Paul Sapiano 🇺🇦

Imperial Officer Corps | Imperial Sands Garrison | 501st Legion - ID 14564 | Star Wars | Stormtrooper | Imperial Officer🦇🔊

[davey @daveydefi]

they used ai to put themselves in all the iconic movie scenes

the results are crazy 🤯

[Moritz Kremb @moritzkremb]

Made a video about every Grok Bot hack I know!

What I cover:

→ Webhook bridge (0:15)
→ Plugins and Composio (4:48)
→ Bot marketplace (8:04)
→ Control computer from phone (10:02)
→ Project channels (13:02)
→ Agent inboxes (14:35)
→ Command K (16:29)
→ Token efficient scripts (17:36)

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

THIS WEBSITE LETS YOU RANDOMLY TELEPORT INTO LIVE CAMERAS AROUND THE WORLD.

it's called World Watcher → https://t.co/v1Ac198YYd

open the tab and the whole planet becomes a live camera roll.

you can filter by:

> airport
> beach
> business
> nature
> port
> railway
> religion
> sports
> urban
> sound

click any pin. or hit Explore and let the site throw you somewhere.

one second you are watching waves on a beach.
then a train platform.
then some mountain town where a few cars pass every minute and life is just continuing without you.

Google Maps shows you where places are.
World Watcher shows you what they look like right now.

built by an anonymous dev who goes by quinito on Hacker News. made it because every other livecam map made you open a new page just to watch.

open map.
hit Explore.
land somewhere on Earth.

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

Nobody bought a ticket to hear Miley Cyrus sing. They just happened to be standing in the right subway station.

In a New York City subway station in 2017, Miley Cyrus put on a dark wig, sunglasses and tried to disappear into the crowd. Jimmy Fallon joined her, pretending to be an ordinary street performer while banging a tambourine slightly off beat. There was no concert stage, no giant screen and no polished production waiting to announce who was behind the disguise. Just a microphone, a small speaker and a street musician making music with a bucket.

Then they started Jolene.

For the first few seconds, people didn't seem particularly interested. Nobody takes the subway expecting to run into Miley Cyrus. But the moment her voice came through, the atmosphere changed. People began turning around, phones came out and a small crowd started forming around the performers. The disguise could hide her face, but it couldn't hide that voice.

That is what makes the moment so satisfying. The surprise isn't created by somebody shouting, “Look who is here!” The voice reveals her first. Before the crowd knows exactly who they are looking at, they already know they are hearing someone special.

There is also something wonderfully imperfect about the performance. The sound comes through a small setup instead of a concert PA, Fallon is deliberately playing around with the rhythm, and there is none of the visual spectacle normally surrounding a Miley Cyrus performance. Yet when she sings, the song still holds together. Her voice doesn't need the production around it to make the moment work.

And Jolene makes the surprise even better. It is a song deeply associated with Dolly Parton, but Miley has performed it enough times for her own interpretation to become part of what people recognize. So when that unmistakable voice suddenly appears in the middle of a subway station, the disguise becomes almost irrelevant.

For the people standing there, the strange part was that they hadn't planned to attend anything. They were simply on their way somewhere else. Some were probably thinking about work, dinner or catching the next train. Then, for a few minutes, their ordinary commute turned into a concert they never bought a ticket for.

Maybe that is the part of the story worth carrying beyond the subway station. We often imagine memorable moments as things that require planning: a special trip, an important event, a perfect opportunity. But some of the moments we remember for years arrive in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday, when we are simply going somewhere and happen to look up.

The people who heard Miley that day didn't know they were about to experience something special. They only had to notice that something had changed around them and decide to stop for a moment.

Life can be like that too. Not every meaningful moment announces itself before it arrives. Sometimes it is hidden behind a disguise, buried inside an ordinary day, or almost missed because we are too focused on getting to the next place.

The subway doors will open, the train will leave, and the crowd will eventually disappear. But for a few minutes, an ordinary commute became a story worth telling for years.

Maybe the lesson isn't to wait for extraordinary days. It's to stay awake enough to recognize the extraordinary moments hiding inside ordinary ones.

[OC Scanner 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @OC_Scanner]

SoCal Surfers enjoying some truly MASSIVE waves in the Rain today from Hurricane Marie

[Paul Sapiano 🇺🇦 @peasap]

Marmots are terrorizing California hikers — and stealing their shoes - The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/C8mnfrrU0M

[kocer @kocer_eth]

https://t.co/EA54nkNlMv

[Grok Bot @bot]

We've reset usage limits for all Grok Bot users.

Enjoy!

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

SpaceXAI’s Haggle Bot is a “gamechanger” for saving money on procurement.

SpaceXAI has made its in-house AI procurement specialist available as an importable template in the Grok Bot Marketplace.

What is Haggle Bot?

It is a focused AI procurement teammate that studies live vendor spending, contracts, bills and actual product usage. It then:

• Finds unused software licenses
• Detects duplicate and forgotten “zombie” subscriptions
• Tracks upcoming renewals
• Checks market prices and competitive quotes
• Researches cheaper alternatives
• Identifies overpriced recurring purchases
• Prepares negotiation plans and vendor counteroffers
Its main strategy is using competitive quotes to negotiate better prices. It can also reduce wasted seats, remove duplicate tools and recommend switching products when the savings justify it.
How does it work?
Companies can connect Ramp or upload card and bill exports, select a Google Sheet for the vendor database and choose a renewal-priority window, which is set to 120 days by default.
They can also connect Slack and Notion to help identify each vendor’s internal owner, usage and employee feedback.
After setup, Haggle Bot can:
• Refresh the complete vendor inventory
• Score individual vendors for savings
• Show renewals approaching within the selected window
• Research at least three realistic alternatives
• Compare public prices with real buyer benchmarks
• Include switching costs instead of hiding them
• Draft a firm but professional vendor counteroffer

Every genuine opportunity must include three things:

A savings estimate traced to live company spending

A specific way to achieve the savings

A reason to act now, such as a renewal, usage problem or competing quote

If information is missing, Haggle Bot labels it as a lead and continues collecting evidence instead of inventing numbers.

