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Beautiful.

Now we just need to bring back BBS’s and the daily turn based games. Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper, etc.

Are you trying to tell me that Space Cowboys isn’t real?

You have to be very deliberate about this I find. The number of people who, for whatever reason, buy into the "introvert" mentality: proudly claiming it online, wearing cancelled plans or lets stay in t-shirts, etc is partly responsible for this I think.

In my experience, if you don't accept the first invitation you're much less likely to get another one for repeat events.

It also stabilized following the elections that year.

Chart of strategic reserve levels since 1982, for context

https://en.macromicro.me/charts/41674/us-strategic-petroleum...

Is there something in Firefox's license that prevents forking? Why does it seems like all of these browser are always Chromium forks and we never see Firefox forks go mainstream?

It’s been like that with me in Grok 4.6 for the last couple of months as well.

I just start my day writing about 20 queues /goal prompts and then check the work at the end of the day. It’s almost always right!

Same. I find that the combination of the BEAM runtime and the guardrails that you get with an Elixir project, functional style and particularly the consistent structure of using Ash with it for data, API and CLI lead to a very maintainable codebase even with a lot of AI.

Phoenix with LiveView bypassing the need for a separate frontend framework is also a huge win there.

Just read the article and the conclusion was that they're using ground based systems to disrupt other countries satellites that are targeting the UK, not the one's that those countries depend on for their own internal services.

And yet people were still forced to convert to electronic medical records.

That's valid. I didn't contribute anything back yet but I certainly could at the point that I'm convinced the refinements are polished enough.

At the same time, how different is that from much of open source today. Usage is dramatically higher than contributions. How many open source packages are included in every software project we build with. How many of those are any of us contributing back to?

It seems like the opportunity is for open source to explode thanks to AI. This week I replaced my home security camera system with open source Frigate, because I was able to use AI to take the source code, replace the object detection models that were included with the code with something that was a better fit for my machine, customize how the videos were stored and under what circumstances. There's a lot more that I can do with it that I haven't yet as well.

I couldn't do that with the proprietary system.

It seems like we'll see a lot more customized open source options or rapidly accelerated open source projects thanks to this type of thing. I'm really curious to see if something like LibreOffice stops playing catchup with Microsoft and actually passes it.

If the improvement rate of Omarchy for Linux desktop experience can be a barometer for anything, I'm extremely optimistic.

The #1 barrier for me to do 90% of the things that I've done for myself over the last 3 months for the prior 10-15 years has been time. I'm more than capable of downloading Frigate and figuring out how to customize everything, modify and compile the code to do what I want, but it would have taken me hours to days to do it. Now I can setup a couple of stacked /goal prompts overnight and get there. It's fantastic.

That’s also a correlation of federal vs state policy. Federal leaves nowhere to run.

Wasn’t he departing from Hong Kong to Ecuador and was stuck in Russia because his passport was revoked in transit?

I thought that’s what I remembered hearing. I think all of his meetings with reporters were in Hong Kong.

Makes me wonder about aiming all those subscriptions at LibreOffice. How fast could it be improved to gain parity or surpass MS Office?

Maybe the new Omarchy foundation thing will take it on. DHH has pretty publicly been asking for a version of office for Linux.

How does the energy for the nuke itself factor into the equation though?

There are many regulations over there which prevent data from leaving the country.

Sometimes those rules can have serious consequences.

Impressive. They managed to turn the hype video in a more depressing parody of Starship Troopers.

Thus far, the only motive given is a confession that's been discredited and various associations to paint him in one light or another depending on the news you read.

If you follow the money, a picture starts to form.

June 9, 2025 - Melissa Hortman broke from House Democrats and cast the deciding vote to remove Medicaid/Medicare benefits from illegal immigrants. She was the only House Democrat to vote yes; the bill passed 68–65.

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-budget-deal-undocumente...

June 14, 2025 - Hortman was killed, along with her husband Mark, at their Brooklyn Park home.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/minnesota-lawmakers-ma...

June 15, 2025 - Her killer, Vance Boelter, was caught near Green Isle, Minnesota, after a roughly 43-hour manhunt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/minnesota-lawmakers-ma...

