Wells Johnston

@Defendthewest17 300 is fun but not a good movie

Historical epics ranked from (2000-2009) 15. Hidalgo 14. The Alamo 13. King Arthur 12. Alexander 11. Kingdom of Heaven 10. The New World 9. The Count of Monte Cristo 8. The Patriot 7. Troy 6. 300 5. Gladiator 4. The Last Samurai 3. The Passion of the Christ 2. Master and Commander 1. Apocalypto Do you agree?

@sharbel I asked claude to review these instructions and it said it was mostly redundant with its system prompt lol

🚨 Andrej Karpathy documented the exact ways LLMs fail at coding. Someone turned those observations into a single Claude config file. It's called andrej-karpathy-skills. +3,741 stars this week. Why it's great: Claude Code makes the same mistakes on every project. It over-explains. It adds code you didn't ask for. It ignores constraints you set 3 prompts ago. Most people just accept this as the baseline. Karpathy didn't. He catalogued the failure patterns. This repo converts every one of them into a CLAUDE.md instruction that fixes the behavior at the source. How to use it: Drop the CLAUDE.md file into the root of any project. Claude reads it automatically on every session. No prompt engineering on every request. No babysitting. The behavior changes once and stays changed. One file. Every project.

@WallStreetApes probably not the best idea to vacation down there right now. not because of physical danger, but because your flights could get canceled due to jet fuel shortages. also there are many unknown unknowns with an escalating war somewhat close by. not smart.

Donald Trump is making travel cheaper Travel influencer says because of the war in Iran, tourism in the Maldives has significantly dropped She says even the famous water villas are now essentially empty and are discounted as much as 80% “Almost all of them are empty”

@C_S_Skeptic @0xDjembe so that kind of ruins your point

@0xDjembe Yep, and that ain’t happening.

Something to keep in mind - once Tesla $TSLA drops below $319 per share, it will drop below the trillion dollar market cap it brags about. Making it worth less than the trillion dollar compensation Musk demanded from the company to stay on as CEO. The entire company will be worth less than the compensation package voted on by its mindless shareholders at the last AGM. A package Musk has done sweet fuck all in the interim to earn. This bubble can't pop fast enough.

he said that people are poor because the elites want to keep them poor, and they could just print money to fix poverty (nonsense). he also generally speaks confidently on a lot of topics that he can’t know the answer to. so maybe he is directionally right on stuff, fun to listen to, but he’s also fundamentally unserious.

Not sure why everyone hates on this guy so much. He's been pretty directionally accurate in his predictions. If you watch him in long form, not just clipped or someone else's opinion, he has an interesting perspective to consider in your media diet (of many perspectives).

🚨JIANG: "I think that they are definitely going to bomb the power plants. They're definitely going to bomb the desalination plants. And they're definitely going to send in ground troops."

@johnbonham096 @sircalebhammer what are his accomplishments other than having a big podcast?

@sircalebhammer ridiculously boring podcaster. monotone voice. has accomplishments yes but they're stretched into falsities

What did he do? I feel like the internet just decides to hate someone after they are popular long enough, for no reason.

@crusaderBAR @sircalebhammer he pretends to work on ai

@sircalebhammer I’ve watched several of his podcasts and he’s cliche used car salesmen positive. He has zero opinions about anything. He’s also faulty convinced you can solve every problem in the world through “love”. And he works on AI.

@sircalebhammer oh, my sweet summer child

@AGPamBondi @zerohedge should’ve kept the dow above 50k

Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration. Leading President Trump’s historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure has been the honor of a lifetime, and easily the most consequential first year of the Department of Justice in American history. Since February 2025, we have secured the lowest murder rate in 125 years, secured first-ever terrorism convictions against members of Antifa, shattered domestic and transnational gangs across the country, taken custody of more than 90 key cartel figures, and won 24 favorable rulings at the Supreme Court. I remain eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to Make America Safe Again.

@purinnieum @draaagmelody if you made the same argument throughout history, nothing would ever improve. ai is obviously going to be a massive help to game studios and artists, you just don’t see it yet.

@wellsjo90 @draaagmelody Bc people lose their fucking jobs you dumbass???? And actual gamers want games made by human beings with love and passion for videogames not AI slop that steals from other sources. AI DOES NOT CREATE it takes actual people's work and spits something stolen out

250 days ago this would have made me so happy. now, knowing that warhorse is abandoning authentic, manmade artwork for AI generated horseshit, i am just pissed off

@RetiredGeralt @xRIPZYx ai will obviously increase the art quality because the artists will use it to their advantage, on top of their existing toolset. being anti ai for games is retarded.

@xRIPZYx the quality will decrease and it won't reach the gamers in the first place

They should publicly denounce that ai shit before it gets worse, KCD2 shows they have all the potential to make a god-tier Witcher3-esque LOTR RPG, that's what the world needs rn

@gabmedblack @TheGameVerse why does that matter?

