Cynthia Toporowski

Some dweeb with a caffeine addicition.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

Screw you Amazon, you suck.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Amazon got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@kaaaash____ Yes. It's called @grok and it outperforms most models in logic. With the recent cursor acquisition, it'll outperform in coding tasks across the board.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@kapilansh_twt X is the largest social media platform and only Grok has access to the data in real-time. It won't be long before xAI overtakes Google and other frontier models in performance, especially since the Cursor acquisition.

Google has been stagnant for quite some time now.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@AKirtesh Hey @gnukeith AI, is anything better than Brave? I'm using Brave Origin on everything and can't find anything better.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

Holy hell. So it flags most prompts, immediately routes to Opus without telling you, and performs worse across the board or outright refuses to do tasks.

Anthropic needs to fix this PR nightmare.

[BridgeMind @bridgemindai]

FABLE 5 CAME BACK NERFED.

We re-ran the July 1st version of Claude Fable 5 on BridgeBench.

The results are brutal:

Debugging: 86.2 → 25.9
Refactoring: 73.6 → 38.4
Hallucination: 75.9 → 61.7

The new guardrails are kicking in on way too many tasks and falling back to Opus 4.8.

This is not the model that got banned.

Anthropic owes everyone an explanation.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

You guys are still alive? Have you even delivered a single vehicle? All I see on the website is some NFT to "order" the damn car.

[DeLorean Labs @DeLoreanlabs]

BREAKING NEWS

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@TTrimoreau High taxes and Mistral, one of the worst AIs on the market.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@BenjaminDEKR They're afraid of innovation. They are hoping consumers do not notice the new technology and stick to the "trustworthy" brands with a track record.

What they don't realize is Tesla is now old enough to have a track record, and almost everyone knows what they are capable of.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@TheGBreaker Who the hell is using Threads? I don't know a single person. Everyone is on X.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

What the hell is @world_xyz and why do I keep seeing random people with globes next to their names? Someone please explain

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@ZachWarunek Is the X team going to block blatant TOS abuse such as this? I'd hate to see it flooded with so many ad bots

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

I want Starlink to have a global cell plan to completely replace, or complement my carrier by giving me coverage in remote areas, and giving me data abroad.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

SpaceX has disrupted the satellite industry. Now, its Starlink unit aims to do the same with America’s telecom giants. https://t.co/A0qAeiHmGr

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

This is why I love X and the surrounding products so much. Alternatives like Bluesky are so half-baked that it's laughable.

Grok is much more open than other models, often answering questions other models would outright refuse.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

I hate myself for saying this, but the truth is, most people will choose closed systems if they're noticeably better than open source ones.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@dogeofficialceo Negative rizz

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

Tesla's latest patent marks a major leap in electric vehicle thermal management. Issued June 30, 2026, US 12668095 B2 details an advanced architecture that unifies the vehicle's cabin, battery pack, drivetrain, and heat pump into a single shared thermal network.

Traditional systems treat these components in separate loops. This patent connects them through sophisticated coolant loops, refrigerant paths, heat exchangers, and intelligent controls. The result is far more dynamic heat harvesting, routing, and reuse across the entire vehicle.

In electric vehicles, thermal management directly impacts range, performance, battery longevity, and cabin comfort. Waste heat from motors and electronics can now be more efficiently redirected to where it is needed most, such as preconditioning the battery in cold weather or supporting cabin heating without draining energy reserves as heavily. This integrated approach reduces reliance on dedicated heaters, minimizes energy losses, and optimizes overall efficiency.

For owners in extreme climates, it promises better real world range retention and faster recovery times. For Tesla as a company, it strengthens leadership in EV technology by addressing one of the most persistent engineering challenges in electrification.

This is not just incremental improvement. It represents a systems level rethink of how heat is treated as a valuable resource throughout the vehicle.

A noteworthy advancement for the industry.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

I firmly believe that we need an entire X ecosystem to be slowly built out.

Xmail, a private email provider.
Xchat, a private messenger
Starlink mobile, a global cell provider
Grok Search, a search engine partly powered by Grok

We need alternatives to big tech that won't deplatform us for our opinions.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

Imagine a world where @X makes Xmail, a competitor to Gmail that won't deplatform you for having the wrong opinion.

It could be fully integrated into their other services like @XMoney for invoicing, @chat integration, and even have Grok manage your inbox/calendar for you.

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

@TheGBreaker Most people have X premium so we simply don't see ads

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

Amazon is fighting an uphill battle, and frankly I don't think they'll be catching up anytime soon. Starlink will continue to be the leader in satellite internet.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

The media is hyping Amazon Leo as Starlink’s rival, but the numbers show it’s still nowhere close.

• Satellites in orbit:
Starlink ~10,700
Amazon Leo ~396

• Total launched:
Starlink 12,400+
Amazon Leo 398

• Customers:
Starlink 12M+
Amazon Leo 0 at commercial scale

• Coverage:
Starlink 160+ countries
Amazon Leo 0

• Share of active satellites:
Starlink ~65%
Amazon Leo ~2.5%

• Launches:
Starlink 250+ missions
Amazon Leo 14 missions

[Cynthia Toporowski @ItsCynnamoroll]

Apple Intelligence is so far behind its laughable.

[sid @immasiddx]

Apple Intelligence might need a little more intelligence 😭