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Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2014
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by far the easiest way to edit videos, esp with @paper (both code-based visual tools). only truly agent-first video editor with any meat on the bones i've seen.
Introducing Kino: make videos end-to-end with Claude Code and Codex. Drop your footage, get highlights, edit together, send links for feedback, and let your agents cook. AI is becoming a great creative partner. Kino is a new home for your team and agents to collaborate.
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simultaneously the dumbest and smartest crypto idea i've seen. a parody of itself yet such a beautifully simple and clean implementation. i fucking love it.
Introducing Bitwater: the water heater element that mines Bitcoin. It screws into the electric tank you already have. Physically decentralized mining that runs no matter what 🧵 Heat water. Mine Bitcoin. Same tank.
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i do not believe AI is conscious and strongly support this nonetheless. i don’t want people acting abusive period, and certainly don’t want automated machines reinforcing bad behavior. good on you @AnthropicAI. i can already hear the terrible All In take.
Effective November 12th, 2026, abusive behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic's Usage Policy.
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Hegseth: “an entire is Institute just for Chinese people to do Aerospace Studies? sorry pal, DEI’s over”
The US Air Force is shutting down CASI (China Aerospace Studies Institute), its dedicated open-source think tank on China's military aerospace forces. CASI has been one of the most prolific public sources of PLA research in the US; publishing hundreds of studies, running officer courses, and supporting wargames. The PLA-studies community is calling it "devastating" and "a massive own-goal."
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only XL and Magnum sizes. “in this plane everybody’s dongin’ large”. it’s the small things that count.
Best booth award at AFA 2026 goes to...
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Introducing LixRay.com → A company repository for your team and agents. Connect Claude, Codex, or Cursor to the same repo. All your company context in one place. 📁 sales ┣ icp.md ┗ leads.csv 📁 marketing ┗ launch-plan.md 📁 brand 📁 skills 📁 automations
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s/o Reality Check with Ross Coulthart for just spewing nonsense straight down the middle. no bias, no angle, just nonsense.
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the inability of institutions to serve beer at a sufficient rate is mind boggling
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ChatGPT Pro + Fable estimate maxing out a Codex Pro $200/month subscription energy use is about - 1/2 the avg US home monthly usage - 1/3 one passenger on a LA to NYC flight ~10B tokens (heavy-caching), 500 kWh, ~$70 in electricity (commercial rates) chatgpt.com/share/6a90ba45-0…
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let me fix the headline for you 1/3 of police departments use a feature to automatically find officers abusing Flock. This feature will be mandatory in 3 months. We found some in the meantime.
Police departments are not regularly auditing how their officers use Flock, a powerful surveillance network -- so we did it for them. Three cops are now being investigated and one was arrested as a result of our inquiries. Here's how we did it... 🧵
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i haven’t had a single drink today i’ve only had doubles
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oh you use find my friends? i use friends find me
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Hong losing is a major setback for major setbacks for the socialist movement
Totally inexcusable that Bernie and AOC failed to back Hong. If she loses narrowly it will be a major setback for the socialist movement that they will bear major responsibility for.
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the Mean Girls catty nature of the Codex/Claude Code interactions entertains me to no end
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love the new @zyn_usa campaign
🤖 Made with AI
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this goes a long way in your AGENTSmd file @thsottiaux @Dimillian pls add an agnostic version to the system prompt esp the first line, before every annotation response was "Annotation 1", "Annotation 2", etc. and I never remembered wtf I annotated
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listening to the audiobook of Bullshit Jobs and the entire thesis seems to be "I interviewed some depressed/incompetent people and they thought their work was bs" combined with "society maaaan, like what if things were better and stuff"
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beast. tenacity is #1, tho GRUBS my limits. w/o resets now need 3+ Pro plans. whatever worth it. #2 Codex UX/UI unparalleled, just feels good. at the EOD tho, OpenAI >>> b/c they just build tools. no "machine consciousness", anthropomorphization, unnecessary philosophy nonsense. just knowledge as a tool. getting shit done. problem in front of us.
Or… what if we gave you $100 in Codex credits if you tell us what you love about GPT-5.6 Sol or why you switched? Tweet it, claim your gift, enjoy more usage. First 10k get the free tokens! switch-to-codex.openai.chatg…
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