A product manager has used both ChatGPT and Claude every single day for 2 years. He pays for both subscriptions. He's sent over 50,000 combined prompts across the two platforms.
His coworkers think he's wasting $40/month on two tools that "do the same thing."
He told me they couldn't be more wrong.
"ChatGPT and Claude are not the same tool. They're not interchangeable. They're not competitors the way Pepsi and Coke are competitors. They're specialists. ChatGPT is a Swiss Army knife it generates images, talks to you in a human voice, browses the internet, and runs autonomous research missions. Claude is a scalpel it writes better prose, analyzes longer documents, produces cleaner code, and follows complex instructions with a precision that makes you forget you're talking to a machine. Using one for everything is like hiring a single person to be your designer, your writer, and your accountant. You can. But you shouldn't."
He said the people getting the most out of AI in 2026 aren't picking sides. They're routing tasks.
"I don't ask which AI is better. I ask which AI is better at this. That one word changed everything."
Here are the 9 rules he follows to get maximum value from both:
🚨🚨 THIS IS WAR. MIKE JOHNSON JUST DECLARED IT. 🚨🚨
The Senate didn’t just send a bad bill.
They sent a SURRENDER document.
A bill that COMPLETELY ZEROS OUT funding for ICE and Border Patrol operations.
ZERO.
As in… shut them down.
As in… open the floodgates wider while America bleeds.
And then those cowards went on RECESS like nothing happened.
Speaker Mike Johnson looked at that garbage, read the language out loud, and said what every real American is screaming:
“WE’RE NOT DOING THAT.”
He didn’t negotiate. He didn’t play nice. He threw their joke of a bill in the trash where it belongs. 🗑️🔥
This is what actual leadership looks like when the country is under siege.
No more fake “compromise.” No more zeroed-out enforcement. No more recesses while the invasion continues.
Force them back. Make them write a REAL border security bill. Or shut the whole damn thing down.
If you still love this country… If you’re done watching America be sold out… If you’re ready for the gloves to come off—
STAND WITH MIKE JOHNSON RIGHT NOW. 🇺🇸💥
Drop a 🔥 if you’re with him. Share this until it hits a million. Tag every RINO who needs to feel the heat.
THE BORDER IS BLEEDING. THE TIME FOR GAMES IS OVER.
@tiny3058@Camsiyonna1 Covert Social programming. TV and film are the public facing side of stealth psychological operations. Mixing races impacts population IQ
@RealDutchsinse@RealDutchsinse
Why do I get your post notifications
AFTER YOU’VE DELETED THEM?!
It’s so frustrating.
I always check within minutes, but by then they are gone!
@BillWiIdin By all mean. Remove these people’s income altogether! Let them lose their jobs! If you can’t tip enough, don’t dine/take out so the businesses fail!!! I have to breathe the same air as you people. God save us all
A man spent 9 years in hotel revenue management — the department that decides what a room costs the second before you see it.
He's also stayed in over 400 hotels himself, always booking as a private guest, never using his industry badge. He knows both sides of the hotel pricing engine better than almost anyone.
He told me something most travelers have never considered: "The average guest pays 20–30% more than they need to for the exact same room, on the exact same night, because they never trigger the signals that make the pricing engine show them a lower rate. The rate isn't fixed. It's reacting to you. Most people just don't know what it's reacting to."
He said the gap between what a typical guest pays and what an informed guest pays for the same room isn't about loyalty status or booking far in advance. It's about understanding how the pricing engine actually works — the rate codes, the channel signals, the occupancy psychology, and the exact moments in the booking window when the same room is worth a different price.
"You're not buying a fixed product. You're bidding against a system that's constantly repricing based on demand signals you're sending without knowing it. Hotels built the tools to manage that. Then they designed the booking site to make it look like the rate is just the rate."
Here are the 9 things he does as a guest that most travelers never try 🧵
Amazon is quietly hoping you never find the 5 hidden stores buried inside its own website.
I found them.
