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1/5 I'm a cardiologist. Here's why I recommend men take 5 mg of tadalafil — Cialis — every single day. Not for ED. Not for performance. I take it for the same reason every serious longevity physician I respect does: to protect my cardiovascular system, my brain perfusion, and my endothelial health at the most fundamental level. This drug — famous for all the wrong reasons — has quietly become one of the most powerful tools in preventive cardiology. And the data is now too strong for me to keep quiet about it.

@realEstateTrent You almost had me on how great New York is and then you take it all away

How can a Homeowners Association possibly be qualified to manage a $100,000,000 real estate asset? Reality is, getting involved with my HOA was one of the stupidest decisions I’ve ever made, and the entire HOA system needs to be completely overhauled from scratch. They especially can’t stand the real estate folks, and you make instant enemies for making an actual intelligent suggestion.

@sweatystartup Bro send a message on the app and they’ll respond right away.

Put a deposit on a Tesla 6 weeks ago. They said it would be 6 weeks. Haven’t heard anything. Tried responding to the email, it’s a no-reply. I don’t know how to get ahold of anyone.

@JimmyBoomerang Happened on one of my brands as well. Setup an automation because Shopify flagged every one for me but we shipped it anyways.

I got bombarded with fraudulent orders. Recently someone (competitor) hired some BH service that puts in fake orders using a bunch of different credit cards. Then they chargeback and get your SP banned. Best way to avoid this is to setup shopify flow app automation :)

@openclaw Worked but took 720 seconds to run the doctor phase. Might want to check on that

OpenClaw 2026.5.22 is live ⚡ Gateway/model startup paths got leaner 🧠 /models drops to ~5ms 🔒 npm packages ship locked deps 🪟 Windows install/update paths hardened Less waiting, fewer surprises. github.com/openclaw/openc…

This is the local model I run. Best I’ve found so far on 128gb m5

@Rightanglenews Man finds $2 million, no $1 million, no $500k and turns it over to police

@thecoraesthetic @Mr_Husky1 She gave away $197 million !!!!! How much have you given away??!!

@Mr_Husky1 Gee, call me crazy, but what if she had simply made her concert tickets actually affordable for her teen fans. Color me unimpressed when a billionaire gives away $3,000 - $13,000, and then is applauded for it.

It was a Monday in early August 2023. The exhausted truck drivers of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour thought they were heading to a routine production meeting before the Los Angeles shows. They had no idea what was coming. Scott Swift walked in. Taylor's father didn't say much—he just began handing out envelopes. When the drivers finally peeked inside, some thought the check said $1,000. Others read $10,000. The third driver stared at his and said out loud: "This has to be a joke." It wasn't. $100,000. Each driver. Nearly 50 of them. The industry standard bonus from the biggest stars? $5,000 to $10,000. Taylor had given them more than ten times that. But here's what made it matter most: these drivers weren't wealthy. They lived in truck cabs. They hadn't seen their families in 24 weeks. They were people who would never own homes—until now. Until that envelope. That moment of shock and tears? It was just the beginning. Across the entire Eras Tour, Taylor quietly handed out $197 million in bonuses. The dancers. The band. The riggers. The lighting and sound technicians. The caterers. Every single person who built the show—they got bonuses, handwritten notes, and wax-sealed letters. When dancers opened theirs on camera in her docuseries, they broke down crying. Some couldn't believe she was real. "If the tour grosses more, they get more," she explained simply. These people work hard. They deserve it. But the crew bonuses weren't the only quiet revolution happening. Starting in March 2023, in every city where the tour touched down, a call came to local food banks. Taylor wanted to donate. No press conference. No announcement. No photo op. One donation fed 75,000 meals. Another provided hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh produce. Across the tour, the total reached millions of meals—possibly more—all delivered in silence. She never posted about a single one. And it wasn't new for her. In March 2020, when the pandemic locked down the world, Taylor scrolled through social media posts from fans who were breaking. A photographer about to lose everything. A person staring down eviction. She sent direct messages with rent money—$3,000 here, $13,000 there. Some fans got enough for months of bills. She read the Washington Post. She noticed the names. She helped. She never announced it. Years later, in October 2025, a two-year-old named Lilah—fighting a cancer so rare that only 58 families in America had ever known it—was filmed by her mother dancing to a Taylor Swift song. Lilah called Taylor her friend. A few days later, the GoFundMe received a $100,000 donation. The note said: "Sending the biggest hug to my friend, Lilah! Love, Taylor." Mike Scherkenbach has worked with the wealthiest people in music. He's seen the bonuses. He's seen the behavior. He's watched billionaires guard their money jealously. What he saw with Taylor was different. The biggest tour in history grossed $2 billion. The artist behind it became a billionaire from her own songwriting. And then she signed her name onto hundreds of envelopes by hand and sent enough money back to the people who built her dream that they cried opening their letters. That isn't strategy. That isn't a publicity stunt. That's what happens when someone, somewhere along the way, remembered what matters.

@OpenAIDevs It’d be great if I can access my codex cli apps on the go instead of inside the app.

Codex anywhere and everywhere, all the time. Now your Mac doesn’t have to be unlocked for Codex to use your computer. From your phone, Codex can securely use apps on your Mac, even when the screen is off and locked. #locked-use" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">developers.openai.com/codex/app/comp…

If you are a small business i can’t discourage you enough to never ever use liberty mutual for insurance. Their audit process is so busted you could end up owing tens of thousands of dollars on a $7k policy because when you submit your audit they can decide to bill you whatever they want. Stay away!!

