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[Armaan Tewary @armaan_tewary]

The frontier of running AI agents through prompt-less mechanisms like looping and workflow automation is thrilling, but it's expensive to get your hands dirty with. Right now the engineers who can practically build these skills are the ones with access to corporate capital, racking up monthly AI bills in the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions. That's a problem. It means the people best positioned to learn the skills of tomorrow are the ones who already have a near-unlimited budget to experiment, and everyone else watches from the outside in a market that's already shedding jobs.

I'm excited to see builders take on the challenge of making these agentic mechanisms cheaper, because that's the thing that actually democratizes them. What we've learned from technology is that expensive mechanisms always eventually get cheaper. The open question is how to accomplish this.

Here's one angle. Picture the state of a codebase as a node in a graph, and the cost of moving between states (having an agent read a file, propose a diff, run the tests) as token cost on the edges. The catch is the agent never sees the whole state at once, only the files it's read so far, which makes this a partially observed problem, a POMDP rather than a clean MDP. Completing a feature spec is just reaching any state where the spec's tests pass. So the goal becomes finding the cheapest path to a passing state. You can't actually run Dijkstra over this, because you don't know an edge's cost until you've already spent the tokens to take it, the transitions are stochastic, and the graph is effectively infinite. But that's exactly the shape of a stochastic shortest path problem. So the real question is whether you can train a model, maybe with RL, to estimate the remaining token cost from any given state, and then use that estimate to guide cheap search toward completion. A learned sense of "how far and how expensive is the finish line from here," used the way a game engine uses a value function to search a tree it could never enumerate.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion.

For $22.8 billion, we could:

• Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids
• Build 2.6 million public housing units
• Fund Head Start for 1.3 million
• Hire 240,000 teachers
• Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

[Ai Business Journal @ArchieIntel]

🇺🇸 PENTAGON ADMITS IRAN WAS NOT PREPARING TO ATTACK U.S. BASES BEFORE WAR

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

PSA: Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away, any more than the Dow going above 50,000 will.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Americans can’t afford rent. Can’t afford groceries. Can’t afford healthcare. AI is taking every job. The country is literally falling apart.

And their solution? Bomb Iran and start WW3.

Nobody asked for this. Not one person.

[PotatoMcWhiskey @PotatoMcWhiskey]

"we ended diversity, equity and inclusion in America" the rapist murderer pedophile dictator said pedophilicly to thunderous applause

[Oversight Dems @OversightDems]

For the last few weeks, Oversight Democrats have been investigating the FBI’s handling of allegations from 2019 of sexual assault on a minor made against President Donald Trump by a survivor.

Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor.

Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover up.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says https://t.co/b9cmtOW3wd

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️🇮🇱🇨🇭 JUST IN:

While Israel’s bobsleigh team was racing, the Swiss commentator reminded viewers of war crimes the pilot has supported.

“Adam Edelman who self-defines as a Zionist…posted several messages on social media in favor of genocide in Gaza

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @AGPamBondi: Since you creepily spied on the unredacted Epstein files I read, you know I read this one.

Witness calls FBI’s NTOC and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her.

DOJ NEVER INTERVIEWS WITNESS.

When will DOJ interview this witness?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "She didn't answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me."

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath.

@tedlieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 NEW: Newly released documents show an FBI agent removed the hard drive from the jail’s camera system—wiping all footage from the night Jeffrey Epstein died.

No video. No record. No accountability.

They didn’t “lose” the evidence.
They erased it.

And they expect the public to move on.

[Leo ★ @chihiropastlife]

represented his culture
sang all his hits
spoke only in spanish
convinced Lady Gaga to sing salsa
invited Ricky Martín
named all the latin countries in front of racists
ended Trump

Historic #SuperBowl

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL

"I suffered so much pain"
"So much pain"
"So much pain"
"So much pain"

"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"

"This is me"
"This is me"
"This is me"
"When I met Jeffrey Epstein"
"This is me when I met Jeffrey Epstein"

"There are about a thousand of us"

"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"

"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"

"Five administrations and we're still in the dark"

"Release all of the Epstein files"

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Jack White on Donald Trump's racist meme about the Obamas:

"This post would basically get anyone, at any job, fired immediately...except for arguably the most important position in the world.