There's an Outlet with overstock deals up to 80% off. A Warehouse full of open-box products at 25-70% off.
A Renewed store selling certified refurbished electronics with a 90-day guarantee. A Coupons page with thousands of
clippable discounts. And a Haul section where everything is under $20.
None of them appear on the Amazon homepage. None of them show up in your regular search results. None of them are promoted in the app.
A friend of mine a former Amazon category manager who spent 6 years inside the inventory and pricing division told me something that changed how I shop forever.
"Amazon makes the most money when you search for a product, see the first listing, and buy it at full price. Every hidden section Outlet, Warehouse, Renewed, Coupons, Haul exists because Amazon needs to move inventory. But they don't surface these deals in your normal search because full-price sales have higher margins. The deals are real. Amazon just bets you'll never look for them."
He showed me all 5 sections, how to find them, and how to use each one.
I haven't paid full price for anything on Amazon since.
Here's everything he showed me 🧵
If this changes which browser icon you tap tomorrow, one ask:
Repost the first post so the next iPhone user running Chrome out of habit sees what Safari actually offers in 2026.
Follow [ @jackcoder0 ] I break down the hidden settings, features, and systems that companies bank on you not knowing.
Next thread: the 11 iPhone Accessibility features every user should turn on including the invisible button on the back of your phone.
A visitor near Sedona, Arizona, who wishes to remain anonymous, was filming the clouds when something unusual appeared above the red rocks.
At first, it looked like a faint rainbow caught inside a thin cloud—but the clouds continued moving while the strange formation remained almost perfectly still. Its position barely changed, yet its transparent body never stopped shifting. Different sections stretched, folded, dissolved and formed again without following any recognizable pattern.
The person recording slowly zoomed in for a closer look. There were no solid edges, lights, wings or visible structure—only an iridescent distortion that seemed to bend the sky behind it. When the camera zoomed back out, the anomaly was still hovering over the same location.
Was it an unusual atmospheric phenomenon, cloud iridesence? A plasma-like object? Or, a distortion caused by the camera, or something we still don’t understand?
#Sedona #Arizona #SkyAnomaly #Unexplained #StrangeSky #Mystery #CaughtOnCamera #AtmosphericPhenomenon #UAP
Yeah…nah.
Here’s what I think is happening instead.
I haven’t wanted to say this, but there is a problem with organized Skepticism even more than conspiracy theories. My claim is that from hard evidence NOT ONE of the following is an extraordinary claim:
The CIA not only gathers intelligence but kills people, violates rights, gaslights and evades scrutiny and oversight.
The U.S. hides bioweapons programs.
The U.S. engages in regime change through charity and aid programs.
We in the U.S. medically experiment on our own citizens without consent.
We run drugs.
The DOJ and FBI are actively and flagrantly obstructing justice.
Putin easily kills people outside Russia.
We conspire and use academics for sheepskin washing our dirty work.
U.S. newspapers actively avoid reporting stories about which the U.S. population is desperate for information. They also carry extremely non neutral biases.
We actively conspired to hide open and obvious presidential dementia. And by extension, there are massive conspiracies at every level below that one. At a mind boggling level.
There are Special Access programs that are about real and/or fake NHI/UFOs
Etc.
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The last thing we need is skeptics telling us the bar for such conspiracies and/or governmental accountability requires extraordinary evidence.
Somehow the skeptics have it totally wrong.
After Watergate, Iran-Contra, COVID, Church/Pike committees, etc. these are no longer extraordinary claims to raise. They are ordinary claims.
I have no idea whether Lindsay Graham died of natural causes. But I can tell you the difference between a skeptic and a scientist looking at the claim.
A skeptic’s first move is to lurch for the budding conspiracy and try to pull the idea of foul play off the table first and then to require a mountain of evidence to consider such a thing.
A scientist firmly grabs the skeptic’s hand and forces him to put the hypothesis back on the table and says “Uh, you’re not in charge here. There’s a history…and I’m going to need to see something other than reference to null hypotheses, William of Occam and Carl Sagan…because that’s not how science and investigation works.”
