Tony C

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@DHSgov Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
Trump: "Fuck those guys!"

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@WhiteHouse Honestly, I can't think of one thing that has improved under Trump. Total moral degradation of the US and the rise of corruption. It's just embarrassing that he sees anything different.

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@Avabelly__ I see five by five. "In the pipe five by five"

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Usage limits are up, effective today we're:

1) Doubling Claude Code's 5-hour limits for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans

2) Removing peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans

3) Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

WHEN AMERICA ASKED ME TO BE THE FACE OF SOCIAL SECURITY, I ACCEPTED. NO ONE IS MORE SOCIAL OR SECURE THAN ME. UNLIKE DONNY WHO'S THE FACE OF SOCIAL INSECURITY: HANDS, WEIGHT, HAIR, MANHOOD, CROWD SIZE, ME. THIS IS DONALD'S FIRST CARD SINCE HE'S NEVER WORKED A DAY IN HIS LIFE. TO SCARE HIM, I'M ADDING HIM ON IT. (PEOPLE ARE BEGGING ME TO TAKE HIM OFF. IT'S CAUSING NIGHTMARES, MIGRAINES, DIARRHEA.) JUST FOCUS ON THE HANDSOME MAN IN THE MIDDLE, NOT THE ELF IN THE CORNER. TO EVERY WORKING AMERICAN, ENJOY THE CARD! YOU'VE EARNED IT! --GOVERNOR GCN

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@WhiteHouse When will the President of the US concern himself with more pressing matters than a comedian exercising his first amendment right?

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found.

All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@Patterdude I hate how conservative politicians think the solution to our money problems is to restrict the options of poor people. Can we instead look at why they need to be on SNAP and try to improve their situation?

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@techhalla I would like to try it too! I've tried game dev in the past but got discouraged by the setup time and creating assets. I would love a tool to help get my ideas on the screen.

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

I see everyone repeating the same lines as if this was just another Trump tweet. He is declaring that this war could go on for "decades" and threatening total annihilation of a country and it's people. This is "America Last" if I've ever seen it.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack... Iran is no longer the 'Bully of the Middle East,' they are, instead, 'THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST,'" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@RepNancyMace This is reprehensible! I wouldn't expect any adult to act like this, not to mention a member of Congress.

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@w_terrence I don't think you understand what the marches are for. It's less about deportations and more about shredding the protections of the Constitution.

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@elonmusk Do it. Don't do it. Who cares? Out of all the issues that can have a real impact on Americans, this is so far down on the priority list. Government shutdown is looming, pedophiles run the country, and we are dying because we can't afford healthcare.

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@ebbetsblues @Charles07788205 @EytanWallace They absolutely will and already have in Minnesota. We have to have some tools against tyranny

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the lead engineer at https://t.co/4qSBGGFmTs.

We had $78 million to work with.

$70 million went to the domain.

$8 million went to the Super Bowl ad.

 I got the rest.

"The rest" was $500 and a Cloudflare free tier.

This ratio -- 156,000 to 1, marketing to engineering -- is not a bug. It is the business model of the entire artificial intelligence industry in 2026.

You do not need a product. You need a name. Preferably two letters. Preferably letters that made investors lose bladder control in 2024.

I built the website in a weekend. I didn't build it, actually.

I described it to OpenClaw (previosely Moltbook), (previously, reviously Clawdbot) and the AI built it.

We are, after all, an AI company. Using AI to build the website felt appropriate.

The AI charged us nothing. We are charging users $20 a month. This is called "margin."

We have a free tier and a paid tier. The free tier gives you access to a product that doesn't exist. The paid tier gives you access to the same product that doesn't exist, but with more input tokens.

No one has asked "input tokens for what." This is the kind of question that delays launches.

Nobody checked if it worked.

Nobody checked if it scaled.

Nobody checked if it did anything at all.

We were too busy approving the logo.

The logo is a planet with a ring around it. Someone said it looked like the old Saturn car logo. Saturn went bankrupt in 2010. But the logo was free and our design budget went to the domain, so here we are, orbiting a dead brand at $70 million per revolution.

Our product is an "autonomous AI agent" that "organizes work, sends messages, and executes actions across apps."

Which actions. Which apps. At what cost.

In the AI industry, these are called "implementation details." Implementation details are beneath us. We are a vision company. The vision cost $70 million. The implementation cost $500.

The gap between the two is where shareholder value lives.

Our press release promises the agent will "trade stocks, automate workflows, and update your online dating profile."

We are building artificial general intelligence so it can fix your Hinge bio.

This is on the roadmap. The roadmap is longer than the codebase.

Our marketing says you can create an AI agent in 60 seconds. This is technically true. You type a username. You click "generate." You receive a loading spinner. Sixty seconds.

