manual touchpoint 3️⃣ Campaign Diagnostician Agent → Ingests campaign metrics or sequence performance data → Identifies the most likely failure point in the funnel → Ranks 3 tests by expected revenue impact → Returns exact copy or targeting changes for each test → Tells you what to fix before you burn more of your addressable market 4️⃣ GTM Analyst Agent (my favourite) → Takes any campaign export or data file → Identifies performance trends and flags anomalies → Surfaces a prioritised action list ranked by revenue impact → Stores findings in a persistent project file for future runs → Gets smarter every time it runs - memory: project These agents mean I wake up to: - Prospects already scored and tiered before the day starts - Sequences drafted and ready for review - Campaign diagnosis completed overnight - Data analysis done without opening a single spreadsheet All running inside Claude Code, deployed via Trigger(.)dev, tracked without a human in the loop. The agentic AI market is moving from $7 billion to $93 billion. The agencies that figure this out in the next 6 months will have a cost and speed advantage that's very hard to close. I packaged the entire build into a free playbook - the WAT framework (Workflows, Agent, Tools), sub-agent configs, CLAUDE.md templates, deployment steps, and context management rules. Want the full Claude Code GTM Engineer's Playbook? Reply AGENT below and I'll send it over.

@MaryK2022 I didnt know @VusiThembekwayo did comedy too. Shiiid

This is true

gigafucked: - grammarly - calendly - miro - retool - webflow - langchain - writer - harvey - glean - expedia - monday fucked: - accenture - intuit - notion - jasper - canva - alphasense - postman - airtable - talkdesk - sierra - zapier - replit - solace probably fucked: - cursor - pilot - clay - mercor naively seems fucked but so competent / plugged in they seem to be figuring it out on the fly anyway: - linear

yo so just to recap the week: - google released gemini 3.1 but it disappointed tf out of people who claimed its not as good as they advertise - BUT THEN google dropped an AI song generation model which kinda slaps (Lyria 3) AND a new feature that 1-shots product photoshoots putting photographers (and fashion models) out of a job (Google Pomelli) - Microsoft pioneered a way to STORE DATA ON GLASS - stores data for up to 10,000 fucking years (🤯) and way cheaper than using silica. - Taalus fused an ai model DIRECTLY into silicon processing 17,000 tokens PER SECOND which is 17X faster than openai’s quickest model but 10 TIMES CHEAPER than nvidia blackwell gpus. (smaller models tho) - Apple is releasing 3 new AI devices: glasses, airpods with cameras and a pendant. - anthropic wiped $10B off the stock market after launching an ai that finds and help fixes security flaws in your code. cybersecurity stocks dumped <1 hour after launch. - BUT THEN Pentagon threatened to blacklist anthropic for failing to provide them uncensored access to claude. - xAI dropped grok 4.20 spawning 16 specialised ai agents that work together to solve any prompt. the model self-improves EVERY WEEK. - scientists discovered dna in meteorites suggesting humans could’ve originated from outer space (what) - Meta dropped Manus Agents going head-to-head with OpenClaw. - a cardiologist won 3rd-place in anthropic’s hackathon after vibe coding an app that helps his patients understand and act on their medical results. fucking hero. - china announced a cure for diabetes 1 & 2 after creating stem cells that make insulin - Moonshot labs is raising $500M immediately after raising $700M LAST WEEK. - ex-Deepmind researcher raised europes LARGEST ever seed round $1B at $4B back right as europe announces $13B new fund to catch up with america. - Stripe’s ai agents autonomously merged 1300 pull requests (up 30% from last week) suggesting top companies are now recursively improving using AI. dear f*cking goodness GOODNIGHT

@BrockRiddickIFB I call 3 M impressions on this post at least. X is a cesspool.

Reminds me of my niece

I've followed tech for 25 years and I've never felt a larger gap between the ~1 million people using Codex/Claude and the rest of humanity.

