Rocco Bertino | SWIMWEAR aficionado

Hot take: There is a limited window of time, like any new industry, where a new tool appears and people don't understand it fully yet, and it's powerful enough to change your entire life, but not so powerful it's been completely taken over by corporate interests yet. And when this tool appears you have two choices: use it to skyrocket your life and take advantage of this TEMPORARY moment, or resist/hate/be angry/complain/, do nothing, and the moment is gone forever. These brief moments in time are when shifts in the game board happen. It happened with Crypto, its happening with AI, it happens with any NEW thing. These shifts in the game board allow people who came/come from nothing, to elevate, using nothing but DEMOCRATIZED tools, moving first, their creativity, and execution. Our take is that instead of poo poo-ing the tool, USE the tool, improve your life, try applying the tool to the industries/things you know best, get creative, and catapault your way into a new class. You'll fine the sense of fulfillment you get as you're building, growing, expanding, learning, elevating your life, to FAR OUTWEIGH any feelings of superiority you get by hating and rejecting the tool. If you don't use this time, VERY likely chance in the future, whether 5 years, 10 years, when you are older, have more family, more weight/responsibility, and the realities of life are much more tangible, you'll wish you had acted more during this time. You don't want to be filled with regret because you chose to hate/dismiss, instead of build/grow, which ONLY helps you and the ones you love. TLDR? Instead of hating/dismissing a new tool, use this BRIEF WINDOW of time to elevate/improve your life. The window is temporary and if you don't use it because you want to please a small niche of people who don't really care about your success anyways, you may very highly regret that decision. Disclaimer: Post written with care and consideration and in a good spirit. Please don't be hateful for no reason. This is to benefit those who these words get through to.

Give your neck a break

Chinese students are buying GPT-5.4/5.5 and Claude API access from Xianyu/Taobao proxy sellers for almost 96-97% cheaper People are apparently burning 100M+ tokens a day for like $1 and vibecoding nonstop.

I don’t care what you think about AI, every company needs to run an internal AI hackathon @beehiiv held one last week, and it was the most productive 28 hours in company history how it worked: > teams of 3 > 28 hours to build an internal tool or feature > we judged it on “cool factor” and usefulness > winning team gets $1000 each to pimp out their workspace > 42 teams presented a 3 minute demo the demos were genuinely the most inspiring two hours I’ve had as CEO since starting the company every single project was ridiculously impressive. without giving away all of the secret sauce, here are some of the projects that were built: > outbound SDR agent for enterprise sales > deploy tracker that flags related errors, support tickets, and response time spikes > AI-powered pricing page that explains our plans to visitors > tool that finds our top advertisers and auto-generates case studies rather than simply pitching ideas, we had 42 new ideas come to life with working prototypes (and some are already in production) this is exactly why this moment in time with AI is so remarkable

@OfficialJoelF Saw a Waymo going about 30 on the McCarthur - they should prob figure that out

Just noticed the Waymo map expanded again to cover a larger area of Miami-Dade County. Now includes Miami Shores, Opa-locka, Miami Gardens (incl’d Hard Rock Stadium), North Miami 🤖 Since they are rolling access to highway that means Turnpike is now in play in addition to the others it was already using. Could see a westward expansion soon maybe even Broward too

@mcuban @HeyPeterClarke Can’t take anything you say seriously after supporting Kamala

We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level. Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens. It will accomplish 4 things (at least ) 1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization Which will 2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption Which will 3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x Which will 4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally. Thoughts ?

The biggest alpha leak of 2026 is that you can tokenmax $10k/mo with OpenClaw/Hermes + GBrain and get the AI that everyone will have in 2028 for $100/mo, but you can get it now, and that is the biggest single unlock you can have vs your competition

Hoy una industria entera dejó de tener sentido. Un tío publicó en GitHub un repo que convierte cualquier foto en un mundo 3D explorable: meshes con físicas, splat del fondo, audio ambiente. Todo. Una imagen entra. Un mundo sale. Cinco minutos. La gente que se pasó diez años aprendiendo Blender lleva todo el día mirando esto en silencio. Se llama image-blaster.

@CollinRugg @zerohedge 🤣🤣🤣

NEW: 50 empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhoods and circle their cul-de-sacs for hours early in the mornings. Residents say they are getting waymo traffic than usual and have tried combating the cars with a neon green sign, which only made the problem worse. The Waymos didn't know what to do and clogged the entire street. "We have small animals and pets, got kids getting on the bus in the morning, and it just doesn’t feel safe to have that traffic," one resident said. The residents say Waymo has not given them a response yet.

The world is healing @grok what MBAs are actually necessary in the world ?

Made with seedance 2.0 + GPT Image 2 Prompt: Ultra-realistic sports broadcast still of a glamorous woman sitting in a packed football stadium crowd during a night match, wearing a dark brown sleeveless high-neck satin top and black square earrings, shoulder-length light brown/blonde hair styled in soft waves. She is casually drinking from a tall blue aluminum can while holding a half-eaten cheeseburger in the other hand. Around her are fans in bright yellow and blue football jerseys and scarves, creating strong team-color contrast. The scene feels candid and cinematic, captured mid-game from a TV broadcast camera angle with shallow depth of field. Include realistic stadium seating, crowded audience atmosphere, broadcast overlay graphics in the top-left corner showing a live football score and match timer, and a sports network watermark in the top-right. Natural arena lighting, detailed skin texture, sharp focus on the woman, slightly blurred background crowd, authentic live sports broadcast aesthetic, 16:9 composition.

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.” - C. S. Lewis

Hermes actually is the real deal. I just dropped a one hour course on it. All the way from setting one up to understanding how to build an army of them. Give this a read.

i think a lot of people quietly give up on their life because they become “realistic” too early. like they stop themselves before life even gets the chance to test them. but some people stay so delusionally optimistic about their future that they refuse to let their current reality become their final story. that’s probably why Elon Musk kept going even while rockets were failing publicly and Tesla looked finished. maybe that mindset changes everything. the ability to not emotionally collapse every time life refuses to validate you. that level of optimism changes people. because when you deeply believe something is possible, you behave differently. you last longer. you recover faster. you keep going during the phase where most people quietly lose belief in themselves.

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Higgsfield releases Virality Predictor What does it mean: > Upload any clip up to 15s > Get viral potential, hook score & hold rate > See a heatmap of brain regions your clip activates > Pair with Ad Reference for recreated videos Available via MCP/CLI and on the platform.

This is the kind of home that heals you without saying a word

OpenAI shipped a plugin so Claude Code can call Codex... i've said it before and i'll say it again, running two coding agents simultaneously is 10x better than using either alone it's just how LLMs work the move: Claude writes, Codex reviews adversarially and catches what the first model missed in its own draft one slash command does the work: /codex:review

Great marketers understand the power of choice architecture and use it throughout the prospects journey. Read Nudge by Richard Thaler for a crash course on this.