Time for extra scientific skepticism to die I think. Covert operations and conspiracies are difficult enough to document as it is.
We don’t need skeptics as self appointed referees.
@Glassesman88@cloneristic So sorry you have met so many AWFUL women (affluent white female urban liberal) Outside that bubble, there are many intelligent, charming compassionate women.
@ThumbLand94091@ninoboxer The fact that you actually believe boomers are the root of the problem underscores both your naïveté & stupidity. If you don’t make room for the possibility that larger plans are in play or malevolent global forces are orchestrating chaos, you lack the ability to fix our ills.
Why the CIA COVID Cover-Up?
The US government cover-up of the origins of the covid virus that hit the world in 2020 was bad enough, but now we know that the CIA itself was involved.
On May 13, James Erdman III—an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)—bravely stepped forward to testify to the Senate Homeland Security Committee about a cover-up of the origins of the COVID pandemic instituted by the CIA’s leadership. While the CIA’s official spokeswoman denounced the Committee’s hearing as “political theater” and Democratic members of the Committee refused to even show up, Erdman’s revelations are arguably the most sensational exposure of CIA misdeeds made under oath to a Senate committee since the Church Committee hearings in 1975.
When the American public first learned that a highly infectious variant of a bat coronavirus was killing people in Wuhan, China in January of 2020, it was almost immediately evident that the virus must have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The WIV’s website openly advertised for post-doctoral researchers to study SARS-related coronaviruses in bats (English translation in figure 1), and the mRNA of the virus itself showed unambiguous signs of a deliberate and selective insertion of a furin cleavage sequence and other artificial modifications that greatly increased infectivity in humans.
When a January 31, 2020 Zerohedge article began to publicize concerns about the virus’s possible WIV origins, Dr. Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust took notice and brought it to the attention of Dr. Anthony Fauci—head of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—in a February 2, 2020 email.
As Fauci’s emails from this period make clear, panic had already taken hold of his circle. They had realized a few days earlier that the NIAID had funded WIV virus work via subawards through University of North Carolina virologist Ralph Baric. Further email threads raised alarms about how Baric had transferred gain-of-function techniques to his WIV colleagues (tissue culture passaging was specifically mentioned; Baric had also previously employed furin cleavage site insertions) and had even co-authored a 2015 Nature article with the Chinese speculating about a covid-like outbreak. Fauci’s circle was already deeply worried about a possible lab origin of the virus and their own personal connections to it.
Fauci’s circle clearly had a vested interest in squashing any public speculation about SARS-CoV-2 originating in a WIV laboratory in China. Three hours before he forwarded the Zerohedge link, Farrar had warned the group that “questions will get louder and more polarized and people will start to look to who to blame”—avoiding such blame is a plain enough motive for Fauci and friends to initiate a cover-up.
In spite of the grave concerns about the virus’s origins among his own experts, the Zerohedge article seemed to confirm Farrar’s warnings and thus trigger Fauci. A mere four hours after he learned about the Zerohedge article, Fauci urged his circle to “move quickly” with the help of the WHO against “the threat of further distortions on social media” that promoted covid lab origin theories (figure 2). It was the “threat” of adverse publicity and not “the science” that made any discussion of the lab origin conclusion verboten.
Erdman’s testimony casts a much more sinister light on Fauci’s campaign to obscure SARS-CoV-2’s origins. Why would leaders of the CIA collaborate with Fauci by suppressing the classified internal conclusions of their own biological experts, and why would they continue to stonewall Congress and attack the credibility of a whistleblower years later? How could the interests of the US intelligence community be so strongly aligned with those of Fauci and the Chinese?
