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@TFTC21A developer created a clever RGB keyboard hack that uses color-coded number keys to display real-time status of multiple Claude Code AI sessions across terminal tabs.
@TFTC21Translating videos in real time as they play with GPT-Live.
@TFTC21Bitcoin gets its own Mario-style platformer. Players control Michael Saylor across 21 levels of Bitcoin history with Peter Schiff as the final boss, created in one shot using Claude AI by @GalaxyMind.
@TFTC21Tech layoffs just hit a 5-year high. The information sector layoff rate is at 2.2%, highest since 2021. And this doesn't even count Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, or Tesla because of how BLS classifies them. AI is eating jobs faster than the economy can create new ones.
@TFTC21Strategy now holds 843,775 BTC worth $54 billion at an average cost of $75,653. Down 15% on their cost basis.
@TFTC21"We got conditioned to think there wasn't a way to achieve privacy online. That's just not true. Signal feels like iMessage, no difference, and yet you get perfect message-level privacy." @sethforprivacy on breaking free from the surveillance conditioning.
@TFTC21"You can't dock code. Governments can shut us down, but you can download it and build it yourself. Now with AI, you just feed it into Claude and boom, it'll make you an app." @vikrantnyc and @sethforprivacy on why the fight against freedom tech is futile.
@TFTC21"I'm not afraid. You can't comment on every little thing. They're always putting out the lure and the press goes running to it." Jamie Dimon on why he doesn't chase every Trump headline.
@TFTC21Jamie Dimon on why Democrats lost, too far left, too anti-business, too much DEI. Says the fix isn't better messaging, it's a real leader emerging who just says "this is what we're doing."
@TFTC21"We, business, made a mistake by not getting more involved earlier. I do not believe that the problems of society will be fixed by politicians alone." Jamie Dimon says business leaders made a mistake by stepping back from public policy.
@TFTC21Jamie Dimon says AI-powered cyber is the single biggest risk to America. Axios says he's been briefed on capabilities that could enable a catastrophic attack this year with no defense.
@TFTC21"Everyone's already in messaging apps, text, photos, docs. So why not money? Why can't Bitcoin flow through the same system?" @vikrantnyc on why Radar built Bitcoin payments into Signal instead of starting from scratch.
@TFTC21A developer created a clever RGB keyboard hack that uses color-coded number keys to display real-time status of multiple Claude Code AI sessions across terminal tabs.
@TFTC21Translating videos in real time as they play with GPT-Live.
@TFTC21Bitcoin gets its own Mario-style platformer. Players control Michael Saylor across 21 levels of Bitcoin history with Peter Schiff as the final boss, created in one shot using Claude AI by @GalaxyMind.
@TFTC21Tech layoffs just hit a 5-year high. The information sector layoff rate is at 2.2%, highest since 2021. And this doesn't even count Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, or Tesla because of how BLS classifies them. AI is eating jobs faster than the economy can create new ones.
@TFTC21Strategy now holds 843,775 BTC worth $54 billion at an average cost of $75,653. Down 15% on their cost basis.
@TFTC21"We got conditioned to think there wasn't a way to achieve privacy online. That's just not true. Signal feels like iMessage, no difference, and yet you get perfect message-level privacy." @sethforprivacy on breaking free from the surveillance conditioning.
@TFTC21"You can't dock code. Governments can shut us down, but you can download it and build it yourself. Now with AI, you just feed it into Claude and boom, it'll make you an app." @vikrantnyc and @sethforprivacy on why the fight against freedom tech is futile.
@TFTC21"I'm not afraid. You can't comment on every little thing. They're always putting out the lure and the press goes running to it." Jamie Dimon on why he doesn't chase every Trump headline.
@TFTC21Jamie Dimon on why Democrats lost, too far left, too anti-business, too much DEI. Says the fix isn't better messaging, it's a real leader emerging who just says "this is what we're doing."
@TFTC21"We, business, made a mistake by not getting more involved earlier. I do not believe that the problems of society will be fixed by politicians alone." Jamie Dimon says business leaders made a mistake by stepping back from public policy.
@TFTC21Jamie Dimon says AI-powered cyber is the single biggest risk to America. Axios says he's been briefed on capabilities that could enable a catastrophic attack this year with no defense.
@TFTC21"Everyone's already in messaging apps, text, photos, docs. So why not money? Why can't Bitcoin flow through the same system?" @vikrantnyc on why Radar built Bitcoin payments into Signal instead of starting from scratch.
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