OG,The Great

He not busy being born, is busy dying.

[OG,The Great @OG_James_]

Comparison is the thief of joy.
Happiness is reality minus expectation.

[Shann³ @shannholmberg]

what is agent looping

for the last two years we prompted agents one task at a time. that is starting to change

instead of asking an agent to build the landing page and then driving every step yourself, you set up a loop that handles discovery, planning, the work, checking, and iterating until the goal is met

looping is a setup you build. almost any agent harness can run it, it just depends on how you wire it up

at its simplest, looping is one agent working on itself:

> researches
> drafts
> checks the draft against a goal
> fixes what is weak
> runs that cycle again until the work clears the requirements

you are not prompting each step anymore. the agent repeats the cycle for you

the bigger version is a fleet looping. you give an orchestrator agent a goal, it breaks the goal into pieces, hands each piece to a specialist agent, and those specialists hand smaller jobs to their own subagents

the whole tree keeps looping through discovery, planning, execution, and verification until the goal is met

one agent looping is like a person redoing their own draft. a fleet looping is a whole team running a project end-to-end

you create a goal, and the system runs the loop until it finishes within the reqs you set

open and closed looping:

OPEN LOOPING is exploratory. it still has conditions and a goal, but you give the agent or the fleet a wide space to move in. it can try different paths, discover things, build something you did not fully spec out

this is the exciting end, it is what Peter and others are doing, and tbh it is where I want to spend more time

the catch is cost, an open loop with real room to explore burns an insane amount of tokens. for the 90 percent of people without an unlimited budget it is not runnable yet, and pointed at projects with a loose standard it turns into a slop machine

CLOSED LOOPING is bounded. a human designs the end-to-end path first:

> clear goal
> defined steps
> an eval at each step
> a point where it stops or hands back to you (and feeds back performance data)

the agents still loop, but inside framework you built. it gets better every run because each pass feeds the next, and it runs on a normal budget because the path is tight.

for most marketing work, closed is the one that pays off today.

> the orchestrator owns the goal
> the specialists own the steps
> the subagents do the narrow work
> an eval gate make sure its not slop

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Asalu Adegboyega Yinka @yinkarianstocks]

Should I Buy The International Energy Insurance Public Offer #Nigeriastockmarket #stocks #dividends #ngx #shares

[Titanium @akinkunmi]

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[Milo Smith @mil000]

THE GREAT OPENCLAW MAC MINI SELLOFF HAS STARTED!!

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford psychiatrist says modern anxiety is not caused by danger.

It's caused by tiny habits that teach your brain to panic when nothing is actually wrong.

You do them every day.
And you call them normal.

6 normal habits quietly teaching your nervous system to panic:▼▼▼

1/ Reaching for your phone the moment you feel uncomfortable.

[The Yoruba Feminist @YorubaFeminist]

I have three questions:

1. Islam has been present in Yorùbáland for roughly 600 years. Why are we only now having conversations about implementing Sharia law? Does that mean our Muslim ancestors were somehow deficient in their practice of Islam?

2. What aspect of Sharia are you currently unable to observe in Yorùbáland that requires it to be incorporated into the laws of the land? Why are voluntary and independent Sharia panels no longer sufficient?

3. You argue that various countries and northern states have failed to implement Sharia properly, which is why it has infringed upon the rights of unwilling participants. What makes you think Yorùbás would somehow be immune to this same “misapplication” once Sharia is codified into law?

Cc: @IdrisAOni1 @diaryofkeji @Aheesha_x

[theficouple @theficouple]

Reminder for all young parents:

You only get:
- 1 Summer with your baby
- 3 with your toddler
- 9 with your child
- 5 with your teenager

This time is precious. Don’t rush it.

[Adam @Adam__Lawal]

Ever wondered what the reality of housing in Lagos actually looks like?

What, where, and who influences the prices that have gotten so much attention lately???

