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No body.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.

Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.

[3.141592653589793 🖖 @anks_learning]

@alexgraveley Where do I sign up

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

While pessimism sounds smart, optimism makes money by turning life-changing technologies into reality.

[Naval @naval]

The time to be most ambitious is when you have nothing to lose or nothing left to gain.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

You guys sure you don’t want more data centers?

[3.141592653589793 🖖 @anks_learning]

@elonmusk loving Grok 4.6. when is @grok_builder getting browser access?

[Azalia Mirhoseini @Azaliamirh]

Intelligence-per-joule is increasing quickly because models and chips are improving and the gains compound. Though demand for inference is growing even faster.

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@Avanika15 @JonSaadFalcon @HazyResearch

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 UPDATE: Elon Musk has infuriated foreign governments by making PUBLIC any and all censorship required by governments in open source

"Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible." 💯

The censors hate this.

Thank you, @ElonMusk 🇺🇸

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@JPoehnelt May the force be with u

[Jer @jechacas]

A visual metaphor for how the sense of self is constructed. Disparate elements moving in a particular pattern take on the appearance of being a single coordinated thing.

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@Polymarket That's ~ 4Gs. Woow

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX company update

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

One of the Keen researchers asked for guidance on compute expenditures. I replied: “Visualize the stack of $100 bills being set on fire with each run and weigh it against the knowledge sought.” In many ways, research today is in a better position to turn money into insight than ever before, but it can still be squandered.

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@JPoehnelt @helensfoundry 🚀

[Xiaoyin Qu @quxiaoyin]

Hey sir. We are not asking you to open source Anthropic. Just don’t lobby the government to shut down others who do. Jensen never framed other chips as “dangerous” or decides who can use CUDA based on who’s “safe”.

[Naval @naval]

If there were backdoors and biases hidden in open-weight models, you could count on closed-weight labs to find and reveal them.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Neuralink Recipient Lee Martin:

“With ALS, as you said, eventually you’re fully paralyzed. I can still manipulate my right hand a little bit, but my left hand is almost completely gone.

“Now, anything I do on a computer—WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, playing games, or sending emails—I can do just by thinking about moving the cursor. I’m still getting used to charging the implant every couple of days. It lasts about 8 to 10 hours, so I attach a MagSafe charger to my skull, and it charges my head. It’s crazy.”

INTERVIEWER: “It does sound crazy. It’s just fantastic—it sounds almost like something out of a movie.”

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[3.141592653589793 🖖 @anks_learning]

The line in the middle, that runs through the surfboard is called "alma", which means "soul". Each surfboard has it, whether visible or not. It holds the board together. When you surf, the first step is to alin your body with alma, and when you do it right, you become one with the board. 🏄 Pura vida 💗