Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦

Director of Operations | Data Consultant | Happy Hubby | Proud Papa | Ora et labora

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

Do these four things as frequently as you can, and everything else will take care of itself…

1. Pray
2. Go to Mass
3. Receive the sacraments
4. Eucharistic Adoration

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@Dr_Gingerballs I’ve been saying for a while that you can pretty much apply all of the arguments for AI to cocaine.

So it kinda makes sense that our government is letting it in and eroding the foundations on our society for the benefit of a few.

The track record is there.

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

What Microsoft is doing here is evil…

https://t.co/7PwofB5XM2

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

Last time Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges played a championship game in San Antonio:

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

But what about Clippy?

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This is great.

[Ryan Field @RyanFieldABC]

Less than 24 hours until tip off 🏀

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

This is a message that must also be instilled in Catholic educators from K-12 schools, as well. That is such a critical time in a person’s intellectual and moral formation. We’re fumbling the ball far too often.

[Delia Gallagher @deliavatican]

Great talk from Pope today to US Catholic Universities group:

“Unless Catholic education instills in students a true passion for the truth - and not only intellectual truth but the Truth that is Christ himself - 🧵👇

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@Dale_Chu @chronicle It’s cute that he thinks voters or even politicians read bills today; or that jurors can follow a closing argument.

[Edward Pentin @EdwardPentin]

Pope Leo XIV has appointed @EWTN's head of news, Maria Montserrat Alvarado, as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, replacing Paolo Ruffini who has served as prefect since 2018. Alvarado will become the first laywoman to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia. She will take up her new position on November 1.

[KATWrld @kat_wrld]

Its officially the month of June and the Knicks still have games on the schedule

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@TheOneButlerian @GaryMarcus @SenSanders This. We don’t the government taking over AI companies. We need the government to do its damn job.

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

The reckoning has begun…

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing this morning and users are already out of credits. Pro+ subscribers paying $39 a month are reporting 60% of their credits gone in two hours of normal use. One user lost 20% of their allowance from a single file review with no code changes. Another hit their monthly cap before the calendar even flipped to June.
Orgs with shared token pools have no way to see individual usage, so entire teams get cut off when one person runs a heavy prompt. Users are canceling and moving to Claude Code and Codex. GitHub community forums are on fire.

My Take
Flat-rate AI subscriptions were always subsidized. Everyone in the industry knew it. Today the subsidy ran out for a few million developers at once. The problem is a lot of companies already restructured around these tools. They cut headcount and told remaining engineers to lean on Copilot instead of building skills internally. Those companies now depend on a tool whose cost just became unpredictable and whose usefulness completely changes when you have to ration prompts to stay under budget.

The developers moving to Claude Code and Codex will hit the same wall eventually. Every AI provider faces the same unit economics. Anthropic filed its S-1 this morning, and the durability of its revenue depends on whether customers stick around once real pricing kicks in everywhere. If a $39 subscriber cancels after one day because the tool became unusable, multiply that across millions of seats and the churn risk becomes very real.

Today showed what happens when AI pricing meets reality. The companies that built their workflows around cheap tokens just discovered the tokens aren't cheap anymore and the people who knew how to do the work without them are already gone.

Hedgie🤗

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@lukei4655 Oh, it’s Oregon Trail.

But also: California Games

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@realDrTT Please stop sharing his stuff. It sends the wrong message to the algorithm, which only serves to push his content further.

Screenshot things if you must, but don’t share.

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@lukeburgis I will say this: similar objections were raised regarding cell phones and screens when bans were brought up.

Years later, studies show we should have banned them, and bans have shown marked improvements in students.

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@FringeViews @lukeburgis I think it’s more likely Anthropic behind it

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

And not just young people. Social media has done this at scale for two decades.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@WillsBlackwolf @OrdoFramework This is always a challenge for the Church, and even more so since the turn of the century. It is exhausting for the Church to have to constantly define terms, but I think it is also necessary.

The Church cannot afford to cede the language to other forces.

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@DerekFriedhoff @Pontifex ah, but there is no “before he took on flesh.” As we confess in the Nicene Creed: “born of the Father *before all ages* […] consubstantial with the Father; *through him all things were made.*”

At Nicea I, the Church anathematized any who said, “there once was when he was not.”

[Daniel Rothamel 🇻🇦 @drothamel]

@DerekFriedhoff @Pontifex Allow me to introduce you to… the Incarnation