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the engineer who built Claude Code just dropped a 28-minute video on how to write prompts that actually work
I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what he shows in the first 10 minutes
CLAUDE.md files, memory shortcuts, parallel sessions, prompting patterns
all in one video and completely free
works whether you're a developer, a beginner, or someone who's been using Claude for months
based on this, I put together 18 things you can copy and use in Claude today
full guide in the article below
Anatoli Kopadze@AnatoliKopadze
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This is outrageous..
Not a single person on my flight is masked up while we’re in the middle of a double pandemic (Covid + Hantavirus).
I politely informed the flight attendant that this is a super spreader event. She just shrugged and walked away. I've already filed a formal complaint with the FAA and CDC. This is reckless and cannot stand.
Masks save lives, the science is settled on that.

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Houston-area residents feeling politically discriminated more than past 30 years: Kinder Institute abc13.com/post/kinder-in…
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@SalmanBhojaniTX @GregAbbott_TX If you want exclusivity, leave the country. Tough shit.
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Today, 41 Texas Legislators sent a
formal letter to @GregAbbott_TX demanding he withdraw his threat against the City of Grand Prairie over the DFW Epic Eid celebration.
Abbott threatened to pull $530,000 in state funding unless the city canceled a private Muslim community event. The city had no choice. A joyful Eid celebration, now in its third year, was canceled because of government coercion.
Faith communities rent city-owned facilities for private events across Texas every day. No governor has threatened funding over any of them. The difference here is not the structure of the event. It is who is gathering.
The harm is done, but it can be undone. We call on Governor Abbott to withdraw this threat immediately and make Grand Prairie whole.
Contact Governor Abbott and let him know: greg.abbott@gov.texas.gov
Full letter attached




