Why is it like that and not like this. Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. Also Wi-Fi (CWNE #394) and AWS ... Besides that, it's all in the reflexes.
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Shaun Bender retweeted
Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
Shaun Bender retweeted
No matter what anyone says, but SpaceX was right in restricting Starlink civilian network for military use.
The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions. The speeds are now where they need to be. The restoration began overnight, and by this morning, speeds were already sufficient. This matters: for our frontline logistics, for defending Ukraine against jet-powered “shaheds.”
I thank all Americans and all our partners who took this seriously and truly helped – members of Congress, senators, all the media, the State Department, and the President. Protecting lives matters.
Shaun Bender retweeted
I think iPhone Duo is everything I hoped iPad mini would be but was too impractical to bring places to be
Shaun Bender retweeted
iPhone Duo: My thoughts so far. The good, and bad.
✅ Very well made. Tough. IP68 is nice to have.
✅ Battery life is incredible. Didn’t expect this.
✅ Hinge is super smooth. Opening and closing the phone feels steady and secure.
✅ performance and efficiency are great
✅ charging speeds are nice. Didn’t measure but feels fast to the point where I don’t notice.
✅ speakers and the placement are fantastic.
✅ Comfy to hold
✅ I love the software for the hinge (see photos)
🚫 Display looks great in terms of cutting out reflections, but colors and contrast suffers a lot.
🚫 Not all apps are optimized (yet). Those that are still look a bit wonky. Not Apples fault. Devs need to tweak it more.
🚫Cameras are okay. Nothing special but they get the job done. Don’t expect great results after 3x zoom.
🚫Heaviest passport style foldable in 2026. 254g without a case and without a screen protector. Over 300g with. Some care. Some don’t.
🚫 Small learning curve. Not a fan of the volume keys being on top and the dock being on the right.
🚫 No action button. Some may not like this.
Overall, not a bad phone. I like it a lot, despite its downsides. But at $2000 there should be less of them imo.
Shaun Bender retweeted
I did it:
I cut Apple's kickstand case for iPhone Duo and assembled my portable Duo writing setup for travel.
It's absurd that I had to do this, but I just wanted the back cover and kickstand.
I kinda love this 👀
Shaun Bender retweeted
My first question to former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (@paraga):
“What did you get done this week?”
NEW: I sat down w/ former Twitter CEO & CTO Parag Agrawal (@paraga)
Now Founder & CEO of $2B Parallel Web Systems (@p0).
Parag says we're underestimating AI agents by 5,000–10,000x, transforming the internet's economics entirely.
Forget the startup benchmark of 3x, 3x, 2x, 2x. Parag benchmarks this new agentic era against the growth of inference, roughly 10x a year, & says every estimate he’s made in this market has come in too low.
Parallel has raised $230M in total funding from funds like @IndexVentures, Kleiner Perkins & Khosla Ventures, building AI-native search infrastructure for customers like: Harvey, Lovable, Granola, Replit, LangChain, Profound, Modal, Notion & Browserbase.
Today, agent web usage is estimated at just 10–20% of human usage. Parag's own agents already run several thousand searches a day, & he believes we're still in the earliest stages of this transition.
The infrastructure implications are massive. Parag predicts that for every 10 GPUs used in model inference, another 1–2 will be required for web search alone.
The economic implications are equally significant. Traditional advertising, subscriptions & affiliate models depend on human attention and browsing behavior. As agents become the primary consumers of information, these models will need to be rebuilt, including how publishers get compensated when agents access their content.
We also covered:
› Why the web is shifting from reactive to proactive AI agents
› Sourcing GPUs & scaling search infrastructure
› Voice agents, latency & token efficiency
› Agent identity, bot detection & cybersecurity
› Scaling Parallel from 30 to 120 employees this year
We also spent time on Parag's 11 years at Twitter, where he went from engineer to CTO to CEO. We discussed the lessons from leading one of the world's most influential social platforms.
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Parag Agrawal, Founder & CEO at Parallel
(01:03) What is Parallel AI?
(05:28) Bots took over the web & it’s only the start
(07:22) Will people stick with AI agents?
(11:55) Why models will get bigger, smarter & cheaper
(14:47) Where AI startups actually find GPUs
(19:43) Is 10x a year the new normal?
(21:59) Searching the web faster than you can blink
(26:02) AI that knows what you need before you do
(26:57) Agents are breaking the web’s business model
(31:08) Good bots vs bad bots
(33:45) Agents & the cyber arms race
(37:19) The web’s biggest problem with agents
(42:04) Why great models still give bad answers
(45:13) Parallel built a website for robots?
(47:56) Proactive agents & the future of search
(51:30) The person who drives Parag’s ambition
(55:50) Why feeling insecure is a superpower
Shaun Bender retweeted
Got my iPhone Duo last night and photos and videos don't do it justice ✈️
Very few pieces of tech surprise me anymore but this one did.
I spend a lot of my life in airplane seats, and this is the first phone that feels like it was built for that. Open it on the tray table and it's a tiny laptop. Close it and it's back in my pocket.
First impressions:
- It's impossibly thin
- The hinge snap is so satisfying
- Two apps side by side actually feels usable
- Opened, it's the right size for a tray table
This next flight is the real test. I'm planning to get a full day of work commuting from seat 9-something. I'll report back.
(It’s hecka slippery that’s why I’m holding it. The camera bump doesn’t help either.)
Shaun Bender retweeted
Person who is reverse engineering his tv gets banned from OpenAI
You aren't allowed to stop your tv from spying on your family. You have to ask for permission
Or, maybe, maybe we accelerate
banned for reverse engineering work? that’s wild
oh well, -$500, and a bunch of banked resets) but gained motivation to get 3 more machines and finish my cluster.
i have never used openai to exploit or find vulnerabilities, only local reverse engineering which tripped daybreak.
Shaun Bender retweeted
Unpopular opinion: JerryRigEverything-style durability tests are mostly pointless.
Nobody spends $2,000 on an iPhone Duo to scratch the display with blades or deliberately bend the device until it breaks.
Show me how it handles everyday drops and years of use. THAT’S the durability test that matters.
Shaun Bender retweeted
One of the biggest drawbacks to using the Duo unfolded on a flight is that EVERYONE can see your screen. It’s amazingly legible and viewable not only for you but for everyone.
The one cool thing I saw another manufacturer do is the built-in Privacy Screen.
Shaun Bender retweeted
New Apple TV 4K is too expensive, so I decided to virtualize one on my Mac instead of buying it 😆
ALT A virtual machine window displays tvOS 27.2 running on macOS. The screen shows a snowy mountain range with a bright blue sky and scattered clouds. The word “hallo” appears in large, light blue cursive text in the center, and a smaller message at the bottom reads, “Press the middle button to continue.” The virtual machine title bar indicates the device name “tv4k4” and its local IP address.
Shaun Bender retweeted
I miss software where you downloaded a program, double-clicked the installer, and that was the end of it.
No account. No workspace. No onboarding questionnaire. No monthly subscription.
Just an application that did whatever you downloaded it to do.
Shaun Bender retweeted
I'm going to let GrokBot invest the funds in my 𝕏 Money account.
What instructions should I give it?
I'll report back on the progress to see how smart @bot really is.
With all this bullshit about your TV being a spy. Once again I think that @PalmerLuckey needs to make a really great TV. Which has a few HDMI / GPMI ports and the software is all open. Allow people to design their own interface or whatever.