While Erdman didn’t answer these questions, there is another covid whistleblower who shed some light on them. He is Dr. Andrew Huff, former Vice President of the EcoHealth Alliance and author of The Truth About Wuhan. His claim is that EcoHealth acted as a cutout for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, an office within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. EcoHealth participated in a USAID-funded collaborative research agreement known as “PREDICT” and led efforts to work with the WIV to harvest dangerous viruses in China. The discovery of the natural bat coronavirus precursor of SARS-CoV-2 arising from PREDICT’s Chinese operation was published in a 2013 Nature article, whose co-authors including three EcoHealth researchers and PREDICT’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Jonna Mazet of the University of California, Davis.
Federal agencies like the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) as well as the NIAID were funding a remarkable array of research projects around the world through a small cabal of civilian actors that in aggregate constituted a de facto bioweapons development program. In my former job as a data analyst for the University of California system, I had access to enough data to strongly suspect the existence of such a program prior to reading Dr. Huff’s book. In the section of my own 2023 COVID whistleblower complaint to the University regarding PREDICT, I wrote the following summary, citing Huff as well as various emails, sponsorship documents, and other sources:
https://t.co/MHBrwTEIun
On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places.
At one point near the House Chambers I was walking downstairs when a trio of some special section, secret service looking men started pointing guns in my direction.
Confused and annoyed, I walked the other way and when I saw a normal police officer asked him why they were doing that.
He informed me a protestor (Ashli Babbit) had been killed, and advised me to leave the building.
I walked towards the exit and after a short rest on the bench I left.
I harmed nobody and damaged no property that day and complied with all police orders.
What I received for that was a pre-dawn raid at my parents house, where my 1 month post-partum wife and I were staying, on Biden's first day in office. His DOJ had signed the order to arrest me 3 hours after his inauguration.
In the subsequent weeks I received death threats online and harassing phone calls, something that would be ongoing for the next few years.
I was banned from Meta and Paypal. My wife and I were both debanked by PNC and banned from Airbnb. My wife was detained at the airport for hours with our newborn daughter.
I was charged with 4 misdemeanors and the 1512 unconstitutional felony. The government offered to drop the misdemeanors if I pled to the felony. The felony was a lie, so I refused and went to trial.
At trial the prosecution for 2 days straight was allowed to show footage to the jury of things that occurred around the Capitol I wasn't present for "for context." When we asked to put forward footage that contradicted the prosecution's "context" we were not allowed. They could show what they wanted, we could not.
Police officers were then put on the stand for the next 2 days who cried about their experiences. I had no idea who they were. They admitted they never saw me or interacted with me.
Nevertheless like every other J6er, I lost, and was sentenced to 4 years and $22k in fines and restitution. Yet even after the Supreme Court overturned the felony, the judge would not let me out until my misdemeanor sentences of a year were maxed out. Because she can't count she actually kept me in longer - to the extent she intervened at the last minute to make the prison release me on a Sunday, something that is against BOP rules. My family sat outside the prison gates the Friday before practically the whole day waiting in vain because of this pettiness.
But the government wasn't satisfied with their pound of flesh: after my release they took me back in for resentencing, to attempt to have me resentenced after the fact to my misdemeanors consecutively, so I'd be taken from my family again and have another 1.5 years behind bars. This time I won, as they had no legal precedent and it skirted on violating double jeopardy since I had served my full prison time. Even still, it cast a cloud over the holidays and cost me another 20k my family couldn't afford.
People ask whether prison was bad, and yeah of course prison sucked. It was a hard and violent place. I was present for a stabbing, and was lucky to avoid two fights and a race war.
But dealing with Biden's DOJ and the DC Judiciary was the real trauma - they would grind down your spirit by weaponizing the legal system and use the endless procedure to bankrupt you. I had nightmares for months after release that I had somehow been hit with new charges.
By the time I was pardoned by President Trump, I had spent literally every single day of Biden's presidency either in prison or under some form of supervision. I had incurred over $300k in legal fees and over $1 million in lost business.
It was a reign of terror, and yet it was a mere foreshadowing of what they had planned for anyone else who opposed them under Kamala. The country should never forget it.