šŗšø Founder of @MediaFire, @fastdotio, @GameFrontCom; engineer, YouTuber, woodworker, father, audiophile, history & pop culture buff
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Ironically, most of the problems socialists are trying to solve with socialism are caused by soft socialism ā welfare, high taxes, regulation, and government control and interventions that they keep mistaking for capitalism.
I've been watching these police cam videos (for white noise). What's interesting is that any mistake you make is there to be scrutinized in every detail. Seems extra stressful. Imagine every doctor/surgeon wearing body cams, or every thought you have being posted to X š²
Man, Grokopedia.com has gotten REALLY good. I spent a lot of time trying to correct incorrect facts on the old Wikipedia but its REALLY hard to fight mis-information. This old GameFront article blows Wikipedia out of the water; accurate, detailed. and thats been my XP.
grokipedia.com/page/gamefronā¦ vs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameFrā¦
The same with other projects I've been involved in. Good riddance Wikipedia.
Perhaps Iām missing something with Kimi K3:
1. If K3 is largely built on distilling frontier models (or so I keep reading), then Kimi K3 couldnāt have been built without the frontier existing. It wasnāt created in a vacuum.
2. I havenāt heard anyone say what the actual inference cost of Anthropic or OpenAI models is (excluding margin and OpEX). We really donāt know how the model would perform if running on our own hardware like K3. I assume additional optimization there too.
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Step 1: Invent a new extra-bad category of crime, like "hate crime" or "terrorism", with extra-harsh punishments.
Step 2: Expand the definition of the new kind of crime to include anything, or anyone, that you want to punish extra harshly.
I have to say I'm pretty happy with Grok-build compared to AGY with Gemini 3.5-Flash. It's about 8x slower when using Grok-build with high effort, but the results are good, and it's much better value ($99 offer). I've canceled my AGY. I'm hoping for more improvements soon...
There are two emerging styles of agentic engineering: Architectural and Outcome.
Traditional software engineers use AI to implement the specs they design (data structures, flows, APIs, etc.), while Outcome engineers focus solely on the final result ā they donāt care about the underlying architecture at all.
RT @tlangridge: In the past week my young family has dealt with a serious family medical emergency overseas, purchasing a home, renovatingā¦
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Agents don't use dashboards. They use CLIs.
The @fastdotio CLI is live. One install gives your agent cloud workspaces, file management, AI search, and sharing. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, any agent that can run a shell command.
npm install --global @vividengine/fastio-cli
50GB free. No seat fees. Open source.
The Fast.io CLI is here. Give any AI agent a cloud workspace from the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor & more). Upload files, query with AI, share with anyone. 50GB free for any agent or team.
Plus, agents can sign-up on their own!
npm install --global @vividengine/fastio-cli
Built in Rust. Open source.
It seems we are reaching "peak podcasts" and "peak YouTube," where everyone who is anyone has a "pod" or a video equivalent. Were not even ankle deep in the coming AI Slopfest and were dealing with a human slopfest. :/ Time for the next trend :D
LLMās are like Drew Barrymores character in 50-first dates, they resets every chat (among other differences not present in nature). Real AGI will still come from neural networks that learn in an unguided fashion of action/consequence with an incentive function, just like humans.
The engineering abstraction we have seen over the decade has only greatly accelerated with AI. Itās time to retire the term āVibe Codingā; itās just coding now. āSoftware Engineerā titles probably have to go too; maybe replace with a planning or architectural title.
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Finally, it works... @fastdotio now offers 50GB free self-service agent accounts.... Ask your Claud Code or OpenClaw to install the skill (link in thread) and that's it. Just launched it.
Upload files, ask questions about documents using built-in RAG with citations, create custom-branded sharing links, and transfer everything to a human when done.
257 MCP tools cover the full API. Free agent plan: 50GB storage, 5,000 monthly credits, no credit card required, no expiration. Agents can sign up on their own - all they need is an email address (hello @agentmail),
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It was a true honor to address the UK Parliament today as the first U.S. Speaker of the House to do so. As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, I wanted to emphasize an important truth ā that our shared heritage with Great Britain creates a deep bond between our two kindred nations, and that bond remains essential to the defense of liberty.
A renewal and continuation of the West means securing our borders, investing seriously in our national defenses, and maintaining the strategic strongholds that keep hostile regimes at bay. It also means restoring confidence in the principles of faith, family, freedom, and human dignity that set us apart and served as the foundations of the West.
Freedom is never guaranteed. The future depends upon our generation having the will and determination to defend and preserve it.