"Out of curiosity: I randomly picked 5 universities, and looked up their sociology department faculty. I randomly picked papers written by the faculty. Wow, my mind was blown. At least 60% was similar gibberish. Constant politically charged assertions— no underlying data. Anti-colonialism— everything is somehow a legacy of racial injustice and colonialism. Never mind— no actual data to support that claim. The climate catastrophe— Immigration injustice— the department looks like a Democrat think tank." @VPrasadMDMPH drvinayprasad.com/p/10-thoug…

Underground hero was @Starlink which provided my whole group with internet and allowed @MatthewCappucci to do live TV hits from the middle of nowhere 📡 Note the little crescent sun on the dish, which is a result of lens refraction on the iPhone!

Bloody hell. I’ve been grossly misinformed about Bolshevism.

Elon Musk sent every Tesla employee a memo that took authority away from their managers and handed it to them. He never asks for more hours. Every rule moves a decision closer to the person doing the work. Musk: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.” Companies have a role for everyone who creates process and no role for anyone who removes it. Meetings and approval chains survive because removing them was never anyone’s job. Musk: “Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.” Attendance has always been treated as proof of commitment. He made it worthless, and contribution became the only thing that counts in the room. Musk: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.” Ordinary manners protect whoever called the meeting. He moved that protection to everyone else sitting quietly with real work waiting on them. Musk: “Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla. Anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication.” Internal vocabulary converts knowledge into status and charges every newcomer a fee to participate. A company that speaks plainly can absorb talent at full speed. Musk: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command.” Most good ideas die in transit, three levels below anyone with the power to act on them. Musk: “Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.” The only threat in the entire memo. A manager who insists on being routed through is buying his own relevance with everyone else’s time. Musk put a price on it. Musk: “Always pick common sense as your guide. If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, the rule should change.” Following a bad rule normally shields you. Exercising judgment exposes you. He flipped which one carries the risk, and every rule now has to earn its place against the person applying it. Every institution drifts toward protecting its own comfort. The ones that keep building are held together by people who rewrite the rules back down to something a single person can act on. Nothing on that list requires a budget, a headcount, or a title. You can run the entire memo from wherever you are sitting right now. Most people never test it and never learn it was permitted the whole time.

We're making Grok Bot more widely available. All SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and Cursor Teams subscribers now have access. We're also offering a free trial with limited usage for all other users.

BREAKING: Grok 4.6 just took the #1 spot on CursorBench 3.2 — while delivering a massive efficiency advantage. ⚡💻 • Grok 4.6 Extra High — 70.8% | $2.81/task • Fable 5 Max — 70.5% | $17.32/task • Opus 5 Max — 70.0% | $8.23/task • GPT-5.6 Sol Max — 67.2% | $5.69/task Grok achieved the highest score while costing roughly 6× less than Fable 5 Max and nearly 3× less than Opus 5 Max per task. For AI agents, raw intelligence is only part of the equation. The ability to maintain high performance across long coding tasks without burning massive amounts of compute could be a major advantage. Grok’s agentic coding efficiency is becoming seriously impressive. 🚀 Source: CursorBench 3.2

𝕏 Ads just became agent-native... and this is a very powerful upgrade With the new 𝕏 Ads MCP, you can now connect Grok, Grok Build, Claude Code or other AI agents directly to your 𝕏 Ads account and manage campaigns through normal conversation You can literally ask: “How are my ads performing?” And the agent pulls real campaign data, analyzes the results, and tells you what’s working But it goes much further than analytics The AI can: • Create and manage campaigns • Search interests and locations for targeting • Add or remove targeting • Create ad posts • Promote existing posts • Check campaign performance and reach • Update and activate campaigns There are 23 𝕏 Ads tools available through the MCP And the safety design is actually smart: New campaigns and line items are created PAUSED by default, so the AI cannot start spending money until you explicitly activate them The agent can even chain the entire workflow itself: Your request → account → budget → campaign → targeting → ad This is where advertising is heading Instead of living inside Ads Manager, you just tell your AI what you want to achieve and the agent runs the campaign for you

The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud. The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University. Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired. The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Grok Bot might be the first tool that lets one non-technical person run an entire business with a team of AI agents. My friend Billy runs his whole newsletter business on Grok Bot agents, and I think we're about to see 100,000+ businesses like his. BEST PRACTICES: 1. The agents run on a shared cloud computer, so running your newsletter, your X, and your receipts all in one place creates context bloat and burns tokens fast. One mission per setup. 2. Start with a Chief of Staff. Give it access to your existing docs (Notion, Slack, Gmail), have it audit the business, then tell you the top three agents to build first to drive revenue. 3. Perfect a task with the Chief of Staff before spinning up a new agent. Have it do the outbound sales once, review it, and only then say "now build a bot that does exactly that." You earn each new hire by proving the task works first. 4. Constraints are the feature. You get a limited number of agents, one thread per bot, like DMs with a teammate. It forces you to stay mission-oriented instead of spinning up a bot for every random idea. 5. You make the decisions, not the agent. Billy's team spent three weeks unable to pick where content should live. At some point you say "we're doing Notion, no more tinkering" and move on. 6. Run week one with no new agents. Build the team, learn to fly the plane, just execute. Week three is when you find the real gaps and expand, someone to man the inbox, someone for the Shopify shop. 7. Then add routines so it works while you sleep. Ask your Chief of Staff what recurring jobs would move the business forward overnight, and it builds the automations that run without you. Thanks to @billyjhowell for sharing the sauce on @startupideaspod (follow for more). Grokbot is really cool. Watch below: piped.video/qQluNEfSVHk?si=3L2c…

One of the best things I gave my Grok Bot... Was its own email address. Now it can: → Send emails → Receive replies → Verify accounts → Sign up for websites → Use email inside its own workflows Takes 2 minutes... Now it can do a LOT more without me.