What you do not receive is an AI agent. But the experience of waiting for one is, I'm told, "the product."

Our press release describes a "decentralized network of billions of agents." We used the word "decentralized" because our CEO comes from crypto. In crypto, "decentralized" means "we haven't decided how it works yet." We have not changed the definition.

This is not unique to us.

OpenAI has raised $40 billion. Their product loses money on every user.

Anthropic has raised $15 billion. Their stated goal is to build something they believe might destroy humanity, and investors are fighting to give them more.

Microsoft has committed $80 billion to AI infrastructure this year. Their Copilot product tells people to put glue on pizza. The entire industry is a $300 billion screensaver with a loading spinner.

We fit right in.

Our CEO is the https://t.co/O1AIXWbNAm guy.

He previously spent $700 million to rename a basketball arena and hired Matt Damon to tell America "fortune favors the brave" six months before crypto lost 70% of its value.

He paid for our domain in cryptocurrency. I am told this was "tax efficient." I have learned not to ask follow-up questions about things that are "tax efficient."

He is now pivoting from crypto to AI. In the industry, we don't call this "pivoting." We call it "convergence." Convergence means the last bubble popped so you inflate the next one using the same PowerPoint deck with different nouns.

The Super Bowl ad ran during the fourth quarter. Thirty seconds. It told 130 million Americans to visit our website.

The ad was thirty seconds. That's $266,666 per second. Each second of airtime cost more than our entire engineering budget.

Second fourteen showed the logo. Second fourteen cost more than the website.

They did visit. All of them, apparently, at once.

The website went down.

"Prepared for scale, but not for THIS," our CEO tweeted, adding three fire emojis.

The fire emojis were load-bearing. They were doing more work than our infrastructure. The entire site was hosted on Cloudflare's basic tier, which is designed for food blogs and wedding photographers, not for absorbing the combined curiosity of a nation told to visit a two-letter domain during the biggest television event on earth.

But the crash was, in a way, perfect. It is the most honest thing the AI industry has produced. A $78 million promise that, when 130 million people showed up to collect, returned a loading spinner and the words "please refresh and try again."

Every AI company should adopt this as their mission statement.

The previous owner of https://t.co/4qSBGGFmTs was OpenAI. They used it to redirect to ChatGPT -- a product that exists, built by thousands of engineers who were paid more than $500, running on billions of dollars of compute. We bought the domain from them to redirect to a page that asks you to pick a username.

OpenAI also ran a Super Bowl ad this year. They sold us the domain, then bought ad time in the same broadcast to promote the product they used to host on it.

We are now competing with the company that built the thing we may or may not be reselling. During the same commercial break. On the same channel. For the same audience.

The AI industry is a snake eating its own tail, except the tail cost $70 million and the snake can't stay online.

That's the product. A username. For an AI agent that doesn't exist yet. On a website that couldn't survive its own launch. Sold by a crypto CEO during a crypto winter. Wearing the logo of a bankrupt car company.

Twenty-three percent of Super Bowl ads this year were AI companies. That's 15 out of 66.

In 2000, it was dot-coms. https://t.co/xcdZKv7NgR ran a Super Bowl ad. They went bankrupt nine months later.

Their sock puppet mascot outlived the company. I'm not saying history repeats. I'm saying it rhymes, and the rhyme scheme is expensive.

But none of that matters. What matters is the domain. Two letters. Seventy million dollars. The most expensive thing we own is our name. The least expensive thing we own is everything the name is supposed to represent.

In the AI industry, this is called "brand-first development."

In every other industry, it's called something else.

Anyway, we're hiring.

Backend engineers preferred.

Budget: whatever's left.

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@sherlock_hodles Boo! I feel attacked!

[Nelly; @nrqa__]

5 Free Courses to Master AI Agents in 2026

1. Data Analysis
https://t.co/xbxYFozvux

2. Hugging Face Agents Course
https://t.co/dxPujwWleW

3. LangChain Academy: Intro to LangGraph
https://t.co/TBzR6EDO5Y

4. Microsoft Learn: Develop AI Agents on Azure
https://t.co/veQjx35Dms

4. Google Cloud: Build AI Agents with Vertex AI
https://t.co/15tzJZCtu9

5. DeepLearning AI: AI Agents in LangGraph
https://t.co/M2s5EOtgAR

[Ethan Shanfeld @ethanshanfeld]

I interviewed Catherine O'Hara last year for "The Studio" and asked her about how Hollywood has changed in the last 50 years.

One of my favorite bits that was cut from the story —

[Tony C @TonyBaloneee]

@WhiteHouse @WSJ I love this. "I was right all along. Source: myself"