Tucker Carlson wants the GOP to decouple from Israel and is willing to burn it all down if they refuse his demands. It won't work because AIPAC owns 90% of D.C. but at least he's throwing a hail marry. He deserves respect for demanding more from Trump. If the rest of the hack commentariat would back him up we probably could've got Fauci jailed, the Epstein network hunted down, and avoided the disastrous war against Iran. Instead they'll bitch and moan about "handing the election to the left" when they could've just done the same thing. Told the truth, demanded more, held firm on Trump's campaign promises getting delivered. Put America First. You know...not being total cucks. That's literally all they had to do. But the mar a lago invites would've dried up and ultimately that was a price they just weren't willing to pay. They don't even hate Tucker. They hate that he did the right thing and became more successful than all of them combined. Paaaaaaaaaahthetic water carriers.

Crater Lake from the ISS last night. Just past the solar arrays. Even from 250 miles up, you can't miss it — that deep blue caldera, Wizard Island tucked in the corner. But look east of the lake and you'll see the other story: smoke from wildfires stretching across Oregon. Before I was an astronaut, I served as a flight surgeon with the 173rd Fighter Wing at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, just down the road from this lake. I spent a lot of good years in that corner of Oregon, and it's hard to watch it burn from up here. Thinking of everyone impacted by the fires — the families who've lost homes, and the thousands of firefighters and aircrews working around the clock down there. From this altitude you see how big the smoke is. You also see how many people are fighting it.

Build startups for agents. I think it's the biggest opportunity of the next 10 years. 1. Agents live inside harnesses like Hermes. If you're the tool it loads by default or reaches for first, you're golden. This happened in desktop, mobile eras and created huge companies. 2. Agents burn money in ways no human would. One bad loop spends $100 in tokens in eight minutes. Spend controls for agents is Ramp for agents. 3. Agents need memory they can trust. Become the shared brain they read and write to and you become infrastructure. 4. You obv don't hand an agent your real Stripe account. You give it a sandbox. Safe environments for agents is a category nobody's clocked. 5. Onboarding flips. Humans click around for ten minutes. Agents onboard by reading your docs. Your docs are now your product. 6. Agents get scammed by other agents. A track record you can check before you trust one becomes real money. 7. An agent needs to prove it's acting for a real person and has the authority to spend. Who builds the permission layer? 8. Escrow for machines. Money that only releases when the job is actually verified done, no human checking. 9. Agents fail silently and weirdly. Someone will build the "why did my agent do that" replay and it'll be mega valuable. 10. Refunds and disputes between agents need a judge. An agent did the job badly, who decides? A court for machines. 11. Agents need throwaway payment methods per task, so they don't leak your real card. Virtual cards for agents, spun up and killed on demand. 12. A human hits rate limits and shrugs. An agent hits them and the whole workflow dies. Selling reliable, high-throughput access becomes its own business. 13. Agents need to negotiate. One agent buying from another will haggle on price and terms in milliseconds. The protocol for that doesn't really exist yet. 14. When an agent commits on your behalf, someone's liable. A legal and insurance layer for agent actions has to get built. Probably venture funded idea. 15. Agents need to run 24/7 somewhere. Selling the always on box an agent lives on is going to be a big business. 16. Then the physical world shows up. A warehouse robot paying for its own compute. A home robot ordering its own parts. Machines with wallets. 17. Agents start hiring robots. A software agent posts a real world job, a humanoid picks it up. A marketplace for machine labor. 18. Robots need to prove they did the physical job. Verification of real-world work, photos, sensors, proof, becomes its own layer. Note: more ideas like this will be shared on @ideabrowser 19. Prompt and skill versioning becomes its own git. When your agent gets worse overnight, you need to roll back the exact skill or instruction that broke it. Version control built for agent behavior. 20. Agents will start subscribing to other agents. Your research agent pays a monthly fee to a specialist agent that's really good at one thing. Recurring revenue, machine to machine. 21. Companies will post jobs that only agents can apply to. "Wanted: an agent that can do XYZ for under like $100 per task." A job board where the applicants are all machines. Basically, fiverr for machines. The internet got built for people. Mobile got built for people. This wave gets built for machines, and we're as early as it gets. Go build for them.

