Was doing some research and determined that since starting with the @FloridaGators, I am responsible for 1,846,056,633 impressions on social media. That feels like a lot. 🤷‍♂️ #smsports #GoGators

Hey @b8syPaint - let’s get your boy Adam Sandler to the O’Dome!

The takeaway from Fable 5 being BANNED by the government: GET GOOD AT LOCAL MODELS SO YOU HAVE 100% CONTROL. My entire weekend was going to be building my craziest ideas with Fable 5. That's now cancelled. So instead of building with Fable this weekend, I've decided I'll go deep on local models: 1. Start with the runtime. Download Ollama or LM Studio first. This is the thing that actually runs models on your machine. 2. Match the model to your hardware. A model's size is measured in billions of parameters (7B, 32B, 70B). Bigger is smarter but needs more memory. Rule of thumb: a 7B model runs on almost any laptop, a 32B needs a good Mac with 32GB RAM, a 70B needs serious hardware like a DGX Spark or a maxed-out Mac Studio. 3. Know which model for which job. Qwen 3 is the best all-around choice for most tasks. DeepSeek for reasoning and coding. Gemma 4 when you need something tiny that runs on a phone. Llama when you want the biggest community and the most fine-tunes. 4. Quantization. You can shrink a model to run on weaker hardware with barely any quality loss. Look for versions labeled Q4 or Q5. This is how a model that "needs" a server runs on your laptop. Learning this one concept changes everything. 5. Connect it to your agent. Point Hermes or your agent stack at a local model. 6. Context window is your real constraint locally. Cloud models give you huge context for free. Local models make you pay for it in memory. A bigger context window eats RAM fast. Keep your sessions tight and your prompts lean or your machine chokes. 7. Learn to give local models tools. A smaller local model with web search, file access, and code execution beats a giant model with none. The capability gap closes fast when you wire up the right tools. The model is the engine but the tools are the wheels. 8. Fine-tuning is more accessible than you think. You don't need this on day one, but know it exists. You can take an open model and train it on your own data so it gets good at your specific domain. I'll probably do a breakdown at some point on this @startupideaspod if people are into it. The lesson from this ban is basically don't build your entire workflow on something that can disappear with a single letter. Own part of your stack. Local models are insurance. It reminds me when people realized they don't own social media accounts. And then you saw people build email lists etc. I remember running a startup and my biggest traffic source was organic FB. All of a sudden, algo changed, and I lost 99% of my traffic. Same sorta moment (but bigger) for AI. This is a wake up call.

Surprised at the calm, educational responses to this question, esp considering how conversations on this app normally go.

The pop in the room when Red Panda flips the bowls is next level.

Good. SBF should rot in prison. perplexity.ai/page/sam-bankm…

The best part of my timeline is seeing @AnikaNilles nail her @RushtheBand gig. As a recovering drummer, I can only imagine how much scrutiny she has trying to assume the drum throne of a literal legend - and she's killing it.

Despite what the press has reported, quite a lot of people were gutted by the collapse of FTX and were not "made whole". Sam Bankman-Fried does NOT deserve a pardon, whatsoever.

Movies are in the theater for like 3 months minimum the opening weekend isn’t over yet Word of mouth will push this thing to the goal. It’s pointless to post things like this until the movies run in the theater is over.

Based on over 1000 verified ratings, most moviegoers approve of #MastersOfTheUniverse, with an 88% audience score, giving it the highest audience score among all movies, just dethroning The Secret of the Sword, which has 80%. 🍅 Read More: bit.ly/4uOQAcQ

Saw #MastersoftheUniverse in @IMAX and am getting chills just thinking about the first time He-Man raises his sword and transforms. Go see it!

We're sliding back into Google territory...

I'm surprised that people aren't mentioning "Blair Witch Project" when they talk about the success of #Obsession. @MattBelloni @Lucas_Shaw the-numbers.com/movie/Blair-…

RIP Peabo Bryson. youtu.be/qcDvzifP_gk

So sliced bread was the greatest thing since Clint Eastwood.

It should be obvious that people shouldn't talk or use their phones during the movie, but some people are dimwits.

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom. Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six). Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only. This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths. One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it. The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes. Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

It's fun not having to take sports seriously anymore.

I’m cohosting the Enhanced Games this Sunday, first time as a broadcaster. It’s the Olympics with enhancement allowed. Athletes use FDA-approved medications prescribed and supervised by doctors. Most enhancement protocols were monitored in an IRB clinical trial over the past five months. Athletes testing the frontiers of what’s possible. I’ll be speaking to the athletes’ measurements, clinical care and enhancement protocols. Reviewing their data in the role of Human Enhancement Analyst. I spent the week with the athletes and doctors. So many moving stories of courage and triumph. Tune in Sunday. It will be a great time.