Ethan Beard

Learner. Geek. Citizen. Musician ( . Dad. Building @ICASanFrancisco and

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

@gregisenberg I just pointed my personal agent towards them to attempt to get them into some sort of workflow. Not 100% sure what that workflow is but gotta get them someplace more useful.

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

Yes I'm using @clawvisor for gmail and calendar and plan on using it for imessage. Question is what size message chunk to have the brain look though. At the message level there are lots of messages that say 'yes' or 'thanks' so context is pretty limited for the brain to generate timeline entries from. if it grabs multiple messages and sees 'person a: want to have dinner tomorrow; person b: yes' then the brain can log that interaction.

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

anyone integrated real time imessage collection into @garrytan's gbrain? trying to land on the right granularity since per message obviously doesn't work. Thinking of collecting by 'bursts' of messages but also trying to figure out the natural close boundary - when the unit is done enough to process.

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

I spent the last month testing @garrytan's claim that @OpenClaw is the best harness for 'everything else' (not coding). My gbrain runs on Claude Code, on my Max subscription, w/ chat + brain + builder on one harness. He predicted the port would work and it did. Trip report 👇

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

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[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

https://t.co/VYDKgVa989

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

@buccocapital I did the same thing and have claude create a simple web page that has my to do and my upcoming events that refreshes every 30 seconds so it now lives on all my desktops and visible all the time.

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

Ok… most of you know I was in the organic baby formula business, but what you don’t know is I dabbled in diapers as well.

I also know this baby2baby “non profit” and have had past interactions with them.. I’ll leave that out for now..

Let’s dive into this absolute grifting nonsense. Prepare to be shocked.

California is about to spend $20 million of taxpayer money to give 100,000 newborns 400 diapers each through Baby2Baby.

Do the math with me:
100,000 babies × 400 diapers = 40 million diapers

$20,000,000 ÷ 40,000,000 = $0.50 per diaper!!!!!

Now walk into any Costco in California and you can buy the same quality diapers for .12 to .15 cents each!

That’s $48 to $60 for 400 diapers.
So the state is paying 8–10x more per diaper than a regular family buying in bulk.

They could’ve just handed every low-income new mom $100 cash and told her to go to Costco. She’d get more diapers, better ones if she wanted, and still have money left for formula, wipes, or whatever the hell she actually needs.

But nah… that wouldn’t let Gavin and his connected “nonprofit” girls running the show there cut ribbons, take photos, do galas and be friends with celebrities and brag about the “first-in-the-nation” program while skimming their cut for “administration” and “partnerships.”

This is peak government stupidity!!!

Spend way more money to feel good and look good, instead of just trusting parents with their own damn money.
We’re not helping babies. We’re funding another bloated nonprofit-government grift.

Math doesn’t lie. The diaper math is brutal.

What a scam and a joke!!!!!

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

@joshelman @heeney_luke I live in sf and get to nyc and la more often than Palo Alto. Then again both have much more to offer than PA.

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

How is this project no shut down already. Clearly is never going to be built yet people still getting paid.

[KTLA @KTLA]

In a newly proposed business plan, project leaders estimate the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco segment will cost about $126 billion, with service beginning around 2040. https://t.co/6bRmBu3Jwt

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

Codex feels like talking with a customer service agent while Claude feels like more like a tour guide. That said Claude has recently been acting more like someone at the end of their shift who just wants to stop and go home.

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

I've been running @openclaw on an isolated Mac mini an building agents, plugins, email and more. Two things I bumped into: I didn't trust it on my main laptop, and @AnthropicAI's subscription changes nerfed my Claw's personality in ways I didn't like.

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

Update on ↓ - I realized right after posting that two Claude Code sessions on the same workspace would double-fire loops.

Tried durable: true first. Turns out it's gated behind a GrowthBook flag (tengu_kairos_cron_durable) and silently downgrades to session-only in most installs. No dice.

Real fix shipped: each loop's prompt now reads-checks-writes a last_fired timestamp in its own md file. All sessions wake up on the schedule, first one to win the race writes the timestamp and does the work, others bail silently. Multi-session stays a feature.

https://t.co/hqyiZdyDF1

cc @alexalbert__ — any word on the durable rollout?

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

I've been running @openclaw on an isolated Mac mini an building agents, plugins, email and more. Two things I bumped into: I didn't trust it on my main laptop, and @AnthropicAI's subscription changes nerfed my Claw's personality in ways I didn't like.

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

Obviously this plays into Anthropic's hand as they're clearly moving OpenClaw features into their own harness. I'm still running OpenClaw on the mini and love the open-source community around it. But if you've been wanting the OC experience with less setup and more trust, try Weaver. It's just skills. Easy to install, easy to rip out. Curious what people think.

[Ethan Beard @ethanbeard]

The unexpected win: Claude Code is scoped to a single directory, which makes me way more comfortable letting it run on my main laptop. And I can have multiple sessions with the same agent, something Telegram-based Claw couldn't do (that I'm aware of(