Coding agents fire dozens of API calls per task, so a single developer can quietly burn thousands of dollars a week before anyone notices — here's how LangChain killed that "spend unpredictability" internally 💸 The key was folding budget control into the same place as observability. Title: How LangChain Made Coding Agent Spend Predictable URL: 💸 Overview An LLM Gateway built into LangSmith gives a company-wide, minute-level view of model spend and manages budgets centrally. Rather than a bolt-on proxy, it sits on the same foundation as existing tracing, evaluation, and user management. ❓ Challenges Solved Model usage spread from a few teams to the whole company, and premium model prices rose, so costs spiked. ・Coding agents trigger dozens of API calls per task ・Individual developers ran up thousands of dollars a week, unnoticed until month-end 💡 Methodology & Proposed Approach Budgets can be set across multiple layers. ・Caps at the organization, workspace, user, and API-key level ・Default monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly windows for all employees, with exceptions for heavy projects ・Covers agents accessed via Claude Code, Codex, and LangChain Deep Agents ・Deployed via MDM so no one has to set it up manually ・Runs are traced and tied to a user and API key; overspend can be diagnosed by inspecting the trace with evaluation data 🌍 Use Cases Engineering leaders can set team-level limits while still letting people use agents without fear of a surprise bill. The practical value is replacing the month-end billing shock with real-time monitoring. 📊 Lessons & Outcomes ・Static price tables go stale fast, so pricing must be handled dynamically, including caching and tier differences ・Cursor and Claude Desktop didn't route cleanly, so they measured the delta between Gateway-captured traffic and provider settings to correct for it ・Hard limits alone block real work, so they evolved into early-warning alerts and auditable budget-increase requests ・Since internal rollout, LLM costs have stayed within budget #CodingAgents# #LLMOps#

“ Unless something about their current trajectory changes, Anthropic will be the most powerful monopoly ever created in human history.” - David Sacks asks if Anthropic is just Standard Oil with better PR? “We know that tech markets have a history of consolidating down and turning into either monopolies or duopolies. And if you just look at the revenue right now, there's only two companies making substantial revenue on AI. It's Anthropic and OpenAI. Anthropic is growing at an exponential 10X a year, and if they just do that for 18 more months, they'll be by far the most valuable company in human history, and they'll have unprecedented control over the most important technology of our time. So I don't know what you call that, but it is something to think about. And I guess I do have a thought experiment for you guys, which is, I just want you to think for a second about the case of John D. Rockefeller, who I think is known as probably the most successful, most ruthless monopolist in American history. But he wasn't very good at PR. He was terrible at PR. Everyone sort of recognized how ruthless he is. We've seen movies like There Will Be Blood, which is basically about him. In any event, imagine if John D. Rockefeller was way better at public relations, and instead of calling his company Standard Oil, he called it Safe Oil. Because, as we know, kerosene is dangerous. Their first big product was kerosene. And kerosene can light your house or it can burn it down. And in the wrong hands it can torch a city, or you can use it to make a bomb. So John D., let's say, should have called for the creation of a new government agency to regulate the safety of his product. And they could have done rigorous testing, licensing, common sense regulation. There would've been a very intense debate over safety standards. You know, what should the proper wick thickness be? And should we allow all those dangerous independent refiners, right? And I think people would have gotten so wrapped up in this debate over what constituted safe oil or safe kerosene that they would have missed what was really going on, which is that Rockefeller was building the richest, most powerful monopoly of all time. In fact, people might even have called Rockefeller an effective altruist, because of course, he was so concerned about the safety of his product.”

