RΞNder me BEΞK

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[RΞNder me BEΞK @VectorF0x]

Situational Report 2.20.22

8 Wassies KIA in an attempted raid on an Outcast facility. Lone survivor under investigation for suspicious activity. FF /on

#wassieweek @ByWassies @loomdart @loomlockintern @loomlocknft #loomlocknft @dama_yamete #NFT

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@SenWarren Government funded childcare has been proven to be one of the largest fraud schemes in America that fraudsters take advantage of.

Let Elon keep his money (that he worked for) and protect our dollars before asking for more money from ANYONE

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US.

Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured.

These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax!

We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions.

These are two possible routes I see:

1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair.

2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.

[Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs]

If you took $1 Trillion from Elon (assuming it was cash), it would run the U.S. government for 49 days. Not even 2 months.

The U.S. doesn't have a billionaire/trillionaire problem, it has a spending problem.

[Ted Zhang @TedHZhang]

Bitching Bernie

H/T: @rahulsood for the graphic

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

When I give my savings to @elonmusk they multiply. When I give them to you and all of the US government, they disappear.

[RΞNder me BEΞK @VectorF0x]

@benjamincowen Doing God's work Ben

[Rand Group @randgroup]

Holy fuck, the new Ferrari looks like a $30K Tata from India 💀

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Capitalism believes in you and your ability.

Communism believes you are incapable and unable.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The White House is currently on lockdown after dozens of gunshots ring out. Reports are that a gunman has been killed by Secret Service.

It's unfortunate how accurate my cartoon has become.

[RΞNder me BEΞK @VectorF0x]

@0xReflection Amazing call throughout

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

More AI agent observations below (I keep adding to the list):

1. Hermes agents write to their own memory after every task. Which means starting today versus starting in 6 months is an unfair advantage for you.

2. We're maybe 12 months from an agent that can watch you work for a week and then do your job without any instructions. The screen recording plus agent memory plus local model combination makes this possible right now

3. The real reason local models matter for founders: you can ship a product where the AI runs entirely on the customer's device and you never touch their data. Zero privacy concerns. Zero server costs. Zero compliance headaches.

That changes which industries you can sell to overnight. Healthcare, legal, finance, all the regulated verticals that won't send data to the cloud just opened up.

4. Every company needs to be rebuilt as a "second brain" before agents can be useful. That means every process, every decision, every piece of institutional knowledge has to exist in a format an agent can read. Most companies have none of this.

5. Agent costs are the new headcount. Won't be crazy for companies to spend 50%+ of their total headcount cost on tokens.

6. Agents are accidentally creating internal competition at companies. The marketing agent and the sales agent are optimizing for different metrics and working against each other without anyone realizing it. It took humans decades to develop cross-functional alignment. Nobody thought about it for agents.

7. The YAML config file is becoming the new org chart. Who reports to who, what permissions they have, what tools they access, all defined in a config file. The company's structure is literally a file you can version control, fork, and deploy. That's new.

8. The first agents that can smell a scam are going to be worth billions. Right now agents will happily wire money to a fake invoice because it matched the format. The trust layer is completely missing.

9. We're about to find out that most "expertise" was actually just memory. Knowing the tax code. Knowing the case law. Knowing which supplier charges what. When an agent holds all of that in context, the expert's value shifts from "I know things" to "I know which things matter." Much smaller group of people.

10. We're all running the same models. The differentiation is in what you feed them. Two founders with the same agent, same model, same tools will get wildly different results based purely on the quality of their knowledge base. Garbage context in, garbage output out. Forever.

11. The most underbuilt category in AI right now: agents for old people. 70 million boomers who need help with medical forms, insurance claims, and appointment scheduling.

12. Agent latency is the new page load speed. If your agent takes 45 seconds to respond, your customer already switched to one that takes

13. Skills files are the new apps. A SKILL.md that tells an agent how to do one thing well is more valuable than a SaaS subscription that does the same thing behind a login screen.

14. AI hardware... how do you create devices that are good businesses that people want? It'll be a $30 dongle you plug into existing dumb devices to give them an agent brain. Smart toaster doesn't need to be built from scratch. It needs a $30 brain attached to a $15 toaster.

15. Your agent can read faster than you can think. The bottleneck in every agent workflow is now the human approval step. We're the slow part. That's a strange thing to sit with.

16. Agents made the 80/20 rule violent. The 20% of work that matters is now the only work humans do. The 80% just disappeared. Entire job descriptions were hiding inside that 80%.

17. The thing I keep coming back to: the best businesses right now are being built by people who are just slightly ahead of their customers. Not 10 years ahead. 6 months ahead. That's the sweet spot. Far enough to lead. Close enough to be understood.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨NOW: WARREN LEADS MASSIVE AMENDMENT PUSH AGAINST CLARITY ACT

More than 100 amendments have been submitted ahead of the Senate Banking Committee’s markup vote on the CLARITY Act, per Politico.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren alone has reportedly filed over 40 amendments, signaling intensifying political resistance against the landmark U.S. crypto legislation.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

We stopped saying "it’s Photoshop" and started saying "it’s AI"

End of an era. Photoshop, thanks for the memories .

[RΞNder me BEΞK @VectorF0x]

@AlexFinn Bro you are a hero <3

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Fun fact - if you have a recent commit that mentions OpenClaw in a json blob, Claude Code will either refuse your request or bill you extra money.

This is an empty repo, I'm just calling Claude Code directly. Insanity.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

if you don't wake up 7 days a week more hyped than you've ever been to play with every AI tool out there then you are experiencing 2026 wrong

[litquidity @litcapital]

The Gemini team seeing Google invest in their largest competitor

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is 10 minutes of me confronting the California politicians who authored the "Stop Nick Shirley Act"...

When confronted about AB 2624:
- Lied about authoring the bill
- Couldn't justify the bill
- Acted like they didn't know about the bill

This bill will CRIMINALIZE exposing fraud, violates the 1st Amendment, protects NGOs from disclosing taxpayer dollars, and these politicians see no problem with it. The fraud is now exposed and they need new laws to hide it.

EXPOSE ALL THE FRAUD.

[smolting (wassie, verse) @inversebrah]

GIGABANGER

forever smolchained

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

I confronted the co-authors in this video who helped create the bill (because Mia Bonta didn’t show up to her job) and NOT ONE of them would answer a single question. In fact they straight up lied about it.

Some said they didn’t know about the bill when they are literal co-authors of the bill. California is trying to intimidate and punish anyone who looks into their fraud.

This bill is being supported by an NGO named CHIRLA that supports illegal migrants and is tied to the violent riots that took place in LA. This NGO has received ~$115 million from California state agencies from 2019-2025 and now they want their information to be confidential. Now do you know why they don’t want the fraud exposed?

“The fraud is exposed and now they need new laws to hide it”

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