Jeff ⛳️ Butcher

Former Left Tackle for the Hatchets, Retired Stunt Driver for Enterprise, Land Cruiser Lover, Father, Husband of The One, 'Cane for Life, Swinging my Sticks

[The Assembly @InTheAssembly]

The NSA just proved nothing is secure anymore.

Their own AI called Mythos breached almost every classified system they have.

Here is what happened:

Mythos is Anthropic's frontier AI model built for cyber work.

It finds vulnerabilities, writes exploits, and chains attacks together with almost no human help.

Anthropic kept it restricted because it was TOO GOOD at hacking.

The NSA started using it anyway. They embedded Anthropic engineers inside classified facilities to help run it for offensive operations.

Then they tested it.

They turned Mythos loose on their own most protected networks. The ones that are supposed to be nearly impossible to crack.

General Joshua Rudd, who runs the NSA and Cyber Command, told Senator Mark Warner exactly what happened.

Mythos broke into almost all of their classified systems. In hours.

This was authorized red teaming. They wanted to see what it could do.

It showed them.

Even the best human teams and the strongest defenses the US has built could not stop this AI at that speed.

If Mythos can rip through NSA classified networks in hours during testing, imagine what happens when other countries build their own versions?

Speed used to be measured in days or weeks for sophisticated breaches.

Now it is measured in hours. Or less.

The game just changed.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.

Write that down. 🦋

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

“No one in the Middle East actually blocks intersections to pray in the streets and yell Allahu Akbar. They do it in your countries is because they're trying to assert their religious dominance over you and claim your country and turn it into Sharia law.”

[Jeff ⛳️ Butcher @ThumbLad]

@myluckymop Good year

[Jeff ⛳️ Butcher @ThumbLad]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Good

[Jeff ⛳️ Butcher @ThumbLad]

@sflorimm Netscape Navigator

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

Election expert Patrick Colbeck finds 289,886 illegal ballots in the Arizona 2020 election and goes over Michigan and the Dominion system and how it's designed to work as a network.

Every tabulator is connected, every adjudicator is connected, the local data center that is connected to the internet is connected to the tabulators and adjudicators, which easily allow remote access to built in backdoors, whether on or off site.

The systems are not "air-gapped," and there is 100% internet connection in every state. They lied and they got caught.

[James Ebringer @JamesEbringer]

New offer just hit TAP and the math on this one favors anyone willing to post AI slideshows daily

AI palm reading app

Snap one photo, get a full personalized reading in 60 seconds

$9.99/week or $59.99/year

You keep 50% forever on whichever plan they pick

Here's how a beginner runs this from zero:

1. Spin up 5 faceless TikTok accounts
Spiritual aesthetic, manifesting aesthetic, astrology-adjacent, dating-coded, gen-z mystic
Different vibes, same offer in every bio

2. Pull viral hooks from each niche
"What your palm says about your future love life"
"I let an AI read my palm and the result actually shook me"
"The 12 palm archetypes, which one are you"

3. Reframe each hook around the offer
AI voiceover, 7-8 slide carousels
Curiosity gap that resolves on the landing page, not in the slideshow

4. Post 3-4 slideshows per account per day
15-20 posts daily across the fleet

5. Conservative math at 40k avg views per account per day
200k daily views
0.4% CTR on curiosity-driven niches = 800 clicks/day
2% conversion = 16 buyers/day

Plan split roughly 70/30 weekly vs annual:
11 weekly x $4.99 = $54.89/day stacked recurring
5 annual x $30 = $150/day one-time

Month 1: ~$4,500 upfront + ~$1,500/wk recurring base
Month 3: ~$4,000/wk recurring base if you keep posting

The customer stays subscribed because they keep coming back to check readings

You collect 50% every week they stay

This is what lifetime commission actually looks like

[Jeff ⛳️ Butcher @ThumbLad]

@BowTiedKong Truth

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

My 30+ observations on the greatest opportunities in AI agents right now:

And some ideas that are keeping me up at night.

1. The new buyer on the internet is an AI agent. Imagine billions of new customers showing up with money to spend but they only shop via MCP. That's what's happening. No MCP server means you're invisible to the fastest growing buyer on the internet.

2. Every franchise system in America (30,000+) needs an agent layer and none of them have one. One founder per franchise vertical. That's 30,000 businesses waiting.