@openclaw @davemorin Working for me! Gonna try grok

OpenClaw 2026.5.18 is live 🤖 xAI/Grok OAuth + sidecar auth fixes 🎙️ Realtime Android Talk Mode 💬 Telegram media + forum-topic delivery fixes 🪟 Browser dialogs visible + answerable A week of polish, plumbing, and fewer papercuts. github.com/openclaw/openc…

@BenjaminBadejo Where’s it at!!

VoiceClaw Realtime will be available in the App Store within hours. Thanks again to everyone who tested the final beta over the weekend. Here's just a tiny bit of what it can do, directly on your phone, and on your computer via OpenClaw, from anywhere.

@GhostOfNolte @Seanfrank @BuildBoost They don’t “make” $200mm a year they sell that much. Are you in eCommerce at all?

@michaelslate @Seanfrank @BuildBoost Ridge makes $200 million a year. 125k is like a normal person giving a homeless person $5. It's a joke. If he wanted to actually improve American manufacturing he has the means to do so. You creepy looking bitch.

I am raising 25k on 500k to manufacture durable, minimalist, slick wallets with a material first design approach in the USA

@GhostOfNolte @Seanfrank @BuildBoost I’m creepy but you are anonymous with a picture of Nick Nolte??

@Seanfrank @BuildBoost It’s my favorite thing when people critcize and you ask them what they are doing to solve the problem and then crickets. Kudos for doing this!

You can be as mad as you want, but I want more small shops tinkering in America, and I’m willing to put money into it. I want guys in garages to have start up capital to buy a cnc machine. Then, in 1, 2, 5 years maybe we have enough infrastructure to make shit again What are you doing to help?

@Molson_Hart There’s millions of Amazon sellers why are there like 5 of us on this app?

In 2016, selling on Amazon was not only super profitable, but also very hot. I was lucky, in a way, to ride that wave. I was reflecting on many of the people I met over those 10 years... Not only did most sellers not survive, but a lot committed fraud and ended up in prison. And those who didn't blow up, the ones who sold at the right time to private equity, many of them ultimately had their lives blow up in another way, through things like divorce. When you compare that class of 2016 Amazon entrepreneurs to the people I graduated college with, the Amazon entrepreneurs were something like 100x more likely to end up in a really bad situation. I have many good friends among them who are good people, but there is definitely something about entrepreneurship that attracts the more daring and, let's say, "flexible" people. So, in a way, I understand why entrepreneurship without the imprimatur of a venture capital firm or an stock exchange listing is met by apprehension by the employees of the world, the same ones who I graduated college with. Entrepreneurship is for the wild ones.

@steipete Very cool man. More of this

People freaking out over my AI spend. What nobody sees: Part of what excites me so much about working on OpenClaw is that I'm trying to answer the question: How would we build software in the future if tokens don't matter? We constant run ~100 codex in the cloud, reviewing every PR, every issue. If a fix on main lands, @clawsweeper will eventually find that 6 month old issue and close it with an exact reference. We run codex on every commit to review for security issues (as it's far too easy to miss). We run codex to de-duplicate issues and find clusters and send reports for the most pressing issues. We have agents that can recreate complex setups, spin up ephemeral crabbox.sh machines, log into e.g. Telegram, make a video and post before/after fix on the PR. There's codex that watch new issues and - if it fits our documented vision well, automatically create a PR of it. (that then another codex reviews) We have codex running that scans comments for spam and blocks people. We have codex instances running that verify performance benchmarks and report regressions into Discord. We have agents that listen on our meetings and proactively start work, e.g. create PRs when we discuss new features while we discuss them. We build clawpatch.ai to split all our projects into functional units to review and find bugs and regresssions. We do the same split for security with Vercel's deepsec and Codex Security to find regressions and vulnerabilities. All that automation allows us to run this project extremely lean.

@Seanfrank Ain’t this the truth

Every negotiation with suppliers: “Hey we want to add an extra zipper, how much would that be?” “Zippers? Prices have been going up. It will be $2 dollars to get another zipper on here” “Oh okay, let’s skip it and let’s actually remove the one we have then to save $2 on cogs” “What? Zippers are cheap. Removing the zipper might only save you 10 cents. Best to keep it”

@RomanEcom @MentorPass You can quickly experiment with landing pages in Shopify with Claude. Lots more to consider

Another bear case on $SHOP Talked to a founder on @MentorPass yesterday who’s done ~$45M TTM and is projecting $100M+ run rate with an AI-first approach. Duo-channel business: - Native ads - Google Ads Zero Meta. Zero AppLovin. The reason he’s growing so fast? He’s not on Shopify. He runs everything on a Medusa-like headless solution built on Next.js (blanking on the exact name). His rationale was simple: 1/ Seamless plug-and-play with Claude 2/ Can spin up landing pages + localization insanely easily (he launches hundreds of products per month) 3/ Way more iterations, flexibility, and speed vs Shopify Cost wasn’t even the deciding factor (though it’s much cheaper than a full $SHOP stack). This is becoming the new normal. Pretty crazy to watch. If I had the courage I’d switch Linjer tomorrow — our catalog management and especially localization is an absolute nightmare on Shopify compared to what this guy had. But we're growing a lot this year and I don't want to disrupt the train.

@PalmerLuckey This is their entire business model. Without it the postal service doesn’t exist

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!