Les Roediger

[🇺🇸Mike🇺🇸 @FreedomFan88]

@nicksortor In that case, I hope Japan has a great No Kings Day.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🇺🇸 AMAZING! Japan just did a whole FIREWORKS SHOW celebrating America’s birthday today, as it’s now July 4 in Tokyo

This is what a REAL ally looks like.

Unlike most of our European “allies”

God bless America, and God bless Japan! 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

NEWS: Oil prices PLUMMETED this morning after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal Sunday, with crude oil crashing to $80 a barrel on news that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen.

Gas prices are now expected to begin falling at the pump within days.

Crude oil benchmarks dropped more than 5% in early trading. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell to around $80 per barrel — its lowest level in recent months — while Brent crude, the global benchmark, traded near $82–$84.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

The British mind attempts to comprehend American ribs for the first time 🇺🇸😭

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

[Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel]

'So' was released on this day 40 years ago.

"I think part of the reason that ‘So’ works so well was that the band was really firing off each other and we had a great sound and production team. It was compact in the process and the way it was put together." - pg

📷 Anton Corbijn, Trevor Key, Armando Gallo

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Absolutely terrifying

Foreign truck driver can’t figure out how to turn the headlights on.

Take away her CDL immediately

Cc @SecDuffy

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A millionaire in Minnesota signed up for an EBT card, was able to thousands of dollars, and buy steak and lobster

“I went public as a millionaire receiving food stamps. Legally, I have purchased lobster and filet mignon on my EBT card. Why did we do this? To raise public awareness and work to eliminate a case of fraud by design — Something is wrong”

He was able to get $6,000 on his EBT card

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

AFGHANISTAN: Listen to her screams!

A 9-year-old Afghan girl was forcibly married to a 50-year-old man!

Her screams are the only way to express the pain and fear in her heart. 💔

Women and girls have no rights under Sharia law.

[Les Roediger @les_roediger]

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[🇺🇲Nevada Liberty 1864🇺🇲 @NevadaLiberty64]

@libsoftiktok @olatheschools @ChrisZuck

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: Two students at @olatheschools were ATTACKED and ASSAULTED by other students for holding Trump flags at the anti-ICE student walkout

The father claims the staff were there watching it happen as the terrified kids can for their lives.

.@ChrisZuck is the principal. What is he doing about this?? He’s tagged so he will see your thoughts

[Officer Lew @officer_Lew]

Katie Miller: “Who do you look up to the most?”

Elon Musk: “The Creator.”

Katie Miller: “What's your position on God?”

Elon Musk: “God is the Creator. I believe this universe came from something.”

[0HOUR1 @__0HOUR1_]

I have converted the SUPER BOWL song to English for the @nflcommish and the parents

Enjoy

[Les Roediger @les_roediger]

@BrewMetaX @rawsalerts All she had to do was stop and get out of the car. End of story. FAFO!

[Dennis Michael Lynch @TrustDML]

NEW VIDEO: Clear view of ICE Agent defending himself in Minnesota, forced to KlLL woman who tried to run him over. She never hit the brakes, ignored ICE officer who said to get out of car. 100% self defense, nobody to blame but herself, Gov Walz & Mayor Frey for hosting illegals

[TYLENOL® @tylenol]

@Jen_in_TX We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

Once robots like this exist humanity is basically over

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Free Jacob Chansley