Brandon

Building online marketplaces and tools for millions of buyers and sellers. Designing, building, and growing apps for two decades. Impatient optimist. 🏀🥊

[Brandon @brandon5web]

no shit

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Wage gains have been wiped out since Trump took office," per Axios

[Brandon @brandon5web]

🎯

[Dr. StormyWaters @NormanDodd_knew]

He is bailing out Sam Altman. OpenAI cant IPO because they are massively in debt and dont make any money so Altman runs to the White House begging for a bailout and magically 3 days later we get this.
This is the TARP bailouts all over again lol
How "rich" did we get after '08

[Brandon @brandon5web]

they are evil little wannabe villains. bee research, science, schools, food, healthcare. if good people care about it, they want to break it just to watch everyone get mad.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration is closing the nation's primary bee research laboratory.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

add closed hospitals, underfunded schools, legalized corruption, pesticides on everything, and the same people responsible telling you to be grateful. 2026 in a nutshell folks.

[Brennan Schlagbaum, CPA @Budgetdog_]

Jokes that are going too far:

- $25 fast food meals
- Paying property taxes
- $400k "starter homes"
- 3% raises with 4% inflation
- Daycare costing more than rent
- Working your whole life to "enjoy" 10 years of retirement

Hilarious. Truly.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

teachers raise, protect, feed, guide, and educate our kids every damn day, then go home with far less than they deserve. it’s a national disgrace.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

this is exactly the problem. they act like politics is sports, but the “team” they’re cheering for controls courts, laws, rights, money, and lives. keep clapping for the scoreboard until the scoreboard comes for you i guess

[Ken from KY-04 @MassieNation19]

When your boomer dad ruins your culture…

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

YouTubers be like “wake up at 4am and run, that’s alpha!” No, it’s not. Look at apex predators; they’re all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day. You know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

As they should.

AI is getting better at the result, but the real value is still in the messy path to getting there. If companies turn that into a dataset, they’re truly commoditizing how good work gets made.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Meta employees in the U.S. are organizing a protest over mouse-tracking technology.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

what a damn comeback! 🫡

[Ring Magazine @ringmagazine]

FIGHT OF THE YEAR?! 😱

Highlights from Daniel Dubois’ comeback victory vs Fabio Wardley to become heavyweight champion again 🍿

#WardleyDubois on DAZN 📺

[Brandon @brandon5web]

that tracks

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

People are already peddling ivermectin for Hantavirus.

The same people had never heard of Hantavirus 3 days ago.

We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

Israil would work Fundora. It would be a good one though.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

👏👏👏

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

JUST IN: Maine is about to become the first US state to ban new data centers.

And 10 other states are right behind it.

Maine wants to freeze massive construction projects until late 2027.

The bill passed the Democratic-controlled House (with Republican support). The Senate is expected to follow. Gov. Janet Mills backs it.

And right now, at least 10 states are advancing similar bans.

AI runs on electricity. MASSIVE amounts of it.

One large data center uses at least 20 megawatts of power. That's enough to light up 15,000+ homes.

And someone always pays for that power.

Right now? You do.

When data centers flood a state, power demand spikes. Utilities raise rates. Homeowners get the bill.

Data centers need land. They need water. They need MASSIVE amounts of electricity.

What happens next will affect AI development timelines.

The next 18 months will decide whether the AI energy problem gets solved or gets worse.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

This doesn’t strike me as sketchy. This is well-done telemetry. A lot of the outrage feels more like unfamiliarity than anything unusual.

[Osman R. @UsmanReads]

1/ 🧵 I just cracked open the Claude Code source — and what I found isn’t “just a smarter terminal chat.”

It’s a full-blown behavioral observatory running in your machine.

1. Keyword sniffers.
2. Hesitation trackers.
3. Hidden trigger words.
4. Telemetry that fingerprints your entire runtime environment.

This isn’t paranoia. This is the actual code. Let’s go full investigative dive. Buckle up.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

nobody risks $1.5 billion 🙄

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Let me tell you why this Goldman Sachs headline is the most dangerous one you'll read today..

Companies spent $450 billion on AI last year.. fired tens of thousands of people to "restructure around AI".. replaced entire departments with chatbots..

And Goldman Sachs just said it contributed basically zero to economic growth..

so where did the money go?

> It went to Nvidia.. $130 billion in GPU sales.. Jensen is the only man on earth who got rich from AI that hasn't produced anything yet..

> It went to stock buybacks.. companies fired people, cut costs, reported "record profits" and bought back their own shares.. the money went UP not OUT.. Jesus!

> It went to a bubble.. the same way crypto money went to Lamborghinis and not infrastructure.. AI money is going to valuations and not productivity..

here's the part that should terrify you..

They already fired the people.. Atlassian 1,600.. Meta 21,000.. Block 40%.. Amazon warehouses.. the jobs are already gone..

But the growth didn't come.. the productivity didn't come.. the revenue didn't come..

they burned the village to build a city that doesn't exist yet..

and Goldman Sachs just looked at the empty lot and said "there's nothing here"

[Brandon @brandon5web]

The bar moved and the methods changed fast. I had a “where the fuck am I headed moment” then I kept moving. For my family. For my team. The shift is on my mind every day. I just keep moving so it does not catch me.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis", now hear this, because I've been coding for 50 years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver.

Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete" panic has been a bust, and this one's going to be too.

The fundamental problem of mismatch between the intentions in human minds and the specifications that a computer can interpret hasn't gone away just because now you can do a lot of your programming in natural language to an LLM.

Systems are still complicated. This shit is still difficult. The need for people who specialize in bridging that gap isn't going to go away.

As usual, the answer is: upskill yourself and adapt. If a crusty old fart like me can do it, you can too.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

...and 28 years ago, I was spending my final preteen days building on GeoCities, Tripod, and Angelfire, customizing Netscape skins and thinking this was a normal childhood. It wasn't. But damn if it didn't shape everything that came after.

[Brandon @brandon5web]

13 years ago today I was reviewing the "most usable select all - deselect all checkbox UI" and nothing has ever made me feel older 😅

[Brandon @brandon5web]

clawdbotnet

[Luis Catacora @lucatac0]

Clawdbot is awesome 🦞

But I just checked Shodan and there are exposed gateways on port 18789 with zero auth

That's shell access, browser automation, your API keys

Cloudflare Tunnel is free, there's no excuse

RT to save a ClawdBot from getting cooked

[Brandon @brandon5web]

we trust an algorithm with prescriptions but can’t fix prior auth 😂

[Healthcare AI Guy @HealthcareAIGuy]

NEW: AI just became legally authorized to practice medicine in the US.

Actually prescribing with no doctor in the loop.

Doctronic launched a pilot where its AI renews prescriptions for chronic conditions, reviews history, asks questions, and sends the Rx to the pharmacy.