Oscar Gonzalez

stoic. recovering social media addict. sharing. learning. posting. ngaf.
my posts are my own.

[Oscar Gonzalez @notagrouch]

That wet crunch 🤌

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Grok 4.5 might be the BEST model to run inside Hermes or OpenClaw RIGHT NOW.

I've been sleeping on Grok to be honestNot anymore.

It's more than 60% cheaper than Opus 4.8 and lands around $2.49 per task versus ~$12 for Fable in Claude Code. And it's fast.

So what happens when you give Hermes + Grok 4.5 its own email, its own phone number, its own debit card, and access to every tool you use?

You pretty much get an AI co-founder.

Everything you need to know about Grok 4.5 + Hermes below.

Full episode is available to watch at @startupideaspod ( thanks @nickvasiles for coming on)

I slept on Grok. Not sleeping on it anymore.

Watch

[Unusual Nuggets @unusualnuggets]

How This Restaurant Makes First-Time Customers Come Back? 😱

[PolitiBrawl News @PolitiBrawlNews]

Mamdani socialist gets much-needed reality check...

@mattmiller757

[Oscar Gonzalez @notagrouch]

@beyoncegarden What a fucking lunatic.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow.

It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Minnesota has now launched investigations into 436 government funded daycares

Tim Walz: it’s white supremacy to investigate fraud

No, Tim Walz is and was the fraud.

A Somali Learing Center and a 23yr old ended Tim Walz political career FOREVER.

EXPOSE IT ALL.

[Meng To @MengTo]

I started quote-posting more because X clearly rewards it. It's also a great way to help both the original creator and yourself reach more people.

After 19 years on Twitter/X, I still haven't hit 5M views in 3 months. So I'm pushing myself to be more consistent.

I made this video for my team because I'm trying to help them grow from fewer than 100 followers.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Quick PSA for anyone using Claude:

Fable 5 is back, but it's ONLY included through July 7.

After that it moves to pay-per-use credits at $10/$50 per million tokens, the most expensive model Anthropic sells.

And even during this window, it eats your usage roughly 2x faster than Opus and only runs up to 50% of your weekly limit. So if you're serious about testing it (I would be, I'll explain why below), the $200 Max 20x plan is the one that actually gives you room to work before you hit the wall.

Here's how I'd think about it.

Fable 5 is kinda like fine china. You don't pull it out to reheat leftovers. You save it for the meal that matters.

I'd run your everyday stuff on Sonnet or Opus and point Fable at the one thing that actually needs the best model on earth.

2 tips so you don't waste the window:

1) Use the 1M context. That's Fable's real superpower and it's the default, not an upgrade. Dump your entire codebase, a stack of contracts, or months of customer transcripts into one prompt and ask for the analysis you'd normally have to chop into ten pieces.

2) Front-load the expensive jobs now. The big refactor, the deep research report, the thing you'd hate to pay per-token for after July 8. Do those this weekend, not next.

The good china is on the table until July 7. Hence my little PSA in case it's helpful.

Build your wildest idea while it's still included. Fable to me feels as good as it was before the ban. Pretty amazing stuff.

I'm rooting for you.

[Meng To @MengTo]

As someone who's built a lot of ui controls, this saves so much time for creating well-crafted sliders, color pickers, drop-downs and infinite canvases.

Can't believe it's free and open-source.

[David Ondrej @DavidOndrej1]

Fable 5 is back.

most people will sleep on this.

here's my exact plan to take advantage of it

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Claude Desktop is now available on Linux (Ubuntu and Debian) in beta.

Alongside the browser and terminal, you now get a first-class desktop experience with Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and chat on all paid plans.

[DBeaver @dbeaver_news]

Now horizontal bar charts can help you visualize data.

This makes data easier to read with long column names like product titles, email addresses, or department names.

It’s available in CloudBeaver Enterprise and DBeaver Team Edition Web.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Today the California Senate Committee held a hearing on the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” known as AB 2624. This bill will criminalize and punish anyone from looking into fraud inside immigrant communities in California.

This bill was created only after I exposed billions of dollars in fraud throughout immigrant communities in the US. “Immigration support services” have become a billion dollar industry in California, and now that the fraud has been exposed, they are trying to criminalize those who look into the fraud.

The bill has passed through the California Assembly and is set to pass through the Senate and then to Governor Newsom’s desk. This bill was created by the Attorney Generals WIFE and will allow him to go after citizens if they film nonprofits and “immigration support services providers”.

Welcome to Califraudia.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[David Ondrej @DavidOndrej1]

I gave my Hermes Agent a phone number.

now it makes calls, answers calls, runs tasks while I sleep.

this changes everything. watch.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

A friend asked me how to actually build a company that runs on AI agents.

I drew him 4 simple diagrams and this is what I told him:

For this to work, a few things have to be true.

- The humans move up to strategy, taste, and judgment while agents handle the execution.

- The whole business becomes readable to agents. Your data, SOPs, pricing, permissions, and decisions all live in one shared context layer.

- And you point it at the right work. Repetitive enough for an agent, complex enough that the incumbents never bothered. That's the goldmine.

In the old world, the company was the people. They held the knowledge, made the calls, did the work.

In this new world, the people become the creatives, the agents become the labor, and the company itself becomes the context layer.

That shared brain is the actual company now. The humans and the agents are just plugging into it.

Which means the most valuable thing you can build in 2026 is a business so well-documented that an agent can run it.

I see it everyday with @MeetLCA. I don't talk about it much publicly, but we've built a SWAT team for building AI-native orgs and AI-native products.

The moat is how legible your company is.

I drew it all out below.

[The Father @_FIRE_STICK_]

I’m soooo disappointed in myself for thinking his content was real!

[Real America's Voice (RAV) @RealAmVoice]

🚨 @BenBergquam was taken inside a secret cartel tunnel hidden beneath a fake appliance store. Once you see how this operation worked... you'll never look at a strip mall the same way.

[David Ondrej @DavidOndrej1]

We must build our own, open-source, decentralized, distributed AGI

there is no other way.

right now politicians and big tech executives are holding us hostage

they literally hold our future in their hands

this HAS to change.