Wife of Vietnam Vet, helicopter pilot, Purple Heart, Bronze Star w/V recipient. Some things are better left unsaid. Some things are not. Trying to master this.
🚨 SHOCKING: LISA SU’S $1,499 LUNCHBOX ANNIHILATES NVIDIA’S $4K AI BEAST!
AMD CEO Lisa Su walked on stage, held a lunchbox sized PC in one hand, and ran a 235 billion parameter model live.
No data center. No cloud. No rented GPU.
The chip inside is the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395. It is the first x86 chip where the CPU and GPU share the same pool of memory. Up to 128GB of unified memory. That one design choice is what changes everything.
An RTX 5090 gives you 32GB of video memory. A 4090 gives you 24. This box gives you more than three times either of them in a chassis you can carry in a backpack.
On DeepSeek R1 inference, AMD's chip beat an Nvidia RTX 5080 by more than 3x. A desktop the size of a thick paperback outrunning a dedicated graphics card that costs over a thousand dollars on a real AI workload.
Now do the math on your subscriptions.
Claude Code Max is $200 a month. ChatGPT Pro is another $200. Cursor is $20. Gemini is $20. That is $5,280 leaving your account every year before you build a single thing.
The 128GB version of this machine starts at around $2,399. At that run rate it pays for itself in under a year and then runs free.
Install Ollama. Pull Qwen3 235B. Point Claude Code at localhost. Same interface you already use. Nothing leaves your machine. Nothing costs per request. No throttling at 3am when you finally have time to build.
Lawyers stop worrying about what OpenAI does with their files. Developers stop watching the token counter. Founders stop killing prototypes because the cloud bill scared them off.
Private AI just became something a normal person can own.
While Americans are being crushed with taxes, property taxes and the cost of living, New Jersey is discussing what to make “The state nut”
They costs taxpayer $10,000 to write this bill to make a state nut
Assemblyman Brian Bergen “Holy cow, man. I can't even believe we're about to talk about making a state nut — It cost $10,000 to write this bill. So we just paid $10,000 to make a state nut — the bill's moronic”
- New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the US
- 14% higher cost of living than the national average
- Top income tax at 14.75%
But leaders are worried about making a state nut….
New Jersey is currently run by Democrats with a full Democratic trifecta control
I'm seeing a lot of fake information about a potential deal to reopen the Strait and end Iran's nuclear weapons program. First, the Iranians are not receiving any cash, and no funds are being released for simply signing a deal or attending a meeting. The deal is structured to ensure that the US and its allies concerns are prioritized, and that if the Islamic Republic of Iran meets its obligations, then economic benefits will flow to them and to the entire region. This deal has the potential to remake the region and lead to lasting peace.
I've noticed a couple of bizarre things in the reporting over the last few hours. First, people who (rightly) said Donald Trump was a historic president a month ago now criticizing a deal based on unconfirmed media reports. Second, people who say you can't trust a word said by the IRGC who apparently believe anonymously sourced social media posts.
The president is going to get us a good outcome, one way or the other.
President Trump says the war with Iran is officially over and that a peace deal will be signed in Europe.
President Trump spoke with the leaders of Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia as part of the negotiations.
Benjamin Netanyahu was kept out of the discussions.