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[Karan @karankendre]

Claude charges for image inputs based on pixel size, not the amount of text inside the image

So you can literally turn long prompts into an image and save a lot of tokens

Here is a repo which does this

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A 19-year-old hacker used VPNs, tunneling tools, and rotated IPs across 3 countries. The FBI still caught him. Here's the Windows feature that made it possible and why it should concern everyone.

Peter Stokes, an alleged member of Scattered Spider (the group behind $100M+ in ransomware extortion), was arrested at Helsinki Airport this April. Court documents revealed a key piece of evidence: Microsoft's GDID.

What is a GDID?
GDID = Global Device Identifier. It's a unique code baked into every Windows installation. Microsoft uses it for telemetry, crash reports, feature usage, and license verification (it's why swapping your CPU can break your Windows activation).

What Microsoft gave the FBI:
→ Web activity with timestamps
→ Gaming history
→ IP addresses used over time
→ Tool usage (including Ngrok, a tunneling app)
→ Azure account activity

All tied to one persistent device fingerprint. Even though the VPN masked his IP, it didn't affect the GDID.

How they connected the dots:
Every time Stokes logged in to Snapchat, Apple, or Facebook from a new IP address, the GDID was there too. Investigators matched timestamps across platforms and countries: Tallinn, New York, Thailand, Germany. Different IPs. Same machine. Same person.

Microsoft had already identified him in October 2024 and filed a criminal referral. He was still 17. So they waited till He turned 18. Then they moved.

Yes, Stokes is accused of serious crimes. But the GDID data exists on every Windows machine, including yours. The infrastructure that handed his entire digital life to the FBI is the same infrastructure running on your laptop right now.

The unanswered questions:
- There's no public policy on when Microsoft shares GDID data

- No known opt-out mechanism

- No transparency report specifically covering GDID disclosures

- What other criminal referrals has Microsoft quietly filed?

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

— Voltaire

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Instead of calling the stuff you do everyday a routine, call it a ceremony.

Makes it sound special.

[Nick Mehta @nrmehta]

Some of the most coherent and thought-provoking predictions I've read in a long time

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

This @KapilGuptaMD conversation with @naval is IMO among the best videos available on YouTube.

https://t.co/5elbl54i9A

[Deliriumm @0xDeliriumm]

ANTHROPIC DROPPED THEIR OWN OBSIDIAN BRAIN THAT MANAGES ALL COMPANY INNOVATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE FLOWS

00:22 8,893 nodes, 4,729 links, 8,893 views - a knowledge graph so dense it looks like a galaxy when you zoom out

Marginalia Collection, Glossary Backbone, Comparative Grammar MOC, Oral History Transcripts, Chinese-English Translation Magazine founded 1973 - every cluster its own universe of connected knowledge

Master Index in the center with 9,000+ documents and dozens of cross-references pulling everything together into one navigable system

Field Notes Archive, Translation Studies Index with 419 cross-references, Survey Data pool with 212 coded entries - this is not a second brain, this is an entire research civilization

Fable 5 came back globally on July 1 2026 - and before you run the same prompts you used on Opus 4.8, Anthropic published an official prompting guide because old prompts don't hit the same

the company building the most powerful AI in the world uses an Obsidian graph to manage its own knowledge - and now showed you exactly how to build yours 🧠

[Machina @EXM7777]

https://t.co/zXM38P3HGs

[Miles Teller @BTCkenny1314]

🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now build you an ULTRA-PREMIUM website in just 30 minutes.

Completely FREE.

Here are 8 prompts to help you BUILD YOUR DREAM WEBSITE:

[Naval @naval]

New podcast with @garrytan, @farbood and Daniel Francis.

Live in the Future!

00:00 Guest Intros
02:35 Live in the Future
03:58 Will AI Outsmart us?
07:43 In the Anthropic Breadline
09:59 The Tech Genie Is Out
12:33 We Invested in COVID?!
14:25 Good Writing Is Novelty
18:50 Living Like It’s 2028
24:32 Truth dot ai
30:18 Does China have the Weights?
35:38 Everyone has AI Anxiety
39:32 Have Your Agent Talk to My Agent
42:01 What if Open Source takes the Lead?
44:03 The Sun is Setting on Google
48:00 Ride the AGI
50:46 Will There be Startups?
54:05 Defending Taiwan
1:00:05 The California Empire
1:01:26 If the U.S. Falls
1:03:11 Universal Basic Robot
1:06:01 Humans as AI Handlers

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

What happens when you die:

They divide up your shit.

They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.

People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.

Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.

Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.

You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.

Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Denzel Washington was right, always be thankful for the bad things in life. They open your eyes to see the good things you weren't paying attention to before.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

"The greatest sin you can commit against your own life, is to know what you want...and not to act." - Stafford

Do not betray yourself.
Take the Chance.

