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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn]

https://t.co/95lFnAyw0e

[Ben @curiousben]

RT @JimLaPorta: I spent five years working to report this story and now @Militarydotcom has removed my byline and the bylines of @KToropin…

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is an important part of the picture. Elon Musk’s monster is a financial poison pill for the entire economy. They’re forcing it into index funds and retirement accounts. It’s going to be a multi-trillion dollar albatross, and it will be impossible to get rid of.

[elvis @omarsar0]

// Adapt the Interface, Not the Model //

I am fascinated by the results across my cheap-model-plus-good-harness builds.

This new paper also shows good signs of the code-as-agent-harness thesis.

The idea is really simple. Do not touch the model. Instead, modify the runtime interface that wraps the frozen LLM. Then convert recurring interaction failures into reusable interventions on the harness side.

The paper reports an average relative improvement 88.5% across 7 deterministic environments, 126 model-environment settings, and 18 backbones.

A harness learned from one model trajectory generalizes to 17 other backbones. That tells you the harness is capturing environment structure, not model-specific patterns.

If you ship agents in production, your harness work is more portable than you might assume.

Paper: https://t.co/Petka4g3F2

Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: https://t.co/1e8RZKs4uX

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

It sure would be nice for those commenting on social media (cc @marcthiessen)to have knowledge of and perhaps understand the history - since 2010 - of the rotational brigade design. If you need some facts, Marc, reach out to those who know.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Our society is so beat down by oligarchy manipulation that we think having billionaires pay more to support the society & infrastructure that literally enabled them to make billions is communism.
We don’t just lick the boots of these people, we buy their boots for them.

[Florian Hoenig @rianflo]

@threejs I think this won't be necessary. It's way better to make your "editors" and "guis" inside the game you're making. hyper-focused on what the creative work for this very game needs. No one-size fits all.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Remember Greenland crisis? Trump's allies now run a covert influence campaign in Greenland.

A network of Americans with White House ties has bribed a dogsledding association, cultivated opposition politicians, and highlighted Denmark's colonial crimes — Reuters.

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[Bogáta Timár @BogataTimar]

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here.
Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch.
Let's go.

[Patrick Klepek 🎃 @patrickklepek]

Roblox will soon roll out "child accounts" and start filtering out games with "sensitive issues." I asked Roblox what it considers a "sensitive issue"—and they told me! Prayer in schools? Vaccination policies? The full list at @crossplayblog https://t.co/C2khI7QBP1

[Kim Zetter @KimZetter]

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome or Chromium-based browser, covert code silently scans your browser for info about any extensions you've installed, then transmits the info back to LinkedIn and partners. From this, they can glean info about you

https://t.co/MDXczrN4e7

[Michael Scherer @michaelscherer]

Gift Link: https://t.co/dR1sXX0OXD

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten.
https://t.co/GhDO27FyxK

[Ben @curiousben]

So he's purging top Generals, freeing them up to go on Fox News and begin their interview process to be his replacement?

[Dominic Michael Tripi @DMichaelTripi]

@amot_kez Link: https://t.co/OtSKhnlphW

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

[Simon Ateba @simonateba]

BREAKING - OUTRAGE in AMERICA: White House takes down video after Trump says, 'Don't send any money for daycare. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, we're fighting wars. We have to take care of one thing, military protection. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things." WATCH

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I mean, how the hell is this even legal?

Was it part of the contract that the seller is entitled to say “screw you and the money you've paid us, we're talking these weapons for ourselves”?

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

This is such a dumb tweet @elonmusk.

Right wing Heritage found 10 non-citizens votes out of 2 billion since 1992.

The threat to our democracy is the SAVE Act, which denies voting rights to millions.

Issue a free national ID to every citizen and I’ll happily support voter ID.