Riccardo Spagni

Breather, Thought Follower, Cereal Intrepreneur. Director of Dull Sculleries at the Institute for Lemonade Studies. I do other stuff too.

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[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

DoTheThing (dtt) 2.0 released, which now uses Claude Fable 5 as the default model, with GPT 5.5 still the default as the Oracle.

Note that --fast still uses Opus 4.8, as there isn't a fast variant of Fable 5 just yet.

dtt --update to grab it, or install from:
https://t.co/jdvhlzvNgk

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

I have a question about all the complaints about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire.

Yes, it's a lot of money (on paper, not sitting in a bank account). Yes, there are real problems that remain unsolved. No amount of money, and no system of government tried thus far, has fixed them. But that's a separate fight.

Here's what I actually don't understand:

When Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile in 1954, nobody said "let's make sure he's also the last." Nobody blamed their own slow legs on him. Nobody wrote "Roger Bannister broke the mile, here's how to properly hate him." None of the politicians and regulators stood up to explain why his record was secretly a bad thing.

I get that there's an obvious objection: running fast takes nothing from anyone, but wealth is rivalrous, so therefore the analogy os brplem. But even that isn't true. Bannister didn't win alone - Chataway and Brasher paced him, a track was built, a sport's worth of accumulated training science carried him. We don't say he "took advantage" of his pacers or his coach or the people who built the track. We understand that an exceptional outcome sits on top of a system of other people's effort, and we celebrate the person who reached the frontier despite that (or maybe BECAUSE of that).

So why is that obvious in sport and forbidden in business? The pacer, the coach, the tracklayer, everyone around become "exploited labour". The frontier becomes "greed". The achievement becomes the indictment.

I think you should pick one: either standing on the shoulders of others taints the achievement, in which case go reclaim every world record ever set - or it doesn't, in which case explain what's actually different here. Be specific.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire.

Let’s make sure he’s also the last.

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Tomorrow.

[Jack O'Neill @Jack2LOneill]

“Things will not calm down, Amazon MGM Studios. They will in fact calm up.”

[MᐰTT DEᐰN @mattthedean]

82,000 signatures so far! we need MORE!!! there are 121,000 across all three petitions (some overlap obviously) but we need MORE!

https://t.co/7Lq4rP6f32 #SaveStargate

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

@fortunzfavor @elonmusk Already signed all 3 of them, will definitely tweet it out a bit!

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

Found @elonmusk’s vault where he keeps the $1t - I believe the stock exchange delivered the last Billion this morning.

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

Sure, but throwing money at it has never solved the problem. The US spent $101.7b on SNAP last year, and yet ~14m people in the USA are starving, and an additional 34m are “food insecure” (struggling to consistently afford enough food).

When 14% of the population is malnourished despite this spending (and other programs + NGOs spending billions more) it’s clear that the existence of billionaires and a lone trillionaire isn’t the issue.

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

@boredtweeple @buggirl So if you own $1t in property that you bought over 40 years, that’s just to avoid paying tax?

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

@xraygirl_ YES! Please watch the TV show, it's a totally different beast as it has so much more time to develop the characters and the universe.

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

@Techemist @elonmusk Asking the real questions

[james hawkins @james406]

happens to the best of us

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

@itszach Sounds like a vary value add investor

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

@leonardoalt The ZCash people literally are making that claim, tho.

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

@BizMunny @fede_intern @cameron In 2015 it absolutely was moon math. I agree it’s *better* understood now, but not as rigorously researched and understood as many other cryptographic systems (even complex ones). I don’t think that’s an incorrect or invalid point to take.

[The Aureus Press @Trad_West_Art]

Everyone's on Poogie

[Elai @elaifresh]

Lmao would anyone even notice this in SF?

I want to hear more about wireflow honestly…

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

@ZacksJerryRig I know science is hard so here’s an illustration that should help

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

I have had multiple agentic threads with Anthropic's Fable model where it refuses to do anything because I used the term "additive" or "value-accretive" or even "synergistic" and those words trigger the safeguards.

I've spent more time rewriting agentic tool calls (by hand) than doing actual work today.

[Maelstrom @MaelstromFund]

Today we’re publishing Maelstrom's Bitcoin Grant Program Annual Report, for the period ending June 2026. The report covers the technical work of the four Maelstrom funded open source developers, working to improve Bitcoin, with respect to scalability, robustness and privacy.