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@BasedMikeLee Bennie is cooked. The people of Mississippi deserve better than him.
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If you can’t tell the difference between redistricting and “a second civil war,” you might be part of the problem
The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
Rep. Bennie Thompson on redistricting: “This is equivalent to a second civil war … We’re going to have to resist with every fiber in our body.”
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@dojo_rolo @_The_Prophet__ @brithume Your last 2 statements are ones that people rarely consider. Spot on.
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@_The_Prophet__ @brithume An excellent read. Mamdani and politicians like him are doomed to fail and will bring down the masses with the them. Wealth is highly mobile. Poverty is not.
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⚡️What is emerging is the collapse of the old urban elite bargain.
For decades, New York ran on an unspoken pact: capital accepted punishment because the city conferred power. High taxes, brutal costs, political hostility, congestion, disorder, regulatory pain. The exchange still worked because New York gave access to the center of gravity. Deals, law firms, media, finance, culture, status, elite labor, philanthropic prestige, institutional validation.
That pact is breaking.
The new political class still wants the fruits of capital, but no longer wants to honor the status of the people who create it. It wants the tower, the jobs, the taxes, the donations, the office demand, the civic subsidy, the global prestige, then wants the builder to stand there and be morally indicted after delivering it.
That is the deep contradiction.
A city can extract from capital when capital believes the city is indispensable. A city can insult capital when alternatives are weak. A city can tolerate dysfunction when proximity remains mandatory. New York’s danger is that all three conditions are weakening at once.
Capital is more mobile. Work is more distributed. Financial elites have alternatives. Florida is no longer a retirement punchline. Texas is no longer a provincial sideshow. Miami, Palm Beach, Dallas, Austin, Nashville, and global private networks now offer enough infrastructure for wealth to keep compounding without begging New York for permission.
That changes the psychology. The old New York premium was: suffer here because the center is here. The emerging question is: why suffer here if the center can move?
That is the part the political class does not understand. Prestige used to be New York’s moat. Now prestige is becoming portable. Capital can build its own rooms, its own conferences, its own private networks, its own schools, its own philanthropic channels, its own media, its own political machines. Once capital no longer needs the city to certify its status, the city loses its deepest leverage.
The Griffin fight is a symbol of that transition. He represents a type of actor who should be treated as strategic infrastructure by any city that wants to remain dominant. A builder of institutions. A buyer of land. A creator of high-value jobs. A source of tax flow. A donor. A signal to other capital that the city still matters.
If the city’s response is contempt, the message to other capital is clean: come build here and become prey.
Deep deep down, this is the emergence of jurisdictional sovereignty inside America. The wealthy and productive are no longer merely choosing neighborhoods. They are choosing regimes. One regime offers prestige plus extraction plus moral hostility. Another offers lower taxes, friendlier politics, more space, and fewer rituals of humiliation.
The old coastal model assumed talent and capital were captive. The new map proves they are not.
That is why this matters beyond New York. This is the same pattern showing up everywhere: high-status legacy institutions still believe they own the future because they owned the past. Universities, media, cities, agencies, credential systems, old financial centers. They keep charging the old premium after the monopoly has weakened.
That is how incumbents decay. They mistake inherited gravity for permanent gravity.
The emerging structure is harsher: capital will increasingly route around contempt. Talent will increasingly route around decay. Builders will increasingly choose places that treat them as assets rather than tribute animals. Legacy cities will still matter, but their monopoly on ambition is cracking.
The real truth is that New York is not fighting one billionaire.
New York is testing whether a city can despise its own engine and still remain the center of the world.
Lloyd Blankfein@lloydblankfein
Ken Griffin is self-made. He built his businesses largely outside NYC but is now growing it in NYC. With Ken comes construction of an office tower, high paying jobs, tax revenue and a remarkable commitment to local philanthropy. Not sure why that pisses off the new mayor.
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@gothburz @jsherman376 They weren’t phased because they figured the shooter was one of them. And pragmatically speaking, he is. They had nothing to fear so they turned it into an opportunity.
Not sure why you don’t call out the person you saw, especially if there’s video to back it up.
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I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.
The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.
A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.
Everything else was improvised.
I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.
What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.
I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.
She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.
The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.
The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.
That's priority.
The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.
A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.
That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.
I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.
I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.
188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.
A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.
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@JenSiebelNewsom Sit down. You’re part of the problem. Her gender is irrelevant. She got the respect that she gave; in fact he could’ve gone further and been justified.
Just because your husband is a pussy doesn’t mean DJT has to abide by your retarded standards.
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My family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O’Donnell last night, and we were shocked. Seeing a president speak to a woman journalist with that level of contempt — and a clear allergy to facts — is disturbing, though at this point not unexpected given his pattern of behavior.
But that is the problem. Because when that level of disrespect from the highest office in the country repeats itself, it starts to trickle down into our culture and define what power looks like, shaping how boys and plenty of men see women and girls and what they come to accept as normal behavior.
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Stanford scientists found one bacteria missing in almost every obese, diabetic, and inflamed patient they studied.
It's supposed to make up 3-5% of your gut.
In people with metabolic problems, it's often 3,000 times lower.
This bacteria has one job.
It lives in the mucus lining of your gut wall,
The last layer of defense between your bloodstream and the outside world.
It eats old mucus, stimulates your body to make fresh mucus, and seals the wall tight.
When it's there, your gut barrier is strong.
When it's gone, the wall thins:
Weight becomes harder to lose
Food particles leak through
Blood sugar misbehaves
Cholesterol creeps up
Inflammation climbs
Researchers at Nature Medicine gave this bacteria to overweight adults for 3 months.
The results:
- Cholesterol dropped
- Insulin sensitivity improved
- Liver inflammation markers fell
- Gut barrier function strengthened
- Body weight started trending down without a single diet change
Here's what people are reporting when they rebuild this strain and its probiotic cousins:
Blood sugar stabilizing
Cravings for sugar fading
Bloating disappearing in days
Skin clearing after years of struggle
Clothes fitting differently in a matter of weeks
What destroys this bacteria?
Alcohol
Antibiotics
Chronic stress
Artificial sweeteners
High-fat, high-sugar processed diets
You can't buy this specific strain at most health food stores.
But you can feed the bacteria you already have, and colonize with related strains that do similar work -
At levels 10x higher than any capsule.
The trick is fermentation.
A jar of homemade yogurt fermented with the right strain for 36 hours at the right temperature can deliver 200+ billion live probiotic cultures per serving.
A store-bought yogurt?
Maybe 1 billion if you're lucky.
Dr. William Davis (author of "Super Gut") has spent years documenting exactly how to do this at home.
I've been making it myself for 3 years.
The difference in how I feel is night and day.
Comment PROBIOTICS and I'll send you the free guide on how to make unlimited probiotics at home.
P.S. MUST Follow for me to DM you.

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I will never understand how 77 million, of our fellow Americans, looked at this imbecile and decided he was qualified to lead our country.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Trump: I ended 8 wars. A ninth is coming. Nobody's ever ended one war. Who's ended one? Nobody
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The United States is so toxic on the world stage right now that it can’t fill hotels or sell World Cup tickets.
Let that land.
FIFA projected $30.5 billion in economic impact from millions of international visitors.
That demand never showed up.
Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco have slashed match-day rates by a third from their peak.
FIFA has cancelled tens of thousands of reserved rooms across all 16 host cities.
Some hotels report cancellation rates above 95%.
The reasons aren’t hard to find. Anti-American sentiment. Fear of border crossings. The Iran war driving up oil prices and airfares. And tickets priced into the stratosphere, with finals seats hitting $10,990 a pop.
Industry executives are now openly blaming the Trump administration for the shortfall.
Tourism economists say the Iran war made an already bad sentiment problem worse.
Empty stadiums are now a real possibility.
It happened at the Club World Cup last summer.
It could happen again, on American soil, at the biggest sporting event on the planet.
The White House says this will be “the greatest World Cup ever.”
The market disagrees.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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The President is unwell and he is deteriorating daily. His recent ravings and outrageous social media posts point to a man who is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
We cannot leave that determination under the 25th Amendment to the President's cabinet alone.
I joined @RepRaskin to demand that a Commission is formed to investigate his fitness for office.
Andrew Solender@AndrewSolender
NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment. Bill text here: documentcloud.org/documents/2804… Story TK
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@Rep_Stansbury How stupid your constituents must be for you to have posted this...
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