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[Dan @cto_block]

@StPhilipthe2nd @PolitlcsUK @thetimes Being prime minister I guess?

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@JakeFleshner Sovereign AI

https://t.co/Ry86kxEuh3

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@jacobschulman @bryanrbeal @levelsio Weight is the most important part of my carry on, mine weighs 1.8kg, means I can get a meaningful amount of stuff in it for a weeks travel without taking check in baggage, still going strong after 4 years

[Dan @cto_block]

@strangerous10 Wait, I'm sorry but did she just refer a government procurement matter to a special envoy because it's a Jewish owned company?

[Joe @electionsjoe]

Oh. He just said that out loud. Oh.

[Lauren @cabsav456]

The Thomas Massie primary is truly insane. We are looking at the most expensive U.S. House primary in history, with spending pushing toward $35 million.

Massie's opponent, Ed Gallrein, has raised just $2 million on his own. The rest of the money, over $14 million, is coming from outside Super PACs who desperately want Massie gone.

On top of that, Pete Hegseth is being deployed to Kentucky to campaign against him. Stephen Miller & Con Inc. have been on massive Twitter tirades attacking him. And there was a highly coordinated smear campaign of unfounded allegations launched this week by Con Inc. influencers.

When the establishment is willing to spend $35M+ and go to these lengths to take one man down, it really makes you wonder why.

Whether you like Massie or not, this election will determine whether or not we as voters actually have a voice anymore. If outside special-interest money can successfully buy a seat and sway an election like this, we have a serious, serious problem.

[Dan @cto_block]

@mim_djo The query planner needs a select list in scope (in the outer query) to work with order by all (as it's syntactic sugar rather than a language construct)

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@daymoz @leighjasper Doesn't matter - Dubai is still open for business and they literally control the worlds oil, nothings going to happen, look at what closing one small strait has done....

[Dan @cto_block]

For those saying "You can already do this" you can't upload invoices created on behalf of your company outside of Xero easily (Separate CSV process currently).

[Dan @cto_block]

Exactly the same issue here - I created https://t.co/QPZNU2jowh because Xero is literally awful at letting you import things.
Email or Drag and Drop Invoices, Bills, Expenses and it recognises and uploads them directly to Xero and recognises it.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

By far THE most annoying part of running a business for me is collecting receipts for my accountant

Every month my accountants hounds me for invoices and receipts of every single expense I did, doesn't matter how tiny like $0.50, sometimes also for income (I don't know why)

Most companies charge monthly so that means collecting 12 invoices per year at least

One reason I am canceling so many SaaS is not even the cost, it's just that I hate bookkeeping so much so I think if I don't spend the money, I don't need to collect invoices and receipts for every single payment every month (also I like extremely high profit margins like 99.99%)

I'm down to just about 10 companies I pay now, like Cloudflare, Hetzner, Backblaze etc. so that means only ~120 invoices to collect per year cause most are paid monthly

Yes I have an automatic email filter that forwards invoices to my accountant but many companies do NOT send you an automatic invoice by email

So you're talking about logging in to 10 websites, them sending you a 2FA code by email, opening your email, entering the code, trying to find wherever the Billing page is hidden, going to Invoices, opening the invoice, clicking Download to DPF (if it even exists)

This week I tried to improve this, my accountant uses Xero, so I made a Xero API key, gave it to Claude Code, and asked it to login and figure stuff out, then it just asks me which expenses still need a receipt and a note, I find it and drag the PDF or screenshot into Claude Code and it resolves it

Next step is letting it login to all my vendors and also download the invoice by itself which seems very very possible

Much easier!

[Jamie Coutts CMT @Jamie1Coutts]

Young Australians should be enraged by the new super tax.

The statist talking heads will tell you "it's only on balances above $3M. The rich." Most Aussies will fall for it.

Run the numbers. 35yo today. $200k in super. Contributes $15k a year. Earns 8% returns (long run super average).

In 30 years their balance is $3.7 million. Caught by the tax.

But here's the trick. Australia's money supply has grown about 8% a year for the past two decades. RBA's own data. So that $3.7M buys what $369k buys today. Same groceries. Same house. Same petrol.

You didn't get rich. You ran on the spot.

And the $3M line? Frozen. In 30 years it only buys what $300k buys today. It's lost 90% of its real value. The govt doesn't have to move the line. Inflation does the work for them.

No different from the obscene overreach on anti-money laundering rules. The $10k cash transaction threshold was set in 1988 and never moved. $10k then is $26k in today's money. Adjusted for money supply growth, it's $170k. Same threshold. Almost 3x more transactions caught by CPI, 17x by money supply. That's why you get interrogated at the bank for withdrawing what only covers half a year of school fees.

Same trick with income tax. Wages rise with inflation. Brackets don't. Suddenly the average worker is in a "high earner" bracket they were never meant to be in. You don't earn more. The line moved.

This one policy tells you everything you need to know about the government and its intentions. It's all about grift and theft.

Meanwhile, the kids who get hit hardest are kept busy by an education system arguing about hate speech, social media, and the climate apocalypse promised in 2012. Nobody teaches them how money actually works. The govt likes it that way.

So they vote for more taxes. Bigger govt. More "fairness." Pouring petrol on the fire burning their house down.

The fix isn't communism. It's the opposite.

Smaller govt. Lower taxes. Index every threshold to the actual money supply, not the CPI lie. Decentralise the banks.

Despite everything, Australians are entrepreneurial and predominantly hardworking. Imagine what this country could become without the government's boot on its neck.

[Dan @cto_block]

@theCTO @sama There's a reason Artificial Analysis has a benchmark for model refusals. It's a very hard trait to bake in because the probability is almost never 0. As it's a probability engine it will pick the largest probability available and hedge itself if the confidence level is too low!

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@thechosenberg At 13c most hotels would likely have the central heating on in the rooms (radiators that can't be turned off), so I imagine that's it

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@LewisCTech Why can't I paste more than 1 image into a post and have to save them and manually upload them STILL!
Its terrible UX

[Dan @cto_block]

@HHShkMohd And with the UAE sovereignty mandates this would be an idea time to start looking into investments of projects that fulfil both requirements.
@HHShkMohd - https://t.co/kDMvqSPXvL will fufill your governments needs for this 🙏

[Dan @cto_block]

@peshrus @levelsio @brian_lovin Ask AI to help you build Sensible scripts to do what you want. You at least have some modicum of infrastructure as code then that's repeatable. Have it handle CloudFlare, Firewalls, Tailscale - everything. AI is great at it!

[Dan @cto_block]

@mim_djo For me the insane multimodal capabilities of it helps me replace like 3 models. When I have some time I'm going to reorg my stack around it for Certant as right now Nemotron 3 super and GPT OSS 120B are my main drivers

[Dan @cto_block]

Oh to have this immediate reach on things 😂