"That's right, Trump is a racist, a rapist, a felon, a grifter (currently ordering the U.S. government to pay him $10 billion simply because no one will stop him), and a full-on dementia sufferer, and yet he has the power to send in Gestapo ICE soldiers to klll our citizens, and so much more dangerously, he has the nuclear codes and the ability to end humanity at any moment based on an egotistical whim.

"How is it possible we've given this evil man so much power? The two-party system, the Electoral College, the responsibility the internet has brought to humanity and its direct conflict with truth, and America's obsession with celebrity, are all to blame, but the fact that we aren't stopping it is…insanity.

"Arrest this man. Impeach this man. 25th Amendment this man. Indict this man. Jail this man.

"This longtime friend of pedophile Epstein, who appears 40,000 times in the files. This demolisher of the White House, demolisher of the Constitution, demolisher of the Bill of Rights, this demolisher of America, full stop.

"It's hard to believe the government does almost nothing about this lunacy and we all just have to sit back and watch as a people. And when he's finally gone? we had better put into place new laws and regulations that don’t allow anyone to find dangerous loopholes based solely on the assumption that our President has some sort of dignity and decency.

"Abolish these loopholes. Abolish the Electoral College. And if we had any sense, we would abolish the two-party system (that George Washington advised us never to have) that got us here in the first place and has failed not only Americans, but everyone else in the world who is currently suffering from our policies and the whims of this sick, deranged man who I will state again, has his tiny, bruised fingers on the nuclear launch button."

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[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

🚨DONALD TRUMP ACCUSED OF RAPING 13 YEAR OLD.

[Nick Plumb @PlumbNick]

Well this isn’t exactly how I hoped my day would start. After 8 years, I just got laid off - as did 16k of my peers.

But before anyone rushes in with explanations that make them feel better, let me be clear about what this wasn’t. It wasn’t performance and it wasn’t AI. It wasn’t location, versatility or impact.

I was an L7, I led global AI enablement. I built systems executives depended on, moved wherever the company needed me and fixed problems that had been sitting untouched because no one else could untangle them.

And I was still cut.

Here’s the part we’re all supposed to politely ignore: in the U.S. right now, experience isn’t an asset, it’s a liability. And if you’re expensive because you’re good at what you do, the system eventually “optimizes” you out.

This doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s enabled by a global labor market with almost no guardrails. Companies aren’t just competing on products anymore, they’re arbitraging labor across borders, wages, benefits and worker protections. When replacement is cheaper than retention, the decision gets framed as strategy instead of consequence.

AI becomes the excuse, not the cause. It’s the clean narrative that hides what’s actually happening: experienced workers being swapped out through global labor substitution while leadership talks about “efficiency” and “the future of work.”

That cycle keeps repeating because nothing in our policy stack meaningfully pushes back. Trade, labor and technology policy all pretend they’re separate, and workers pay the price for that fiction.

I saw this coming and that’s why I’m running for Congress. I understand how this system works because I’ve lived inside it and I know it won’t fix itself. This is a rules problem and the rules are written by people who don’t bear the cost.

If this resonates, don’t just nod along and move on. Support my candidacy, back someone who actually understands how global labor, AI and corporate incentives intersect and believe me when I say I am motivated to address this directly.

By pretending this is inevitable, we’re accepting the outcome.

#amazonlayoffs

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Mark Ruffalo spoke about Donald Trump:

“The guy is a convicted felon, a convicted rapist, he’s a pedophile. He’s the worst human being in the world. If we’re relying on this guy’s morality then we’re all in a lot of trouble. I love this country and what I’m seeing here is not America”

[Starlight 💫 (twitch.tv/x0starlight) @x0Starlight]

I grieved the death of Iron Man longer than Erika Kirk mourned her husband