Hunter Freeman

[Hunter Freeman @HunterKFreeman]

This is the coolest video of the jet I’ve ever seen

[Ashwin Gopinath @ashwingop]

Claude Tag is a Trojan horse.  Not because Anthropic is doing anything evil. Because the incentives are obvious.

Day one, this looks like a great feature: tag Claude in Slack, let it follow the thread, remember context, connect to tools, break down tasks, chase work, and act like a teammate.

But that is exactly the problem. The moment your AI vendor becomes a shared coworker, it stops being just a model provider. It starts becoming the place where work is interpreted, remembered, routed, and eventually executed.

That is not model lock-in. That is context lock-in. You are now renting your company back from them.

Models can be swapped. Agents can be copied. But the memory of how your company actually works is much harder, maybe impossible, to move: the Slack scar tissue, the exception paths, the customer promises, the unfinished threads, the weird workflows, the implicit owners, the “we tried that in Q2 and it failed” knowledge.

Once that lives inside one vendor’s agent layer, you are not renting intelligence anymore. You are renting your company’s operating memory.

And the pricing model makes it even more dangerous. A human coworker has a salary. Claude has unbounded tokenized activity. The more work moves through it, the more the vendor captures not just IT spend, but labor spend.

This is the enterprise bargain people will regret: Convenience now, and rapid decent into dependency.

The right architecture is simple: rent the best intelligence from whoever is best this month. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open source, whatever. But own the context layer.

Your company memory should be inspectable, permissioned, portable, and model-neutral. It should not be buried inside the same vendor that sells you the intelligence and the workflow surface.

Claude Tag is useful. That is why it is dangerous. Rent the intelligence, but own the context. Or, regret later.

[Amy Nixon @texasrunnerDFW]

We need to put Usha in charge of Federal Spending

I doubt a single member of Congress uses an Old Navy Coupon Code

[alexjm 🇺🇸 @alexjmingolla]

How Freddy been moving since he met JJ Watt

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Hunter Freeman @HunterKFreeman]

This is awesome

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire.

Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour.

SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years.

$SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Plans released for a $16 billion mile-long ship capable of carrying 80,000 people.

The 'Freedom Ship' would be home to about 50,000 people, with space for 10,000 tourists and 20,000 crew members.

"The Freedom Ship is envisioned as a permanently mobile city at sea designed for long-term residence rather than short-term travel," the company says.

The ship would be about 8 times the size of the current largest ship in the world, the Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas.

The plans include a 15,000-seat stadium, schools, colleges, shops, clubs, a water park, a music hall, museums, parks, and more.

The ship, which would run on nuclear, would be too large to dock and would remain in international waters.

Freedom Cruise International says it would go around the world every two to three years.

Insane.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

[Pat Walls @thepatwalls]

I will pay good money for new AI generated episodes of The Office.

I'm not joking.

$20 per episode.

[JT @jiratickets]

Feb 2023: Google invests $300M in Anthropic

Oct 2023: Google adds $2B

Mar 2025: Google adds $1B

Oct 2025: Anthropic deal for ~1M Google TPUs

Apr 2026: Multi-GW TPU deal, Google invests an additional $40B

May 2026: Anthropic commits ~$200B to Google​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Cloud

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

[Hunter Freeman @HunterKFreeman]

@FynCas Ai

[Hunter Freeman @HunterKFreeman]

@lorenzo_pravata Claude

[Hunter Freeman @HunterKFreeman]

@wpfusion you’re plugging is crashing my sight right now and it’s a core component. I did it overnight without me changing anything.

Fatal error in 3.47.10 — undefined method WPF_HubSpot::get_v3_list_ids() blocking wp-admin

[Hunter Freeman @HunterKFreeman]

@MichLieben Ads

[Orel @justorellius]

Genius business model or evil genius?
1. Drop Claude Opus 4.6
Everyone loses their mind. "Best model ever."

2. For the next 2 months... quietly nerf/degrade it. (Hallucinations up, reasoning down etc..).

3. Restore it back to its original glory
Rename it Opus 4.7, Anthropic you naughty!

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Artemis II Trajectory vs. Apollo 11 and Apollo 13

[🎞️ dflores.07]

[Hunter Freeman @HunterKFreeman]

@evanseech Course