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The best thing one can do is separate business from friendship. I’ve failed at this. No longer.
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Read These Books To Understand What's Happening In The World Right Now
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Read that Christale Spain—South Carolina’s Democratic Chair—played a large role in the state’s voter turnout in this Blue wave. Y’all owe her an apology.
Remember when the Black vote helped flip two Southern red states (Virginia & North Carolina) blue to get Obama elected in 2008???
Democrats don’t understand that instead of just chasing Latinos, they should be working to massively increase the kind of Black voter turnout that flips red states blue.
Most Blacks live in the South btw. That’s why they’re trying to write off the South. It’s erasure.
I sent this to my dad and he said he was going to block me…”when you start running for the senate???”
Brian Alvarez-Bailey (BABz) retweeted
There are a certain number of jerks and idiots out there, just as there are a certain amount of raccoons and deer in your neighborhood.
Eventually, you’re going to see one. They might even do something to bother you—or put your safety at risk. So be ready. And don’t freak out.
Brian Alvarez-Bailey (BABz) retweeted
Alabama Power's profit is up almost 14% year to date.
That is insane.
$2 BILLION in just three months.
Southern Company, the parent company of Alabama Power, is reporting record-breaking third-quarter profits, up $300 million from the same period last year.
By: @CalebTTaylor
1819news.com/news/item/south…
Brian Alvarez-Bailey (BABz) retweeted
There’s a method taught at Y Combinator that turns 4 weeks of GTM research into 3 hrs.
And no, it’s not typing “research the market for X” into Claude.
You start by feeding it raw material:
→ 25-40 competitor websites, fully scraped (pricing pages, case studies, docs)
→ The last few earnings calls from the 3-5 biggest incumbents
→ 100+ customer reviews (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot, app stores)
→ Every Reddit or forum thread where people vent about the category
Then ask questions that force it to think, not summarize:
1. “What do the winners in this market know that their customers would never admit?”
2. “List the beliefs this whole industry takes for granted. For each one, what would need to happen for it to be false?”
In about 20 min, you’ll see where everyone agrees, where everyone is blind, and which customer pains nobody is building for.
Now flip it. Pick your best angle and tell Claude to tear it apart:
“Steelman this thesis like a top-tier VC would. Then show me exactly where it fails.”
Do a few rounds of that. 3 hours later, you’ll have a first GTM hypothesis that sounds like it came from a 10-year industry veteran.
The trick is treating Claude as a sparring partner that never gets tired and never gets defensive when it’s wrong.
But remember: it’s still just a hypothesis. The real work starts when you talk to actual buyers.
To get there fast, use Gojiberry to find and reach the right people to test it with.
Customer conversations are the only thing that matters.
What are the logistics regarding snow/poor conditions?
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build Midwest High Speed Rail.
In one possible right of way, Democrats will hold:
32 of 47 Congressional Districts
8 of 14 US Senators
4 of 7 State Trifectas
5 of 7 Governors
195ish of 301 State Legislative Districts
claude.ai/artifact/7375qGk6r…
Brian Alvarez-Bailey (BABz) retweeted
I am a Midwest Booster now. Especially its cities. I have seen enough.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build Midwest High Speed Rail.
In one possible right of way, Democrats will hold:
32 of 47 Congressional Districts
8 of 14 US Senators
4 of 7 State Trifectas
5 of 7 Governors
195ish of 301 State Legislative Districts
claude.ai/artifact/7375qGk6r…
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Would suck, but sticking with that 10th seed team and extending Jaime and Ware and letting Herro walk for nothing would not have been better. Heat will have 1st round picks in 3 of their next 4 years as well.
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Chuck Schumer saw 4 Black Senate candidates closing in on historic Southern upsets—Nixon in FL, Davis in LA, Wess in AL, and Colom in MS—and starved every single campaign.
Left 4 Senate seats on the table because his playbook is from 1980.
Brian Alvarez-Bailey (BABz) retweeted
Yeah, there will be no pivot to the center. This is what you get when you have an 80-year-old president who doesn't really gaf about the future of the Republican Party.
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GitHub is hiding some INSANE video editing tools for Claude Code and Codex.
I found 10 repos that can help automate cuts, captions, animations, and repetitive editing work.
Bookmark this:
1. FFmpeg Skill
Give your coding agent 42 local editing tools for cuts, captions, audio cleanup, reframing, overlays, and platform exports.
github.com/kajisho5/ffmpeg-s…
2. Herk Edit Kit
Nate Herk’s editing kit for Claude Code and Codex. Cut dead air, edit from transcripts, and add captions and motion graphics using HyperFrames templates.
github.com/nateherkai/herk-e…
3. OpenChatCut
Connect Claude Code or Codex to a real video-editing timeline through MCP. Describe your changes, preview the proposed edit, and approve it.
github.com/0xsline/OpenChatC…
4. Remotion Agent Skills
Official skills that help AI agents create animated title cards, captions, transitions, and entire video compositions with React.
github.com/remotion-dev/skil…
5. Auto-Editor
Automate your first rough cut by removing silent sections. Adjust the padding around cuts to keep the pacing natural.
github.com/WyattBlue/auto-ed…
6. FireRed-OpenStoryline
An AI editing agent with natural-language instructions, reusable editing styles, and built-in Claude Code skills. Codex support is experimental.
github.com/FireRedTeam/FireR…
7. Motion Video Kit
Give Claude Code workflows for launch videos, animated product demos, and motion graphics, including sound design and visual review.
github.com/echris6/motion-vi…
8. Stable-ts
Generate subtitles with word-level timestamps using Whisper. Export SRT, VTT, or ASS captions through a command-line workflow your agent can run.
github.com/jianfch/stable-ts
9. PySceneDetect
Automatically detect scene changes, split footage into clips, and extract preview frames. Useful for organizing long recordings before editing.
github.com/Breakthrough/PySc…
10. Editly
Turn a JSON or JavaScript edit plan into a finished video. Combine footage, images, titles, transitions, and music for repeatable batch edits.
github.com/mifi/editly
Some connect directly through skills or MCP. Others give your agent command-line tools to run. Setup and any model or rendering costs vary.
What did I miss?