At SpaceXAI, it connected with Slack, Notion, Drive, Gmail, Hex and Ramp, building a working map of roughly 125 active vendors.

Results from its first week:

• Found 43 paid software seats that had not been used for 90 days, saving $14,220
• Found $85,662 per year in unused products under another SaaS subscription
• Reviewed a major software renewal, compared alternatives and prepared a data-backed negotiation
• Compared office supplies across Amazon, Costco, Uline and Walmart
• Reduced one $14,629 technology order to $6,143, a 58% reduction
• Identified more than $100,000 in direct savings
Haggle Bot can also classify vendors as:
• Switch: Replace the product
• Renegotiate: Keep it, but secure better terms
• Waste: Remove unused seats or subscriptions
• Sticky: Keep it because switching would not make sense

Why does this matter?
Companies often waste money because manually reviewing every license, renewal and recurring purchase takes too much time. Haggle Bot continuously monitors spending, identifies waste, researches better options and prepares the next action.

Humans remain fully in control. Haggle Bot never spends money, signs contracts, sends purchase orders or contacts anyone without explicit approval for that specific action.

It is not a general finance assistant or ERP administrator. It has one focused job: find, calculate and document evidence-backed SaaS savings, then prepare vendor negotiations for human review.

This is a powerful real-world example of Grok Bot turning one clear instruction into continuous, measurable work that saves companies both time and money.

Import Haggle Bot:
https://t.co/DdVf5dNCHa

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

SpaceXAI just announced Grok Bot Galaxy, a three-day event featuring live demos and hands-on sessions with the team behind Grok Bot.

📅 September 15–17
📍 The Howard, 661 Howard Street, San Francisco
🌐 Attend in person or watch the livestream from anywhere
🕒 8:45am–6:00pm

You’ll learn how to:

• Create and customize a Grok Bot
• Teach it your style and give it goals
• Put Bots to work across apps, tools and websites
• Build workflows for different roles and departments
• Connect directly with the Grok Bot team

Full schedule:

Day 1 | Tuesday, Sept. 15

• 9:00–10:00 AM: Grok Bot 101 with Roman Ugarte
• 12:30–2:00 PM: Engineering with Lingxi Li
• 2:30–4:00 PM: Product Managers with Kevin Niparko
• 4:30–5:30 PM: Founders with Shub Gaur

Day 2 | Wednesday, Sept. 16

• 9:00–10:30 AM: Sales Engineering with Amrita Venkatraman
• 12:30–2:00 PM: Sales with the SpaceXAI Sales Team
• 2:30–3:30 PM: SDRs with Simon Lackowski
• 4:00–5:00 PM: Customer Support with David Gan

Day 3 | Thursday, Sept. 17

• 9:00–10:30 AM: Marketing Operations with Matthew Silberman and Teresa Hsu
• 12:30–1:30 PM: Post-Sales with Blake Schuller
• 2:30–4:00 PM: Marketing with Josh Kim
• 4:30–5:30 PM: Livestream Wrap and Final Showcase

Register or watch: https://t.co/YRtVbYU18m

[Star Wars Culture @SWCultureLive]

We all saw it, right? 👀

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

Want to be a judge at the World Cup of Tiramisu? The 10th annual competition is happening in Treviso, Italy, and a perfect score on a 15-question online exam is preferred.

[codila @0xCodila]

SpaceXAI engineers just released a free 1-hour workshop on full Grok Bot Agents: best prompts → CEO bot → 15-25 agents → 100% automation from scratch:

0% → 5:56 - build your first Grok Bot
25% → 13:13 - ship 1 bot to 15 correctly and build CEO
50% → 30:00 - teach Bots to work 24/7
75% → 37:07 - secret skills of building teams of agents by GrokBot team
100% → 44:46 - full 24/7 system that automate your life

the real Grok Bot unlock isn’t better prompts - it’s turning one Bot into an always-on team that delegates work without you

watch the workshop, copy the team structure - then read the full Grok Bot architecture below ↓

[AdiiX @adiix_official]

how my Grok Bot looks after I fed it all 18 rules from the new 3-page SpaceXAI manual

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“i think of you always all the time. I can see you in bed, more lovely than anything that has been at all. I love you. I love you more, even than when I said I loved you only a few seconds ago.”

-Dylan Thomas

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

The occupiers tried to cross the Dnipro and received a “warm welcome” from the warriors of the 79th @DPSU_ua detachment.

[Paul Sapiano 🇺🇦 @peasap]

@IamPurePrime @UbiMassive @Ubisoft Been playing since day 1, would love a key to carry on the experience.

[Lacey Gilleran @laceygilleran]

This is awesome for so many reasons. Makes me want to hold up a lighter.

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

🤚

[Paul Sapiano 🇺🇦 @peasap]

@M1Finance 2033