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Brandon Paddock retweeted
This is a lie. Here is the exact text from the filing, where they specifically ask to stop certification.
The Attorney General of the United States is a bald face liar.
The Department of Justice does not seek to stop any ballot from being cast or to stop the certification of Alaska's election. This litigation seeks to ensure that after Alaskans cast their ballots, they are preserved in a manner so that only Alaska's governing officials have the information necessary to make a determination as to whether Alaskan voters were confused or mislead.
The lawsuit was written by Justice Department attorneys and the Department did not coordinate with any campaign or candidate, but rather relied solely on federal law.
This whole thread is great, but this part made me laugh (“it’s funny cause it’s true”).
My problem with this is the attitude of the teacher saying “yeah a lot of things will start working for a few days” is retrospective in a world where a lot of people did a lot of work to prevent the worse outcomes from happening.
Now, if Dario thought the world was going to end or something, that’s different. But if he was just recognizing the actual worst case scenarios and nervous that not enough was being done - that’s not all that unreasonable.
Hey @msft4startups, I tried signing up for your offer with a new MSA account (strange I can't use my company's new M365 Business account for this). However, the account setup flow apparently failed and left me with a regular pay-as-you-go Azure account. It has no credits, no Startups dashboard, etc. Can you help?
As a startup founder trying to onboard my new company to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem I could not be more disappointed.
Just figuring out where to even begin the sign-up flow was surprisingly difficult. When I tried going through the main site, one of the first steps asks me for my “work or school” email. I don’t have that. That why I’m here, M365, so I can have one of those.
Okay, ignore that and use my personal email, as ChatGPT recommended. Fine. But wait, now it says that email is already associated with an M365 tenant (it is, because my personal email is technically its own 10+ year old M365 Business account). Ugh. I guess this is a weird situation? But Microsoft put me in it. I deciphered the options and took a gamble that the one I picked would do the right thing. It did, so points for that I guess?
I go through the rest of the flow and get the account set up, which sets up a default [company].onmicrosoft.com domain. That’s fine if awkward, and the UI was miserable. It then directed me to install Microsoft Authenticator which I already have. A few confusing bounces back and forth and I got past that and was signed in. Not delightful but solvable.
Eventually my account was set up, and I landed on the M365 Admin page. Now maybe it’s a Throwback Thursday thing, but this website in a mobile browser is surprisingly bad. There’s “bad for 2025 before a coding agent could fix this in an hour” bad, and then there’s “bad for 2010 when people know the iPhone is a thing” bad. This is the latter.
It at least suggested a good first action of setting up my custom domain. In an atrocious UX that I can’t even get to again to show how bad it is, it explained the TXT record I needed to add to confirm ownership of the domain. Easy enough. I added it, and told it so, and it gave an error that said it could take 10 minutes or more for the DNS record to propagate - this delay wasn’t surprising, but the awful UX was.
So I waited, and after 15 minutes or so I tried again. But instead of an error, the page just… broke. I tried starting over, but now the whole custom domain portion of the M365 Admin portal just won’t even load. See attached video. No, it isn’t a bad connection. It’s just a broken website. The website that is the onboarding funnel for what is supposed to be a huge established company’s key SaaS offering.
I don’t know if Google’s offering is any better, but I guess I’ll find out shortly.
Eventually I figured out that it was only broken in this particular way when going through the recommended action thing. Going a different way, it was broken in a different way where it kept looping back to the same page repeatedly, until suddenly it didn’t! When I went to make a video of that, it decided that on the fifth try it should get serious and actually worked. Still a terrible UI, but it got to the MX record part and now I have email.
I just don’t understand how this isn’t the most optimized, streamlined onboarding around. Instead, it was the exact opposite and SO not confidence inspiring. I know M365 should be a trustworthy email, cloud storage, and productivity app solution. But if I experienced something like this with a new startup’s onboarding flow I’d have been gone in a second, never mind after hours of the flow being totally busted.
Someone there really needs to get their act together.
I can say with certainty that this Gartner claim is indeed nonsense.
Dealing with compute availability challenges, and maximizing what we could get out of the capacity we had, took up a very large chunk of my time over my last year at Microsoft.
“At the moment, we have more compute capacity than we have demand [...]”
Ok @Gartner_inc, this is nonsense. We are *massively* compute constrained. Our portfolio companies are struggling to find capacity.
Full article here: cnbc.com/2026/10/19/gartner-…
In 2010, Gartner predicted that Windows Phone would overtake iOS market share by 2015.
I don’t know anyone who takes these analysts seriously at least for emerging tech.
None of us knows what Anthropic’s future looks like, but I’d rather own their stock than any of the other companies here.
