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when are we gonna have our first regular pot smoking president? you know it’s coming.
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just next level trolling. i’m in awe.
President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan joined President Donald J. Trump and Mrs. Melania Trump for tea at the White House. The two presidents agreed to add new substance to their vision for the China-U.S. relationship, jointly building a constructive relationship of strategic stability on the basis of respect, fairness and reciprocity.
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Racist. Nazi. Patriot. 🇺🇸 2026 Republican Party
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william james retweeted
Love it!
Made with AI
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The deletion of screens will be the biggest peace dividend of AI
Just went for a long walk while using ChatGPT Voice with plugins on my phone, and I think it's a more consequential update than it might seem at first glance. On my walk, I talked through my calendar, email, and to-do list. I had ChatGPT read through my emails and triage them. Then, we added items to my to-do list. Then, we reviewed my calendar. By the end of the walk, I'd finished getting organized, and never had to look at a screen once. I've been waiting for this a long time. Yes, you can kind of do this in the ChatGPT desktop app. And I think in Codex remote on the mobile app. But I've never gotten either to work very smoothly or reliably. And I often want to do this when I'm not near my laptop, like when I'm out for a walk, and the ChatGPT desktop app for whatever reason won't connect. This feels like the future. It feels like a true assistant. You have a natural conversation, and it does stuff for you. It disappears into the background. You're not walking down the street with a screen in your face. You're not contorting your thumbs to type sentences and scroll menus. You're just talking, conversationally, and stuff's getting done. My sense is: • Screens are going away for many uses other than visual content consumption. They won't disappear entirely. But they also won't dominate the way they do now, and definitely not for things that can be done verbally. • Apps that aren't agent-native and plugin-optimized will die. I use Google Workspace and Todoist primarily because they're so well-integrated with ChatGPT. I stopped using apps, such as many of Apple's, because with few exceptions they're poorly agent-integrated. (X is a big exception, but I've hacked some integration via IFTTT.) • Those apps, however, will become more valued for what they let agents do than for their in-app experiences. Not all will become essentially databases, but many will. It also seems inevitable to me that at some point OpenAI and other AI app providers roll out native calendar, email, and to-do functionality that's maximally agent-optimized. • We'll have our audio agents on all the time. We may have them on mute sometimes (I discovered you can do this with ChatGPT Voice by clicking an AirPod), but at great cost, because you'll want be able to just say something like "summarize that conversation I just had and then draft the presentation." It will be like having an assistant following you around when you want them to. • We need new hardware. For example, I want a camera in my AirPods not to take pictures, but to have the context of what's around me. Like, "What kind of tree is that?" Or, "That's a cool shirt. Find out where they bought it." (I have this in my Meta Ray-Bans, but people are now very sensitive to those devices because they do take pictures.) I also want ChatGPT able to be always listening or awoken with "hey, Chat." • The individual thread model starts to break down when you're treating ChatGPT like an always-on assistant. We need to have the infinite continuous thread from which ChatGPT can delegate work to subthreads, the central assistant model that Muse is built around. This makes even more sense when you start treating your AI apps like assistants. They should be juggling all those individual threads on your behalf. More to come I'm sure as I continue to experiment.
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How… how does anyone take this man seriously?
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every Republican president in my lifetime has crashed the economy and invaded the Middle East. every. single. last. one.
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william james retweeted
"The plan? Create a lore so complicated and bewildering that the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar currently hemorrhaging money recoups its losses by becoming an attraction for disbelieving tourists."
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wtf is going on
getting a group together to visit the weird lesbian bar in western mass dm if interested, can’t talk here
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i can’t wait to get the iPhone Duo so i can listen to trump scream at me in public on 3 separate screens
President Donald J. Trump at the 81st General Assembly of the United Nations. Catch the FULL DAY of events beginning at 5:15 PM EST on Trump TV - a day of peace through strength on the world stage. Tune in and watch it all 📲 piped.video/live/A4gNgHfZ-v4…
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william james retweeted
So this is what electing a democratic socialist mayor can get you: corporations issuing groveling apologies for underpaying their workers
Since 2023, more than 200,000 Dashers in New York City were underpaid or paid late under the City’s delivery worker pay rules. These errors were unintentional, but that doesn’t make them acceptable. Dashers should be paid in full, on time, every time. We take full responsibility, and we’re deeply sorry. We’ve reached a $131.5 million settlement with the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Every impacted Dasher will receive the amount they are owed, and they’ll be contacted directly with payment details. We understand the impact of even one missed or late payment. We’ve addressed the issues that caused these errors and made changes to prevent them from happening again. Read more here: about.doordash.com/en-us/new….
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s… The City of New York asserts this was not a mistake. “For years, DoorDash failed to count every hour worked by delivery workers,” Mayor Mamdani said. “This was not a rounding error or an accidental mistake.
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saw this laying in bed with my feet off the edge and immediately pull them up
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Q: You were arrested for marijuana? Rep. Byron Donalds: “Yeah” Q: You were arrested for bank fraud? Rep. Byron Donalds: “Yeah”
Chris Nelson 🏝️🇺🇸
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Biden could’ve served two terms…
I f*cking knew it…😅
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william james retweeted
It’s almost election day.
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why is X suddenly giving me so much pro-Russia propaganda? hard pivot.
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why does she keep doing this to herself?
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william james retweeted
Think a lot about how much this Veep scene is just the median Republican now
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