Initial report: St. Mary's Feast in Cranston had no serious incidents - a few arrestable fighting incidents - but it looks like nothing more serious. Cranston PD doing an after-action review. That & PVDFan area relatively without serious incident - 2 signs of hope for safety!

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!! Divers doing a ROUTINE maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir dam in Mobile, AL... ...just found an underwater IED!!!! Apparently a grenade-type bomb was sitting submerged at the bottom of a dam that holds an entire city's DRINKING WATER. It took FIVE agencies: the FBI, ALEA, the Sheriff, Mobile PD, and a maritime render-safe team, to pull it out and detonate it. Someone put a BOMB in our water supply... WHERE IS THE NATIONAL COVERAGE?!!!

We push Prefill/Decode disaggregation beyond a single cluster: cross-datacenter + heterogeneous hardware, unlocking the potential for significantly lower cost per token. This was previously blocked by KV cache transfer overhead. The key enabler is our hybrid model (Kimi Linear), which reduces KV cache size and makes cross-DC PD practical. Validated on a 20x scaled-up Kimi Linear model: ✅ 1.54× throughput ✅ 64% ↓ P90 TTFT → Directly translating into lower token cost. More in Prefill-as-a-Service:

The students don’t want to hear about how AI will change their lives. That’s the message that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt received when he gave a commencement address recently. @Jason dug into the controversy with @Alex, parsing just why the next generation is so vocal about AI progress. Then the pair explored the massive AI startup revenue share that @Anthropic and @OpenAI command today, a viral essay about AI usage at university, and even an AI bookmark that Alex is jazzed about! 0:00 TWiST All-Stars summer lineup announcement 2:43 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at and use code TWIST for 10% off! 5:08 Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona commencement 8:57 Why Gen Z feels "double-crossed" by AI leaders 10:10 Deel - Founders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, get visas handled fast, and get back to building. Visit to learn more. 15:22 Is this AI's Vietnam moment? The anti-war parallel 18:04 Theo Baker's NYT essay on Stanford's AI cheating culture 19:24 Sentry - New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to and use the code TWIST 22:30 Why Jason says everyone should start a company 28:59 Anthropic + OpenAI capture 89% of AI startup revenue 30:17 Vanta: Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at 31:57 Are token sales a duopoly? Negative gross margins debate 35:17 Risk of building app-layer startups on top of foundation models 38:22 Inside Tracker bounty update: AI sidebar + 41:18 Mark II: the $159 AI bookmark Alex wants 49:31 Flock Safety solves Austin shooting via Manor PD 53:39 DeFlock map and the geography of surveillance in Texas 1:03:42 Noti Gang: AI for filing patents 1:05:45 Noti Gang: Running AI models locally on Mac Studios 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