I hit my Claude Max 20x quota for the first time last Sunday, with it resetting on Monday night. I had a banked reset expiring so I made some effort to make good use of it this week, and thanks to that I’m using two weeks worth of quota in one week.
Between Monday at 9pm and Thursday at 2pm I had used 53% of the week’s quota. I hit 100% yesterday afternoon. How did I do that?
At 2:30pm I had Ultracode mode (multi-agent extra high effort) do a bunch of research and planning based on a brief I gave it about an architectural overhaul I wanted to do with my prototype. It spun up several sub-agents and went for 4.5 hours researching, making 4 independent proposals, and then having 3 judges review them to pick an approach. Then it created its first draft of a discussion doc and had 7 critics + a triage judge review it, then iterated on that a few times before providing it to me. When that process was done around 7pm, another 10% of my quota had been used (some smaller independent threads probably accounted for 1-2% of that).
The Ultracode thread then iterated with me and on Codex feedback through the evening, and then at 9pm it had the project coordinator kickoff 4 top-level regular High effort threads that worked through the night on phase 0 investigations and spikes, and together with the Ultracode thread had the RFC draft ready at 4AM. It then began working on Codex feedback.
I then spent Friday day refining that plan and having it test some more variations of a few pieces, and I hit my weekly quota in the afternoon. I immediately used the banked reset they gave us last month to reset it back to zero.
It iterated on more Codex feedback until 12:40AM. I was up way too late with friends last night so before I went to bed at 3AM I answered its last questions and it committed the RFC and kicked off new project-level threads to start implementation. Initially two and now three of them, and they’re still working on the core track of the plan. It’ll be another couple days (hopefully not much more) before the RFC is fully implemented. Right now my post-reset quota is 37% used, but thankfully the banked reset didn’t change my weekly reset time so Monday night it will go back to zero again, probably just in time so I don’t get blocked.
I really don’t understand how some people burn through multiple Claude/Codex subscriptions while I can barely max out one $100 plan
I’m working on 3-4 projects, rendering videos, and running multiple agents simultaneously - all on Opus 5.5 High
What the hell are you guys doing to burn through that many tokens?
Am I missing something? 😂
It is hard to convey how harmful and self-destructive this is for the United states.
The flattening that began at the end of 2023 was primarily caused by Musk torching the Tesla brand. In 2022, Tesla accounted for two-thirds or more of US EV sales, and their rapid growth trajectory showed no signs of stopping. On the bright side, other manufacturers were starting to grow EV sales so the EV market kept growing.
It's easy to look at this chart and think that the tax credits were sustaining that growth. But that isn't true. The reversal after the tax credits expired was primarily NOT caused directly by the credits going away, but rather the reaction to that and the overall policies, incentives, and direction set by the Trump administration. The revocation of those tax credits was just one prong of their attack.
In Q3 2025, Audi's best-selling vehicle in the US was an electric model, the Q6, for the first time ever. You might think this would mean Audi would double down on EVs. However, before that quarter even began, Audi leadership decided that because of the Trump administration, EV demand in the US would decline, so they paused producing the US variants and adjusted their plans to focus on fossil fuel variants of their flagship models for 2027 and 2028.
In Q4 of 2025, you could not buy a new Q6 in the US, they were no longer selling them. Think about that. The best-selling model in one quarter was not offered for sale in the next one. Was this a screw-up on Audi's part? Yeah, probably. But they were not alone. Most of the industry retreated on EVs because the government of the US was saying they did not want them.
And now, we're all worse off for it.
I truly love Community Notes.
everyone thinks for some reason that they are closer to becoming a millionaire than becoming homeless.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Recent polling shows a majority of US voters believe they are more likely to become homeless than a millionaire. US data show roughly 23.6 million millionaires versus ~746,000 experiencing homelessness on a given night.
dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/8/13…
investopedia.com/new-report-rev…
hud.gov/news/hud-no-26…
Brandon Paddock retweeted
Trump says we’re building “more factories and plants right now than at any time in our history.”
Factory construction hit a historic record under Biden and has fallen 31% since Trump took office.
My @Morning_Joe Chart
Apparently my Codex usage meter is running backward today?
It said 76% remaining last night, 80% this morning, and is up to 83% now.
Did someone mix up "% used" with "% left" in a recent change?
We need to end “Super PACs” yesterday.
NEW: Megadonors have now poured *2.3 billion* into the midterm elections.
Leading the pack is Elon Musk, the world's richest man, who is now the biggest individual political donor in American history.
Six donors have given $100M+. Read here:
washingtonpost.com/elections…