I just concluded an exploratory analysis aimed at answering exactly that
https://t.co/ygiP1zM0As

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

An incredible bit of sports journalism by The Guardian here. A short summary of the playing style of all 48 World Cup nations and a short profile of all 1248 World Cup players. Bookmark and refer to the resources when watching the obscure matches: https://t.co/tdLGq8en0o

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Nobody asks why beauty exists, but everyone asks why suffering does. The question nobody asks is the one that changes everything.

Modern physics confirms that the universe has an undeniable, finely tuned order: the gravitational constant is calibrated so precisely that a deviation of 1 in 10^40 collapses everything.

The human eye processes 10 million colors. DNA encodes more information per cubic millimeter than any human technology has approached. This is all magnificent, the designer’s track record is not in question.

If a surgeon has performed ten thousand flawless operations and you are on his table, you do not demand explanations for every incision. Excellence earns the right to say “I know what I’m doing” before the full explanation arrives. Past precision earns theological trust for the parts we cannot yet explain.

It also proves capability: if this God can build something as complex as DNA, then he has the technical capacity to end suffering. The question is not if, but when.

A hidden premise is buried inside the very popular complaint about suffering. When we ask why God allows suffering, we assume we deserve better. We demand perfection now, before the final act of history.

The Christian framework refuses that assumption, it posits that sin is not merely a behavioral lapse correctable with effort; it is an ontological distortion, a fracture in our nature, and a chosen distance from the source of all coherence. The world we experience is not random cruelty; it is the accurate shape of that distance. The farther from the light you go, the darker it gets. That is the factual architecture. In this sense the staggering question is not why we suffer, but why, given what we are, anything beautiful exists at all.

What we have now is a mediated reality. God governs through instruments and delegated systems; the sun for light, the rain for growth. This is God operating behind a veil, and the reason is mercy. To drop the veil and introduce his full presence into a fractured world would mean immediate consumption by absolute justice.

To end all suffering this second would require either importing evil into the final perfect state, or executing final judgment immediately, closing the door on everyone not yet reconciled. The pause before the last act is not negligence, it is a stay of execution, the widest mercy available, keeping the door open for reconciliation before the final reality sets in.

Revelation 21 promises he will wipe every tear from every eye. This is not a general amnesty where wrongs are administratively cleared, but something personal, individual, and complete. If a single person in the new creation carries unaddressed grief over what God allowed, the system fails. The promise is therefore not a mere comfort verse, but it is a contractual commitment from a God with the full capacity to keep it.

In the New Jerusalem, the delegation stops. There is no sun or moon, for God himself is the light of the city. He removes the veil and gives all of himself. What we are living in now, with its suffering and its waiting, is simply the scaffolding. Scaffolding has rough edges by nature, and that is not an indictment of the architect.

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

[Shreya Arya @datavizfairy]

I made an Excalidraw chart library for anyone who wireframes or plans dashboard ideas 📊✨ It also became a nice use case for using Claude AI to speed up the more manual parts of the build :)

I’ve shared the library and import steps here:
https://t.co/Vu6qgDU72H

#dataviz #dashboarddesign #wireframing #excalidraw #claudeai

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

The parenting advice that I’ll be sitting with for a VERY long time:

You either face your demons or they raise your children.

[✒️ @Literariium]

no more "in my humble opinion", from now on it's "from my grandiose and objectively correct deductions".

[Oistien van Mowo @Oistien_VanMowo]

Citizen Daily Silver watch
40mm stainless steel case
Silver dial with gold indices
Quartz ( Ecodrive) movement
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[Green @xygort]

I am, sometimes, distrustful of people who never struggle to find words. Thoughts should have some reluctance at least.

[Andra @BioavailableNd]

One of the coolest fungal findings in the research: brushing your teeth 2-3x vs 1x/day lowered Candida Albicans not just in the mouth… but in stool too. Your oral microbiome and gut microbiome are deeply connected.

[chan @chantastic]

fuck logitech