June 20, 2025 - News first broke that Boelter claimed Tim Walz asked him to kill Hortman and others. The claim was not found credible. The full letter was released with the federal indictment on July 15, 2025; prosecutors called it a fantasy and said they found no evidence supporting it.

https://www.startribune.com/vance-boelter-letter-klobuchar-w...

December 18, 2025 - The DOJ announced investigations into Minnesota Medicaid fraud, saying it was examining 14 Medicaid-funded programs and said more than half of about $18 billion spent since 2018 was likely stolen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/minnesota-fraud-scanda...

December 23, 2025 - Nick Shirley first posted on X about Somali-run Minnesota daycare fraud, highlighting Quality Learning Center and claiming it received $1.9 million in CCAP funds in 2025.

https://x.com/nickshirleyy/status/2003542404440404302 (5.4 million views)

December 26, 2026 - Shirley posted the full 42-minute video, I Investigated Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal, visiting about 10 Somali-run centers and claiming more than $110 million in fraud in one day.

https://x.com/nickshirleyy/status/2004642794862961123 (144.1 million views)

January 5, 2026 - Walz dropped his reelection campaign amid the fraud controversy and federal pressure. He said he would stay in office and focus on the work in front of him.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/us/minnesota-child-care-fraud...

February 25, 2026 - The U.S. government announced it was pausing Medicaid support to Minnesota due to fraud. Vice President JD Vance and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz announced a temporary halt of about $259 million in Medicaid payments.

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-medicaid-funding-fraud-...

March 4, 2026 - It was publicized that members of the Walz administration were aware of and ignored reports of the fraud as early as 2019, in a House Oversight Committee interim report released the same day Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison testified. A longer final report followed on June 8, 2026.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/house-oversight-commi...

May 21, 2026 - DOJ announced charges against 15 defendants in more than $90 million in Minnesota Medicaid and related fraud, including the first new childcare-provider cases after the April raids.

https://www.twincities.com/2026/05/21/minnesota-fraud-new-ch...

His name is Charlie Kirk. I don't always use people's full names to refer to them?

His entire life is on video. Please pull direct quotes for any of that.

I watched in the aftermath of his death as all of these horrible things he supposedly said were paraded around. Every one was manipulated nonsense.

The machine hated Charlie for telling the truth and people were listening.

The guy who killed her claimed Tim Waltz put him up to it. It wasn’t found to be credible.

Why Charlie?

Because tomorrow is 1 year to the day and it’s on my mind.

Hortman? Agreed. Much more attention needs to be paid to why she was killed less than a week after breaking from her party to vote for something on Trumps agenda.

Melissa Hortman died less than a week after voting against her party to support something on Trumps agenda.

> The article doesn't address what I think are the main complaints

Over the last 20 years, I've noticed this is most of political journalism today.

Post a headline refuting the thing, ignore the primary issue from the thing you're refuting. People who don't already deeply understand the issue don't know any better.

Everything can be factually correct. It's all just framing by what you choose to leave out / ignore.

Anthropic seems to have no issues: https://x.com/NotTomBrown/status/2093541294027280657?s=20

I've been using Cursor with Grok 4.6 a lot over the last week or so. Grok Build as well. Both options are performing very well for me.

Yep. If a security team sees 96% of credit card fraud is coming from users on Tor they are more likely to just block Tor than they are to try to figure out how to safely let the other 4% keep using it.

I don't run their business. Just trying to explain.

From what we see above it sounds like the change trips their rootkit detection, which they are probably interpreting as a compromised device.

It sounds like you're expecting them to have a perfect security posture that can correctly identify fraud in call cases and only block the real thing. It's more complicated than that and there's typically some type of scoring system involved with numerous triggers that are higher value indicators of potential fraud. If they think the device is compromised, that's probably a high value indicator.

This is just me speculating.

Yea, years ago I was in the security space and got to talk to some paypal security folks at a symposium in San Diego. The level of stuff that they have to deal with is so extreme.

It's similar to how people don't like sites blocking entire countries or access from Tor, etc. You might be doing it for privacy...but all the people trying to commit fraud are also using those same channels to hide their identity. The blockades are one piece of a holistic security picture that frustrate the well intentioned users.