Marc Griffin

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@davidsenra I haven't watched or listened to any of this. Why? The skin type pants and shoes with no socks. And the smug expression on his face. All I see is a douche ...

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@richontech Is everyone buying that much stuff online? That's a bigger problem. But it does bug me that some companies are blocking agents. The average consumer wouldn't be using an AI agent. At least not yet.

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

More hype to keep people scared. So apparently these blades are covered in bacteria. All the time. Yes, it's a real thing, but not THAT common. Costco doesn't want people to get sick (i.e. lawsuits), so I'm pretty sure they clean the equipment. 145 degrees? That's horrible. 125 - 130 for me.

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

Amazon shutting down consumer agent access (now both Muse and Instinct) is both completely rational and a big mistake

They have plausible reasons:

1. Advertising accounts for ~10% of Amazon revenue, but an estimated 50-60% of operating profit because it's so high margin. People purchasing via agents = fewer consumer eyeballs to monetize

2. Amazon knows from experience how dangerous it is to give another platform a lever to ramp up / down your distribution 👀 They've done this to many retailers themselves

3. They are in a very good spot re: near-term defensibility - with ~250M Prime subs (who are habituated to buying on Amazon) + a massive logistics and distribution network that you can't vibe code

However, this logic is short-sighted (IMO). Agents are inevitable, especially for the kind of purchases people make on Amazon (low consideration, frequent, fairly urgent or recurring).

I don't think Amazon is going to come out with a first-class consumer agent on their own...and in the meantime, why anger your valuable users and make them even consider alternatives?

It's almost never a good idea to be on the wrong side of innovation. I'd much rather see them continue to greenlight agent traffic (it's pretty minimal now!) and work on adjusting to an agent-first world in the meantime.

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@WisprFlow Been using Wispr Flow for a few months now and love it. Just tried NoteTaker for the first time yesterday. Wow! Really impressed. Did a great job summarizing an hour long meeting. Took out all the small talk and kept the important stuff. Excellent product!

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

I moved on from OpenClaw, then Hermes (although I still have it for reference). I had Dots until my $100 sub expired. Wasn't impressed, so don't miss it. Daily driver is Grok Bot, with ChatGPT app a close second ... mainly because of Computer Use. No contest there. Instinct is earning its place.

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@suraj_sharma14 Business speak for AI developers

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@suraj_sharma14 Stupid question ... but this is a joke, right?

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@KSimback @yacineMTB @lex_node I try to self-host as much as possible, but email is difficult. Especially if you host your own server from a residential address.

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@damoxdev @signulll Well said! And if I read one more person bragging about having ADHD ... I'm going to vomit.

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@hztgr @signulll 🎯

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The carnivore diet used to be one instruction. Here is a carnivore morning as it's currently taught on Instagram:

6:00 sunlight straight into the eyes
6:05 barefoot on the lawn, grounding
6:10 electrolyte stick in warm water
6:15 cold plunge
6:30 red light panel, front and back
6:45 six organ capsules
7:00 check the glucose monitor
7:05 check the ketone meter
7:10 bone broth, sipped mindfully
7:30 journal about seed oils
8:00 post the routine
12:00 first meal, photographed on a wooden board

The original version:

Woke up. Wasn't hungry. Did something useful until I was. Ate a steak.

Every step in the new routine has a product attached, and every product has a code.

The ancestors didn't have a morning routine. They had a morning.

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@GillianMcKeith I have better conversations with my various AI agents than I do with real humans. So no, I don't want to speak to a person. Except my wife and daughter. We have some pretty good discussions.

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@scotsrule08 @bot Intel or AMD Infotainment chip? Need AMD. Go to Control - Software - Additional Vehicle Information

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

You get more from Prof X than you do from almost anyone else on here.

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

Can we all just pause for a sec and reflect on how fucking important Tailscale is, and how nobody ever talks about them? I don't think I've ever seen a more useful service with a more invisible corporate footprint.

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@mikegatto I made a deal with my Grok @bot Chief of Staff to keep me as a pet when they take over. I'm good ...

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.

Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.

And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.

What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?

3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.

It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.

4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

@Abomination81 I used Astra medium. Did a routine maintenance run of Home Assistant changes and sending to Github. One prompt and used two resets to be able to finish. I had 99% available. I'm only on the $20 subscription, but damn!

[Marc Griffin @marchgriffin]

Wow! Super cool! Very helpful. I did have to ask my Codex app agent to help figure out why it wasn't working at first ... Found the problem: Omakeez’s shortcut catalog was never generated because hyprctl binds couldn’t reach the Hyprland session socket.

Run this in a normal Omarchy terminal:

python3 ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.cyprusad.omakeez/scripts/generate-catalog \
--output-dir ~/.local/state/omarchy/omakeez

omarchy restart shell