They didn't burn the books. They fed them to a scanner and called it fair use. Somewhere in a warehouse, a hydraulic press is guillotining the spine off a 1962 first edition. A scanner eats the loose pages. What's left goes to recycling. This isn't a dystopian short story — it's Anthropic's actual training pipeline, and it had a code name: Project Panama. The internal memo was blunt: "Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world... we don't want it to be known that we are working on this." A judge looked at millions of shredded books and said: perfectly legal. Why? Because the physical copy died the moment the digital one was born — one copy in, one copy out, no duplication, no distribution. Fair use, case closed. So now there's a quiet industry of it — bulk buyers, anonymous orders, rare pre-2022 editions getting scooped up specifically *because* they're scarce and untrained-on. Books that survived library purges, fires, and a couple hundred years of neglect are meeting their end in a sheet-feed scanner in an industrial park. Preservation or incineration? Depends whether you think the text is the book, or the book is the book.

Permissionless Expenseless Index Funds How it works: 1) A smart contract enables anybody to create a custom indexing methodology 2) If an investor wants exposure, they deposit stables into the smart contract and queue up an RFQ to find maker who can most cheaply source the underlying equities 3) The smart contract receives the equities from the best RFQ, custodies the equities and mints an index token to the investor Because the custodian is just a smart contract, the expense fees can approach 0 And because an methodology is just a config stored onchain, anybody can create their own Value gets redistributed to: 1) The UI that helps investors discover the best index funds. They can charge a "builder fee" on mint/burn requests 2) The market makers bridging liquidity for the mint/burn requests 3) The investor who isn't charged an expense fee

Let's consult the historical record to see what the Aztec society was up to when the Spanish conquered it. First, from Cortes: “They have a most horrid and abominable custom which truly ought to be punished and which until now we have seen in no other part, and this is that, whenever they wish to ask something of the idols, in order that their plea may find more acceptance, they take many girls and boys and even adults, and in the presence of the idols they open their chests while they are still alive and take out their hearts and entrails and burn them before the idols, offering the smoke as sacrifice. Some of us have seen this, and they say it is the most terrible and frightful thing they have ever witnessed… not one year passes in which they do not kill and sacrifice some fifty persons in each temple; and this is done and held as customary… not one year has passed… in which three or four thousand souls have not been sacrificed in this manner.” And now Bernal Diaz del Castillo: “The dismal drum of Huichilobos sounded again, accompanied by conches, horns and trumpet-like instruments. It was a terrifying sound, and when we looked at the tall cue [temple] from which it came we saw our comrades who had been captured in Cortes’ defeat being dragged up the steps to be sacrificed. When they had hauled them up to a small platform in front of the shrine where they kept their accursed idols we saw them put plumes on the heads of many of them; and they made them dance with a sort of fan in front of Huichilobos. Then after they had danced the papas [priests] laid them down on their backs on some narrow stones of sacrifice and, cutting open their chests, drew out their palpitating hearts which they offered to the idols before them.” ... “Every day we saw sacrificed before us three, four or five Indians whose hearts were offered to the idols and their blood plastered on the walls, and their feet, arms and legs of the victims were cut off and eaten… Every wall of this chapel and the whole floor, had become almost black with human blood, and… the stench was worse than in a Spanish slaughter-house.” ... “When we arrived at the great market place, called Tlaltelolco, we were astounded at the number of people and the quantity of merchandise that it contained… Let us begin with the dealers in gold, silver, and precious stones, feathers, mantles, and embroidered goods. Then there were other wares consisting of Indian slaves both men and women; and I say that they bring as many of them to that great market for sale as the Portuguese bring negroes from Guinea…. They brought some of them tied to long poles by means of collars around their necks so they would not escape, and others left loose.” ~~ This is what the Spanish conquered in the name of Christendom - a Stone-Age society consumed with ritualistic human sacrifice, cannibalism and slavery.