MTJR

Stranger in a strange land

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

Anthropic engineer:

"You're not supposed to prompt Claude. You're supposed to build a system that prompts itself."

In 45 minutes she breaks down how Anthropic builds agents that remember, learn from their mistakes, and get smarter with every run.

Worth more than any paid course you'll find on building agents.

Watch the session, then read the guide on building loops below.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Feds placed the pipe bombs and fomented the demonstrations on January 6, 2021. One day this will be known as certainly as the fact that COVID was the result of U.S. funded lab research.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

— Milton Friedman

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Nick Shirley asks why Gavin Newsom is attacking him for exposing fraud in California:

“How sick does a governor have to be to say that the kid exposing the fraud is the bad person versus the fraudsters that are stealing the money?”

Excellent question.

[MTJR @MJTJR13]

Leon Valley just made it official:

If a tow truck runs a red light while towing your car… YOU get the ticket.

Their new “RLC Policy and Procedures” document (now public) says towed plates are fair game forever.

They added these lines:
“Vehicle includes trailer being towed”
“= Motor vehicle or vehicle”
“This issue will continue occurring…”

This is the same city that claims “sworn officers review and approve every single ticket.”

Read it yourself: https://t.co/r9Sm6vGGLj

https://t.co/DRy8aSZgkC

[MTJR @MJTJR13]

https://t.co/WF2c5v18jt

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.

It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Today, only 65 of us voted to release names of congressmen who have used the sexual harassment slush fund to pay off claims against them. 357 members voted to “refer it to committee” knowing that resolution ain’t ever making it out of committee. Roll call:
https://t.co/p1ZoTsILgh

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

X is producing excellent Iran coverage but also lots of slop. Ninety percent of what passes for “analysis” on the platform is recycled footage, unverified claims, and engagement-farming slop. Most of mainstream media is too focused on political theater to cover the military and economic dimensions that actually matter.

As founder of the most visited naval and maritime website on earth, @gCaptain, here's who I'm tracking on X

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[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@greta @SheedomUSA @AGPamBondi It’s like you all have an Epstein brain worm.

She needs to release more names, not fewer names. Specifically she’s withholding and over-redacting FD-302 forms and other documents that name coconspirators. Did you even watch the hearing before making this post?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

HOLY CR*P 🚨 Democrat Rep Ayanna Pressley husband went from being in prison for 10 years for drug trafficking to NOW MAKING $1 MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR as a ‘consultant’ since she got elected to Congress

Again, A MILLION PER YEAR

“Pressley’s husband is an ex-con who went from serving a decade in jail before they were married for drug trafficking to raking in up to a million a year as a business and management consultant”

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Assume I needed to lodge a complaint about a vast conspiracy involving the utter ubiquitous corruption of both the Democratic & Republican parties and the leadership of the United States, up to and including the highest levels.

To whom would I address it?

Hypothetically.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Congresswoman Kat Cammack says they’ve learned shocking news about the Barack Obama Affordable Care Act

- Only 7% of Americans are actually on Obamacare
- 40% of everyone enrolled is fraud
- People making $600,000 per year are enrolled
- Big Insurance companies made 237% increased profits from the program last year

Now you know why Democrats are fighting for the Affordable Care Act, it has nothing to do with Americans getting healthcare. Big Insurance companies are making a fortune and 40% of it’s fraud (but Big Insurance still gets paid for it all from taxpayers)

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨How did Ilhan Omar make millions from a 100% fake winery?

This is insane. We investigated. Check this out…

Illhan Omar lists a California winery on her financial disclosures. You can see them below. The winery name is ‘eStCru LLC.’

In 2023 it was valued at $15k.
In 2024 it was valued at $5 Million (!!!)

This must be a very successful winery to grow that much in value over one year. Except… the winery does not even exist:

- No phone line
- No physical winery
- Social media gone dark
- A barely functional ‘website’
- No wine lol

What is this?!

It gets worse: Omar’s third husband, Tim Mynett, has been accused of defrauding investors through this FAKE winery. He was sued by the investors for millions because it’s all fraudulent. This is on brand. Minnesota AG Keith Ellison previously worked with Mynett, the same AG who has REFUSED to investigate widespread Somali fraud.

How does a nonexistent winery jump from $15k to $5 million in one year when the company is a ghost? How can Omar claim this fake company provides her millions in assets? Seems like a cover.

Ironically, one of the wine labels they made was literally called ‘The Devil‘s Lie’

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress MUST investigate this fraud further.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Legalize weed so we can buy you neat stuff and why it doesn’t work.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

If there’s one learning lesson you need to take away in 2026 it’s that the truth doesn’t matter anymore and reality isn’t real.

People will invent narratives and facts to suit desired objectives and if enough people agree, that’s the new reality. People who point out that the emperor has no clothes will be crushed. Katherine Maher of Wikimedia said it best herself. “Our reverence for the truth is a hindrance to getting things done.” (Paraphrasing)

We’re living in a world where lies don’t matter anymore. There are only words and how effective they are to reaching desired outcomes. People don’t care about the truth. They care about achieving their goals.

We’re living in Demon times.

[Kenneth Hyde @KennethHyde]

https://t.co/bPg03Buk0l

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 GLOBALISM JUST DIED IN DAVOS

Howard Lutnick just walked into the lion’s den — and told the World Economic Forum exactly what they didn’t want to hear.

“Globalism has failed.”

Not whispered.
Not softened.

Declared — on their own stage.

He dismantled the entire WEF doctrine in minutes:
• Offshoring hollowed out the West
• Cheap labor destroyed innovation
• Net Zero made Europe dependent on China
• Sovereignty begins with borders
• Nations must control their industry, energy, and medicine

Then came the line that shook the room:

“Why would Europe agree to Net Zero when they don’t even make a battery?”

That’s the truth globalists can’t answer.

Green agendas without industry.

Climate pledges without sovereignty.

Moral posturing while outsourcing power to Beijing.

America First isn’t isolation.

It’s independence.

And Lutnick made it crystal clear:

The old model is finished.

The globalist experiment has failed.
And the future belongs to nations that put their people first.

Davos just heard the obituary — live.