Jon Thompson

My passion is helping small businesses grow through online marketing solutions. #PPC #SMM #WP & #SEO Consulting

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: CIA scientists concluded that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak, but the finding was removed and altered during a 2 a.m. meeting, per CIA whistleblower.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Jensen Huang on The smartest person he's ever met:

[Steven Cheung @StevenCheung47]

You have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about you loser. Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of because you clearly can’t read.

[Michel Laclé @micheltamanda]

@alphaBobez @AlexFinn It is the model, harness, agent combo that determines utility. So you want to look for models with top opensource support, so Qwen/Gemma with Hermes. These teams are not bottle-necked by Big Tech.

[Sigrid Jin 🌈🙏 @realsigridjin]

https://t.co/WOn9uzKAM1

[Dan Martell @danmartell]

Jack Dorsey just published something that should be required reading for every founder.

The premise: the org chart needs to be replaced entirely. And the argument starts 2,000 years ago.

For thousands of years, every organization on earth has run on the same logic the Roman Army invented.

Small teams report to a leader → Leaders report to managers → Managers report to executives.

The whole structure exists for one reason: to route information up and down the chain.

That's it. The whole system exists to solve a bandwidth problem.

Jack's argument is simple: AI solves it better.

Block built what they call a "world model" - a continuously updated picture of everything happening across the company. Every decision. Every customer. Every transaction. Every bottleneck. In real time.

No status update needed. No weekly sync. No manager to translate what's happening on the ground into language the executive can understand.

When the world model carries the information, you don't need the layers.

So they eliminated them.

Block now runs on three roles:

Individual contributors who build.
DRIs who own specific outcomes for a fixed period.
Player-coaches who develop people while still doing the work themselves.

No middle layer. The system handles coordination. The humans handle the work.

I've coached thousands of founders. The number one problem is always the same: information latency.

By the time a problem surfaces from your front line to leadership, it's already compounded. By the time a decision travels back down, the damage is done.

That lag costs you deals, people, and momentum. And most founders accept it as the price of scale.

Block is trying to prove you don't have to anymore.

I think they're right.

Because the hierarchy was never the point - it was just the best tool we had. The moment something better exists, the layers eventually collapse.

This is either the biggest structural shift since the 1850s - or it breaks at scale like everything else before it.

Either way - every founder should be asking the same question: how much of your org exists just to route information?

If the answer is "most of it" - that's your problem. And your opportunity.

-DM

[jack @jack]

everything is programming

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Do you even understand what this means?

An open source model just released that is:

• Outperforms models 20x its size
• Can run on a base model Mac Mini
• Is AMERICAN 🇺🇸

If you have a base model Mac Mini you can have unlimited super intelligence on your desk. For free.

Sonnet 4.5 was released 5 months ago

In 5 months that level of intelligence went from frontier to free on your desk

And not only that, can run on any basically any computer out there

If you have even a remotely modern computer, do the following immediately:

1. Download LM Studio
2. Go to your OpenClaw and ask which of these new Gemma 4 models is best for your hardware
3. Have it walk you through downloading and loading it
4. Build apps with it knowing you are using your own personal, private super intelligence on your desk

The people denying this is the future are so beyond lost.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Major problem

[Jon Thompson @jonthompson]

Insider take https://t.co/RC15KqMb7A

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent.

For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern.

The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her.

The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself.

Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future.

This is how ideological takeover works.

A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs.

It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to.

Then it moves inward.

It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt.

At that point, the civilization turns on itself.

Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system.

They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them.

And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left.

The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself.

The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Master thread on the 2015-2022 closure of the Internet, the process by which every major Internet platform went from broadly open with a few basic guidelines to strict narrative enforcement, often with the collaboration of govts and outsourcing moderation power to NGOs.

[God of Prompt @godofprompt]

🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a full offline survival computer with AI, Wikipedia, and maps built in.

Project N.O.M.A.D. is an open-source offline survival computer.

Self-contained.
Zero internet required after install.
Zero telemetry. Everything runs locally on your hardware.

What it includes:
→ Full Wikipedia archives via Kiwix
→ Offline maps via OpenStreetMap
→ Local AI models via Ollama + Open WebUI
→ Calculators, reference tools, resource libraries
→ A management UI to control
everything from a browser

One curl command installs the entire system on any Debian-based machine.

Runs headless as a server so any device on your local network can access it.
Minimum specs to run the base system: dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, 5GB storage.

To run local LLMs offline, you want 32GB RAM and an NVIDIA RTX 3060 or better.

No accounts.
No authentication by default.
No cloud dependency.
No phone-home behavior.

Built to function when nothing else does.

The grid, the cloud, the API you depend on. None of it is guaranteed.

The people building local-first systems right now are the ones who won’t be asking for help when access disappears.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

My mom just called me from Iran through her landline. I haven’t spoken to her since February.

She said that Israel and the US are bombing the regime nonstop.

They taped all the windows because the building shakes constantly.

I asked if any civilians are getting hurt, and she replied “No, No, No. No normal civilians are getting hurt”

Everyone is hanging in there and counting the days for this regime to end and for the return of the Shah. 🇮🇷

[Kaito | 海斗 @_kaitodev]

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs!

he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap.

if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked.

average score across all jobs is 5.3/10.
software devs: 8-9.
roofers: 0-1.
medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀

https://t.co/7MWRgdtLDI

[CG @cgtwts]

This is INSANE, Anthropic ran its marketing with basically one person.

Austin lau, a non-technical growth lead, was running paid search, paid social, email, and seo solo.

Here’s the workflow:

> export ad CSVs into Claude Code
> AI flags underperforming ads
> agents generate new headlines + descriptions
> Figma auto-swaps copy across 100 ad templates
> MCP server pulls live Meta data

The results:

> ad creation went from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
> total marketing output grew 10×.
> conversion rates landed 41% above industry average.

One person doing what used to take an entire marketing team.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

stop spending money on Claude Code.

Chipotle's support bot is free:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@beffjezos xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up.

Same thing happened with Tesla.