[Dickie Bush 🚢 @dickiebush]

Everyone should read "How To Write" by Ogilvy

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is the entirety of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's televised nervous breakdown this morning on CNBC

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

[Jeferson Nasa @Jefersonnasa_]

Mi terapeuta me dijo esto y me impactó: “Sanar es tan difícil porque es una batalla constante entre tu niño interior que está asustado y solo quiere seguridad... tu adolescente interior que está enojado y solo quiere justicia... y tu yo actual, que está cansado y solo quiere paz”.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Alex Hormozi revealed exactly what business to start if you are broke:

1. Every business idea comes from one of three sources, what Hormozi calls the three P's: pain you personally overcame, your profession, or your passion. There is no fourth category.

2. A pain-based business often starts with something you already solved for yourself. A woman managing lunch for nine kids built an entire organized system around it, and that system itself became the seed of a business.

3. A profession-based business comes from a specific skill you already get paid for. A registered dietitian who learned how to bill insurance during a brutal 12-hour, six-day workweek turned that narrow skill into teaching other dietitians, and now earns close to a million dollars a year with only 5,800 Instagram followers.

4. A passion-based business comes from what you cannot stop consuming in your free time. Hormozi's own obsession with fitness content eventually led coworkers to literally offer to fund his first gym because his passion was so obvious to everyone around him.

5. You do not need the perfect idea on the first try. Picking something, even a flawed version, starts the iteration process. He calls this finding your best bad idea, because a bad idea that keeps getting refined eventually becomes a good one.

6. Once you have your what, you choose your who from three groups: people like you, people you have already helped before, and underserved markets. Most successful businesses come from the first two.

7. Sara Blakely built Spanx by solving her own personal frustration with underwear. Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook by solving a problem inside his own dorm room. Personal problems scaled into billion-dollar businesses more often than people assume.

8. Hormozi's first ever dollar came from casually helping a woman at his gym with her food choices. After an hour and a half of conversation at a pizza shop, she handed him a $100 check without him ever naming a price.

9. Narrowing your audience using at least three specific traits, age, profession, and a specific pain or interest, makes your message land far more powerfully than vague targeting ever will.

10. Getting more specific does not shrink your income potential, it grows it. A generic time management PDF might sell for $19. The same idea narrowed down to outbound sales reps in the garden and power tools industry could sell for $10,000.

11. The narrower and more specific your niche, the fewer competitors you face. Hormozi describes this as having the only lifeboat in an ocean full of people struggling to stay afloat, which means you can charge whatever you want.

12. Every offer needs two halves: the good stuff your product delivers, and the bad stuff it helps people avoid. Motivation only comes from one of these two forces, gaining something wanted or escaping something hated.

13. Vague promises like "lose weight fast" stopped working decades ago. Specific pain points, like the exact sensation of your thighs chafing in the sun, bypass people's skepticism because the specificity proves you actually understand their problem.

14. If you are not the target customer yourself, interview real people using direct questions: what are you struggling with, how long have you struggled with it, what have you had to give up that you loved, and what have you had to start doing that you hated.

15. The entire offer collapses into one simple formula: I help to get a good outcome without a bad outcome. Hormozi's own example: "I help 45-year-old women who just had kids get back into their high school jeans without giving up time with their family."

16. A unique mechanism is the special process or system that makes your solution feel different from every competitor's, even if the underlying mechanics are similar. P90X built an empire on the concept of muscle confusion. Weight Watchers built theirs on a points system.

17. A unique mechanism does not need to be scientifically revolutionary. It simply needs to feel like the missing piece that makes everything else finally click into place for the person buying it.

18. The simplest way to get your first five customers requires no funnel and no ad spend. Greet someone, compliment something specific and genuine about them, insert your one-sentence offer, and ask if they know anyone who might benefit from it.

19. Repeat that outreach process for four hours a day or until you have contacted 100 people, whichever comes first. Consistency in this single action is what produces the first five paying customers, not perfect marketing or branding.

Follow @BradleyKellard if you want more content on business, mindset & life changing ideas.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

after 9/11 the CIA built a team whose only job was to find holes in their own thinking. they called it the Red Cell.

the playbook they used is now public. 40 pages. free. almost nobody reads it.

I turned their 4 best techniques into 4 prompts you paste into Claude:

→ prompt 1: what hidden assumptions is my plan built on?
→ prompt 2: it's 18 months later and my idea failed. walk me through what went wrong.
→ prompt 3: a competitor with $100M wants to crush me in 90 days. what's their plan?
→ prompt 4: write the 1-star review from the customer who felt cheated.

30 minutes. your idea either dies here or comes out stronger. both save you 6 months.

all 4 prompts are in this article. try them on your next big decision. before reality tries it for you.