3. Everyone said "distribution is the only moat" a year ago. Now I'd add that the only moat is distribution plus memory. The company that has your audience AND your agent's accumulated context is impossible to leave.

4. Consumer mobile is more interesting than it's been since 2012. Apps can finally DO things for you instead of showing you things. The next wave of $100M apps are being built right now.

5. The most interesting startup nobody has built is an agent marketplace where you rent access to someone else's trained agent. A recruiter spent 6 months training a sourcing agent on healthcare hiring. That agent is worth renting to every other healthcare recruiter on earth. The agent itself becomes the product.

6. A sorta strange phenomenon that's happening right now is agents are developing preferences. Give the same agent the same task 100 times and it starts developing patterns in how it approaches it. Nobody is studying this yet. But the agents that develop good patterns are worth more than the ones that don't. That's a new kind of asset.

7. Dead internet theory is about to become dead SaaS theory. Half the apps you use will quietly replace their support team, their onboarding team, and their content team with agents. You won't notice for months. Then you'll realize you haven't talked to a human at that company in a year.

8. The most valuable data in the world right now is sitting in the support tickets of small or mid tier SaaS companies. Every ticket is a customer telling you exactly what to build next. Mine this.

9. The most interesting pricing problem nobody has solved is how do you price a product when your costs change every time OpenAI or Anthropic updates their model pricing? Your margins can swing 40% overnight based on a decision made in San Francisco. The company that builds dynamic pricing infrastructure for agent-based businesses solves a problem every AI company has.

10. The best AI products feel like they're reading your mind. The worst ones feel like filling out a form with extra steps.

11. An interesting arbitrage I've noticed lately is hiring a human VA for $20/hour to supervise an AI agent that does $200/hour work. The human just checks the output.

12. The managed AI agent business is becoming the new agency model. $5k/month per client. You build it, run it, maintain it. The client gets a digital employee they never have to think about. This will be a $50 B+ category.

13. The first "shadow agent" scandals are about to drop. Employees running personal agents on company infrastructure without telling anyone. Using company API keys. Agents accessing internal docs. IT departments have little visibility into this right now. Lots of opportunity to build companies here. Definitely a painkiller not a vitamin type of business.

14. Right now there are probably millions of agents running on autopilot that their creators forgot about. Still burning tokens. Still sending emails. Still scraping websites. Still costing money. The "find and kill your zombie agents" tool is a product that writes itself.

15. Companies are starting to hire based on someone's agent portfolio instead of their resume. "Show me 3 agents you built that are running right now." It's REALLY early but it's starting.

16. Your Slack archive is a product. Every company's internal Slack has thousands of messages explaining how they actually do things. The company that lets you point an agent at your Slack history and auto-generate SOPs and agents from it will be enormous.

17. We're watching the cost of intelligence fall faster than the cost of distribution. Which means distribution is now the expensive thing.

18. The most underrated asset a human can have in 2026: the ability to sit in a room with another human, make eye contact, and have a real conversation. As AI handles more of the transactional stuff, the humans who can do the relational stuff become disproportionately valuable. The soft skills people used to dismiss as fluffy are becoming the hard skills. The hard skills people spent decades acquiring are becoming the soft ones.

19. There are MANY huge companies to be built around the fact that most people's agents are running on their personal laptops which they also use to browse the internet, check email, and download random files. The attack surface is enormous. One compromised Chrome extension and your agent's API keys, customer data, and workflows are exposed.

20. There's a new type of burnout forming that doesn't have a name. It's not from working too hard. It's from context switching between human work and agent work 50 times a day. Reviewing agent output, correcting it, approving it, reviewing again. The mental load of supervising agents is different from the mental load of doing the work yourself. Some founders are telling me they were less tired when they did everything manually because at least the cognitive pattern was consistent.

21. The cheapest form of market research: search "[your industry] spreadsheet template" on Google. Whatever people are tracking manually is your product.

22. Half the YC companies pivoted within 8 weeks of demo day. Not because they failed. Because agents let them test 5 ideas in the time it used to take to test one. The concept of "committing to an idea" is dissolving. Serial pivoting is becoming the default because 1) AI lets you move fast 2) the world is moving fast.

23. The loneliest job in tech right now is being the only person at your company who understands what the agents are doing. You can't explain it to your boss. You can't hand it off to a colleague. If you leave, everything breaks. You've become a single point of failure for an entire automated system. That person needs a title, a team, and a backup plan. Most companies haven't figured this out yet.

