Bob Spence 🟦

Computer Programmer / Software Developer since 1962. Persistent voter. Self-signed certificate blue box.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

It’s like poetic justice how there’s a double rainbow outside the John Kennedy Center as Trump’s name is being removed.

[AnthonyAndrews @anthon7yandrews]

Discovery will require the full release of the Epstein files, Jack Smith’s Volume 2, Trump’s financial records, and thousands of hours of video of Trump speaking. Are there any high profile journalist or activists with any balls at all. Crickets everywhere. @realDonaldTrump @FLOTUS

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

JD Vance went to Ohio State then Yale. But clearly not to study history. WW2 did not end ‘with some kind of negotiation’.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty.

James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history.

Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired.
The wall is still empty.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Gop circus.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

With thousands of people watching a livestream and a crowd of people cheering and waving flags as the loathsome piece of shit's name was being stripped from the Kennedy Center — a rainbow suddenly appeared. If this isn't a sign of good prevailing over evil, I don't know what is.

[☀️Arun💫 @Home_ArunK]

Without immigrants there is no soccer team. This is what makes America great; the best talent in the world.

- Balogun was born to Nigerian parents.
- Christian Pulisic born to Parent of Croatian origin.
- McKennie Born to an American Air Force officer, started his soccer career in Germany.
- Sergiño Gianni Dest was born to parents of Suriname origin.
- Malik Leon Tillman is German born.
- Tyler Adams is American born.
- Antonee Robinson was born in England
- Timothy Ream, American born, but if European descent
- Chris Richards, American born to American parents.
- Alexander Freeman, American born to American parents.
- Matthew Freese, American born but of German descent.
- Sebastian Berhalter, England born of Irish descent.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

FOLARIN BALOGUN BRACE TO MAKE IT 3-0 @USMNT! 🇺🇸

A truly stellar FIFA World Cup debut for Flo.

[KTVU @KTVU]

America’s historic beef shortage may not ease anytime soon as the U.S. cattle herd remains at its lowest level in more than seven decades, keeping pressure on prices even as consumers continue to buy beef at elevated levels. https://t.co/QXFV0WRazz

[Bob Spence 🟦 @bgspence]

@pickover Elon Musk's fastest rocket at launch is really, really slow

[Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly]

Six minutes per letter left on the judicial order clock at the Kennedy Center:

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH — @abbydphillip: “What about the law, Scott?”

@ScottJenningsKY: “What about it? Who cares?” 🤔

Refreshing honesty from the smuggest man in the world. The law does not matter to them.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Taking Trump’s name off of the Kennedy Center is easy—but repairing the deeper damage to the institution, and the nation, will take much longer, @GrahamDavidA argues in The Atlantic Daily. https://t.co/bxHyjyp9PH

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"It’s not simply this ocean-monitoring system that’s being dismantled; it’s U.S. science entirely."
https://t.co/gD1lnUxlqz

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia says he plans to formally ask Chairman Comer to bring JD Vance, Susie Wiles, and Kash Patel before the Committee in light of the new NYT Epstein reporting.

"They're having meetings in the Situation Room about covering up the Epstein files and protecting Donald Trump, and so this is to us a huge smoking gun."

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP: Trump’s $10 million renovation of the reflecting pool is already filled with algae just days after it opened.

Is this what you all voted for?

[Madni Aghadi @hey_madni]

https://t.co/wPOoCOctep

[Madni Aghadi @hey_madni]

$4,800/year subscription stack vs $599 hardware

Mac Mini M4 + Ollama + Claude Code

Apple Stores ran out of Mac Minis.

not because of marketing. because developers figured out the math.

one env var redirects Claude Code to your $599 box:

ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1

same workflow. $3/month in electricity. forever.

the smart play isn't all-local or all-cloud.

it's hybrid:

/ Mac Mini ($599) handles 80% coding, drafts, RAG, agent loops

/ one $20/month subscription covers the 20% that needs frontier reasoning

/ total monthly: $23 instead of $459

/ annual savings: $5,232

ClaudeKit EngineerKit is $99 one-time if you want consistent output (https://t.co/Bt7rOxsQ67)

Apple positioned Mac Mini as "the most popular Mac ever."

developers turned it into the cheapest AI server on earth.

full setup guide in the article below