@TheGameVerse As long as they dont use ai I think we good

‘The Lord of the Rings’ upcoming open-world game is rumored to be in development at Warhorse Studios (creators of Kingdom Come: Deliverance), according to journalist Ryszard Chojnowski. Embracer Group owns both LOTR game rights and Warhorse Studios.

@countryfdbk @TheGameVerse WHO CARES

@TheGameVerse Didn’t they just admit they will be using ai in future games

@ambrose_pike @yishan no, this post wasted all our time.

@yishan Why did I just read that? I feel like the algorithm just played a trick on me. Is it just me?

All right maybe this is a time for me to tell my story about Pete Hegseth. Peter Hegseth is close to my age. We went to high school around the same time. He's also from Minnesota (as I am), and our schools were maybe 20 miles apart. In high school, I inadvertently became infamous for "bullying the football players." I was on the Math Team, which is exactly as nerdy as it sounds, and our school (Mounds View High School) had a very strong math team. We habitually took either #1 or #2 in every regional competition, vying with our main rival, the nearby Irondale High School. The math teams collected the best math students across all the grades, and you'd compete at different levels at the meet: the meet would have Algebra, Geometry, Trig, and Advanced Topics sections, and each student on the team would do two events. This made it so that freshmen could compete in Algebra+Geometry, while seniors could compete at Trig and Advanced. Sometimes people did a straddle, like Algebra and Advanced, and Geometry and Trig. Each team was comprised of 8 students. The totals were computed from your individual score (5 problems per event; you got 1 point for each problem you solved). Since everyone did two events, you could get a total of 10 points max. The team's score would be the total of the 8 designated scoring students (80 points max), followed by a team event to try and solve 6 problems jointly (5 points each) for a potential max of 30 more points. The school's total was therefore the sum of the individual scores (10 * 8 individual + 30 points for the team event, for a max possible of 110 points). We were pretty good, in my senior year I was even the top-scoring member of the team, but the problems were always quite hard, and it was very rare to actually score a full 10 points on the individual portion. I'm going over the point system because it matters for this story. As I mentioned, our school routinely came in either #1 or #2 at each meet, vying with our main rival Irondale. There were maybe 5-6 other schools in the region, and it was always Mounds View and Irondale neck-and-neck at the top of the leaderboard, often a nailbiting near-tie going into the Team Event. If you're wondering why it was so tense, it's because they ratcheted up the tension using time limits: all the events were timed, and you could only get all the points if you quickly realized how to get the solution, and then did the computations super-fast without making any mistakes. This left many opportunities for lost points we'd otherwise be able to get with less time pressure. The leaderboard was always Mounds View or Irondale at the top, with the other one right behind them and then often a 20-30+ point gap, followed by the other schools in a middling cluster. And routinely at the bottom, one of the schools was Forest Lake High School, and they'd routinely have laughably low single-digit scores, like their entire total at the end of the night would be like... 6. We'd laugh at them sometimes, like "Oh wow, their entire school scored less than one of our team members, hahaha Forest Lake" or like "Haha, [our teammate] Nathan Doble beat Forest Lake - good job, Doble." So it was a bit of a joke. We never *met* anyone from Forest Lake - there were hundreds of students at the event - maybe they only sent one student, or a handful, each getting 1-2 problems right (the first of the 5 problems on each set was always "easy"). Sometimes we speculated that maybe they had one kid who was kinda good at math in the whole high school or something. One evening, after we had returned to our school after a math team meet, we ran into some football players returning from their game, looking exhausted. I think I said something like "Hey guys, how's it going?" and one of them (this is Minnesota, so the guy was huge) answered, "Ohhhh man, not so well. We lost to Forest Lake." ... and without thinking I just blurted out, "Forest Lake??? Pfft! MATH TEAM never loses to FOREST LAKE!" and waved him off contemptuously and turned away. Later on my friend who witnessed this said that as I walked away, what I didn't see was that the football player got REALLY MAD and looked like he was going to come after me and beat me up. This later turned into "Yishan was bullying football players." (I actually feel quite bad about this - looking back on this, I feel like I should've said something supportive like, "Don't worry, you'll get 'em next time. Math Team always crushes Forest Lake, so don't worry, we got your back." But high school is kind of another world) What's the point of this story? Well, Pete Hegseth went to Forest Lake.

@remarks couldn’t they have mentioned this months ago

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@shoukointech or you could just spend time with your friends and family and not carve out 4 hours to “think” lol

Eric Schmidt shares his weekend habit that led to billion-dollar decisions

pentagon: "claude, what would happen if we bombed this village?" claude: "puttering...shimmying...booping..."

@GoogleResearch do you guys hate your shareholders or what

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@TheICHpodcast he found a coal plant going out of business by studying the trends? right...

Tony Robbins bought a power plant in West Virginia before AI took off👀 “I bought a power plant in West Virginia because I saw what was happening with AI coming and the need for data centers… That investment's return is ridiculous”