@Zephyr_hg NEWS

I never run out of content to post anymore. Built an automation that monitors 50+ news sources, scores articles for relevance, and writes social posts automatically. It finds trending topics in my niche before they explode everywhere else. Saves me 15-20 hours monthly and keeps me ahead of every trend. Comment "NEWS" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)

@AlfieJCarter Claude

R.I.P lead gen agencies. I just replaced an entire lead gen team with Claude agents. (all working while I slept) Most founders spend $10k-$20k/month on marketing teams that work 9-5. Most agencies spend $30k+/mo on outreach. Last night I built AI agents that run 24/7: - Lead Magnet Engineer → builds viral lead magnets in minutes - Social Media Expert → writes scroll-stopping hooks - Creative Director → generates on-brand visuals - Research Analyst → finds trending topics in your niche - Performance Tracker → analyses and maps out content The results after 24 hours: - 32 lead magnets ready to launch - 60 days of content mapped out - 50+ scroll-stopping visuals created While I was sleeping. Follow + reply CLAUDE and I’ll send the full system + setup.

@NoahEpstein_ I don't know who needs to hear this, but teaser posts (comment ACCESS) that are just marketing ploys are getting real old, real fast. N8N recently added its own AI builder that works quite well, but your prompts need to be precise.

Younger brother came into town for the holidays, we were talking about crypto yesterday. Trying to figure out why it's been so weak, even with strong equity markets. He threw me a curveball. "Crypto isn't that cool anymore." Blew my mind. The kid is 22. "Prediction markets are better, and stocks too because they don't get rugged 24/7". I looked much deeper last night...and what I'm observing under the surface is not technical or fundamental. It's cultural. A social shift. Attention has relocated. Starts on youtube. Views are down across anything related to crypto. A crypto youtuber with 139K subscribers said that his viewership had dropped more in the last 2 weeks than anything he's seen in 5 years. Second point. Attention is shifting from the top. The biggest crypto influencers are publicly "losing interest" in crypto, and switching to stocks (sources attached). Third point. Crypto has long been a free-spirited, lawless, young man's game. But with legacy brokerages like Schwab/JPMorgan getting involved + gov't interest, is crypto losing the demographic that made it popular in the first place? Potentially...as the perception's changed. Fourth point. Optionality. Every vehicle is becoming more accessible. From $COIN adding stock trading, to $HOOD adding 0DTE options, to prediction markets as a whole... Everything's right there...without the perceived risk of a rug-pull via the “lawless” crypto landscape that defined crypto’s appeal in the first place. Question is...does real-world crypto utility generate enough demand to offset a sustained decline in retail participation? All I'm saying is the divergence of the once highly correlated $BTC - $QQQ pair is highly suspect. And it's only getting wider. Yes, you can argue some of these things happen in every crypto bear market, but there's new variables & moving parts now (optionality + legacy brokerages participation + gov't interest) that change the game. Crypto seems to be in a transition phase...from a momentum asset to an infrastructure asset. Fundamental transitions like this are usually not kind to price in the medium term. Long term, I'm bullish on the crypto's utility and think it will be everywhere, but the real world utility/adoption (and subsequent growing pains...) is something I'm watching in 2026.

A new book analyses the tunes that have topped the Billboard chart since 1958 economist.com/culture/2025/1…

@georgesttock Nano

Google’s new Nano Banana Pro is F*cking crazy! I gave it one product photo… and it generated agency-level ads in under 2 minutes. No editor. No capcut. No $10k/month creative retainers. Then I combined it with my custom GPT pipeline — and suddenly my ads started looking like top 1% DTC brands… for $0. Honestly, it feels like something Google released by mistake. It’s almost unreal. Should I drop it? Comment "NANO" and I'll send it (must be following)

@DiggingInTheDi1 @bae_stvrrie That stat says more about the numerator tbh 😅

@bae_stvrrie Closer to 200th based on all dating metrics

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