Aaron James

@unusual_whales One extreme to solve another. Let them cook, doesnt hurt to see the results.

BREAKING: The UK will ban all smartphones from schools, per FT

@trikcode @Kyrylo22 @grok Apparently it was reverted

@trikcode @Kyrylo22 @grok Apparently it impacts 2% of users. Horrible A/B testing

Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from the $20 Pro plan. You now need the $100/month Max plan to use it.

@trikcode @Kyrylo22 @grok Some info x.com/theamolavasare…

@unusual_whales Imagine being the person who posts this on behalf of the president

Trump on Tim Cook: "I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to 'kiss my ass.'"

Oh this is wild! Let’s go! I love Cursor!

SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models. Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

@Ric_RTP Criminal. I had no idea this was taking place, and it’s sad to see everyone working against us.

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

> be John Ternus > 1997. engineering degree. nobody cares > first job: VR headsets at a dead startup > join Apple in 2001. first project: a monitor > spend 25 years in the shadows > iPad. AirPods. iPhone 12. Apple Silicon. all him > never had the corner office. refused it twice > Tim Cook took Apple from $350B to $4 TRILLION > today Apple named you CEO > engineer who made your stuff just became the boss Tim Cook turned $350B into $4T. now it's Ternus's turn. what does a guy who actually builds things do with the most valuable company on earth?

dear god lol - new kimi model is a fucking beast. GPT 5.4 level coding, 76% cheaper than opus 4.7 and 100% open source / free to use, i mean look at this: > kimi k2.6 can code continuously for 12 hours straight, run 300+ agents in parallel from a SINGLE prompt. how the fuck is china doing this? every 3 months theres a new open model that gets closer to the best claude/GPT models. deepseek also releasing this week. open source models have caught up and china of all countries are leading it!

This is your friendly reminder to work so hard that you never have to update your LinkedIn again!

spent some time figuring out why hermes agent kept timing out on glm-5.1 at exactly 30 seconds turns out api.z.ai idle-times-out streams at 30s. glm doesn't stream tool call args, it dumps them in one chunk at the end. so any big tool call = 30s of silence = dead connection fix is literally one flag, tool_stream=true filed a PR, we'll see if it lands github.com/NousResearch/h…

GLM 5.1 keeps timing out on Hermes Agent. What am I doing wrong?

@PalantirTech You don’t hate Palantir enough

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

This is a massive and growing problem for American national security. Unbelievable amounts of sensitive and classified information is captured, scraped, and sent back to foreign nations. And users have no idea. Nobody expects that their TV or monitor is a surveillance tool. When I have joked that Smart TVs should be illegal, I am only half-joking.

@MorePerfectUS @ryangrim Both sides are trash and it’s all a show.

BREAKING: The House just failed to pass a resolution to end Trump's war with Iran by one vote. The count was 213-214. Just one Democrat, Jared Golden, voted to let Trump keep waging the war.

@andywalkerhq Seems like a fair price IMO

Battery died in my car. Called a mobile repair business. This is what they quoted me for replacement. What do you guys think?

@ns123abc It has definitely improved!

the timeline so good it’s making me fall in love with almost ever account

@LayoffAI This type of decision was likely made well before D’Amaro joined and should have been executed before he took the role of CEO. Either way, timing sucks here, but I don’t put that on him.

Disney's internal codename for laying off 1,000 people was "Project Imagine." The layoffs began this morning with an email from the CEO. Here's what's actually happening: Josh D'Amaro became CEO 4 weeks ago. Before that he spent years as the face of Disney Parks -- walking the grounds before opening, high-fiving guests, hugging cast members. Fans loved him. Cast members loved him. He was the anti-corporate guy in a very corporate company. Then Bob Iger handed him the keys. His first major move: eliminate 1,000 roles. In January, Disney quietly merged ALL of its marketing departments into one division under one chief. Entertainment. ESPN. Experiences. Studios. One org chart. One boss. That meant every person doing the same job across five divisions was now sitting next to their replacement. 1,000 people found out this morning if they were the ones gone. D'Amaro's memo called it "streamlining operations" and building "a more agile and technologically-enabled workforce." His March memo to staff called the vision "OneDisney." One Disney. One marketing department. One thousand fewer jobs. Project Imagine is just getting started.

Full Release Notes: github.com/NousResearch/h… Update with 'hermes update'