24. Your browser history is the most valuable training data you own and you're giving it away for free. Every site you visit, every product you research, every competitor you study, every pricing page you screenshot. That behavioral data, structured and fed to an agent, would make it understand your business better than any onboarding call. The company that lets you turn your browser history into agent context builds something nobody can replicate.

25. Everyone is building AI wrappers. Nobody is building AI unwrappers. The tool that takes an AI-generated document and tells you which parts a human wrote and which parts were generated.

26. Stripe just became the most important company in the agent economy and they barely had to do anything. Every agent that sells something needs Stripe. Every agent that buys something needs Stripe. They're the payment rail for the entire agentic internet by default.

27. The most undervalued API in the world right now is the US Postal Service address verification API. It's practically free. Every local business lead gen agent needs it. Every real estate agent needs it. Every direct mail agent needs it. Boring government infrastructure is quietly becoming the backbone of agent-native businesses.

28. The concept of "business hours" is for humans. Your agent closed a deal in Tokyo at 3am, processed the payment, sent the onboarding email, and updated the CRM before your alarm went off.

29. What happens when agents start recommending other agents? Your research agent finds that a competitor's sales agent is better and suggests you switch. Agent referral networks are forming organically. The first agent affiliate program is probably 6 months away.

30. Cal dotcom closed their source code. That's the canary. When open source companies start closing up, it means agents were cloning their product too easily. Every open source company is quietly asking the same question right now.

31. "AI for pet groomers" sounds like a joke and that's exactly why it will work. 150,000 of them in America. Zero tech. All scheduling by phone or IG DMs. The joke ideas always win.

32. The thing that will seem most obvious in hindsight: we spent 2025-2026 arguing about which model is best while the entire value was in the orchestration layer. The model is the CPU. Nobody buys a computer based on the CPU anymore. They buy it based on what they can do with it. Makes so much sense in hindsight. What else will be obvious in hindsight?

I'll share more notes soon.

I can't sleep with all that's going on. Maybe you too.

What an incredible time to be building.

[m0ppu @myluckymop]

became a father today. she's perfect. they even let me help deliver her. can't describe how surreal it is to pull your child out of your wife yourself.

i'm on maybe 2~ hours of sleep these last 48 hours, but i wouldn't change anything about how today went. hope you're all well!

[Stephen Moore @StephenMoore]

The biggest wealth transfer in American history isn’t happening on Wall Street. It’s happening on U-Hauls.

Over $2 trillion in income fled high-tax blue states for low-tax red states in just 11 years.

And blue states’ solution? Raise taxes again.

[Jeff ⛳️ Butcher @ThumbLad]

@NUCLRGOLF You play all eighteen

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

John Thune has become a punching bag for good reason but there is a more insidious force at play nobody can talk about. Let me explain…

The staffers in Thune’s office have been asking Trump Naval and Maritime appointees questions about me before confirmation hearings.

I doubt John Thune knows who I am. His staff absolutely does. They track me. They hate me. And they will quietly bleed pushing out any appointee I’m friends with.

Someone close to PPO told me a Trump staffer commented that “Konrad should be a HBS case study on someone every in the administration respects but has zero chance of any appointment.”

It’s probably because I’ve called out congressional staffers numerous times before.

This is how Congress actually works.

It’s always the staffers. When we first floated the SHIPS Act, Mike Johnson’s hometown delegation were strong supporters.

The minute he became Speaker, his hometown people got bulldozed by the Speaker of the House staff he inherited.

Same man, different staff, different priorities.

Why do you think they wanted Mitch McConnell propped up after the freezing episodes? It wasn’t McConnell.

It was the cartel of people on his staff who needed his chair filled by someone they already controlled.

Members can’t read their own bills anymore. Thirty years of capped staff, frozen pay, and brain drain to K Street has left rank and file senators functionally illiterate on the legislation they vote on.

Leadership staff fill the vacuum. They are not entrenched because they are corrupt. They are entrenched because nobody else in the building can move a 1,500-page must-pass bill through conference.

That is the cartel. And it has rules. If you want anything in the NDAA, the omnibus, the CR, or any vehicle that actually moves, you do not piss them off. You do not name them. Break either rule and you do not get a second omnibus.

I’m not even willing to name individual staff.

