Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸

Mech. and Elec. Engineer. Automation Engineer, speaker and teacher. Crypto advocate. Anime lover.

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@Badhombre Easy. Eliminate it in a single law that both disallows a parliamentarian and requires all bills be read by the elected official to be admissible. If the elected official cannot read and consume its content within the time period for review, it must be revised. Simple.

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@CryptoWendyO @USAttyEssayli I have literally been harping on this for half a decade once I started programming in different chains that a publicly audited blockchain is the best and most resilient way to secure future elections…

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@tedlieu @DAGToddBlanche You first lying Lieu. Can’t wait for you to be replaced.

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@BernieSanders Or you push for the people who took those loans to be responsible and accountable. If they are in default, that is not the President’s fault. If anything, it’s yours for decades of allowing these ivory towers of idiocy to raise prices due to your unfettered subsidization.

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@unusual_whales If AI companies and models are allowed to learn from and consume any IP from anyone on the net, then there is absolutely no reason for them to profit off of that. However, that does not mean I would give that profit to the government in any way shape or form.

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@GavinNewsom Sit this one out bud. In fact sit them all out. Burning things to the ground probably not a hyperbole you should use….

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@MarkWarner There sure are. Democrats break them. Republicans follow them. Sad when your own argument blows up in your face.

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@MikeNellis No one feeds my kids except me. And I should not be feeding anyone else’s. But if I was, I wouldn’t feed them the crap these school breakfast and lunches push. Minimal protein if any, and more simple carbohydrates and sugars than an adult needs in a day. No one should support it.

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@RepJeffries I’m sure criminals would not lie about the food they’re receiving because the political criminals (Dems) are advocating for their release. That would never happen…

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@RepJeffries Lack of access to quality food? What alternate reality are you living in? Did you see the multi course menu they are served? They want to be in America illegally so badly the least they should do is eat our food instead of complaining about not getting their preferred choices. 😂

[tom keene @tomkeene]

not a, THE story. consider each & every word. @pricetheory

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.

My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.

This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.

Hedgie🤗

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

We didn’t have “HR” when building Palantir, for similar reasons - I avoided Ryan’s mistake.

And when we needed some PeopleOps, we hired technical leaders.

Going into the vast majority of companies and firing most of their HR and Marketing departments would tend to create value!

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

The UN tried to impose “climate reparations” on the U.S.

I’m grateful that the @USUN voted against this effort

But voting “no” isn’t enough; Congress needs to stop funding the UN entirely, as the UN has become a decidedly anti-American institution

Share if you agree

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@ScottAtlas_IT All should pay some or all should pay none. There is no tiers or structure that is fair otherwise. And if the services afforded to each citizen were equal I’d say we all pay the same nominal amount, but those who benefit far greater should pay more. Who has gotten the most tho??

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@BernieSanders Bezos though all his faults is still correct here, while Bernie woefully dittafts from the point. You already get $5+ trillion that you mismanage. No one gives you a cent more until you fix the spending you have now…

[Congressman Greg Steube @RepGregSteube]

Over 6.9 MILLION H-1b in 10 years isn’t a program to “fill extraordinary gaps”!

My EXILE Act ENDS the H-1B program entirely.

We have to start putting AMERICAN workers first!

[Vijay @VijayInWA]

This is an absolutely incredible interview with the former Democrat Governor of Washington state. Her criticism of the current legislature is sharp and well made. The current leaders of Washington are way out of their depth and leading the state off a fiscal cliff:
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Questioner: Do you think majority leaders understand—do you [think] our legislature understands the impact of [the] policy environment as it relates to [the] economy?

Christine Gregoire: No. I really don’t. As evidenced by… You mentioned estate tax. I argued with some folks about [the] estate tax. We were the highest in the country, tied with Hawaii at twenty percent. We went to thirty-five. We’re not just the highest — we are beyond the highest. And I said, “You understand the consequences of this? Can I see your fiscal note because I’d like to help [craft] it? Because here’s what you can expect: Those people are not homeless. They will not [be] paying [taxes] when they leave. They stop paying cap gains. When they leave, they stopped giving significantly to philanthropy which would otherwise be necessary by government. So do you understand that you see consequences of what you’re doing?” And the answer is no.

I left office with a budget of 33 billion and the budget today is 80 billion. Uh, I think that’s a little bit too much of growth. Yet how we find ourselves [is that] every legislative session now is in whole projected to be in the hole. We don’t really have an income problem. We have a spending problem.

And we’re answering it by stacking one more tax, one more rule, one more regulation. The one thing that the business community doesn’t need is that lack of predictability. How many people in either of [the] Democratic caucuses have come from a business past? So if you haven’t come from it, you don’t know it, you don’t understand it. And therefore, to me, we all collectively — and Chris and I have talked a lot about this — have to educate from the outside in. We have to explain things like sales tax on services. [You] thought [it] was a nice attack on big business. And here are the small businesses that have been tremendously adversely impacted as well as customers.

[Caliene ⚙️🔋🇺🇸 @Caliene_Crypto]

@BrandiKruse She’s like a unicorn in modern America; a moderate Democrat who not only recognizes but blatantly states that Democrats have a “spending problem.” If there were more like her we’d actually have a compelling balanced political arena….

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

DAMN. Former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, a Democrat, goes scorched earth on the current Democrats leading the state. Says they have no clue how bad their policies are for the economy.