John Phelan is the case study nobody is reading correctly. Phelan was not fired because he was a bad secretary. Phelan was fired because his chief of staff Jon Harrison had deep knowledge of the pentagon that Phelan lacked. Without him, Phelan was walking around the Pentagon naked and he knew it. He pulled back from media events and became too cautious.

Then there is Susie Wiles. I don’t know her. Never met her. From everything I can piece together she is doing a great job. The point is not Susie. The point is the Vanity Fair article.

It’s not even the article itself, that article contained a lot of BS, it was the reaction that came after. Every single republican & a few democrats stood behind her.

Now contrast that with the flood of negative articles about Mike Waltz, Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi.

When a politician is the subject of a hut piece is dragged over the coals, the system shrugs. But when it’s a senior staffer, the system closes rank. It is safer to trash Trump in print than to be perceived as trashing Susie. Trump is used to it. Susie controls the schedule, the access, and the door.

Multiply Susie by every leadership chief of staff, every NDAA conference staffer, & you have the machine. It is not partisan. Schumer’s staff & Thune’s staff protect each other from outside critics more reliably than they protect their own bosses from each other.

Leaders come and go but leadership staff is entrenched.

Congress is broken because leadership staff on both sides want it to remain broken. A Congress that can only legislate through 2,000-page must-pass bill is a Congress where the staff who draft the bill run the country. Regular order is their extinction event. They will never let it come back voluntarily.

You can call out politicians all day. They are used to it. Call out the staff and you don’t get frozen out of one bill. You get frozen out of every bill, by every office, on both sides, for as long as the cartel decides to remember your name.

They remember mine. Now you know why.​​​​​​​​​​​​​ even Luna can’t vall them out.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

LIVE FROM THE OVAL: President Trump Announces Historic Reforms to Accelerate Access to Medical Research & Treatments Based on Psychedelic Drugs

"Since 9/11, we've lost over 21 times more veteran lives to suicide than on the battlefield... today, we're bringing them new hope."

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

They really think Trump has no clue what’s going on, when in reality, he now controls the flow of 36%+ of the world’s crude oil supply, and just forced the nations of the world to buy oil from us, and Venezuela, which Trump conveniently already secured, along with the Panama Canal.

Now Trump’s focus on Greenland, Canada, and the Arctic shipping routes, makes even more sense. Trump is securing global shipping lanes, and turning the US into THE global energy superpower.

Trump has China, and the world, by the balls, and the sheep are oblivious. Trump is completely shaking up the global order, and forcing the world to deal through us. Trump is stripping the Deep State of their leverage, and securing the entire board.

You are watching the “world’s most powerful reset”, and the dawning of “The Golden Age”.

The Deep State’s reign is over. They have been outmaneuvered. Trump controls the oil, therefore, he controls the world.

Leverage obtained ✅

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

My friend Craig Bergman offers a brilliant take: Unless you live under a rock or are intentionally obtuse, let me explain things. There is no cease-fire.

The reason there is no cease-fire is Iran no longer has a functioning government.

Trump negotiated with one of the larger factions.

There are 24 factions

Not all of them want peace. Not all of them will even negotiate.

So what is Trump doing?

It should be completely obvious to anyone who is not intentionally not wanting to understand.

He is pitting the factions against each other with competing interests for money and power and safety.

And when one of them betrays the other, they will take care of the bad one.

If they don’t, then Trump will randomly target them again and blame them all as if they are one government. That will frustrate them greatly, causing them again to turn on each other because there is no longer any single central authority.

This is absolutely brilliant, but if you think it’s gonna mean peace, if you think the Strait is really going to be open, and if you think Iran has surrendered and decided to play nice, you are delusional.

If you think Trump wants to murder 90 million people you are beneath delusional: you are intentional.

So chill out and watch the show: it is a master class.

And yes, I’m not predicting it. I am telling you what is happening.

This is not a guess. This is not an informed opinion.

I am speaking fact. Watch it happen.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Dr. Ben Marble says it's time to stop accepting blood from people who took the Covid injections.

"The entire blood supply in America, and basically the whole world, is contaminated with the spike protein poison bioweapon."

"We're seeing patients that get blood transfusions that are unvaccinated, and suddenly they get blood clots or have heart attacks or strokes."

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[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

This is the number of satellites currently orbiting the Earth right now 🤯